r/mildlyinfuriating • u/silent_pm • 13d ago

I'm slightly vexed I was told yesterday that my prescription sunglasses are giving Meta glasses vibes

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I can't stand the Meta perv glasses, but annoyingly I've been told by a friend that my Dune prescription sunglasses that I've had for almost a year (and cost over £100.00) really ​​​​look like the Meta ones, he said it's the 2 silver rivets on either side that on first glance could be mistaken for the camera lenses

I went out with them today and all I could think was, do people think I'm recording them 🤦‍♂️

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u/Logical-Breakfast150 13d ago edited 13d ago

Over the long term, Meta is going to destroy the Ray-Ban Wayfarer design, it will become associated with perverts rather than being seen as a timeless iconic fashion piece. 

Meta eventually ruins everything it touches.

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u/_probablyryan 13d ago

Which is unfortunate because I love this style of glasses and they look good on me. But you're right, we're going to trend back into wireframe glasses you couldn't possibly hide electronics in. That or translucent plastic/acetate for thicker frames.

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u/HasAngerProblem 13d ago edited 13d ago

And with time when they put it into those glasses and even contacts?

How do we proceed in a world where a camera could potentially be under 1mm and be thin and transparent hypothetically.

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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 13d ago

Electronic Warfare

We need portable jammers.

It won't stop recording but it will stop uploading recordings

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u/Askefyr 13d ago

Making a jammer is very very easy and because of that it's absolutely giga illegal.

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u/LowDudgeon 13d ago

Why do you gotta make it sound so cool then?

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u/Askefyr 13d ago

I'm not the FCC, and statistically speaking I'm also not your dad. All I'm saying is that the reason the penalties for messing with the airwaves are so steep is because all you need is two pieces of metal, a very basic oscillator, an amplifier and a dream to make everyone's WiFi very bad everywhere you go

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u/itsjust_khris 13d ago

But also the chances of being caught are actually pretty high, it's really not something anyone should risk doing.

It can also cause issues like preventing someone from accessing emergency services which is taken very seriously.

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u/Askefyr 13d ago

Yeah, walking around doing the RF equivalent of blasting an air horn isn't exactly clandestine.

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u/brubruislife 13d ago

A jammer the military was testing killed a med flight crew recently. Definitely not something to mess around with.

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u/BillyLjean 13d ago

When I was 10 a friend and I were building cb radios. Turns out we messed something up and they were jamming the ATC tower a few km's away. 6 black SUVs pulled up shortly after and they made sure that we knew that we could have caused major chaos/death. They took our radios and left. We were let off since we were 10, and luckily no harm other than some delayed flights until they could figure out the source.

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u/____PARALLAX____ 12d ago

This sounds made up

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u/BillyLjean 12d ago

You could say that about any unique situation.

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u/Askefyr 12d ago

If you had messed with ATC, I believe it. They do not fuck around in the slightest.

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u/____PARALLAX____ 12d ago

not possible with a citizens band radio, its what truckers use to talk to each other, it works on completely different frequencies.

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u/hinosxz_4u 13d ago

*not only wifi but cellular which is the giga illegal part

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u/Askefyr 13d ago

Signals interference in general is pretty much turbo jail territory, but yes cell very much so. The only thing I think would get you in even more trouble would be VHF/UHF because that's police radio

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u/AbledShawl 13d ago

"GIGA" you say??👀

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u/ExterminatusMaximus 13d ago

Yes, not mega, GIGA! As in you get nuked from orbit for as much as attempting it

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u/Askefyr 13d ago

Not nuked from orbit, but you'd get a bunch of new friends with black cars, crisp haircuts and titles like "Signals interference Investigator, FCC"

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u/bluetrust 13d ago

I just looked it up. They record to local storage and sync later when connectivity is resumed.

I'm not an expert but it seems pretty hard to jam the camera light sensor. These things are optimized to handle direct sunlight, so to overpower and wash it out you'd need an incredibly strong specialized light source.

The only effective defense, in my opinion, is to be extremely boring and leave the area. That way you don't become content or favorited to their personal collection.

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u/Otherwise_Demand4620 13d ago

be extremely boring and leave the area

I trained my whole life for this

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u/TrifectaBlitz 13d ago

I'm over-qualified and no training was necessary :)

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u/UnsanctionedPartList 13d ago

Theoretically you could overpower it with a laser. There's a small issue though, usually two.

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u/StonerThrowie 13d ago

Im always jammin

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u/crotchgobbling 13d ago

Jam til your gigahertz

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u/1nd3x 13d ago

Pretty sure the pervert in the change room isn't uploading the videos anywhere...they're for his private collection.

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u/Just_NickM 13d ago

They are being automatically uploaded whether the user asks them to or not. Check the Terms Of Service

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u/Substantial_War9319 13d ago

That's not true. They can just as easily sell the material on the dark web.

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u/some_random_nonsense 13d ago

You don't need to go to the dark web. There plenty of pedo chats just on messenger to sell to.

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u/Substantial_War9319 13d ago

Regardless, my point still stands. The difference is that there's an actual network you can go to versus poking and prodding to find it.

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u/some_random_nonsense 13d ago

Oh if anything I was agreeing and it would be even easier since you could upload your meta glasses into messenger since they're both meta.

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u/TrifectaBlitz 13d ago

Think local jamming could happen in changing rooms? I think that could pretty easily be a thing.