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  • I worked in GS for a couple years about 12 years ago. I worked with a couple really smart dudes, at least 5 of which have gone on to have successful profession IT careers. One of them is the smartest computer guy I’ve met and was a prodigy in his teens.

    However, I also worked with some of the dumbest people I ever met. I had one coworker that was sending in a new laptop a customer brought back because the touch pad was bubbling up. As I was packing it up to ship and saw the paper work, I opened to look and it was the plastic sheet that wasn’t removed. That may have been the worst case, but there were plenty of other bad ones.

    I do think the the OG version of GS before best buy acquired the was legit, but as businesses do, it enshitified, which when you’re paying youths less than $10/hr, you can expect shit service.

    In my case, I didn’t suck and it was a good entry for me to really get to understand computers and I learned more about actually working on and fixing computer there than I ever did in college. I did put in the effort though where a lot of people are just passing through.




  • It’s not bad code, it’s just code you don’t like. Unless there is a major overhaul with the security package they are using, that could cause issues, but that’s not likely going to happen because huge security changes mean legitimate implementations break as well. As for hiding it from users, this is an open source app. The code is literally available for anyone to view. If someone is unable to parse it out, that’s on them.









  • It’s not a Meta only thing, but they are certainly one of the worst companies to have that data. No company should be able to collect data without express permission from anyone in that data. I don’t want literally any 3rd party storing video of me that I didn’t give them approval. An example would be if there were a medical procedure that were recorded on a private local server for reference or archive purposes, similar to any other medical records. Those records are protected by privacy laws like HIPPA where Meta glasses don’t have that.

    The recording technology isn’t the problem, it’s consent and how that data is stored and handled after taken.

    So if Sony did have their own glasses like Meta, I would 100% expect the backlash to be almost just as bad as it is for Meta. Again, Meta is worse, but bad and really bad are both degrees of bad that deserve criticism and pushback.


  • We’re not anti technology, were vocally anti destructive and anti privacy technology. AI is terrible in almost every facet. It’s a neat technology on paper, but the environmental and societal impact far outweighs any positives from it. Camera glasses that record people that don’t want to be recorded and saved to a cloud where that information is trained on and out of the control of anyone that’s been recorded is a major privacy violation. Again, the technology of having smart glasses is neat on paper, but it reality is awful and prime for abuse.

    So we don’t hate all technology, just the shit technologies, like those mentioned plus flock and Microsoft products to add to the pile. Not being critical of these technologies is insane to me, because it lets these companies push the limit of what’s acceptable without reprecussions.