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   SwiftOnSecurity (swiftonsecurity@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:50:16 JST SwiftOnSecurity

   The invention of the blue LED, one of the most difficult and important inventions ever – which allowed the white LED – is some of the craziest Chad shit I have ever heard about anything. This guy is pinnacle determination holy crap.

   https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M

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     Lee Holmes :donor: (lee_holmes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:50:14 JST Lee Holmes :donor:

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     @SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity Watching that is definitely on my to do list. Did you see his one about the SAT? https://infosec.exchange/@Lee_Holmes/111506430074413132

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     screambiogenesis (screambiogenesis@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:50:22 JST screambiogenesis

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     @SwiftOnSecurity Nakamura may have had a hell of a time perfecting the blue LED (and this video was a great explainer for how he did so), but a far more difficult challenge is apparently any electronics manufacturer using anything other than a blue LED for an indicator lamp since its introduction.

     They aren't new and fancy anymore. Can we have amber LEDs back now?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:50:22 JST clacke

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     @screambiogenesis @SwiftOnSecurity The silliest thing is that BlueTooth requires that you put a blue light on your device.
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     Francis Chong (siuying@mastodon.hk)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:50:26 JST Francis Chong

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     @SwiftOnSecurity His boss allow him disregard the order for years are also legendary

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     jyc (jyc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:50:38 JST jyc

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     @SwiftOnSecurity Wow! Normally meh on Veritasium videos but this one had the perfect mix of physics + engineering + history/business. Loved it, thanks for sharing.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 22:56:47 JST 翠星石

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     @SwiftOnSecurity Ah yes, yet another example why patents were a mistake.
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     done (done@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 01:51:04 JST done

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     @SwiftOnSecurity this was a fantastic Veritasium video. I got kind of emotional watching it, and yeah I wish Shuji Nakamura was more well recognized for his contribution to modern society, but I guess it’s videos like this that start that process! I hope he also finds success in the micro-led and fusion fronts. Truly inspiring story, thanks for sharing!

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     James Holden (jamesholden@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 01:51:05 JST James Holden

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     @SwiftOnSecurity I distinctly remember blue LEDs becoming available to hobbyists. Red/Yellow/Green LEDs were about 15p from Maplin (in UK, like Radio Shack), but blue were like £5 each.

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     Michael Olsen :donor: (corsairmo@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 01:51:13 JST Michael Olsen :donor:

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     @SwiftOnSecurity I watched this yesterday and was like "holy crap, this is the sort of thing SwiftOnSecurity would be all over". And here you are 😉♥️

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     Shawn Hoover :welp: (shoover@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 01:51:18 JST Shawn Hoover :welp:

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     @SwiftOnSecurity “Nakamura’s lab mainly consisted of machinery he had scavenged and welded together himself. Phosphorus leaks in his lab created so many explosions that his coworkers had stopped checking in on him.” 👑

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     Momo (momo@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 01:51:22 JST Momo

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     @SwiftOnSecurity
     This gives me Nicola Tesla vibes. Just imagine the old chairman wouldn't have stepped down just for a few more years...
     @anathem

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     Simon Zerafa (simonzerafa@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 23:51:29 JST Simon Zerafa

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     Steamboat Willy has an answer to this issue. Especially how the company treated the inventor 🤨

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 23:51:34 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @SwiftOnSecurity yeah, it was a major breakthrough and it's a big deal.

     the next frontier is solving the green gap problem. right now we don't have efficient semiconductors that have a bandgap with a wavelength in the range between green-yellow and red-amber.

     if we can find one, we can stop building white lights that have such a strong blue peak, and make very high efficiency white lights that run the full gamut of the Planckian locus.

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     Kalium ^_^ (kilovoltamp@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 23:51:43 JST Kalium ^_^

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     @gsuberland @SwiftOnSecurity I picked up the habit of wearing a diffraction grating in my glasses from someone on here years ago and it makes the green gap extremely obvious.

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