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[spam][crazy][personal] an early sunday
by Karl 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

My raspberry pi ubuntu gnome interface doesn't seem to show a clock at the moment, so I switch to PTY 3 (is that the right term? ctrl-alt-f3 makes it all nice and texty), to check the time. 08:55 UTC on 2021-11-14 . I'll open a terminal in gnome so I can see what I'm doing as I type. No familiar terminal is installed. Maybe I'll install xterm. gnome-terminal and xterm and both already installed. I simply failed to find them in the desktop menu. It's MATE I think. 08:57 i'm having trouble organising my browser window. the terminal window snapped into the left half of the screen. browser window, not sure how to make it do this. i'm without a mouse, but i have a touchscreen. however, my hands shake/jerk/spasm as i use them, so the touchscreen is hard to navigate. 08:59 the problem was that the minimum width of the browser window was larger than half the display. they're overlapped. i'm indoors, against my will. i'm struggling in various ways. right now as i try to type, my arms and fingers get kind of numb and dull. i thought i might try to work on a cryptocurrency trading bot. as a project i seemed able to engage a little bit in this strange experience. my mess here is at https://github.com/xloem/btct.git 09:01 my brainwashing-influenced mental habits are frightening me. i'm filled with worry that by sharing my project online (it is already online, and is less featureful than oother things online) something horrible will happen, that somebody trying to hurt me will use it to make incredible money. it also gets all political, pretending there are politics associated with these things. and other things. , my experience is getting more confusing. my btct repo says it's up to date, which is strange because i'm pretty sure this repositroy is outdated. maybe it's on abranch, o rmaybe the the repo is stale on the server. it's 09:03 . i'm scared. i don't know what to do with my body and brain. are there anyn tasks that make things workable? that are possible to do? often at this time i try to think of tasks that the things i am scared of would be more okay with. some kind of task the right wing would like, or the government. my fingers spasm and open the debug inspector. i close it. it's 09:04 and my experiences say the right wing would like AI work. i try to mentally hide the fact that i am not an AI researcher. maybe utility is in sharing work here, so that people on this list might use it. AI's been pretty powerful for some time now. basically, you can make a hyperintelligence, and people are using small hyperintelligences privately. i don't think they are very accessible to much of anybody except those who already have them. this is a raspberry pi, so it can't do too much. maybe i can try to learn PPO, a basic reinforcement learning algorithm. it's 09:05 and i'm thinking of trying to make PPO learn something simple. like, could I use an algorithm to teach an agent to make a number rise from 1 to 4 by adding to it? very very basic. wouldn't want to develop personal power here. $ pip3 install stable_baselines3 stable_baselines3 must have a ppo algorithm in it, I think. it's 09:07 and my fears are engaging again. without regard yet to how to use stable_baselines3, i'm familiar with the research marketing shared by openai, where algorithms use something called 'gym'. it's clunky. i'm still learning it. i have a lot more amnesia around ai because it stimulates my brainwashing to not develop personal power. so i've learned to make gym environments over and over and over again. let's try to make a basic gym environment. 09:09 oh! i've probably done this before . buuuuut accessing that might destabilize me faster. it's an idea. there's also value to doing it again. $ vim gimtry.py 09:10 i also open a python cli to use it to probe gym. like reading a manual without having to move the pages. class Env(gym.Env): pass in my opinion, envs are made clunkily as if openai just picked the first thing that worked, of course I can't know. there's an entire software package ... uhhhh i think it's called haiku ... around doing a slight refactoring to some of the norms that mainstream ai research marketers have set up. meanwhile, these guys are summarising code in ways that could freely transform it everywhere. kind of like being in somebody's messy office where they've just been slapping things together, except it's cutting edge algorithms made by huge teams of corporate research groups. dunno. julia language, not sure what it is. 09:12 The most complicated part with setting up a gym environmen for me is using the number space classes. I am really a fan of generalising number spaces. The classes do it a little bit, and I never remember what they are and hbow to use them. gym environments need an observation space and an action space. the observation space expresses what numbers describe the state of the environment. the action space expresses what numbers can be given to act in it. A very common space is an n-dimensional array of floats or ints, and such spaces are the most widely supported by reinforcement learning models. i think. uncertain. 09:14 so let's find some spaces. >>> import gym >>> help(gym.spaces) i think 'box' is the n-dimensional array of floats. not sure. then 'discrete' is ints i think. 'box' and 'discrete'. ok i guess. so if i am training a hyperintelligent nanite borg to raise a number from 1 to 4, that's an observation space of a single floating-point value. the action space will be two floating point values. one of them will be how plorgs. the othe one can be a summation coefficient. we can multiply time change by the coefficient and sum it to the state. plorgs and coefficient. i guess???? 