greentea23 (u/greentea23)

greentea23 commented on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-... · Posted by u/sandbach

chwahoo · 12 days ago

I'll confess that I like my Meta Ray Ban glasses: I love using them to listen to podcasts at the pool/beach, while riding my bike, and it's cool to snap a quick picture of my kids without pulling out my phone.

I wish this article (or Meta) were a bit clearer about the specific connection between the device settings and use and when humans get access to the images.

My settings are:

- [OFF] "Share additional data" - Share data about your Meta devices to help improve Meta products.

- [OFF] "Cloud media" - Allow your photos and videos to be sent to Meta's cloud for processing and temporary storage.

I'm not sure whether my settings would prevent my media from being used as described in the article.

Also, it's not clear which data is being used for training:

- random photos / videos taken

- only use of "Meta AI" (e.g., "Hey Meta, can you translate this sign")

As much as I've liked my Meta Ray Ban's I'm going to need clarity here before I continue using them.

TBH, if it were only use of Meta AI, I'd "get it" but probably turn that feature off (I barely use it as-is).

greentea23 · 12 days ago

I don't understand how a parent can be OK non-consenually uploading pictures of their children's real faces to an ad driven AI company famous for abusing people's data and manipulating children on their platforms.

greentea23 commented on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-... · Posted by u/sandbach

al_borland · 12 days ago

> it is difficult to prevent others to intentionally or unintentionally provide data to surveillance companies

One that bothers me a lot are all the apps that want people to share your contacts to find your friends. This is a quick way for them to get all the contact information, which may also include birthdays and other more sensitive details.

Even if I were to never make a Facebook account, I could almost guarantee they still have my name, address, phone number, DOB, and maybe more.

greentea23 · 12 days ago

"Hell is other people."

greentea23 commented on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-... · Posted by u/sandbach

leptons · 12 days ago

There are very few places you can expect privacy in public. Restrooms, changing rooms, etc. But in most places in public you should have zero expectation of privacy (in the US).

In private settings, as with public, you are typically free to leave a setting where people are recording.

The law has no specifications for what type of device can do the recording, pr for how long a recording can be.

greentea23 · 12 days ago

What you expect does not have to be what you strive for.

greentea23 commented on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-... · Posted by u/sandbach

bravoetch · 12 days ago

Your reaction appears to be ignorant of the real use cases for these. A friend of mine is totally blind, and uses meta glasses. He finds them incredibly useful, as do others.

greentea23 · 12 days ago

This makes me more sad than hopeful. Great they get use out of it, but there instead should be a medically approved HIPAA compliant device for this purpose built by scientists in the open for all to enjoy. Instead the disabled are coersed to give up all privacy of themselves and others around them both digitally and physically. And more importantly they have to give up their sovereignty over the means of their enhancement by it being closed off and eventually enshittified for customers yet opened up for exploitation by facebook and their corporate and government customers.

Sadly the disabled have no choice but to accept the status quo, and facbook gets to virtue signal while holding humanity back another cycle by not selling us an open platform that would actually help people at scale not just now but forever.

greentea23 commented on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem e.foundation/e-os/... · Posted by u/doener

przmk · 13 days ago

Because upstream LineageOS doesn't support microg out of the box. You can install it but it needs signature spoofing to pass Google's SafetyNet garbage. Bonus point for some roms that allow you to relock the bootloader after the install (iodéOS, CalyxOS).

greentea23 · 13 days ago

There is a version that makes only the changes to include microg, has OTA updates too: https://lineage.microg.org/

greentea23 commented on AI is making junior devs useless beabetterdev.com/2026/03/... · Posted by u/beabetterdev

dahart · 14 days ago

It might be a mistake to assume tomorrow’s training looks like today’s. Unsupervised learning is a thing and a very hot research topic, precisely because it avoids some of today’s big problems with acquiring the vast amounts of training data necessary.

greentea23 · 14 days ago

Unsupervised leanring has been around for years and is already how the current wave of models are trained. It doesn't mean no data, it means no human provided labels of the data. So you still need creative new human ideas to move LLMs forward. LLMs != intelligence.

greentea23 commented on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT theregister.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy

bsaul · a month ago

I wonder why matrix isn't more widerspread at this point. It's open, it's e2ee, it works, it has client lib for integration with any tool..

What makes it not more popular ? Is it the federated approach ? The client applications that don't look really fancy ?

greentea23 · a month ago

Popularity is irrelevant imo, it's a general purpose FOSS tool. Ignore Element and matrix.org, the open protocol is what matters. These features are useful even if matrix never gains any network effect: 1. talking among a small-ish specific group that needs sovereign communication, e.g. when forming a company or a tight knit in person friend group 2. only data limit is the size of my harddrive 3. bridge to every other popular protocol 4. personal bots and automation with no restrictions 5. Unlimited and customizable clients with no restrictions 6. Combinations of 1-5.

Can't speak for non-self hosters or people who aren't serious about chat, but for chat enthusiasts who can setup a server with bridges and bots, matrix is incredibly useful.

greentea23 commented on Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing octosphere.social/... · Posted by u/crimsoneer

nosuchthing · a month ago

Isn't ATProto just a compromised version of Activity Pub, basically designed around an excuse to force all users into a data mining firehose structure like twitter used to have only there's no privacy features or federation for moderation controls?

greentea23 · a month ago

Yes. Nostr and ActivityPub are so easy too, I don't see much advantage to ATProto and so many disadvantages. It's as decentralized as a meme coin, just waiting for the rug pull.

To me something git-like with a peer review UI (a la pull requests) seems far more natural for distributed academic publications than a social media protocol though.

greentea23 commented on BU-808: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries (2023) batteryuniversity.com/art... · Posted by u/eswat

greentea23 · 2 months ago

One of the biggest reasons I still prefer to root my phone is to use acc https://github.com/VR-25/acc. It's criminal that you have to root to run code that reduces charging speed or shuts the phone down automatically. I have it shut down at 20% and charge to 80% except when I know I will need to be out for an extended period without a charger.