Sorry but who the fuck attends the “Bored Ape Conference”?
Thankfully a bunch of deuche bros
Techbros
Boring apes?
Laughing at these people for getting their retinas burned like I see many people do (not just here) is in really bad taste imo. Even cryptobros don’t deserve that.
“Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.” ― Charles Bukowski
Which is saying something, coming from him.
ChinaskiBukowski did not have a high opinion of humans, in general.
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Sounds like somebody accidentally bought some germicidal bulbs instead of regular black light. Not the first time this has happened. See BigClive’s videos on the topic.
Come to think of it, Radioactive Man looks kinda like he could be a differently coloured “bored ape”
Who’d have thought that a group of conmen would skimp on safety to make some money… I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!
It’s more likely to be down to incompetence. I can’t imagine the party UV lights are more expensive than the fuck-you-up UV lights.
EDIT: Someone else mentioned these might’ve been used during COVID for sanitation, and are extremely cheap leftover wares now that the pandemic is “over”, which would actually make them a lot cheaper.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by plain incompetence is a saying. But I think a new modern corollary can be made. Never attribute to incompetence what can be easily explained by greed, which just circles back to malice and is stupidity at the same time.
Misread this as Concerned Ape and became… Concerned. And also mad I didn’t know there was a convention.
No this is not our Lord of Stardew :) These are actual dumb people that think NFT’s are a good idea and went to a conference for them. Ick.
To be fair the idea behind nft’s is great when its about tracking a commodity, item or piece of information.
Its making them “THE” commodity that is cringe levels of stupid.
I still hope that one day press will have professional onlines cameras generating an nft with location, time and camera id for every piece of footage. No more fake news with misused imagery.
Right, it’s sad how nfts are just a joke now because of the worst possible execution of what an nft could do/be became a massive scam
I get what you want, I mostly fail to see how NFTs help there either. If a digital camera is generating the SHA256 or whatever that even links to the video file (and this would only work for the RAW, not even compressed for transmission data), then it’s a computer generating the data. I don’t really see why you couldn’t just have a computer generate a “fake camera” - it’s not like you’re going to be able to audit all the cameras a news org uses, and it’d be easy for someone to say they “lost” a camera, or it was stolen or whatever. And for the user submitted stuff from smartphones or their video cameras … etc.
The problem with NFTs is always the link to the actual thing IMO. There’s just no cryptographic way to link a physical item or anything that doesn’t itself fit on the chain, nor is there a way to verify the original claims input that’s outside the blockchain - i.e. it’ll verify when the NFT was uploaded to the chain, but not when the video was taken. There’s no obvious way for the blockchain to validate the GPS data provided (or not) by the camera that took the video etc.
Appreciating your points, it’s true that while the camera wouldn’t be foolproof, the nft can still significantly augment the traceability of media. When official channels and news is encouraged to source footage from there then certified uploaders would add a layer of trust, and legal reuse could be monitored effectively with a clickable badge/mark It’s not without its vulnerabilities, but it’s a step towards a more accountable media landscape. And makes it easier for people to dismiss random propaganda imagery shared online.
Does it? People misunderstood SSL so badly thr browsers started hiding the lock icon and actual details of the certs.
But your idea still comes down to who you trust. If you trust the NYT then you’re going to go to their site they already control to see their images. If you aren’t sourcing the images from random third parties then this does nothing. And if you’re already trusting random Facebook pages, they can also NFT their posts.
You seem to think no one can certify upload accounts now? But of course they do already.
Please, don’t post paywalled content.
It was paywalled after I posted it! Here’s a link that’s unrestricted https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948464/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sunburn-uv-exposure
lol
Does anyone have the full article?
No, but there are.many other articles covering the topic if you search for it, e.g.
I think so, because two comments clearly had more info than was available in my click.
it was already posted here on lemmy, idk where, but i remember it on my feed and the comments
New fear unlocked!
Not a particularly surprising sort of capstone to finish off this whole stupid NFT thing.
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Not sure why you were voted down, because I feel the exact same way. No one should have to suffer vision loss from a public event, horrifying.
Whoa, I think my comment (and yours) was removed. Or am I missing something? Wierd
Sorry this link has been paywalled for some people after I posted. Here’s an article that is unrestricted https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948464/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sunburn-uv-exposure
reminds me of the Blade movie https://youtu.be/KZnb8InfpHI?t=42
Wait… What?
You have to read the article to understand the headline. Intense, I know.
My man the article is behind a brick of cookie permissions and then a paywall. The “What” is more than warranted
I’d love to, but the text fades out after the first paragraph and is replaced with “This post is for members only.”
I think you get the picture. I did.
That’s one sign of a bad headline.
What is going on in the world?
It’s like I blinked and then… This headline existed.
that’s what you get
