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Re: Personal Black Box? Vuze+ Camera system.
by jim bell 17 Jun '20

17 Jun '20

On Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 11:34:18 PM PDT, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: (this mail was bounced a few times due to the failure of the server, I think.) I just sent the following to the manufacturer of the Vuze+ camera system: https://vuze.camera/camera/vuze-plus-camera Among a group of people on an email list, I am trying to spur the development of a wearable "360-degree" camera system that could use your Vuze+ device as a major component. However, some level of expansion will be necessary, to be achieved by inclusion of other components. 1. Expansion of the data stored to substantially greater than "2 hours", probably using a commercial SSD device. (not merely larger SD cards, especially since their capacity at any level of technology are limited.) 2. Expansion of the battery capacity to substantially greater than (2 hours), probably using a commercial battery pack. 3. All or most of the data stream generated should be transmitted, perhaps by WiFi, to a nearby person or people, each carrying a storage system, there to be stored locally. (each such person may, or may not, carry a similar camera system.) The purpose of this precaution is to ensure that even if the device is completely and instantly lost or destroyed, most of the data remains available. 4. Some portion of the data will be transmitted, presumably by 4G or 5G, possibly so that it can be placed on a website and live-streamed. Due to the data capacity limitations of 4G, or even 5G, I anticipate that only a fraction of the entire data stream can be immediately exported in this way. Perhaps, for example, only one of every two, or only one of every 3, or only one of every 4, or even less, of the frames in the video can be exported by 4G or 5G. One reason for the capacity limitation, I anticipate, is that I expect that this system may be used in a crowd, where hundreds of other people nearby may be also recording and transmitting video. My understanding is that your product compresses video data. But for my purposes, it is importantant that it not be necessary to transmit the entire video stream: It should be possible to separate the data so that the portion of the data being tranmitted (say by 4G or 5G) can recover a useable portion of the video. I realize that this might only transmit a fraction of the frames, and thus the output will be jerky, but I understand that this will an unavoidable limitation of the system. What I do not know is if the compression provided in your Vuze+ (or other products) will be compatible with this handling of the data. A data compression system that only allows "all" of the data to be generated and transmitted would be a problem. I can see from your product's description that it contains WiFi 4 (802.11n) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi states that this can handle a linke of "72-600" megabits/second. But I also notice that your product has one option of generating 80 megabytes per second, and that would be 640 megabits per second. Does that mean that your device can, or cannot, transmit the camera's output in real-time by WiFi?Also, is there any prospect of upgrading the WiFi capability of your product to WiFi5 or higher, and thus allow the transmission of (802.11ac) , or "433–6933 Mbit/s"? Along with carrying your Vuze+ camera device, I anticipate that the cameraman will be carrying: a. A commercial battery pack, to augment the other battery packs in your device, and in a smartphone, and to supply a SSD device. b. A SSD device, perhaps with the capability of storing 1, 2, or more terabytes of video data. c. The entire arrangement will probably be controlled by a near-state-of-the-art commercial smartphone, ideally one which is capable of 5G data transmission. While it is said that a fully-implemented 5G system will allow transmission of as much as 10 gigabits/second, I also understand that to achieve this data rate will require installation of substantially advanced neighborhood hardware, which will probably only occur over a period of years. Dpes it appear to you that the system I anticipate can be built, in part using your Vuze+ camera system, or perhaps one of your other systems? [end of message to the Vuze+ manufacturer] -------------------------------------- On Monday, June 15, 2020, 04:58:07 PM PDT, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: I've done some more research, and it seems that existing components could do a substantial part of this project. Consider the Vuze camera, specifically the Vuze+. https://vuze.camera/ It has 8 cameras, in four pairs, aiming in the horizontal plane, and is able to use them to record stereoscopic views. https://vuze.camera/camera/vuze-plus-camera This MIGHT be even better than I anticipated. This device refers to recording data on SD cards. Great, unless the device is smashed or stolen. I consider it to be an essential part of this device that it port a substantial fraction of the data away from the cameraman, perhaps many tens of meters away. But it mentions WiFi: Does that mean that the entire data stream can be transmitted? Even if the data can be only transmitted 'nearby', say 30-100 meters away, by WiFi, that would be a great feature. The specification sheet https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91Hcr5ModJL.pdf mentions a data rate of 120 MB/second or 80MB/second. Note that it's MB, meaning megaBYTE per second, not merely megabit/second. The specs say that the data is written to a SD card. Can this be expanded using a 1 terabyte (or larger) SSD? Unclear. The data is compressed to MP4. It also mentions: WiFi IEEE 802.11b/g/n 2.4 GHZ I can tell, from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi that WiFi4, 802.11n can do a link from: "72-600 million bits per second". Already, I see a hitch: Does this mean that this device can transmit 80MB x 8 bits, or 640 megabits/second, since the link can only go to "600 million bits per second". While it would be nice to be able to transmit the entire data stream locally, as long as all that stream goes into a local SSD, I suppose it would be okay if "only" half the data, say 320 megabits/second, were transmitted by WiFi to another portable system carried by a different person a few tens of meters away. But one question I have is this: Can the data stream be readily 'split up', so that only a portion of it is transmitted? Or is it an 'all or nothing' sort of thing? And I think it's important that a smaller fraction of the data be transmitted by 4G or 5G cell data. Jim Bell

