I made an app.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.nearbyglassesNearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.
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@petko no. I am just a bad coder
@yjeanrenaud didn't mean it as an insult to your code, I'm just straying away from vibecoded side projects. Will take it for a spin, thanks!
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@yjeanrenaud didn't mean it as an insult to your code, I'm just straying away from vibecoded side projects. Will take it for a spin, thanks!
@petko everything is ok. I did not take it offensive, anyhow.
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@yjeanrenaud that's great and all, but as a non-gender-conforming glasses wearer with social anxiety and somewhat visible autism, do you understand how much harder you're going to make it for me to exist in a city?
no, a weak-ass disclaimer at the bottom of a paragraph of text isn't sufficient. the vast - overwhelming, i'd suggest - majority of people wearing glasses are wearing entirely un-smart glasses that are necessary for them to see shit. and at least some of us are going to be harassed because of this app. "some of us" meaning disproportionately disadvantaged folk - who are of course the least likely to be able to afford smart glasses anyway, but by far the easiest people to approach and smash the entirely necessary prosthetic glasses of.
in short - go back to the drawing board, and don't be so fucking ableist and irresponsible in your next iteration.
@mewsleah I have to wear glasses myself. But thank you for pointing this out for me. I am grateful I improve. Will think about how to address that.
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@Keev that's currently in the readme on github.
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@asterisk yeah, I'm sorry. Latest Android update broke my Material3 layout. I fixed it in the latest version. Just about to push the release
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@yjeanrenaud then you find them and go
@hunterking or:
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@yjeanrenaud didn't mean it as an insult to your code, I'm just straying away from vibecoded side projects. Will take it for a spin, thanks!
@petko but it's a side project nonetheless. I am no developer by training
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@fuchsi @yjeanrenaud What do you mean by "new spyware"?
@FredricT @fuchsi @yjeanrenaud Cunty reply by someone who thinks surveillance glasses are cool?
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@yjeanrenaud Now we need an app to Jam them or make them stop working altogether.
@Pamela1960 @yjeanrenaud Deflect/distort would be cool.
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@mewsleah @yjeanrenaud I'm sorry, don't know anything about the topic, but why non-smart glasses would be affected?
@ellaw @mewsleah @yjeanrenaud The person apparently believes that anytime someone with this app gets pinged, they will immediately start haranguing anyone around them wearing glasses of any kind.
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@f4grx thank you. I say so in the privacy statement, too. I know, companies lie a lot in those, but I don't
or at least I try not to. Maybe I missed something. I'm no lawyer either@yjeanrenaud thats okay, no problems. I tried the app and ot scans very fast and emits a lot of logs when it sees nothing. May I suggest scanning slower and not displaying the scans when the rssi is below the threshold? That will save battery and cpu.
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@ellaw @mewsleah @yjeanrenaud The person apparently believes that anytime someone with this app gets pinged, they will immediately start haranguing anyone around them wearing glasses of any kind.
@SteveFoerster do NOT put words into my mouth. or the mouth of anyone you disagree with. especially don't do it in order to erect a strawman. that's actually pretty shitty.
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@yjeanrenaud that's great and all, but as a non-gender-conforming glasses wearer with social anxiety and somewhat visible autism, do you understand how much harder you're going to make it for me to exist in a city?
no, a weak-ass disclaimer at the bottom of a paragraph of text isn't sufficient. the vast - overwhelming, i'd suggest - majority of people wearing glasses are wearing entirely un-smart glasses that are necessary for them to see shit. and at least some of us are going to be harassed because of this app. "some of us" meaning disproportionately disadvantaged folk - who are of course the least likely to be able to afford smart glasses anyway, but by far the easiest people to approach and smash the entirely necessary prosthetic glasses of.
in short - go back to the drawing board, and don't be so fucking ableist and irresponsible in your next iteration.
@mewsleah @yjeanrenaud No, seriously, it’s for finding electronic signatures emanating from surveillance glasses, NOT for your warby parkers.
