including list, which i didnt do by accident
On 10/19/22, Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, I’m not sure what you’re referring to, so I’ll just state what I > perceive on my end. > > On 10/19/22, HisName <[email protected]> wrote: >> Disregard the stupidity of my last reply to this thread. I apologize for >> my >> absurdity to the list. I've been an off and on luker here since the mid >> to >> late 90's. I've only posted a few times. I didn't catch the sarcasm. > > I tend to have passive aggression but I didn’t intend any sarcasm > here. The intended audience is people being inflicted covertly with > mental and physical maladies. > >> >> Sent from Proton Mail mobile >> > > On 10/19/22, HisName <[email protected]> wrote: >> Wow, I haven't opened Cypher Punk lists for awhile. This is astounding. >> To >> me, this is quite the coding challenge. You wrote all that? > > I wrote only my kluge for uploading to arweave. It is a coding > challenge only if coding is hard in general i.e. I don’t see coding > challenges in my world anymore ever really, occasionally big libraries > that look rushed to relesse. Might be something I’m missing. > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> On Oct 19, 2022, 1:55 AM, Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & >> Survivor >> of Many wrote: > > The name is a little misleading, although it is because of this that > lifelogging is valuable for me. I’m thinking I was targeted by a > political cult a decade ago. I understand this is common for > cypherpunks to some degree. > > I was heavily jnfluenced not to reveal I was being mistreated, so it > helped me push myself around — i.e. manipulate my own triggers — to > change my name, and now I’m kind of confused around it. Part of the > confusion is likely that I’d prefer to use an anonymous identity, as > is appropriate for this list and public things in general. > >> >>> First of all, be aware there are communities of lifeloggers who love to >>> log their biosignals. I’m not up to speed on that. There are also groups >>> you can join where they collect medical data from you for the public >>> good. >>> I’m also not up to speed on that either. Second of all: I am still >>> _practicing_ this. I haven’t verified that anything is actually working, >>> so it should be assumed that it doesn’t yet. The current biggest hiccup >>> for this email is that I don’t have a public entrypoint to find my data. >>> With some digging, a lot can likely be found. Karl’s current EEG >>> situation: I am using a Muse S with the Mind Monitor app to collect >>> occasional brainwaves. I practice doing this by wearing the headband >>> even >>> when the app is not running. Over time, it gets more comfortable until >>> it >>> is pleasant like other clothing. I have backup headbands for swapping >>> out, >>> and I get warrantees on them, because my experience is that with >>> extended >>> use their lifespan is reduced. The default setup with the Muse and Mind >>> Monitor yields a lot of data loss for me. I am always getting bluetooth >>> connection blips. Mind Monitor also has a bug where it squeezes dropped >>> packets in the data, resulting in timestamp corruption. Still, I have a >>> ton of data. I’ve spent a lot of casual daydreams thinking of ways to >>> repair the timestamps, I don’t think it would be hard. I have also used >>> OpenBCI equipment and recommend it mostly to support efforts that have >>> both community and mainstreamness. I believe it provides much more data >>> than the Muse; however I believe the Muse also makes accelerometer and >>> gyroscope recordings which are likely good for tagging physical events. >>> I >>> presently store my recordings zstd-compressed in a git-annex repository, >>> and from the git-annex repository I believe many of my braineave >>> recordings have reached the arweave blockchain using an arweave git >>> annex >>> remote I kluged together. I would like to upgrade to an open hashing >>> system more streamlined for this than git-annex and my kluge. git-annex: >>> It’s cumbersome to use git-annex for this, although it does work, one >>> can >>> run into space exhaustion problems and file count problems that are >>> easier >>> to stimulate than recover from. Nowadays git-annex does support an adb >>> remote that can pull directly from android phones; I haven’t tried it >>> yet, >>> but it would ease use. If git-annex seems appealing, I recommend >>> learning >>> datalad rather than git-annex first, as datalad has more provisions for >>> handling things like large filecounts or deterministic transforms such >>> as >>> zstd compression. Voice Recording: I have both a voice recorder and a >>> mobile recording app, that I use to take voice recordings. Since I >>> haven’t >>> streamlined storage yet, I usually don’t run these 24/7 but rather turn >>> something on when I am engaging a situation that can be confusing for >>> me, >>> or saying something I value. Sometimes I’ll run more than one at once as >>> a >>> backup, since I can easily run into unexpected issues. I manually copy >>> the >>> recordings into a git-annex repository. This would be streamlined by >>> setting up my devices as a git-annex remote or such in some way, which I >>> haven’t done yet. It can take a long time to copy them. They then >>> eventually can end up on arweave etc. I’m excited when both voice and >>> EEG >>> are running at the same time, as this means the conditions and workings >>> of >>> my mind can be profiled and checked more accurately via the second >>> channel. Additionally, having more than one audio channel recording at >>> once provides data to triangulate where things are physically located >>> and >>> moving in increased detail. Keystrokes: I am also recording all my >>> terminal sessions using asciinema with its —stdin flag. Asciinema >>> includes >>> millisecond timestamps, so this records the timing of my keypresses. >>> These >>> are also added to a git-annex repository where they end up on arweave. >>> Since keypresses are made by my muscles and mind, they can also be used >>> to >>> profile my mental state as it changes from day to day or event to event, >>> especially given the potential accuracy of asciinema’s timestamps. There >>> is a more normative terminal recording program than asciinema, but I’ve >>> lost track of what it is. Video: I occasionally record both desktop >>> video >>> and self-surveillance. Some of this may have also reached the arweave >>> blockchain. This takes much more resources than the other things due to >>> the data size, although it is possible to configure qualities low enough >>> that things become more reasonable. On linux, there is a video recording >>> device that treats X sessions as a video input. I would really like to >>> get >>> video going better, as most of my weirdness has been gross human >>> behaviors >>> I engage in, such as hiding objects from myself. Video also provides the >>> peace of mind of physical security. I let doctors know I suspect I might >>> have occasional seizures and want investigation of this, and from doing >>> this I hope to have medical video and eeg at some point. I’m thinking it >>> could give me a leg up on videorecording to try to mimic the setup a >>> doctor provides, letting my issues more easily remember it is medically >>> important. >