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"batshit insane Austrian school blog" too influential for the (((Gewgles))) - demonetized by Google
by Zig the N.g 17 Jun '20

17 Jun '20

TFW your "batshit insane Austrian school blog" has become so influential, the (((lame stream Jewdia))) blackbans and demonetizes you, and even Jack "made billionaire king by the Jewish bankers" Dorsey is not allowed to 'follow' your stream :D Folks, by just about relevant measure in this period of history, ZeroHedge is kicking that ball right outta the park :) (Hey, they got more feathers in their cap than most these days - not particularly hard to do, but most are evidently too compromised to be able to do so ... amazing times hey.) What the Demonrats fail to realize is that, no matter how sophisticated their 'ban/ shadow ban/ demonetize' protocol is, ultimately every such "shut it down" success is another feather in the cap of him who is targetted (look up the Streissand Effect if you missed that memo). Remember goys and gals, Google is a censor, influencer, chooser, therefore a publisher. Google Demonetizes Zero Hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/google-demonetizes-zero-hedge

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A Mysterious Plane Circled Over Portland Protests for Hours. The U.S. Marshals Service Won’t Say If It’s Theirs. - Willamette Week
by jim bell 17 Jun '20

17 Jun '20

https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/06/15/a-mysterious-plane-circled-over-portl…

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Re: Whether To Design Open Source Public Records Equipment
by Karl 17 Jun '20

17 Jun '20

I sent this reply personally to Punk but am returning the thread to the list per Zenaan's request elsewhere. Please express a differing opinion from Zenaan's if you have one. On Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 10:18 PM Punk-Stasi 2.0 <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:34:48 -0400 > Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > But why are you dissing Jim's project when there are already surveillance > > cameras everywhere, and cops are beating up journalists as we email? > > because his 'project' will change nothing and it's just propaganda > to make 'technology' look good. You can record cops with already existing > retardphones. It changes nothing. Have you tried this? The information is usually lost. The cop orders you to erase it, or even destroys the phone; I emailed myself some recordings once and they disappeared from my email. The current activism appears to be working better because people throughout american culture are resisting those things, and there are too many events for authorities to handle. and Jim has been spamming the list with his techno bullshit It sounds like you're really frustrated and discouraged around the presence of technological business support, without overt acknowledgement and consideration of all the harm it causes. I've been handling that too, and realizing others hold it is cause for me to think on it. Cecilia told me Jim has been through years of prison for resisting abuse of power by authorities. Some of us want to sousveil the authorities, and we are likely to be misled in some ways because those authorities have been surveiling and influencing us for years. In such a situation those confining you can try to produce conflict between you and others, to prevent collaboration or harm you. It is hard to learn how we might be wrong when so heavily criticized. It seems dangerous to me to associate our opinions of what people did with the people who did those things. Such a habit could easily disrupt a community exposed to false rumors.