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@mewsleah @yjeanrenaud No, seriously, it’s for finding electronic signatures emanating from surveillance glasses, NOT for your warby parkers.
@wendinoakland @yjeanrenaud what is a "warby parker"?
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@wendinoakland @yjeanrenaud what is a "warby parker"?
@mewsleah @yjeanrenaud Sorry, it’s a hugely popular USian brand of eyeglasses, available online, via mail order. Basically meaning, any regular glasses for seeing. This app picks up specific digital pings from spyglasses made by, say, Meta & Google.
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@ellaw @mewsleah @yjeanrenaud The person apparently believes that anytime someone with this app gets pinged, they will immediately start haranguing anyone around them wearing glasses of any kind.
@SteveFoerster @ellaw @yjeanrenaud "the person" is still here and can answer for herself¹. do i think that will always happen? no. do i think there's a substantive risk of it happening? yes, because that's what happens. and chances are it won't happen to the well-off-looking cis white guy who's by far the most liikely person to be wearing smart glasses, will it?
¹ and don't think i didn't notice the pronoun game, Steve
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@mewsleah @yjeanrenaud Sorry, it’s a hugely popular USian brand of eyeglasses, available online, via mail order. Basically meaning, any regular glasses for seeing. This app picks up specific digital pings from spyglasses made by, say, Meta & Google.
@wendinoakland and we're expecting everyone to know the difference by sight? in a world in which 57% of people¹ wear prescription glasses?
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@wendinoakland and we're expecting everyone to know the difference by sight? in a world in which 57% of people¹ wear prescription glasses?
@mewsleah @yjeanrenaud Of the limited population that downloads the app, they will be turning to that app to discern if someone in their vicinity is wearing electronically enabled surveillance glasses. That’s what the app is able to reveal. Apparently it also senses VR headset signals as well, but regular humans in glasses are not the object or interest point here. Fyi, I am a glasses-wearing person from before my earliest memories. This app is just to point out creeps wearing headsets that can invisibly scan your face and reveal personal information about you. Are you understanding? It’s NOT about eyeglasses. It’s about surveillance-enabled glasses which are otherwise impossible to recognise.
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@yjeanrenaud that's great and all, but as a non-gender-conforming glasses wearer with social anxiety and somewhat visible autism, do you understand how much harder you're going to make it for me to exist in a city?
no, a weak-ass disclaimer at the bottom of a paragraph of text isn't sufficient. the vast - overwhelming, i'd suggest - majority of people wearing glasses are wearing entirely un-smart glasses that are necessary for them to see shit. and at least some of us are going to be harassed because of this app. "some of us" meaning disproportionately disadvantaged folk - who are of course the least likely to be able to afford smart glasses anyway, but by far the easiest people to approach and smash the entirely necessary prosthetic glasses of.
in short - go back to the drawing board, and don't be so fucking ableist and irresponsible in your next iteration.
@yjeanrenaud@tech.lgbt @mewsleah@meow.social how exactly do you think a phone app is going to detect basic, non-electronic glasses? They're just plastic/metal and some glass, there's no communication standard such as Bluetooth in a pair of glasses.
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@wendinoakland and we're expecting everyone to know the difference by sight? in a world in which 57% of people¹ wear prescription glasses?
@mewsleah thanks for that link. So, I must confess, I am bit stuck here. I did not put smart glasses into this world in the first place. I am upset by how some people abuse them to abuse others and invade their privacy and rights, to not be filmed without consent or knowing it, for instance. So are many other people. And I read numerous posts of people letting go their old, beloved Ray-Bans for they could be mistaken for Meta's smart glasses. So I would argue, it's big tech again who makes lifes of many more miserable for their own private gain.
I know my app is a tech fix for social problem which technology only enhanced (to a huge extent, fs), but I tried. I think we would be better off if those camera glasses would not exist. And I'm not saying you blame the wrong person. It's me who did that app, though. I am here to learn. Maybe you'd like to write me non-publicly?
