A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

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    4 months ago

    It is quite different, phones are useful devices that people rely on, this is not. More akin to breaking some useless annoying gadget like a toy siren or something

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        4 months ago

        By that logic, its equal to a phone is an equal strawman. It is a way less vital device than a phone.

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            4 months ago

            It’s really no different

            Was the initial claim

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                4 months ago

                Yeah, sure, you just claimed that I strawmanned their argument… Cmon.

                EDIT: Also, who’s doing the strawmanning here? I said that “phones are useful devices that people rely on, while [smart glasses] are not”. Then, you went on a tirade how I said that smart glasses are “marginally convenient” instead of “literally useless”.

                Did I say that they are literally useless? Or rather, implied that they are something along the lines of “marginally convenient”, thus not being “useful devices that people rely on”?

                Also, I did not say anything about equivalence. I said “more akin to”. Which you took as literal equivalence.

                This is the wildest pedantry I’ve witnessed in a while.

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        4 months ago

        Privacy concerns aside, saying the glasses are literally useless is

        My eyes glazed over as soon as I read this much.

        Nothing you say after this matters for a device purpose built for non consensual and inconspicuous invasion of privacy

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          4 months ago

          That isn’t what it is! That’s like pointing at a 3d printer and calling it a gun manufacturing station. Sure, it can be used for that, but you’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater here.

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            4 months ago

            Not sure exactly how serious you are, but you can use a 3D printer without making guns. You cannot use cameras like these in public without massively invading people’s privacy.