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The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

more at: @feed@404media.co

https://tech.lgbt/@yjeanrenaud/116122129025921096

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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I know, and yet the code is open source. Confusing.

[–] xvapx@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

No, the code is available, which is not the same as open source.

[–] kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago

True, but I have no issue preventing commercial use. I view that as just as good if not better than traditional open source.

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 4 points 10 hours ago

They do call it "open source" in the docs though.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 hours ago

That's called "source available". FUTO basically did the same thing with their stuff after the community rightfully got angry over their use of "open source" in their docs.