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There are a few relevant things this reminds me of. The most interesting thing in this list is actually preventing me from having a job, so if you only read one

There are a few relevant things this reminds me of. The most interesting thing in this list is actually preventing me from having a job, so if you only read one point, start at the big paragraph halfway down. I would appreciate it. - "Tempest for Eliza" (http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/ http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/) is a Linux program that shows rapidly alternating patterns of black and white on your CRT. If you sit a correctly-tuned AM radio nearby you can hear music. The latest version of this program can even transmit MP3s. Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlVM9xqGKx8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlVM9xqGKx8 (original version, sound in 2nd half); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xPfAnPW2wY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xPfAnPW2wY (MP3 version - FLICKERING/FLASHING, epilepsy warning) - Van Eck phreaking has been mentioned elsewhere in here; I also remember a YouTube video of someone showing that it's possible to get something out of an LCD ribbon cable via simple RTLSDR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N1C3WB8c0o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N1C3WB8c0o - Mythbusters did a thing on the brown note concept. Myth. - I'm yet to play around with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats at some point, but I don't have any headphones. - I've put the first thing this article made me think of last: EMR sensitivity. I have this, it drives me nuts. I'm using a laptop with Wi-Fi right now and I'm completely fine, but I can't use PlayStation 2s, and I have absolutely no idea why. My nervous system goes ballistic: I get incredibly anxious, I feel like I've been awake for 3 weeks without a break, I can't focus on anything because I'm so exhausted and everything feels like a chore, and most catastrophically, my cognition falls completely apart. I also have unbelievable amounts of doom/gloom (I feel like I'm dying from the inside out), either triggered from the other effects or as its own thing. I would describe myself as reasonable, not particularly unhinged, and with no major emotional issues. Probably the most interesting/telling thing that's happened with this issue is that I once told a family member "I don't know what's going on, but I might need to get off the computer" one day - and then a little while later I coincidentally discovered that a DVD player that had not been turned on for years had been accidentally knocked and turned on (it had a push on/off mains switch on the front panel). FWIW, I've tried both the original and slimline PS2s, and the slimline one uses an external PSU brick - which I'm fine with, if it's not connected to the PS2. Hence my great confusion (I thought this was a simple "can't use power supplies" thing). I had to stop using all technology for 4 years (2008-2012) after using a PS2 for about 3 days and it having a catastrophic impact; it was, of all things, fish oil that made a quantitative difference and let me use computers every day again. I don't get it at all, but the theory I now have is that the myeolin sheathing around my nerves is somehow damaged. (Perhaps tellingly, at one point while writing this text both of my arms twitched upwards. My jaw sometimes twitches as I talk as well.) I'm reminded of a TV show I saw years ago that was talking about how the repeated lapping of waves against an oil platform's pylons created resonance that caused the pylons to shatter. On a similar note, the wineglass thing also works (even with the human voice) if you use an amplifier. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I cannot work due to this issue - I have no idea why PS2s, DVD players and other random devices cause this problem, so I can't tell an employer what I unambiguously can and cannot handle. Unfortunately, I know of nowhere in Sydney, Australia that is interested in digging into it. If anyone wants a guinea pig or test case, I'm in. I'd like to get a job!

Techn0logist 9y ago
That's actually an extremely fascinating experience. I only have two comments, both of which you've probably already considered: 1. Become a freelance web developer 2. If fish oil helped you, then avoid consuming vegetable oil (which is sadly used for 99% of takeaway/restaurant meals) and eat lots of salmon. It's possible that chronic inflammation and Omega 3/6 are related. I wouldn't be saying this if fish oil didn't help -- the fact that it helped says a lot.
- exikyut 9y ago
  Hmm, interesting. The problem with being a web/app developer are - I'm on disability support (for high-functioning autism), which means that... - Working is tricky (income cap), and as a result... - I'm on 10 year old hardware that doesn't like Chrome too much. (I also have insufficient disk space to do anything useful. While scrambling to move some stuff around I hit 800KB free on / and I had to SIGSTOP chromium so it wouldn't crash. xD) I've learned a lot about the benefits of designing stuff on older hardware from the get-go, but nobody really does that sadly. Along with the autism are some cognitive and attention-span issues that mean that, while I try to emphasize as much on practically implementable ideas, I'm a lot better at starting stuff than finishing it - and most of the ideas I do have are limited by my hardware. -- Regarding vegetable oil, I completely agree - but in my case, because I'm a blood-type O, my body can break down canola (!) oil really well, so taking into account the quality levels used by at-scale manufacturing, provided the oil is properly extracted/stored/used/etc, I can actually use (break down) stuff made with canola oil quite well. I can agree with eating tons of salmon (which is also okay for blood type O), but actually finding good quality sources of fish in general is quite hard: I don't know about salmon in particular, but I've heard that deep-sea fish are generally healthier. I'm not sure if this is because less toxins sink to lower depths, because the toxns can't survive at those depths, or what. Farmed fisheries are tricky, both because of rampant inbreeding†, and also because of the food made artificially available to the fish in the farm may be... interesting. († Cheetahs had some kind of major event many thousands of years ago that wiped almost all of them out. They rebounded, but if you take any two cheetahs from anywhere in the world, they're so identical it's almost confusing.)

Techn0logist 9y ago

That's actually an extremely fascinating experience. I only have two comments, both of which you've probably already considered: 1. Become a freelance web developer 2. If fish oil helped you, then avoid consuming vegetable oil (which is sadly used for 99% of takeaway/restaurant meals) and eat lots of salmon. It's possible that chronic inflammation and Omega 3/6 are related. I wouldn't be saying this if fish oil didn't help -- the fact that it helped says a lot.

exikyut 9y ago
Hmm, interesting. The problem with being a web/app developer are - I'm on disability support (for high-functioning autism), which means that... - Working is tricky (income cap), and as a result... - I'm on 10 year old hardware that doesn't like Chrome too much. (I also have insufficient disk space to do anything useful. While scrambling to move some stuff around I hit 800KB free on / and I had to SIGSTOP chromium so it wouldn't crash. xD) I've learned a lot about the benefits of designing stuff on older hardware from the get-go, but nobody really does that sadly. Along with the autism are some cognitive and attention-span issues that mean that, while I try to emphasize as much on practically implementable ideas, I'm a lot better at starting stuff than finishing it - and most of the ideas I do have are limited by my hardware. -- Regarding vegetable oil, I completely agree - but in my case, because I'm a blood-type O, my body can break down canola (!) oil really well, so taking into account the quality levels used by at-scale manufacturing, provided the oil is properly extracted/stored/used/etc, I can actually use (break down) stuff made with canola oil quite well. I can agree with eating tons of salmon (which is also okay for blood type O), but actually finding good quality sources of fish in general is quite hard: I don't know about salmon in particular, but I've heard that deep-sea fish are generally healthier. I'm not sure if this is because less toxins sink to lower depths, because the toxns can't survive at those depths, or what. Farmed fisheries are tricky, both because of rampant inbreeding†, and also because of the food made artificially available to the fish in the farm may be... interesting. († Cheetahs had some kind of major event many thousands of years ago that wiped almost all of them out. They rebounded, but if you take any two cheetahs from anywhere in the world, they're so identical it's almost confusing.)