MemoCash and ReadCash are only BCH social media projects left - SatoshiWallCash is closing
With the Honest Cash and BitBacker no longer available, there are a few applications build around Bitcoin Cash that we can use either for the social media, blogging or tipping.
I will not go into depth about the Bitcoin cash games as I find them a complete waste of time, and there is no need to list all the Bitcoin Cash wallets, because there is so many of them and huge variety to chose from.
I was little bit surprised when I found out that there are only two websites built around Bitcoin Cash one being social networking website MemoCash (and Member app built on the same protocol) and at this point only one, Read Cash, built for the blogging.
From the currently active websites, I can also include the Satoshiwall.cash because I saw some people are using it for blogging but usually it looks to be made to sell digital goods. But that website will be shut down on Nov 15, which is sad. Creator himself says that he is shutting down because nobody is using it.
With so few where we can present our work and use them for daily activity it feels like it is just a matter of time when they will be let down as well.
I hope this won't be the case with these two websites, I pretty much like both of them.
Full list of Bitcoin Cash projects: https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-cash-projects/
Cover image: https://www.wallpaperflare.com/man-walking-in-the-middle-of-desert-blade-runner-2049-ryan-gosling-wallpaper-srmii
Support me and follow on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ghostoftomorrow
Memocash: https://memo.cash/u/15FFPSEUDA
Readcash: https://read.cash/@ghostoftomorrow
Hive: https://hive.blog/@ghostoftomorrow
Blurt: https://blurt.blog/@ghostoftomorrow
The apparition and that horrible thing
I was taken aback by certain things in my life and revoked my internet activity for the months. I lost interest in many new activities, but even with less scheduled work week I had little time. In fact the time flew so rapidly, and it was already so many weeks now when I published anything online or touched my phone.
Future looks grim now.
But aside of that I also got very much disappointed in people surrounding me and was thinking a lot about my problems and overall experiences so far.
It was not a satisfying journey by far and very difficult.
I rarely wonder what the future be like and refuse to think about it.
I was having multiple and too many family problems and still have. It is like the world of problems from another spatial dimension opened upon me. It is as the apocalypse, but one of the mind.
I am not sure if anyone in here reading this might had that feeling, but I am certain many people experienced the same.
As for now I am starting to be active on Twitter, MemoCash, ReadCash, Hive and Blurt. Blurt is new to me.
I am still trying to figure out many little things and features of all of those webpages.
This is just me trying to take interest into something, anything. I lost hope things will be better.
Things lately became so bad that I even started to dream about my own death. I know we all have to die some day, but dreaming such a thing for no apparent reason but one is too much of the bad experience.
When I am passing by the hospital, I feel as passing next to an apparition. I don't know why, I am just seeing that horrible thing...
Cover image: https://www.wallpaperflare.com/hooded-apparition-illustration-hooded-man-mystery-scary-wallpaper-uknmr
**Support me and follow on:**
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ghostoftomorrow
Memocash: https://memo.cash/u/15FFPSEUDA
Readcash: https://read.cash/@ghostoftomorrow
Hive: https://hive.blog/@ghostoftomorrow
Blurt: https://blurt.blog/@ghostoftomorrow
I came to the realization that certain efforts are highly rewarded by this website, so now I am seriously contemplating to start writing about the benefits of the Kamasutra. Fruit is already taken...
Ghost of Tomorrow DEMO by EdLioni: Cool game that you can download and play for FREE
I am not active online so my user name doesn't come up in the search results, but what does come up is the rather interesting game which you can download for free. https://ed-lioni.itch.io/ghost-of-tomorrow?download
You will need 921 MB of space to download the zip archive and 2.4 GB to extract it on the PC.
**Summary:**
It is the day of August 23, 2019 and you arrive at your apartment. Suddenly strange events that possess a paranormal nature begin to occur. These paranormal events seem to transcend the boundaries of both space and time as these events may give you a glimpse of what is yet to happen in the future. Experience these paranormal events and see what tomorrow holds.
You can buy the full version on the Steam for 2,39€.
Here is also one review about the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqqTdP0jzXc&feature=emb_title
Also, no matter how cool it would be to say I took the user name from this game, I have to admit my user name is from the another place, is the title of the cyberpunk novel.
If you want follow me on Twitter, if not leave me a comment which is your favorite PC/mobile game.
How to host immutable static website with IPFS
IPFS can host anything, including hosting an entire website.
