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Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by hunter2_ »

sandworm101 wrote: post #215

Green lasers. Not the first time ive seen this sort of thing. Green lasers are made by running an IR laser through a crystal that doubles thier frequency, shifting IR into what we see as green light. But go cheap on the crystal and a green laser pumps out invisible IR possibly in a slightly different direction than the visible beam. Your eyes dont even blink because they dont see the IR. You dont notice the damage an…

Why is everyone else only talking about UV? Unfortunately I can't access TFA in its entirety so maybe it discusses both?

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Post by rideontime »

sandworm101 wrote: post #215

Green lasers. Not the first time ive seen this sort of thing. Green lasers are made by running an IR laser through a crystal that doubles thier frequency, shifting IR into what we see as green light. But go cheap on the crystal and a green laser pumps out invisible IR possibly in a slightly different direction than the visible beam. Your eyes dont even blink because they dont see the IR. You dont notice the damage an…

Source for "green lasers"? All the reporting I've seen says that they used disinfectant-grade UV lamps as blacklights. https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1721602536225091716

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by seanp2k2 »

astrange wrote: post #174
Kye wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's about the attendance of an average furry convention (or roughly one NordicFuzzCon) where the A/V crew will know what they're doing with the lights. Questionable ideas and their events and services struggle to attract competent staff for some reason. They're always getting hacked or melting faces.

I help run an anime con with, uh, 15 times this reported attendance. The most important thing is to keep your competent volunteers entertained so they're happy to run a rave one weekend a year that doesn't blind anyone.

+1 I've also got some friends who do sound, lighting, and DJ for anime / furry cons. It's a fun little niche.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by MobiusHorizons »

sandworm101 wrote: post #215

Green lasers. Not the first time ive seen this sort of thing. Green lasers are made by running an IR laser through a crystal that doubles thier frequency, shifting IR into what we see as green light. But go cheap on the crystal and a green laser pumps out invisible IR possibly in a slightly different direction than the visible beam. Your eyes dont even blink because they dont see the IR. You dont notice the damage an…

The article seemed to suggest UV not IR before the paywall cutoff. Is this from the article or are you speculating?

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Post by reactordev »

pavlov wrote: post #40
SrslyJosh wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clearly, Yuga Labs has no incentive to either exaggerate the number of attendees or understate the number of people harmed. =)

Everybody in crypto is so honest and the numbers they love to tout are always real, so I don’t see any reason to be so cynical. Unless of course one is a fiat-blinded NPC sheep who hates disruptive innovation and wants to kill the children in Africa and El Salvador who are being rescued from poverty by the limitless power of blockchain energy.

saving the world, one block at a time...

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by komali2 »

LelouBil wrote: post #199
astrange wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A signed git commit is actually immutable. An NFT is generally the signed text of a URL, which kind of isn't.

Wait what, I thought it was at least the hash of the image or something.

Since finding this out a couple years back it's always my delight to see this realization happen for others.

We knew NFTs were stupid... we just couldn't comprehend how incredibly stupid they actually are.

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Post by sheepscreek »

forty wrote: post #121
404mm wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! Also possible candidates: A few watts short of a lightbulb. Their lights are on but nobody’s home.

In french, we have "they are not not the sharpest knives of the drawer" but my favorite one is "he is not the penguin who slides the furthest" :D On the light related ones, I only know "they are not lights" which is a bit to bare bones to my taste, but works well in french

Never heard the penguin one in any language but it sure is hilarious!

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by henriquez »

silisili wrote: post #227
Animats wrote: post #203

This is pathetic. The original promoters behind BAYC, two guys from Florida and the son of some official of a bank in Africa, were rave promoters. They botched their metaverse project, Otherside, but that was technically ambitious. The people running it now can't even run a medium-sized rave properly. Earlier ApeFest events were only for BAYC holders and had a celebrity lineup. This time they sold tickets to anyone.…

> two guys from Florida And that's all I need to know. I avoid buying from, selling to, or doing business with anyone from FL if I can, I've been burnt too many times. I'm not sure if the state attracts shady characters, or produces them, or both.

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Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by s1artibartfast »

Yadayadaaaa wrote: post #162
jeffhuys wrote: post #39

I really am surprised by all the “lol you buy NFT so already blind” folks. Actually pretty disgusting. Disclaimer: I don’t own NFTs.

Why not? Its called Schadenfreude and tbh the amount of NFT or Crypto scams, garbage and co people had to endure the last years is horrendes. Its one thing to state in a comment that you shouldn't use NFT or crypto, but unfortunate we are not discussing banning them activly.

What is this horrible suffering people had to endure?

IMO, it was basically all self inflicted anguish due to "someone else is wrong on the internet" syndrome.

If someone wants to gamble their money away, you don't have to care. If they want to talk about it, you don't have to listen.

People act like living in a world with people who act differently was some kind of ordeal. they have totally lost the ability to not engage with topics they don't enjoy, and then take joy in the pain of others.

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