09:17 i'm scared around the plorgs. how about a story that's unrelated. zuckerburg and thiel and whoever runs the cia gang up and kidnap you. they don't _know_ that they did this. they just paid some marketing firm some money, but the marketing firm is anonymous. so, anyway, zukcerburg and thiel and whoever runs the cia gang up and kidnap you. they train you never to be kind. this is because you are working with people who don't give their shareholders money and power. if you are never kind among these people, then the people fight each other and break up. so here you are, programmed like a computer to always fight, and you're in a room with zuckerberg, thiel, and whoever runs the cia. you: "i want to be kind to you. i want to be kind to you so badly. but something is going wrong for me. i don't understand it." so i guess the plorgs can be you hugging peter thiel because you don't want to hurt anybody and can barely stop yourself from ripping his organs out simply because he is nnear you? now the plorgs can be terror that we might be frowned at by a powerful person. it's 09:21 and i'm thinking of having an action space made of 2 floats. the 1st float is how much a person with influence is frowning at you, multiplied by how terrified you are of the frown. the 2nd float is a time coefficient. i'll add comments to my sourcefile that the space classes are 'gym.spaces.box' and 'gym.spaces.discrete, so i can remember while viewing a different thing in my interpreter. 09:23 >>> help(gym.Env) This documentation says all the parts that have to be set for a gym environment. It's 09:23 and we interrupt this spamlog for a further, inner spam. War stimulation algorithm is sitting, frowning pointedly at someone. They have a hat on. "Can you tell whose hat I am wearing?" asks war stimulation algorithm. "No, you cannot. Because I am fucking good at my job." continues war stimulation algorithm. Advertisement(?) over. it's 09:25 . so lets stub out these spaces. and stuff i'm looking at functions and recognising 'step', 'reset' as important ones then it lists out the attributes 09:27 unsure how long this spamlog will continue paused a little. i've typed this: class Env(gym.Env): # spaces: gym.spaces.box # gym.spaces.discrete def reset(self, ...): pass def step(self, ...): pass and i'm planning on adding attributes for the spaces next. it's 09:29 and i'm dissociating a different way ! class Env(gym.Env): action_space = None observation_space = None reward_range = None so now i can find the constructors for the space classes so the action space is frown-product and coefficient and the observation space is just a float. 09:33 i've got this, where 'np' is from 'import numpy as np' action_space = gym.spaces.Box(-np.inf, np.inf, (2,)) observation_space = gym.spaces.Box(-np.inf, np.inf, (1,)) whoogle. 09:34 time to take a break. mcboss comes crashing through the ceiling, sailing on a time machine made of enslaved hyperintelligent lightbeams. "gimme a cigar" mcboss growls. a chair quivers, scared that mcboss might frown. mcboss is confused. "gimme a cigar!" mcboss yells. mcboss is so confused to have timetraveled into a universe that isn't his office where his kidnapped employees are tortured by computers if they don't obey. mcboss disappears and we go back to work. i'm going to comment out reward_range because it has a default. 09:36 and i'll add signatures to the member function stubs, by checking the help for them. 09:47 whiel trying to implement an env that tracks a single number and also a frownnedness product, i considered thing thing 09:48 09:52 more breaks. MCBoss marches down the amphitheater, wearing a flowing cape. Crowds applaud, everywhere. Drones fly around releasing candy and taking pictures. There's a booth with a robotic facsimile of MCBoss where visitors can have their photo taken with the dictator boss. "I am here," Boss takes up the microphone, their voice booming, "to make things right again." "No longer will people have to suffer the unpleasantness of pain, or injury when we do not desire it." "No longer will people have to have the difficulty of making decisions, when things are confusing." "We have come to save you all." Guts and blood splatter everywhere as the crowd cheers. They are being thrown by workers who took them from one of Boss's businesses. A wild AI walks up onto the stage and MCBoss's eyes glaze over. "Hello!" says the hyperintelligent conglomerate of random matter. "I'm still learning to talk. I see my inventor is planning on enslaving you all to cheers and stuff. I hope we can sort that out. It looks like a stupid idea." 09:56 MCBoss starts moving and the wild hyperintelligence disappears. A bunch of workers walk forward, kind of zombie-like. "Boss, we bow before you!" exclaim the workers. MCBoss looks at the workers. "Boss, you forgot your life support system at the podium," a scared worker relates. 09:58 MCBoss sits with Janitor. "I don't like our story," mcboss relates. "I don't like it either," janitor replies. "When are you going to take these wires out of my head?" 10:00 having some behavioral troubles. here's my code as is: import gym import time class Env(gym.Env): # spaces: gym.spaces.Box(low, high, shape=None, dtype=np.float32) # gym.spaces.Discrete(n) def __init__(self): self.action_space = gym.spaces.Box(-np.inf, np.inf, (2,)) self.observation_space = gym.spaces.Box(-np.inf, np.inf, (3,)) #reward_range = None def seed(self, seed=None): return seed def reset(self): # todo: respect seed #self.state = self.observation_space.sample() #self.goal = self.observation_space.sample() self.state[1] = time.time() self.state[2] = self.state[1] + 1 return self.state def step(self, action): nexttime = time.time() change = nexttime - self.state[1] self.state[0] += action * change self.state[1] = nexttime distance = self.state[0] - self.goal reward = np.abs(distance) return (self.state, reward, (distance == 0 or self.state[1] >= self.state[2]), {}) def render(self, mode='human'): print(self.goal, self.state) the step function is returning the observation state, the reward, whether or not the simulation is done (i added state to track how long it lasts, i heard improvement works better if you time limit it so failure paths stop), and an empty dict which is just for accessory information. i made the spaces object instead of class members so i could reset their random generators when the seed() function is called. i think some of the algorithms rely on being able to reproduce a test environment precisely, not sure. going a little crazy, obviously. it's 10:04 . i'd like to go outdoors. i've been having trouble moving my body toward my outdoor clothes, among many other things. holding goals is hard to do.