But, there is a catch, once hosted a web page or a website, can't be changed or edited anymore which says this technique is good for a static article, a landing page or anything you wish to host as long it doesn't require additional modification later.
There is also another catch, about IPFS and anonymity.
IPFS "was not designed with anonymity or privacy in mind..."
You can read more about it here: https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/pull/361#issuecomment-344414022
**So, if you want to host anonymously use Freenet.**
I recently created an IPFS web page just to see if it can be done, I hosted a static article and I can say it is pretty easy, it works and requires nothing much but a web page file in .html format and an IPFS desktop peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.
I upload it over the desktop app, it can be done with any IPFS gateway.
For the simplicity I used the bootstrap, I placed an additional .css styles and a twitter comment script directly inside a single file, so I can upload all in one piece. Otherwise, if you wish to host separate css, html and scripts, you can upload a whole folder containing your files and then use a folder's root link to open your page.
**Things I used:**
Desktop app from https://ipfs.io
Bootstrap from https://getbootstrap.com (you can learn it https://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap4/default.asp)
Any simple text editor where you can make html file.
My final result is here:
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQpwbSqUqyMvPp64vJkv5nonbjfwyBXk3LW9422kGA4dQ
And a page looks like this. I placed my Memocash and Twitter links on it, and shared it on a both websites.
But, if you wish to make this and to share this static page on social media do not forget to make meta tags for a header. Otherwise, you will not get a wide image social snippet.
You can create meta tags quickly with https://metatags.io and host images on https://imgur.com.
With all this said I created this article page to show it can be done, but I doubt I will be using it, just because each post has to be created separately from scratch, and it doesn't allow edits.
Creating Ghost Forest digital artwork with template, crayon drawing and deep dream AI
The original crayon work looks like random drawing that anyone can make out of the boredom. In fact green and black scribbles are for the depth, the darker background, and red and lighter should be trunks, or the foreground. AI sometimes make mistakes in interpretation, so it does something that we humans do not. It messes the image so it loses 3D. But, even if it happens across the image and it still looks on average good, AI done its job.
Ordinary people will not notice anything unusual and think this is the abstract painting, but it is not. All this is digital.
The original scribble looks something any of us would draw on a bad frustrated day.
In fact, if I was more careful and detail oriented, the result would be far better, but I done this just because.
Just a lot of lines made with green, red, black and yellow and nothing else.
After deep dream AI modification it looks like this:
Now instead of the lines you got a moon (upper right corner), something that looks like a path under it, and a forest stream right under it, and the ghost forest on the left.
This is the template which I used to get the second image from the first. I always liked this painting for the trees.
This painting is made by Ivan Generalić, a Croatian painter in the naïve tradition.
**Links:**
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Generali%C4%87
https://www.generalic.com/
The thing I did is I gave AI my very messy scheme and "told" it to recognize and superimpose parts of the second image (a painting) inside the first.
AI didn't make even close result to the painting masterpiece, but it created an original digital art with unique thematic.
If you paint or draw, the deep dream and neural networks can be a very good tools for imagination and inspiration.
It depends on programming and complexity what kind of result you will get, also how well you manipulate and what do you want to achieve.
Deep dream apps and programs are available for most platforms, web, mobile and desktop devices.
Have fun!
How to safely install popular Chrome extensions in Opera Browser
Opera Browser is one nifty and safe desktop/mobile browser, but it is not that popular considering what it offers to the users. One reason is that it, unlike other big browsers, doesn't have all those cute extensions.
But, the thing is when you install Opera browser you still can use all the extensions form the Chrome just by visiting the Chrome extension page. Opera will install any extension suitable for the Chrome and you can as easily use it on the Opera browser.
I assume that there are some that are not compatible, but most of them are so in case that you like Opera Browser because of the features and convenience now you know how to install all those interesting Chrome extensions.
The same works for Dissenter, Chromium and Brave.
The good thing about Opera is that the browser will notify you in case if an extension uses more privileges than you are ready to grant before you install it. When you click INSTALL, browser will explain all the things you are granting to that specific extension, including tracking, cookies, authentication to do something, to read data from your disk and similar. Usually if an extension asks to read data from the localdisk, I do not use that one but find an alternative. I find this feature extremely important and valuable.
Privacy reinvented - better privacy apps for your daily online activities
We all use a few basic apps during the day, so I researched what can we use instead the well known applications that usually track our activity. I found a few privacy oriented alternatives for mail, blogging, search engine, browsers and social networks.
