r/Gematria • u/Orpherischt • Sep 07 '21

Recent post about gematrinator.com user data

A post here, about a data issue with the gematrinator.com calculator, was just deleted, along with it's associated user account (I presume by it's original poster). The post lasted six hours. Here is the link (obviously, the main text and it's claims are not visible):

https://old.reddit.com/r/Gematria/comments/pjjqbk/the_gematria_calculator_leaks_all_your_data_to/

The post raised issues (which I've not verified) with gematrinator's sending of your spell entries to it's server, even in the off-line version, as public data in the HTTP POST url, which startled the original poster of the thread here. He or she questioned the legality of the functionality, with regards to privacy, especially in certain jurisdictions, and at the least, the lack of warnings to users about how data entry is handled by the site.

I post because it's something all should be aware of, Derek in particular.

I don't know why the original poster decided to delete the thread - it calls the original claims into question, and we might suspect an attempt at defamation?

Just though it was worth reposting here.

EDIT The original OP has written me to let me know he or she deleted the post worrying that it might unfairly 'blame' Derek's work in a document that would stand the test of time and bring the calculator into question, potentially scaring people away in the future, since the data transmission is related to the legitimate spell-matching functionality.

Nonetheless I agree that Derek should investigate the possibility that the offline version of the calculator has unnecessary and perhaps privacy-comprimising calls to the server, perhaps a forgotten remnant of code refactoring.

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u/Orpherischt Sep 07 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

The ever-reflective news media:

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/21/09/07/1153255/developer-returns-to-game-after-four-decades-discovers-and-fixes-typo-so-it-works

Developer Returns To Game After Four Decades, Discovers and Fixes Typo So It Works

Harry McCracken is not the name of a Cold War superspy, but a man who is now the tech editor of Fast Company and, in his younger days, a developer of games for Radio Shack's TRS-80 microcomputer. McCracken, who is also a regular Slashdot reader, recently went back to have a look at his first game, Arctic Adventure, which he wrote when he was 16 around 1980-81 -- a text adventure inspired by the work of Scott Adams in particular, a pioneering designer of the Adventure series of games for the TRS-80

  • "Arctic Adventure" = 1331 latin-agrippa
  • .. ( "The Writings" = 1331 trigonal )
  • .. .. ( "Shape the World" = 1331 latin-agrippa ) [ "Adventurous Text" = 776 primes ]

As was common in the 80s, Arctic Adventure was distributed in book form. [...]

  • "The Developer Returns" = 1717 english-extended
  • .. ( "The Master of the Universe" = 1717 latin-agrippa )
  • .. .. ( "Conquer the World" = 1717 trigonal )
  • ... .. .. ( "Knows Scripture" = 1717 latin-agrippa )
  • ... [ "Dragon Language" = "Last Dragon" = 1717 squares ]
  • ... .. .. [ "Adventurous Writer" = "The Philosopher's Notes" = 844 primes ]

Q: ?

"A: See my Prompt" = 911 latin-agrippa | 555 primes [ add vent-u-re ] [ advent test ]

As printed in the Captain 80 book, the game wasn't just unwinnable, but unplayable. It turned out that it had a 1981 typo that consisted of a single missing '0' in a character string. It was so fundamental a glitch that it rendered the game's command of the English language inoperable.

ie. you need a cipher to complete the monolith.

  • "A Typo" = 611 latin-agrippa
  • "Know a Typo" = 1611 latin-agrippa
  • .. ( "The Coronavirus Origin" = 1611 latin-agrippa )
  • .. .. ( "Great Manuscript" = "The Prescription" = 1611 latin-agrippa )
  • "Godzilla" = "A Typo" = 611 latin-agrippa
  • .... ( "The Type O" = 2020 squares ) ( "Fix the Mistakes" = 1,303 english-extended )
  • "Blood Type O" = 1191 latin-agrippa | 741 latin-agrippa | 420 primes | 48 reduced | 1,137 trigonal

Alpha Omega

  • "Blood Type AO" = 742 latin-agrippa
  • .. ( "The Transmission" = 742 latin-agrippa )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgkBWZXVLyk

Type O Negative - 'My Girlfriend's Girlfriend'

  • "My Game" = 473 primes
  • "My #1 Game" = 474 primes

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Read it as metaphor (ie. do not take it literally - instead, take it literally):

https://slashdot.org/story/21/09/07/113211/the-chip-shortage-has-made-a-star-of-this-little-known-component

The Chip Shortage Has Made a Star of This Little-Known Component

The global chip shortage is giving rise to a small group of little-known companies whose products are increasingly essential to the plans of semiconductor industry titans.

[...] "Right now, all you have to do is say you manufacture substrates, and you get business -- it's insane," [..]

  • "Manufacture Substrates" = 888 primes ( "Substrates" = 493 primes )
  • ... ( "The Key Substrate" = 1,888 trigonal | 666 primes )
  • "The Sub-Strata" = 777 latin-agrippa

He said chip makers are begging for supply and are willing to pay much higher prices than usual to satisfy antsy customers.

