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Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

37 points by rishikeshs 4mo ago

king_zee 4mo ago
Just like the Meta glasses sent your video feeds to Kenya [1] this one will send the soul of your firstborn there [1] : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-outsourcing-company-for-meta-sacks-workers https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-ou...
plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
It should be within your rights to apply violence if someone records you with Meta glasses or with this pendant without your consent.
- pertymcpert 4mo ago
  Even in public?
  - plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
    Yes. The issue with Meta glasses and those pendants are that they are designed for concealment, designed to invade the privacy of other people. Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings. However, they are not primarily designed for this and it is a side-effect of being a multifunctional tool. However, whenever anyone uses Meta glasses or their pendants in public, one should assume that they may behave maliciously and take appropriate action against such ppeople. Those people will only learn if we collectively decide that punching and breaking their stupid glasses is the right way to handle this.
    - enos_feedler 4mo ago
      What kind of worse case scenario is running through your mind to be this upset? Not saying it doesn't exist I just would like to know.
      - aswTr 4mo ago
        You say the wrong thing, wear the wrong thing, look disheveled or whatever and the asshole with the KGB glasses records it. Then MoistCunt (always forget the real name) on Twitch makes a "reaction video" and 35 million of his dumb minions hate you forever if you dare to appear on the Internet.
    - teeray 4mo ago
      > Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings Not to mention that doing so is a felony in a two-party consent state.
- tracerbulletx 4mo ago
  Why? Its not for any other camera and its insane you think it is.
  - plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
    It's insane to record people without their consent with devices that are designed for concealed recording. It's not insane to fight back.
- sunaookami 4mo ago
  Ah yes, the world needs more violence! Just punch anyone you disagree with!
  - plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
    It is not a disagreement, but rather an act of self-defence in response to an act of violence.
janice1999 4mo ago
Related: "You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop." https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-bans-now-someone-in-nairobi-is-watching-you-poop/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-ba...
gattac_janitor 4mo ago
What products has Meta developed internally after Facebook that have been a success? I am actually asking this question, it seems like they have only had success purchasing already ramping products, plowing cash into them, and cross-integrating them into their product set. Why wouldn't they just continue to lean into that profile and wait for people with actual good ideas solve this.
- 0xy 4mo ago
  Why was it trivial for FB to scale WhatsApp from 450,000,000 users at acquisition to over 3,300,000,000 now? Seems like an insane achievement to scale a messaging service to half of the world.
  - bmitc 4mo ago
    Was it just because WhatsApp was already generally well designed when they purchased it?
    - benoau 4mo ago
      I think that might be common enough these days through sound horizontal scaling principals and especially services that scale for you, but Whatsapp launched in 2009, pretty much the turning point for the tech that enables "web scale". At that time AWS was just rolling out ELB and RDS, people were still fulfilling their (and most) roles on EC2 servers or even more likely dedicated servers / VPS that took day(s) to commission and might have even been setup by hand, there was no Docker, GitHub was new and Actions, Jenkins etc were years away, and there were very few PaaS- or IaaS-type offerings IIRC just a very nascent Heroku and Google App Engine.
      - bmitc 4mo ago
        WhatsApp was built on Erlang, though, which was built to scale in the 80s.
        4mo ago
qsxfthnkp2322 4mo ago
Why anyone would pay money for meta to collect their entire life of data is beyond me. Instagram and Facebook and WhatsApp are already free.
- DaveZale 4mo ago
  no, verrrrry expensive https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/26/big-tech-extracts-retirement-scale-wealth-from-uk-internet-users-research-shows/5246048 https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/26/big-tech-ext... these "free" products are hugely, mind-bogglingly, yet invisibly expensive
  - qsxfthnkp2322 4mo ago
    Exactly, They are “expensive” because they are harvesting every single piece of data about you that they can possible collect Most people know something like that is happening but they have no idea the vast knowledge graph of information that is available for sale about them. And these days that data isn’t just being used for advertising.
    - DaveZale 4mo ago
      Read you loud and clear. I enjoyed the crazy adventure that was the early internet. Really truly enjoyed it for over a decade, almost two. It's now gone, FUBAR and loaded with trackers. I usually can't even access an online newspaper anymore without logging in and being tracked. That's where I draw the line. It is nobody's business what I am reading. Got a stack of books to read now, instead. Not to say that legit sites without trackers don't exist anymore, but finding one of those randomly, for example as a result of search, is getting harder every day. Of course, the risk is real is that as the quality of journalism has diminished, thanks to trackers and putting the most popular dating advice and recipes on online newspapers' front pages in lieu of the reports of what's really happening in the world, we'll all soon be living in bubbles of filtered, sanatized information. So, it's not just privacy threats anymore.
      - 4mo ago
ianmabie 4mo ago
They acquired Limitless AI in 2025 which had pivoted from “record and rewind anything on your Mac” to a hardware pendant “granola for everything” product. It was not in market for very long prior to the acquisition. Hardware was very nice & sorry to see they sold. Mine sits in my desk now :/
- htrp 4mo ago
  Was there any ongoing support there? Or do you basically have a fancy paperweight?
- LoganDark 4mo ago
  Limitless used to be Rewind that maintained one of the most useful pieces of software on my Mac, and I use a cracked version now because I refuse to give it up. There is nothing else like it yet. I seem to recall some other thing that aims to be similar, but that might be cross-platform or otherwise Linux-ish which discounted it as a practical alternative. (I don't remember its name unfortunately)
  - satvikpendem 4mo ago
    What is so good about limitless over the others?
    - LoganDark 4mo ago
      I said Rewind, as that's what the company and product was called at that point before they rebranded to Limitless (and completely abandoned Rewind). The product called Limitless had no relation to Rewind and no plans to integrate Rewind's functionality. Rewind's website continued to exist and continued to accept payments, which is how I found and purchased the app, but there were no updates. - Rewind uses Apple's on-device OCR (Live Text). That alone sets it apart from every other screen recorder, I've never seen another - you can search by any text that has ever been captured on-screen. I do not trust any OCR other than Live Text. - The on-disk format is fairly compact. Over 7 months of recording is still under 250 GB on my machine. - It records the URL in Safari so you can return to any web page you have ever visited without having to rely on OCR of the address bar, which isn't even displayed anymore most of the time. I haven't used most of its other features. Unfortunately, it's been breaking recently as macOS updates. For instance, notification banners no longer show up in the recordings. This actually removes a huge part of the utility for me, as I used to be able to use Rewind to catch notifications I didn't see in time, but that is no longer possible. So now when I see a notification slide away in the corner of my vision, I just have to accept that there's nothing I can do to ever see what it was (most notifications do not go to Notification Center on my machine; not sure why). Also, Rewind crashes so often that I need to have a script in crontab to automatically restart it.
uhfraid 4mo ago
The Swarovski™ Meta AI Amulet… brilliant! The world desperately needs more products conceived under sweaty moonlight at burning man!
Eddy_Viscosity2 4mo ago
Is it just me or does anyone else feel a cold sinister gloom whenever they hear any phrase starting with 'Meta develops...' Oh an AI pendant, what kind of dystopian thing are they going to use this for. Or is it just me.

