Meta's smart glasses companion app ships a complete, dormant face-recognition pipeline on a stock account.
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Stella is the companion app for Meta's smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella), I found the entire computational and storage stack for on-device facial recognition: three face models, a local database schema, a cosine-similarity vector index dimensioned to match the models,
  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 days ago

    There was a time not so long ago that this would have been meat and exciting to me because of all the potential for accessibility and my shitty memory and…

    But the enshittification of everything has destroyed my positivity about tech. And also, Meta/Facebook sucked before then.