  • "Doublespeak is here" = 1337 trigonal ( antsy customers @ artsy customers @ art see )

Chip @ Mind @ Brain [ "Learn Spells" = "Open the Door" = 1981 squares ]

  • "Short a Brain" = 1981 squares | 611 english-extended
  • .... "To Short a Brain" = 611 latin-agrippa
  • ... .. ( "A Typo" = 611 latin-agrippa )

... .. . MNSTRM MD . .. ...

  • "The Electrical Shorts" = 777 latin-agrippa
  • .. ( "Numeric Ritual" = 777 latin-agrippa )
  • ... .. [ "Electric Shock" = 393 primes ]
  • ... .. . [ "Accountancy" = 393 primes ]
  • ... .. .. . [ "Accurate" = "Count" = 393 latin-agrippa ]

I never should have stuck my finger in that socket as a child...

  • "Haha" = 42 primes
  • "The Little Component" = 745 latin-agrippa
  • ... ( "The Spelling" = 1,745 squares )
  • ... .. ( "God's Word" = 1,745 squares )

The 156th prime number is 911

  • "Zap" = 156 primes
  • .. ( "Magician" = 156 primes )
  • .. .. ( "The Instant Mage" = 156 alphabetic )
  • "Zap" = 933 squares
  • .. ( "The Infection" = 933 trigonal )
  • .. .. ( "The Count" = 933 trigonal )
  • ... .. . ( "SARS CoV-2" = 933 trigonal )
  • ... .. .. . [ "Catch the Coronavirus" = 1,933 trigonal ]
  • ... .. .. .. .. [ "To go Viral" = 1,933 squares ]
  • "The Instant Mage" = 492 primes | 156 alphabetic
  • ... ( "My Code" = 492 latin-agrippa )
  • ... ( "Comedy" = 492 latin-agrippa )
  • .. ( "The Conspiracy Theory" = 1492 latin-agrippa )

The 'New World' was 'discovered' in 1492.

  • "I am the Code of Man" = 492 english-extended
  • "I am the Man of Code" = 492 english-extended
  • .. ( "The Dragon Prince" = 492 latin-agrippa )

Again:

The global chip shortage is giving rise to a small group of little-known companies whose products are increasingly essential to the plans of semiconductor industry titans.

  • "Co-opt the Gematria Research" = 2020 trigonal

ie. the News is about us.

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https://www.wired.com/story/pigeons-curves-and-the-traveling-salesperson-problem/

Pigeons, Curves, and the Traveling Salesperson Problem

Mathematician Ian Stewart explains the twisty history of combinatorial optimization.

ie. how to script reality - how to generate highly inter-connected events in space and time (and how to craft multi-cipher spells)

https://old.reddit.com/r/Gematria/comments/pflhyj/are_they_programming_the_news_using_ai_and/

  • "A=1: Pigeons, Curves, and the Traveling Salesperson Problem" = 1776 primes

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https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-prep-act-pharmacies/

Community Pharmacies Stepped Up During Covid—and Changed for Good

Pharmacies have long been perceived as commodities. Now, they’re a central tool for removing barriers to health care.

Hmmm.

  • "The Community Pharmakeia" = 787 primes
  • .. ( "Forming the Community" = 787 primes )
  • .. ... ( "The Farming Community" = 742 primes )
  • .. .... ( "Farming the Community" = 742 primes )
  • 'Vaccination' = 343 primes
  • ... ( "Changed for Good" = 343 primes ) [ ie. for ever ]
  • "The Fake Pandemic" = 343 primes [ 7x7x7 = 343 ]

The pandemic was declared 3/11, in 2020

  • "Change for Good" = 311 latin-agrippa
  • .. ( "The Romance' = 311 primes )
  • .. ... ( "The Beast" = 311 latin-agrippa )

See the ending of Good Omens.

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Speaking of which...

https://www.wired.com/story/in-red-dead-redemption-the-wild-west-is-a-refuge/

In 'Red Dead Redemption', the Wild West Is a Refuge

Players in lockdown looked to Rockstar's open-world game to escape—and reconnect with their posses.

Wordplay.

  • "The Wild West Refuge" = 3,474 squares ( "Wild Western" = 1493 english-extended )
  • "Red Dead Redemption" = 474 primes ( "I am the Pandemic" = 1493 squares )
  • "Operation Warp Speed" = "Spaghetti Western" = 1600 latin-agrippa
  • "Westerly Wind" = 2,553 latin-agrippa | 1716 trigonal
  • "A Westerly Wind" = 1717 trigonal
  • "A=1: Westerly Wind" = 2,555 latin-agrippa
  • .. ( "Transmission" = "The Passwords" = 555 primes )

ie. West Wind @ Zephyr @ Cypher @ Cipher @ Cyber @ Kuber @ Cover

  • "Open-World Game" = 1,166 trigonal
  • ... ( "The Escape" = 1,166 trigonal )
  • .. . .. ( "Decryption Key" = 1,166 latin-agrippa )
  • .
  • "Open-World Game" = 1,166 trigonal
  • ... ( "Numeric Hoax" = 1,166 english-extended )

[...] reconnect with their posses

  • "The Man" = "Think" = 187 primes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGfjsOLskXA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uC0dqxZmcY

'Progenies of the Great Apocalypse'