37 points by rishikeshs 4mo ago

Just like the Meta glasses sent your video feeds to Kenya [1] this one will send the soul of your firstborn there [1] : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-outsourcing-company-for-meta-sacks-workers https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-ou...

plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago

It should be within your rights to apply violence if someone records you with Meta glasses or with this pendant without your consent.

pertymcpert 4mo ago
Even in public?
- plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
  Yes. The issue with Meta glasses and those pendants are that they are designed for concealment, designed to invade the privacy of other people. Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings. However, they are not primarily designed for this and it is a side-effect of being a multifunctional tool. However, whenever anyone uses Meta glasses or their pendants in public, one should assume that they may behave maliciously and take appropriate action against such ppeople. Those people will only learn if we collectively decide that punching and breaking their stupid glasses is the right way to handle this.
  - enos_feedler 4mo ago
    What kind of worse case scenario is running through your mind to be this upset? Not saying it doesn't exist I just would like to know.
    - aswTr 4mo ago
      You say the wrong thing, wear the wrong thing, look disheveled or whatever and the asshole with the KGB glasses records it. Then MoistCunt (always forget the real name) on Twitch makes a "reaction video" and 35 million of his dumb minions hate you forever if you dare to appear on the Internet.
  - teeray 4mo ago
    > Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings Not to mention that doing so is a felony in a two-party consent state.
tracerbulletx 4mo ago
Why? Its not for any other camera and its insane you think it is.
- plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
  It's insane to record people without their consent with devices that are designed for concealed recording. It's not insane to fight back.
sunaookami 4mo ago
Ah yes, the world needs more violence! Just punch anyone you disagree with!
- plastic-enjoyer 4mo ago
  It is not a disagreement, but rather an act of self-defence in response to an act of violence.

janice1999 4mo ago

Related: "You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop." https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-bans-now-someone-in-nairobi-is-watching-you-poop/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-ba...

gattac_janitor 4mo ago

What products has Meta developed internally after Facebook that have been a success? I am actually asking this question, it seems like they have only had success purchasing already ramping products, plowing cash into them, and cross-integrating them into their product set. Why wouldn't they just continue to lean into that profile and wait for people with actual good ideas solve this.