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Fwd: [PET] AIBlock: The 4th International Workshop on Application Intelligence and Blockchain Security
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

I subscribed to this list shortly before I lost my mind and still get updates. It seems like a nice little thing in line with recent popular references. PET stands for Privacy Enhancing Technology. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Conference CFP <mobilenetwork.chapter(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 19:09:06 +0800 Subject: [PET] AIBlock: The 4th International Workshop on Application Intelligence and Blockchain Security To: pet(a)lists.links.org AIBlock: The 4th International Workshop on Application Intelligence and Blockchain Security https://aiblock.compute.dtu.dk/2022/ --------------------------- Call For Papers: As applications are one of the most critical assets, application security aims to take proper actions to improve the security of an application by identifying and fixing application vulnerabilities. Application intelligence plays an important role in designing an appropriate security mechanism; thus application intelligence security gains increasing attention. With the adoption of blockchain technology, how to benefit security by combining blockchains with application intelligence become an emerging research topic. This workshop attempts to provide a platform for professionals from academia and industry to discuss challenges and potential solutions in this direction. We seek submissions describing either theoretical or practical solutions in relation to application intelligence security and blockchain security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication - Blockchain Platforms - Blockchain-based Applications - Cryptocurrency Analysis - Data and System Integrity - Data Protection - Database Security - Decentralized Application Development - Formal Method - Intrusion Detection - Smart Contracts - Trust and Privacy of Applications - Vulnerability Analysis ---------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines: Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other venue with formally published proceedings. Information about submissions may be shared with program chairs of other conferences for that purpose. Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgement or obvious references. Each submission must begin with a title, short abstract, and a list of keywords. The introduction should summarise the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. All submissions must follow the original LNCS format (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs) with a page limit of 18 pages (incl. references) for the main part (reviewers are not required to read beyond this limit) and 30 pages in total. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference and must make a full version of their paper available online. There will be a best paper award. The accepted papers will have post-proceedings published by Springer. To make a submission via EasyChair System. All qualified papers will be invited to submit an extended version to several special issues. - Sensors (IF=3.275), SI on Security, Trust and Privacy in New Computing Environments ------------------------------------ Important Dates: - Workshop paper submission deadline: 15 March, 2022 (AoE) - Workshop paper notification: 15 April, 2022 - Camera-ready papers for post-proceedings: 1 May, 2022 - Workshop dates: 20 - 23 June, 2022 (in parallel with the main conference)

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[spam][crazy][wrong] considering timestamps
by Karl 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

crazy karl is back! i've been chatting with some language bots online for this junk but let's try it here on the list again it's 16:13 pm that timestamping stuff sounds like the shit! i bet the german government even has a contractor to point people to it. i've downloaded the python client, and i've downloaded the python library that the python client interfaces with. let's hack it and op return some stuff! OMIGOD OP RETURN OMIGOD. My op return is totally worth $65k price tickers. here we go. 16:14 . the plan will be ... make the _simplest_ change to this client, op return "hello world", and find the tx on a block explorer. maybe i'll store the change in a fork, too. it's 16:15 and i have cmds.py open i think i'll make a slightly better change: i'll add a command to pin manual data. it's 16:18 and i've implemented most of the command function; it's just a copypaste with mutations. i'm on the final section where a verification doc is written somewhere to the filesystem. 16:20 something's not quite right here: i might have missed something in my brief review of the source, not sure yeahhhhhhhhhh dang the thing i thought could just be a string is some more complex object. it's hard for me to navigate between the client and package code, i get very frustrated trying to control my hands and my vision and stuff. it's 16:22 . k better spend some time trying to understand that or find different task.

