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

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Post by aaron695 »

Kye wrote: post #82
pavlov wrote: post #13

The Financial Times [1] has attendee numbers: “About 2,250 people attended the Saturday evening party at a cruise terminal, said organiser Yuga Labs, one of the pioneers in this market. Since then, more than a dozen have posted on social media complaining of a burning sensation in the eyes and sometimes also impaired vision.” Honestly that’s a lot more proud Bored Ape bagholders than I would have guessed. But what do…

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.

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

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Post by mattdesl »

astrange wrote: post #161
Always_Anon wrote: post #44

After I learned that NFTs were essentially just signed git commits, I wrote them off as a hilarious grift. I feel bad for the people that were injured, so here's my advice: run away from NFTs and crypto. RUN AWAY!

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

It’s typically an IPFS hash of an image that is stored on the blockchain, rather than a mutable URL. Some generative artworks will even store all of their code on-chain.

Ultimately, the chain is meant to be a ledger of transactions (like a decentralized Christie’s auction house maintaining provenance), not a storage layer.

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

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Post by forty »

littlestymaar wrote: post #200
forty wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> but my favorite one is "he is not the penguin who slides the furthest" :D Did you too learned that one in the related thread on /r/France last year[1]? Or was it something that you heard IRL? [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/uhazwh/connaissezvo...

I heard it in real life and I Googled it to check the person speaking did not make it up ^^

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

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Post by LelouBil »

codetrotter wrote: post #333
matteoraso wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, NFTs technically have nothing to do with images, or files at all. The way it works is that you write a random string and save it on a blockchain, which becomes the NFT. From there, you can use a lookup table to map the NFT to a URL that links to an image that's stored on the owner's server. NFTs are truly the worst of all grifts.

> you write a random string and save it on a blockchain, which becomes the NFT. From there, you can use a lookup table to map the NFT to a URL that links to an image that's stored on the owner's server The way which they are mapped to images vary from NFT to NFT. But let's look at Bored Ape Yacht Club specifically. Collection https://opensea.io/collection/boredapeyachtclub Pick a random bored ape. For example #1337.…

Thanks for the explanation, it makes a bit more sense that it is an ipfs URL.

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

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Post by eru »

meowface wrote: post #329
eru wrote: post #306

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NFTs, and even monkey JPG NFTs, are perfectly sensible when viewed as art projects. (Not as finance: financially, monkey JPG NFTs are rather silly.) And by 'sensible' I mean sensible compared to weird things other people either do for art or spend money on for art. Compare eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_art (and that's far from the most egregious corner).

I disagree. They're generally not intended as art or consumed as art. Performance art, modern art, post-modern art, avant-garde art - while not always to everyone's taste - is usually intended in a purely artistic sense. (And in my opinion much of it actually is good. Jackson Pollock was regarded as nonsense or non-art and still is by many but he's one of my favorites, for example.) NFTs that start themselves as NFTs…

I'm sure there's plenty of art and artists who are very aware of themselves being used as tools in a status game.

See eg https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/14/receipt...

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

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Post by Gibbon1 »

the-smug-one wrote: post #182
forty wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

We have the knife in the drawer one in Swedish too. My favourite one is "The wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead" however.

That feels a lot like 'the lights are on but nobody is home'

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

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Post by Grustaf »

Ensorceled wrote: post #285
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.

Really? These grifters have stolen millions from innocent patsies all while clogging social media with scams and arrogant “stay poor” memes and directed billions of VC funding into creating useless tools to facilitate the scams. And we’re disgusting for maybe thinking maybe karma had something todo with this?

The people that still own Bored Apes are more likely to have lost millions though
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