0xy 4mo ago
Why was it trivial for FB to scale WhatsApp from 450,000,000 users at acquisition to over 3,300,000,000 now? Seems like an insane achievement to scale a messaging service to half of the world.
- bmitc 4mo ago
  Was it just because WhatsApp was already generally well designed when they purchased it?
  - benoau 4mo ago
    I think that might be common enough these days through sound horizontal scaling principals and especially services that scale for you, but Whatsapp launched in 2009, pretty much the turning point for the tech that enables "web scale". At that time AWS was just rolling out ELB and RDS, people were still fulfilling their (and most) roles on EC2 servers or even more likely dedicated servers / VPS that took day(s) to commission and might have even been setup by hand, there was no Docker, GitHub was new and Actions, Jenkins etc were years away, and there were very few PaaS- or IaaS-type offerings IIRC just a very nascent Heroku and Google App Engine.
    - bmitc 4mo ago
      WhatsApp was built on Erlang, though, which was built to scale in the 80s.
      - 4mo ago

qsxfthnkp2322 4mo ago

Why anyone would pay money for meta to collect their entire life of data is beyond me. Instagram and Facebook and WhatsApp are already free.

DaveZale 4mo ago
no, verrrrry expensive https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/26/big-tech-extracts-retirement-scale-wealth-from-uk-internet-users-research-shows/5246048 https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/26/big-tech-ext... these "free" products are hugely, mind-bogglingly, yet invisibly expensive
- qsxfthnkp2322 4mo ago
  Exactly, They are “expensive” because they are harvesting every single piece of data about you that they can possible collect Most people know something like that is happening but they have no idea the vast knowledge graph of information that is available for sale about them. And these days that data isn’t just being used for advertising.
  - DaveZale 4mo ago
    Read you loud and clear. I enjoyed the crazy adventure that was the early internet. Really truly enjoyed it for over a decade, almost two. It's now gone, FUBAR and loaded with trackers. I usually can't even access an online newspaper anymore without logging in and being tracked. That's where I draw the line. It is nobody's business what I am reading. Got a stack of books to read now, instead. Not to say that legit sites without trackers don't exist anymore, but finding one of those randomly, for example as a result of search, is getting harder every day. Of course, the risk is real is that as the quality of journalism has diminished, thanks to trackers and putting the most popular dating advice and recipes on online newspapers' front pages in lieu of the reports of what's really happening in the world, we'll all soon be living in bubbles of filtered, sanatized information. So, it's not just privacy threats anymore.
    - 4mo ago

ianmabie 4mo ago

They acquired Limitless AI in 2025 which had pivoted from “record and rewind anything on your Mac” to a hardware pendant “granola for everything” product. It was not in market for very long prior to the acquisition. Hardware was very nice & sorry to see they sold. Mine sits in my desk now :/

htrp 4mo ago
Was there any ongoing support there? Or do you basically have a fancy paperweight?
LoganDark 4mo ago
Limitless used to be Rewind that maintained one of the most useful pieces of software on my Mac, and I use a cracked version now because I refuse to give it up. There is nothing else like it yet. I seem to recall some other thing that aims to be similar, but that might be cross-platform or otherwise Linux-ish which discounted it as a practical alternative. (I don't remember its name unfortunately)
- satvikpendem 4mo ago
  What is so good about limitless over the others?
  - LoganDark 4mo ago
    I said Rewind, as that's what the company and product was called at that point before they rebranded to Limitless (and completely abandoned Rewind). The product called Limitless had no relation to Rewind and no plans to integrate Rewind's functionality. Rewind's website continued to exist and continued to accept payments, which is how I found and purchased the app, but there were no updates. - Rewind uses Apple's on-device OCR (Live Text). That alone sets it apart from every other screen recorder, I've never seen another - you can search by any text that has ever been captured on-screen. I do not trust any OCR other than Live Text. - The on-disk format is fairly compact. Over 7 months of recording is still under 250 GB on my machine. - It records the URL in Safari so you can return to any web page you have ever visited without having to rely on OCR of the address bar, which isn't even displayed anymore most of the time. I haven't used most of its other features. Unfortunately, it's been breaking recently as macOS updates. For instance, notification banners no longer show up in the recordings. This actually removes a huge part of the utility for me, as I used to be able to use Rewind to catch notifications I didn't see in time, but that is no longer possible. So now when I see a notification slide away in the corner of my vision, I just have to accept that there's nothing I can do to ever see what it was (most notifications do not go to Notification Center on my machine; not sure why). Also, Rewind crashes so often that I need to have a script in crontab to automatically restart it.

uhfraid 4mo ago

The Swarovski™ Meta AI Amulet… brilliant! The world desperately needs more products conceived under sweaty moonlight at burning man!

Eddy_Viscosity2 4mo ago

Is it just me or does anyone else feel a cold sinister gloom whenever they hear any phrase starting with 'Meta develops...' Oh an AI pendant, what kind of dystopian thing are they going to use this for. Or is it just me.