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List broken; now fixed
by Greg Newby 17 Jun '20

17 Jun '20

Apologies that the list was bouncing all day today (after around 9am US Eastern Daylight Time). I botched a setting in Postfix, and didn't realize it until 13 hours later! It looks like anyone who submitted to the list would have received a bounce message (complaining about spamc), and the message was not received or processed. You'll need to resend if you want the message to go to the cypherpunks list. The good news is I had a pleasant day outdoors, out and about (alone!) on the trails where I live. Rather than sitting in front of my computer all day. The bad news is it was evident in about 2 seconds that something was wrong, when I checked my mail, because I had not received any messages since this morning. Not even spam! Mea culpa. Things now seem to be fixed. Let the conversation continue! - Greg

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2020, year of 98ft, 10,000 mph asteroids exploding in atmosfear (tonight) - be afraid & Get Out Yer Telescopes :D
by Zig the N.g 16 Jun '20

16 Jun '20

NASA Warns Two Asteroids Could Cause Atmospheric Explosion Over Earth This Week https://www.zerohedge.com/health/nasa-warns-two-asteroids-could-cause-atmos… https://themindunleashed.com/2020/03/nasa-warns-two-asteroids-could-cause-a… As if 2020 weren’t overwhelming enough, in addition to the potential start of World War 3, the massive fires in Australia, the locust plague in the Middle East and Africa, and the novel coronavirus, we are now dealing with multiple asteroids hurtling towards Earth. One of the asteroids may even collide with Earth’s atmosphere resulting in an atmospheric explosion tonight! https://www.zmescience.com/science/asteroid-close-approach-airburst-135134/ ... In more apocalyptic news, "If you don't want to slut-shame, then you're going to get a lot of sluts:" If You Don’t Shame Sluts, You Will End Up with a Slut Overload http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/if-you-dont-shame-sluts-you-will-end-up-with-… [img] "It's My Hot Body, I'll Do What I Want" A novel male feminist argument that I have seen popping up recently in defense of sluts is that “women don’t have agency,” and thus cannot be held responsible for their behavior, whatever it is. The theory then goes that men are responsible for all female behavior, because men do have “agency.” Let’s first make sure we understand our terms. What do they mean when they speak of “agency”? They are talking about the philosophical concept of “moral agency” or “human agency.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment. The capacity to act does not at first imply a specific moral dimension to the ability to make the choice to act, and moral agency is therefore a distinct concept. In sociology, an agent is an individual engaging with the social structure. Notably, though, the primacy of social structure vs. individual capacity with regard to persons’ actions is debated within sociology. This debate concerns, at least partly, the level of reflexivity an agent may possess. Agency may either be classified as unconscious, involuntary behavior, or purposeful, goal directed activity (intentional action). An agent typically has some sort of immediate awareness of their physical activity and the goals that the activity is aimed at realizing. In ‘goal directed action’ an agent implements a kind of direct control or guidance over their own behavior. If women “don’t have agency,” then the argument is that all women are literally mindless, soulless automatons, who are incapable of engaging in free will choice. It follows then that the behavior of women, and the actions that they do take, are based entirely on external factors, as they do not have any internal capacity for decision making. [img] "Libre Mientras Sigan Habiendo Doofus" The logical conclusion from this line of reasoning is that men need to build a structured society wherein there are solid incentives for women to behave in certain ways. This would involve both positive and negative reinforcement. So we must ask: what behaviors do we want to encourage from women, and which do we want to discourage? Presumably, we all have a similar idea about this. Good female behavior: [ok, so we know for a fact that this is gonna go down reeeel well with the anarchist crowd :D] - Modesty - Marriage at a young age - Producing many children - Obeying husband - Staying loyal to husband Bad female behavior: - Sluttiness - Refusing marriage in favor of seeking “adventure” and a career - Refusing to produce children, taking birth control, having abortions - Marrying in late twenties or early thirties - Getting a divorce Currently, the government and the media are the only groups which are able to offer most incentives to women. However, there is one form of negative reinforcement that we can all engage in and that is “slut-shaming.” Slut-shaming has a huge effect on women, as they respond very strongly to negative social pressure. If a woman feels like men and other women think she is a slut, she feels very bad about herself. Thus, if a woman sees that another woman has been labeled a slut for engaging in a certain type of behavior, she is likely to avoid that behavior. So, for example, if a woman has sex with a disgusting Jew Hollywood producer, and everyone calls her a filthy slut, other women will see that and say “I’d better not have sex with a disgusting Jew Hollywood producer, or people will label me a filthy slut.” [img] "Men of Simping Quality, Respect Women's Equality" Conversely, if a woman who has sex with a disgusting Jew Hollywood producer is labeled a victim, and is celebrated for her bravery, you are giving positive reinforcement to the behavior pattern. This discussion of “moral agency” is convoluted and esoteric. There is clearly no way to see inside of a woman’s head and understand the mechanisms upon which her decision process acts. What we are able to see is that women are extremely sensitive to social shaming, and that they will act accordingly to how society ranks their behavior. If we decide that as a society, we will not shame sluts, then our society is going to end up with a lot of sluts. I do not think that any of us want a society full of sluts, and thus I think we should all be able to agree on the fact that we should shame sluts by calling them out as sluts. [img] "F*@k Robin Thicke" This will make women feel bad. That is the point of negative reinforcement. It is used to make an example of women who engage in bad behavior so that other women will not engage in that behavior. The problem is that neo-Nazis and other male feminists, being agents of women, will always work to remove any and all consequences for the behavior of women, so that women are able to do whatever they want without facing any consequences.

