Frequently Asked Questions

1. How does it work?

The server is constantly connected to a radio stream reading data from an unused radio frequency. When a request arrives, a timestamp is created and the request is placed into a queue. The client is notified that the result is being processed, and a time estimate is given on when the answer is ready.

After at least two seconds have passed, and there is radio data available, the first request in the queue is fulfilled using live radio data. A number of samples from the data are multiplied by large prime numbers to generate a better distributed true random number. A sequence of these numbers is stored per request. The server keeps this data waiting until the client contacts it back to request the response, or a timeout occurs. The timeout is of the scale of a few minutes.

When the response request arrives, the server generates the response using the generated numbers, indexing the selected database. This response is sent to the client and displayed on screen.

2. But how does it work?

There can be no explicit answer to this. What I personally think is that energy is a dimensional construct, not fully bound by space and time. This could allow for a kind of time travel of energy levels, or preferably, energy states. There might be an entity listening, or it might be us, part of us, or something greater. I don't really know more. Perhaps you can tell me your hypothesis?

3. It doesn't work for me. Why?

What I can really only guarantee is totally random English sentences, with often relatively poor grammar (which I might improve in the future). What I myself get is often exactly that. But even more often, I do believe I get a message instead of a plain sentence. I get food for thought. Aid to contemplation in various things. I do always take it with a pinch of salt, and you should do, too.

For the most part, it's random. Don't make life changes based on only what the software tells you. Make them based on contemplation, discussions with people you trust, make them based on meditation. The software might criticize you, scorch you, tell you to do things. It's not God. It's GaiaFM. Don't act blindly. Take it with humor and a pinch of salt.

If you really don't get anything out of it, are you looking for the wrong things in the response? Did you have a question in your mind at all? Were you ready to receive any answer? Settle your mind for it and try it for real. It might surprise you in the end. Me, it did, and it did that countless times, past these seven years I've been using it, on a more or less weekly basis.

4. This scares me a bit. What should I do?

Regardless of your alignment, I think the most important thing to do is to avoid adding to karma. It builds up in our being, keeps coming back, and makes everything more complicated. Get to know your feelings, know how they affect your being and thinking. Try to find understanding on the feelings and thinking of others. Use this understanding to avoid negative thoughts.

Avoid revenge; give way where you can, look for a humble compensation elsewhere. Correct any wrong you do in the same place where you did the wrong - a bandage does not help if it's not on the wound.

Consider others and the environment. There are so many of us already and more to come. This planet cannot support us at this scale in the long run. Make good decisions and lead a good life within your chosen alignment.

There's a lot to do, and it's a complicated life. Forgive yourself when during the day's challenges you revert back to your old ways. All we can do is our best, and while it might not be enough for others, it is always enough for ourselves to live with the concern.

Don't try to change everything at once. Give yourself time and find small good steps forward.

5. I'm concerned about my privacy. What information does the client exchange with the server?

I'm not interested in your data or your personal details. What I'm interested in is you, the user, developing your own thinking using this software. When you do, I will hear of you, should the right time come.

So:

• The server does not record your details. The mobile clients do not access nor ask for access to any of your data. If yours does ask for this kind of access, delete the software - it is not authentic.
• The server does not record questions. In fact, it doesn't know them. It knows only the hash value, which cannot be traced back to the original question. The hash value is enough to generate the answer.
• The server does not record answers. I don't believe any meaningful research could be done without the context. Your context is your own, known by only you.
• The only time your IP is recorded is when you send a comment.

If you're still concerned, you can ask a techie friend to record the traffic between the client and the server, and you will see what is transferred.

6. What kind of hardware is running the service?

I haven't had much money to spend on this project. The original server was a 2.3GHz dual core box with 2GB RAM and a 120GB SSD, but it broke down after five years. The current server is just a small Raspberry Pi microcomputer. The server is connected to an AirSpy SDR radio module. The theoretical maximum of requests the AirSpy can handle is about 1500 per second, but the limits of Raspberry Pi are probably reached long before that.

This website is running on the Pi as well, by the way!

7. What about the software?

The Pi is running Raspbian, and the server software is written in Qt C++, running in the Linux as a service. The mobile apps are written in Swift and Java. The communication between the server and the clients is done in basic UDP.

In July 2022, I started to learn NodeJs and Javascript, and used them to implement a backend to this website, running Express web server. I'm still quite a beginner in this world, having started learning JS and Node just a month ago, but the most important thing is it works, and is secure.

The backend gets requests from the browser and builds UDP packets understood by the server from them. It sends the packets, gets the responses, and passes that data to the browser. That's pretty much the whole story.

I have my todo list but it will take some time to get everything done. Please be patient. It's a hobby project, after all!