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Anxiety can be understood as excessive worrying over impending events (death or illness), minor events (appointments),
or general uncertainty. Normally a chronic condition, symptoms of anxiety include:
"fatigue, hyper-vigilance, restlessness, and irritability." It's what people experience while worrying about an event
in the future and its potentially bad outcome; as such, anxiety attacks tend to come on gradually.
Neurologically, these attacks are associated with the brain's prefontal cortex, which handles planning and anticipation.
The Science of Breaking Bad
Dave Trumbore and Donna J. Nelson
What will Daniel Micay (strcat, strncat, thestinger) - Leader of GrapheneOS, do with a million dollars US?
Answer: He will waste it on funding revenge projects.
In his own words
All dates and times are in UTC time zone. 2023.
Apr 6, 08:17 UTC
strcat:
SkewedZeppelin: they coordinate the attacks on Telegram (JaguarOS room)
Apr 6, 08:19
steadfasterX:
so why? they want to "promote" their JaguarOS or what? I really hate this childish bs
Apr 6, 08:28
strcat:
steadfasterX: they want to promote it and they sell a variant of it
they were spreading misinformation about GrapheneOS which we corrected without attacking them
they took that badly and started organizing attacks on GrapheneOS in their chat room and participating themselves
they are heavily involved in it now
the comment I linked above is from one of the people in their room who makes lots of sockpuppet accounts pushing these same attacks
they are also tied to TheAnonymooseJoker, another person involved in maliciously spreading misinformation about multiple projects
Apr 6, 08:30
randomhydrosol:
> <@steadfasterx:binbash.rocks> so why? they want to "promote" their JaguarOS or what? I really hate this childish bs
They are a narcissist, tl;dr
This is not the first time this person has picked a fight with another project and they have been banned off XDA and other places for this kind of behaviour
Apr 6, 08:31
steadfasterX:
> steadfasterX: they want to promote it and they sell a variant of it
omg.. really... 😕
randomhydrosol:
> <@steadfasterx:binbash.rocks> > steadfasterX: they want to promote it and they sell a variant of it
>
> omg.. really... 😕
They are likely on their last chance on a lot of platforms
And if people report them and talk to the moderation team well they'll likely be banned
Apr 6, 08:46
strcat:
> <@randomhydrosol:arcticfoxes.net> This is not the first time this person has picked a fight with another project and they have been banned off XDA and other places for this kind of behaviour
they aren't banned from XDA, at least not from their current account
it would help quite a lot if they did get banned from XDA
after all, that's where they are publishing and promoting their project and the source of income for them
they aren't just spreading misinformation about GrapheneOS on Reddit but also XDA to a lesser extent
if people helped to get in touch with XDA moderators and help explain the situation including showing all this misinformation / underhanded attacks, it would help
their Reddit account is also used to most other very awful things unrelated to this
it's quite feasible to get them banned from XDA and it may end up largely resolving this
b:
This comment didn't get across the matrix bridge.
Apr 6, 08:50
randomhydrosol:
> <@strcat:grapheneos.org> they aren't banned from XDA, at least not from their current account
They were, 5 years ago
Apr 6, 08:52
strcat:
> <@randomhydrosol:arcticfoxes.net> They were, 5 years ago
well they aren't banned atm and they really need to be
they are escalating their attacks
look at https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/123cmsk/comment/jdvxlpn/ and look at their /u/SecureOS account
that's one of the people in their Telegram room working with them who openly admitted in the room to using sockpuppet accounts to harm GrapheneOS
they've done immense harm over the past year
I'm going to be investing substantial funds in fighting back against these groups soon
Apr 6, 08:53
steadfasterX:
> <@strcat:grapheneos.org> if people helped to get in touch with XDA moderators and help explain the situation including showing all this misinformation / underhanded attacks, it would help
imho for this a list of all fraud URLs would help a lot tbh. so me and others can more easily point to the misbehavior ..
