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thank god i don’t need glasses.
Please dont link to paywalled articles, unlesd you paste the whole article contents in the post
Providing the text or an archive link separately may be polite, but your request goes too far. If somebody shares a paywalled link that is on topic for the community, you have several options. You can ignore it and miss out, and be no worse off. You can find an archive copy yourself, and even share it in a comment to receive fake internet points. You can enjoy the discussion in the comments and maybe find other relevant links there. But you’re suggesting that the community is better off with fewer posts and less participation (“please don’t [post] unless”).
The community rules include
Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
That’s a much nicer way of stating a preference to have OPs do the legwork. Please don’t discourage community participation.
To be fair, the sidebar itself suggests copying the content over if they’re paywalled. It’s nuts that you’ve highlighted that, and then complained about a rephrasing of what it says.
It’s nuts to me that you can’t see the nuance in the difference between “please don’t [post]” and “maybe copy [the article text] into the post”.
The “maybe” in there is doing a lot of work converting that into a suggested guideline rather than being a hard rule, and a polite request to follow the guideline is appropriate. But the nuance of “don’t post unless” is distinctly discouraging participation, and not appropriate.
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Why are you being so rude?
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I don’t think I’m being particularly rude here, but the reason why I’m engaging is that OP didn’t do anything wrong and I’m glad they made the post.
I dislike paywalls and registrationwalls as much as most people, but the overall lemmyverse isn’t large enough to discourage posters who link to interesting on topic content. That is rude.
Low effort posts harm our communities. Please don’t encourage harmful participation
At the time I’m submitting this one, this post has 77 comments, including a few with OP engaging in replies. There are several distinct healthy discussions that occurred in this post long before you complained that OP didn’t put in enough effort by violating 404’s copyright because you feel entitled to have a low-effort doomscrolling experience. OP isn’t the one hurting the community here.
People are commenting on a headline they can’t read. Lots of misinformation follows. Yes, that’s harmful
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“All-in-one defense across the light spectrum —reflects near-infrared light, filters blue light, blocks 100% UV rays, and is light-adaptive for all-day comfort.”
Apart from defending against facial recognition, this is really dope.
Who is Matthew Gault?
He used to host the cyber podcast at vice, and now also hosts the angry planet podcast. He is also a guest contributor to 404.
still doesnt solve the problem, the feds already know who you are.
There’s another site that sells actual privacy sunglasses (full IR blocking + reflective frames) but they’ve been sold out for months.
Reflectacles?
I’ve had two pairs of these I bought years ago but unfortunately lost one pair. Chatted with the guy when I bought them and he seemed like a sound guy. I hope being sold out means his business is doing well!
Only issue I have with them is they aren’t really wide enough and I have a small head. Not that they fit badly, they aren’t too tight but the design looks too small on my face that it looks a bit comedic tbh.
They are also really nice to drive in at night as they stop you from being blinded by the absurdity that is modern headlights.
I’ve had my eye on them for ages and would love to get a set. And that’s such a good idea! For the night driving do you use the light lenses or the dark lenses? High beams are the bane of my existence…
The ones I use are the light lenses. They are yellow in colour and so don’t drastically decrease the light your eyes are getting like a darker glass might but tales away that glare.
I recommend giving it a try if you can!
Techno optimistic solution to the techno optimistic “solution” to crime?
Do i have to wear glasses because of some glassholes now? What a time to be alive
So, how are these different that wearing a pair of very dark, wrap around sunglasses?
Those don’t block infrared. They’re basically transparent to it.
Anyone seen anything similar in the UK or EU? I had a look and couldn’t find this sort of lens coating at all
Here’s an actual link to the tech: Zenni ID Guard
Wouldn’t trust the company selling it to be honest about it
Pretty wild getting hit with a message to accept all cookies.
I agree it sucks.
But: Manage Cookies > select none > Confirm my choices
Huh. I didn’t get a notice to accept cookies. The only thing I have enabled in their stack is:
- zennioptical.com <—enabled
- static.zennioptical.com<—enabled
- www.zennioptical.com<—enabled
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uMatrix?
So, these actually work great when IR is used (for example you won’t be able to unlock your iPhone when wearing them), however my question is, does this help at all when just a normal photo is taken? You can wear these, have a ‘normal’ photo taken and it just looks like you’re wearing standard glasses. That could then be fed through CV, etc?
I can unlock my phone while wearing them.
Is it an iPhone? They use IR to map your face where as (AFAIK) most Android just use CV, which is kinda my point. These would only help when IR is involved.
CV = Computer Vision?
Computer vision * sorry
Canadian computing…
Article says no.
Ma’am, this is the Internet. That’s the last place I would think of checking. If it ain’t in the headline, it didn’t happen.
Most of us can’t read the article.
We can read fine. The site linked-to by OP is paywalled, and they didn’t do the minimum courtesy of copying and pasting the article contents into the Lemmy post.
Just google “bypass paywall”, there’s several sites that you can enter a URL and they’ll link you to common ways to bypass paywalls (usually by directing you to a site that archives news stories).
Archive.is is a good site to try first. It typically doesn’t get articles from major news sources for a few hours after publication, but most everything else is available pretty much as soon as it is published.
There’s so many of these paywall-lite sites now, it’s hard to read news without knowing how to bypass these paywalls.
Those sites don’t work. They’re locked behind cloudflare and ban access for hardened browsers.
Just fucking paste it. Or don’t post it.
Especially when the article is paywalled (or at least login-walled).
STOP CALLING IT PARANOIA! FFS, This stuff is being used to track people that go to protests.
404 needs to shove their paranoia and normalize using truth and real words and not hedging like CNN or something.
I don’t disagree so curious, what would be your title instead?
Replace “paranoid” with “highly surveilled.” Just say what it is.
Easy swap out.
Zenni eyewear: the urban surveillance countermeasure you didn’t know you need.
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Why the feds and Wal Mart hate Zenni eyewear.
Or just to change the obnoxious adjective
“Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Dystopian Age”
Oh, I tend to grab Zenni glasses every couple of years and saw that option. I opted against since I didn’t think they were much more than a gimmick, but also at time (and probably still is) they were not compatible with the kind that auto tint in the sun.
I’m also pretty sure if I do get tracked, they have my phone and my unique appearance. I’m not sure someone of my height and build is going to be able to Luigi someone.
I like the idea, but don’t just buy these assuming you’re good to go, and then walk around with a normie iPhone or Android device that phones home constantly with your precise location and device ID, SIM information etc.
There is always at least some error rate and deniability in probabilistic matching by something like facial recognition. There is a lot less deniability of your specific device ID, tied to your real identity (thanks to KYC laws), being in X location at Y time.
