Post #4738700 · Elektrine

2026-09-17 14:50 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/117286191388897288 woooo, a genuinely useful tool for a bunch of people got bombarded into a tool for perverts so now we're making a version that is dramatically less useful. We did it! We won! ThE WoRlD iS SaVeD! FFS I really can't with people sometimes. Next frontier: pervert watches and phones that record everything, except oh wait, they've probably been doing that for decades just without telling you. Oh well

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@zersiax@cupoftea.social 2026-09-17 15:03

And before people come down on me for missing the point, I'm not. Yes, the glasses CAN absolutely be used for peeping tom action, and yes, they are stupid convenient for that. That they ARE being used for peeping tom actions is because people as a whole suck, and the solution to that is to make people suck less. I also know some shady marketing re: it being an accessibility tool happened. I wouldn't agree that marketing is sound, but it DOES genuinely take away a crazy amount of barriers for quite a few people. A tool can be an accessibility aid, a no-not-quite-that-much-of-an-accessibility-aid, and a peeping tom tool all at once. I don't have numbers on which one is the truest. But making the pervert tool disappear also means killing off a tool that improved peoples' independence. So ... yay yay celebrate, I guess?

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@prism@infosec.exchange 2026-09-17 16:20

@zersiax@cupoftea.social If it makes anyone feel better, the camera-less glasses were on the roadmap since last year.

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