Well they’re saying despite there being a light sensor it still can be easily circumvented by also covering the camera, not the LED, with your hand when starting to record and then just moving your hand away from the camera once the glasses are recording. I’ve definitely seen this tip shared and I think even an video of it in action.

They probably realize there’s no airtight way to prevent it anyway so they’ve added just some simple ways to make it a bit more difficult. It’s not like you couldn’t get camera glasses from some other company without these restrictions anyway if you’re determined to record without the light.

Having seen what people now accept I would not want to bet that these will fail. Never thought people would be OK with Google using their phone to record their exact location 24/7 and save a searchable history of it for example but it seems that never was even controversial. Same with phones and other dedicated little devices that are always listening…

well that may be true for general news but if you’re looking for a more specific topic it won’t necessarily hold.

thanks, that’s interesting to see… I wouldn’t say that what we mean by Loops now has been around for that long but it does show he has been thinking about shortform video for a while and used the same name as the experimental feature had.

where are you getting the idea that Loops is five years old? Seems more like less than two years. From what I can tell it was publicly announced March 2024 (not yet available at that point): https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/

In October 2024 it was starting to accept limited signups. The git repo has commits dating back to December 2024.

Federation for it is definitely still a WIP but I don’t see much reason to doubt that it will be a fediverse platform.

You don’t because everything here’s based on communities while Mastodon is on individual users. If you’d like something that does both in a single platform I think Mbin would be the best bet (although you can interact with Lemmy communities using Mastodon and other microblogging platforms to some extent)

Yeah I think they’ve stopped short of really saying they’re committed to making everything free so expecting them to open more but still not everything is probably what you can realistically count on… we’ll see though.

This is the latest announcement I’ve seen on it: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/open-sourcing-proceeding/24689

Maybe so but being a single division in a company is very different from being an independent company anyway. I would also say that Jolla itself has certainly liked to portray themselves as “doing open source” for a long time but they have not had as concrete plans as the current ones for actually opening the OS up at any point in time before.

Nokia isn’t the same company as Jolla though.

Well more recently they’ve been promising that they will slowly open source it. Not to say there isn’t reason to wait and see on that but there’s at least more reason to be optimistic now than if they hadn’t even said that.

Another vote for NeoDB. It’s been very useful for me and more people on fedi need to know about it.