Developers shoulder enormous labor maintaining infrastructure that corporations exploit freely Corporate sponsors prioritize features that serve their bottom line over community needs Grants arrive tied to specific deliverables that fragment developer attention and undermine long-term sustainability The model expects passion to substitute for rent money and healthcare Only organized developer collectives can demand fair compensation for essential digital labor

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What would it take to build a union that protects open source maintainers from exploitation?

Meta plans to add a facial recognition feature to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, reports The New York Times ($). According to people involved in the plans who spoke to the publication, the feature is internally called "Name Tag," and would let wearers identify people and get information about them via Meta's artificial intelligence assistant. Mark Zuckerberg reportedly wants the feature to differentiate the devices and to make the AI assistant in the glasses more useful.