strcat:
we received a 1 million USD donation and that's not only going to be used for development
it will be used for going on the offense against every group trying to harm us and will serve as a deterrent to further attacks after the legal action and websites published about the individuals and projects involved
it has truly gotten ridiculous
and it's going to end, one way or another
can hire web developers to put together some sites and pay people to help with writing content for them, publicly documenting the underhanded actions of the individuals involved in the attacks, other problematic behavior from them, and similarly debunking scam projects/products
I do not know what they think they'll get out of it
they've put substantial effort into personally harming me with fabricated stories and harassment
they're deluded if they think I'm not going to put tons of resources into fighting back
and just to be clear the $1m USD donation is just part of the donations available, and even if 80% is spent on development that leaves a massive amount of money to fight back against this
have ~$2m USD of funds available short term and really it's hard to express how tired I am of the harassment and libel targeting me along with the misinformation campaign against GrapheneOS, and it is the single biggest thing holding back / harming the project by far
it's very clear that substantial funds need to be spent addressing it
going to be substantially expanding development but it's very hard for us to focus on development or to find / hire developers with these ongoing attacks
it's really more important to address the attacks than ramping up development
Apr 6, 08:59
justanotherlurker:
Of course they are deluded, nobody sane would behave that way.
Sorry you are exposed to this - probably comes with being a "publicly known person".
Apr 6, 09:00
strcat:
justanotherlurker: but it is multiple groups doing it including people involved in prominent projects
Apr 6, 09:01
it is not just this barely known JaguarOS with 100 users
Apr 6, 09:02
they are just one of the major problems based on their unhinged level of underhanded attacks and misinformation, heavily dedicated to spreading it across platforms
justanotherlurker:
I find their behaviour really incredibly stupid and wonder if they have nothing better to do with their lives.
But I guess that's actually part of it, gaining public attention. Plus financial interests, oc.
steadfasterX:
aha they use my work as a "donate only feature" for their jaguar (extendrom -> including magisk in aosp builds)
Apr 6, 09:03
strcat:
there are F-Droid developers involved in these underhanded attacks and this is going to become a major issue for F-Droid
I will be putting substantial funds into fighting back and will be making it an issue for any conference where they present / host anything and elsewhere
justanotherlurker:
As if f-droid did not have enough issues of their own to fix ...
strcat:
really a mistake to fuck with someone who has been dealing with this abusive behavior for years targeting them and now has substantial resources available to counter it
Apr 6, 09:04
justanotherlurker: they have no idea the level of issues they are going to have soon
justanotherlurker:
Hope it works.
strcat:
they made a huge mistake targeting myself and GrapheneOS with fabricated stories and other underhanded attacks
Apr 6, 09:06
they're welcome to stop and to make efforts to undo the harm they've caused including publicly acknowledging their behavior, apologizing and retracting their false claims but it won't happen
and I'd expect payment for damages
will see how they like having websites and videos published about their behavior as individuals, based on facts, rather than the libel they've published about me that way
and I can put significant funds simply into spreading that
Apr 6, 09:08
randomhydrosol:
Imo you should use some of the funds in getting help for the abuse
If you take care of yourself you'll have a much better time defending the project
strcat:
I think the only possible way these people are going to stop is if their reputation and livelihood is being destroyed by their actions
randomhydrosol:
> <@randomhydrosol:arcticfoxes.net> Imo you should use some of the funds in getting help for the abuse
Mentally, i mean
Apr 6, 09:09
strcat:
what needs to happen is for this stuff to stop
one way or another, I'm going to make sure it stops
what has been going on since 2018 is totally unacceptable
the fact that these people go to major conferences, participate in other projects, etc. is unacceptable
Apr 6, 09:10
while being openly involved in a massive amount of abuse directed towards me
https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1547286521597894657
how is this acceptable?
and this person + the most active F-Droid dev made up completely fabricated stories about me
in response to me publishing proof of their attacks on me, they claimed to be victims of harassment (me publishing their bullying/harassment is somehow harassment)
Apr 6, 09:15
> <@steadfasterx:binbash.rocks> > steadfasterX: they want to promote it and they sell a variant of it
>
> omg.. really... 😕
unsurprisingly most of the people involved in the attacks on GrapheneOS are selling products claiming to be private/secure mobile OS / phone
or they have something else in the space they are getting revenue from
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