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I have some smart glasses with no camera and the option to use on device or cloud AI. They’ve been gathering dust though; they didn’t add much to my life once the novelty wore off.

Yup control the narrative and also lock you into an ecosystem. You will interface w/ Google on devices that Google approves and software that Google allows you to use.

The article is could do to demonstrate which conflicts have arisen thought to be due to USAID pullback.

Moreover, Trump’s demolition of USAID prompted many allies in Europe to pull back on their own foreign aid, exacerbating the effects. Though other humanitarian organizations are struggling to mitigate the consequences, the loss of trust caused by the shutdown of USAID is likely permanent, with ominous long-term consequences.

Can’t wait for China to step in then these same countries will be sounding the alarm about exploitation and debt traps or whatever.

Same Zuck who couldn’t be arsed to shut down groups using FB to perpetuate a genocide in Myanmar.

They got their start stealing artists’ work and once the tech caught on CEOs said they will be putting the proletariat out of work while raising their already high cost of living. In exchange the avg Joe or Jane can save 5 minutes drafting an email. The hate wave is very much earned.

Tbh depending on what subreddit and how long ago you saw that comment, it makes sense. I can’t see the average 2010s techbro redditor that I remember not knowing what Linux is, but the 2020s more normie redditor, I could.

But using it for fingerprinting seems dubious. How many iOS users have never downloaded any extra fonts and all look the same?

The following is from https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

To determine your system fonts, tracking sites commonly display some text in an HTML <span> tag. Trackers then rapidly change the style for that span, rendering it in hundreds or thousands of known fonts. For each of these fonts, the site determines whether the width of the span has changed from the default width when rendered in that particular font. If it has, the tracker knows that font is installed. How is this used in your fingerprint?

The list of fonts you have installed on your machine is generally consistent and linked to a particular operating system. If you install just one font which is unusual for your particular browser, this can be a highly identifying metric.

You’re giving them way too much credit. It’s as simple as what a credentialed authority figure says must be part of some agenda but what a whatsapp/FB post or contrarian podcaster/blogger says is good and credible.

Not necessarily and this is something the article doesn’t even bring up. While people are triaged before seeing the ER doc, the ER doc’s job itself is to triage and determine whether the patient needs to be further worked up in the hospital or outpatient. Often times an ER doc may not have a clue about the diagnosis but the critical thing to be correct about is if the patient needs to stay to get worked up. They give an example about docs who think a clot is due to an anticoagulant when the AI thought it might be due to lupus. The ER doc’s concern is that the patient be observed/admitted and the internal medicine team would likely make that catch (or the rheumatologist).

The early 2000s internet where people knew better than to give up their privacy for useless internet points feels so long ago. Someone should make bets on prediction markets how long before we find out Zuck/Thiel/etc buy that data or they get breached and it ends up on the dark web.

People who review footage for Meta in general see all types of shit and end up scarred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGbWn6iwHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZLr6w7C-xY

I once booted Linux off a flash drive on a school PC just to see if I could in like 08-09 and nothing happened to me lol.

I second Dreaming Spanish. OP could use Materialous/NewPipe or whatever method they use to watch YT anonymously. Anki also works.

Nearby Glasses is an app designed to detect smart glasses.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/nearby-glasses-new-app-alerts-you-wearing-smart-glasses-surveillance-meta-snap-bluetooth/

This tacticruel dork is kitted up like he’s deploying somewhere just to beat up on some abuela.

Lots of sites and Android apps (even the non Google ones) phone home to Google behind the scenes. I’d recommend using a tracker blocker/DNS blocking just to be sure…

And they tried to work with Persona for age verification until they got called out and backtracked. Peter Thiel has a stake in it. https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

IMO there’s a significant drop off with local LLMs vs the mainstream ones. This can be mitigated somewhat though by using web search tools or using retrieval augmented generation.