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Quantum Satellite Links Extend More Than 1,000 Kilometers - IEEE Spectrum
by jim bell 16 Jun '20

16 Jun '20

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/entangled-satellite

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[OT] pong
by Georgi Guninski 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

Am I subscribed, don't receive email even in SPAM?

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[OT] another email address
by Georgi Guninski 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

just to announce another email: gguninski(a)gmail.com ping

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Re: [liberationtech] They Used Smartphone Cameras to Record Police Brutality—and Change History
by grarpamp 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

> What may be most striking about the George Floyd video is not that it was > recorded, but that it was so very widely (and intensively) disseminated by > those legacy media. TV and media are rarely permitted to show people getting shot, bloodsport violence, any visible actual point of death, etc. In regard, Floyd met the same parameters as wrestling match might. More remarkable to have made it past some of media's masters, even if only a miscalculation. If you want to see some real violence of Power, YouTube used to carry some of it till they sold out to Censorship. Now you must search the internet and overlay networks. Or just watch any footage of war, homeless, hungry, infirm, courts, prison systems, lawmaking bodies, elections, politicians, and their police, etc. Another reason a few made TV is they're in desperate competition with Alternative Internet Media, in effect they must air some more things to remain relevant, thus more willing to risk permission/master. > Now consider the inverse: are there similar videos out there that remained > unknown? Are there other videos of a similar nature (police violence > against African Americans) that received less attention, i.e. less > dissemination? Perhaps the problem is actually bigger than we know. Don't let media and masters spin and divert you (against each other)... likely less about police against Black, more likely problem about Power against everyone... of which the former is one large result. There are thousands of videos of the latter that media never disseminated, it doesn't fit their [perhaps temporarily former] narratives, cashflows, masters. Defeating latter stops former too, whereas just former does little to latter. > The control of dissemination is probably the biggest issue we face today in > liberation technology. Further behind is wide index search and syndication API across the extant and coming distributed overlay media services.

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