Welcome to Incremental Social! Learn more about this project here!
Check out lemmyverse to find more communities to join from here!

P1r4nha

@P1r4nha@feddit.de

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Is there anything unsavory about ProtonMail?

For some reason I have it in the back of my mind that they were at one point accused of being a honeypot for US intelligence because of their association with MIT. Probably complete BS, but maybe not. Are they as open source as they claim to be? Looks like they're on github. F-Droid seems to think they have some Google libraries...

P1r4nha ,

They only logged the IP. That's metadata. IIRC Apple refused backdooring its phone encryption. That's a lot more invasive.

P1r4nha ,

Yup, the "roar that matters" is the one people can hear when you quickly approach the speed limit in the city.

Editing memories, spying on our bodies, normalising weird goggles: Apple’s new Vision Pro has big ambitions (theconversation.com)

Apple Vision Pro is a mixed-reality headset – which the company hopes is a “revolutionary spatial computer that transforms how people work, collaborate, connect, relive memories, and enjoy entertainment” – that begins shipping to the public (in the United States)....

P1r4nha ,

The largest differentiator to other devices by Apple really is the always-on cameras and the idea that you can/should use the device with always-on cameras in public. Otherwise Meta/Oculus have already done just as much as Apple has done here. Apple's entry into the market just heats up the discussion around the "Metaverse" again.

I work in the space myself and wearing a VIO system on your head can really give you a lot of health and personality information. The device sees your iris and can identify you. It can analyze your gait and with some "AI magic" even notice and detect movements of your extremities outside the visual field of its cameras.

Devices like these can also be helpful in the medical space though: Not just for diagnosing diseases in the brain or of the eyes, but also help with therapy of patients by augmenting reality with virtual content that can help. One classic one is Parkinson's patients who can walk again normally with some virtual visual guides on the floor.

Clearly that's not the main goal of Apple, and obviously not of Meta, but it's not all bad if used correctly. A privacy first approach is definitely necessary. And it's not completely true that M$ doesn't give a damn. With their Hololens they did for instance introduce a privacy preserving mapping and localization system. Nevertheless Apple has a good privacy track record compared to other tech companies.

P1r4nha ,

It's half a kilo strapped to the front of your head. There's lighter products out there right now that can do similar things. I don't see this first iteration as anything revolutionary.

P1r4nha ,

For sure. I wonder if it's even worth it or just look creepy to look at a pair of two eyes deep in the uncanny valley.

P1r4nha ,

With the amount of verbiage and ex-employees they've taken over from Magic Leap it's not far fetched they were looking into a see-through device as you describe.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • incremental_games
  • meta
  • All magazines
    •