Submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
“Wearables” but they forget to mention it’s about government mandated trackers in a closed ecosystem.
They will track which bad (health or otherwise) groups of people one has come in contact with and make deductions based on that.
Ofcourse it’s also extra business for the ice teams. And the deluxe wearable also tracks payments.
The European Covid tracking app back then already was very scary in its early setup … and this mandated wearable idea will be far worse.
Years ago I purchased a Fossil Explorist Q wearable smartwatch. The first software update, about a month after I bought it, turned the device from a functional smartwatch into a brick that was so slow it was nearly nonfunctional.
The device was not powerful enough to run all the spyware they tried to pack into that update, turning it into an on wrist heater, occasionally getting Hot enough to burn me.
I’ve never seen a device so thoroughly destroyed by enshittification so quickly. That’s experience turned me off of wearables forever. Maybe I’ll make my own someday. Maybe I’ll get a Pebble now that they’re back-ish. I’ll never get anything with wearOS on it again. Hell after the last year I might never get something with Android/iOS again either.
Wait till you can have your pacemaker play the Netflix sound for 10% off the family plan
to do what with? unless you're going to also increase grants to nih studies for wearable devices to study and improve something involving the health system, what is the benefit besides making apple richer?
It makes the police state more efficient.
Every time I see this Nazi Aristocrat, I am reminded that I have to sharpen my guillotine.
pine64.org/devices/pinetime/ 🤣 (rare case of a valid usecase for this emoji)
yeh… like that worm in your head huh
Those who are not infected with worms or eggs, must be identified -rfk jr
The only wearable I would ever consider wearing, is someghing likebthe thing Zack Friedman of Voidstar Labs made for himself.
Yeah, no
Ok RFK. Let’s see you and all of Trump’s squad do it first, and make sure it’s public in realtime. I’d love to see timestamps each and every time he reads AOC tweets.
I think some org could take the initiative and offer a standard protocol for “that” to communicate to this service.
Then you could wear something FOSS and clearly not spying, but send some information (if you so wish). Maybe no location, but vitals. Maybe no vitals, but location (suppose you want RFK to see a big “FUCK THE GOAULD” on the map).
Cause when you put enough money into a project, it might actually happen.
This is also the mistake everyone made about platforms and social networks.
I’ll repeat again my idea that similarly to Usenet, there should be standard protocols and universal services for a global public system replacing those (Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Google, whatever). You need a service to store data to be always available - have a standard for that service. You need a service to do some computation - have a standard for submitting a task and storing the result (until retrieved or maybe to the previous kind of service). You need a service to search for objects (common task, yes?) - have a standard for that. You need a service for notifications real-time - have a standard for that too, NOSTR does that now. You need some way to financially incentivize people to provide these services - have a “resource market” service, something like MMORPG item markets (where players script their trade with simple constraints, very easily), to buy&sell space&computation, with payments provided with something like GNU Taler, or BTC Lightning if nothing better. Need common identification - well, there’s OpenID, but one can also have cryptographic identities and identity caching services. Need to actually aggregate hundreds of those services for every task - if search service is not enough (suppose we want to also make search and other services somehow partitioned, or something like that, to accommodate for amounts of data), then have an aggregation service (similar to torrent trackers) or maybe just use DNS for that. Structured machine-processable results of those services allow you to never depend on one platform and have everything they offer. With the specific “kind” being provided by the client application.
Humanity in our time has all the technologies it needs and none of the will.
No fucking way.
You can’t pay me to wear anything on my wrist even without the government spying. And no way in hell would I trust anything this administration recommends.
Why would every American buy one if they can’t afford insurance + medical bills to pay for health care? “Oh look, I’m having a heart attack. Good to know. Guess I’ll just keep working.”
Don’t fucking tell me what to do.
LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Follow the money. Nominee for surgeon general has a stake in wearable tech.
Just like when those scatter machines were forced on the TSA, it’s because the person in charge had a stake in the company making them.
My company gave these things away to each employee for some ‘fitness challenge’ between departments…I never even opened the package. My group was mad at me for not helping win the free lunch or whatever it was … Until I made them read the privacy policy. Many stopped wearing them immediately