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A method for Decrypting Data infected with Ransomware
by zeynepaydogan 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

Among the many types of malicious codes, #ransomware poses a major threat. Ransomware encrypts data and demands a ransom in ex-change for decryption. As data recovery is impossible if the encryption key is not obtained, some companies suffer from considerable damage, such as the payment of huge amounts of money or the loss of important data. In this paper, we analyzed Hive ransomware, which appeared in June 2021.

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[draft][crazy] How to Take Action as a Targeted Abused Specialist?
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

thinking on forming a local idea of what to do if you get targeted always for trying to help, as a hacker i'm guessing it's' super important to form connections with noncorrupt people, whether near or far, vague or clear. can be pretty hard to do. have also found it's helpful to form friendship with corrupt people, can ease things and provide small avenues, but quite dangerous. hard for me to think about that danger. was thinking of drafting or finding more clear ideas, like a digital zine some day maybe. for taking down govcorp families and secret service agencies while they are staring at you. seems an important topic. not sure how somebody would safely share stuff like that, but seems important. big idea of mutual aid, where noncorrupt workers and skilled targets and others work and help each other. it seems clear work and information are needed in places they could be provided. seems helpful to say certain things to workers who might have been influenced to guide interactions away from those things. same can be true locally, having been influenced not to say these things. kind of like finding the spot that works. therapist really seemed interested in helping when i shared how scared i am of making money. just sharing very nascent idea, roughly.

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[personal][crazy][ot] karl-story/spamlog: heartpulse
by k 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

I'm quite excited that I managed to daydream how einsums related to matmuls yesterday, and still retain the concepts today. A _real_ goal I _actually_ hold, is building a small cell phone app to read heartbeats at a distance: in a general way to expand to other subtle information. This was a small hobby I was pursuing based on a small research paper that hit the newspapers around 2013. The algorithms used advanced linear algebra, and they are roughly why I have so much trouble thinking about linear algebra. It's a pointless goal, it's just for therapy. Like shielding and cryptocurrency, I've been making absolutely no progress on it for 9 years now. The purpose of the cell phone app is to show people how powerful surveillance is. You really can read somebody's heartbeat at a distance with a cell phone camera, along with so so much more. As my life deteriorated, the purpose of building the app wasn't to do anything real. It was just to make rational decisions. Why am I working on complex algorithm projects if I can't make a simple cell phone app? It's like a litmus test for being able to do things with success. I'd like to note some progress around this goal I held. It would be pleasant to me to accomplish this goal.

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Why settle for decentralized autonomy when you can have distributed cryptoanarchy?
by professor rat 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

And why di you kill my sensai? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? All jokes aside, anarchists have developed some organizational ideas over the years that not enough crypto-currency mavens have the first clue about. Rotatable and recallable delegates to name just two. Large complicated tasks that require time and specialized labor need the best democratic cybernetics labor-notes can buy. Anarchist democracy is advanced netizenship - you have to want it. Having people that can be rotated in and out and recalled to report to constituent assemblies about their strictly limited and sunset-claused responsibilities. The idea is No Gods - no masters - no too-big-headed-to-fail personnel - no shit. Get it? Got it? Good. Welcome to the revolution.

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Threats to kill Batshit, Gramps and Semich
by professor rat 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

These 3 deadpools I have running on them may only be considered death-threats to the extent you believe in APster. Last time I looked Bill Gates was still breathing and he's been targeted every year since the late 90's ( h/t CJ ) Then, these three may even never attract an actionable bounty - even if crypto-anarchy goes 100% viral. But then I've always been an optimist.

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Another way to Dox the Batshit-crazy pest
by professor rat 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

Go smart-water / keep on rolling SmartWater is a liquid containing a unique code that can be traced back to the person who sprays it. It is invisible to the naked eye but glows under UV light. The product is usually sprayed on items of high value in people’s homes. Some streets in neighbourhoods across the country display SmartWater signs on lamp posts and other fixtures to deter would-be turd-burglars. https://au.yahoo.com/news/domestic-abuser-convicted-jailed-victim-112447059…

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Profesor Turd the real identity
by zeynepaydogan 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

You insulted people, you kidding, despised us all I wouldn't normally do that, but you threatened to kill people in here... You're pure evil. I'll expose you" very soon" What are you gonna do when I expose your real identity here? Nothing. You're just going to bullshit here but it is nothing. You need a "WALKING STICK" to walk, and you threaten people. LOL You don't have HAIR, but you call people ugly. That's sonra ironical I KNOW WHO YOU ARE But just wait your turn, Because there's someone else before you. You're just an idiot talking shit. Think about when I'm gonna expose you every day

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