People have survived without tools like this for thousands upon thousands in years. I think we can afford to wait a few more until there’s a privacy-respecting method behind it. I know we won’t, but I’m sure we could have.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As someone who gets greeted alarmingly often by people whose names I ought to remember but don’t (I’m a minor community leader but am bad with names), I’ve wanted a device like this for 20+ years. I’m a little sad about the concept being vilified.
On the other hand, as an advocate for both privacy and Free Software, I always imagined it as being completely self-hosted and only adding people’s names/faces to its database when I’m introduced to them in person. I’m not at all sad about the particular implementation being vilified.
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As someone who is bad sat names but has a more social ex, same here. There are so many people I come across that ought to know. I probably come across as rude or aloof because I’m bad at faces and names
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This reminds me of Watchdogs the game. Thought this was scary and cool at the same time.