Unfortunately there is little to no alternatives for the most popular applications out there, being mainly the social media platforms. The ones offered rarely catch my attention.
But, if you are really hot about your social networking, and you do not wish to change that, you wish to keep your Twitter, your favorite video app or what-not, you can still improve your privacy within some other activities.
EMAILS
Some would say that Tutanota, Disroot or Protonmail are good solution, but personally I like the https://www.criptext.com the best, because they could possibly be the most private email provider. There are a few other private self-hosted solutions, but if you are not tech endowed, it would be too much to ask.
NOTES
Usually writers and blogger use a few writing/note taking apps at the time, depending on how many backups they wish to keep or what their writing habits are like. You can use Evernote, Google Keep or Drive, but while they are probably very safe if used with authentication - hardly will anyone be able to steal your account - they are not private or immune on tracking. Instead, you can use Joplin, Turtl or Standard Notes.
I tried later two, in Turtl ( even being that ugly) you can add multiple folders, images and files, while Standard Notes offers only notes and shareable notes.
OTHER PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
https://cryptpad.fr and https://etherpad.org offer collaborative writing and editing, which is a great solution for the groups.
For other things you might take a look at:
https://crypt.ee - storing files
https://ethercalc.net - shareable spreadsheet, available on few platforms
https://disroot.org/en - has a pretty much the whole collection of tools
Office suits - https://www.libreoffice.org/ and https://www.wps.com
THE WHOLE OPERATING SYSTEM...
If you care to substitute your bloated Windows for something more private and lightweight, you can try Linux distros, Tails and Qubes OS. There are a few privacy oriented mobile alternatives, but they are usually pain in a neck to install or crudely limited to only a few smartphone brands.
VIDEO HOSTING
Vloggers might take a look at LBRY as an alternative to popular YouTube, and in case you are a photographer a self-hosted Piwigo is a great substitute to Google Photo.
HOSTING AND SELF-HOSTING
In case you wish to host your blog anywhere, privacy-wise hosting providers are kind of rare. You can choose from a few such as the Orange Website. On the other hand you can try the Beaker Browser, p2p decentralized browser which uses dat and ipfs. It is still experimental, but very much fun to use.
BLOGGING
If you only want to blog, https://write.as is a cross-platform that might be a good solution.
If you are looking for a more lucrative solution, join Read.Cash and start blogging.
DELETE "EVERYTHING"... DELETE "FOREVER"
If you really want to delete yourself from the face of the internet (mission impossible), you can use this website in attempt to do so: https://justdeleteme.xyz. Ironic or not, they also have the Google Chrome Extension. If you try to avoid Google these days, you can test the same extensions for them by using Dissenter, Brave, Chromium or Bromite.
BROWSERS
Bromite, Opera, Tor and maybe if you want to try the Snowhaze and OnionBrowser for iOS are all good options for a default browser. Opera is probably the least known browser which can easily protect you from malignant tracking extensions for example.
The security over the iPhone is fairly better in comparison with the one on Android devices, because not only devices are very much different but the App Shop and Play shop have a completely different regulations for the apps.
If you want to see how secure your browser is at this point, you can test it over https://ipleak.net/.
SEARCH ENGINES
The thing we all use by default is a search engine, whether you are in mobile or desktop. The list of the ones that will respect your privacy is kind of scarce:
https://searx.me and https://duckduckgo.com, or P2P
https://yacy.net
https://metager.org
https://www.mojeek.com
Not really great choice, I would opt for Tor browser and Searx.
BLAB APPS
In addition, the chat apps are a complete nightmare. Even if many in later years implemented encryption. Signal, Telegram, Discord and Keybase are all very cool and inviting chat apps, they are still centralized and can be subject to any unwanted change at any given moment.
Federated and P2P messengers are far better, but they also have a slew of their own problems. Briar ( Android) and Matrix can be very interesting to try, and Wickr for its end to end military level encryption. StatusIM in addition to encryption is also a serverless wallet for crypto, ERC20 and some ERC721 tokens. You can also see into RetroshareCC.
SECURE NETWORKS
Secure self-contained networks such as Tor, I2P ( and I2P-Bote mail), Freenet and Retroshare are all the secure environments which you should investigate in case you want to learn more about privacy and security online.
... AND FINALLY ... THE PLAGUE
Other thing we all like to use on daily basis are the social networks. They are the huge time wasters and if not used smart can become a burden.
In social networks such as Twitter users can be banned, suspended or outright deleted for almost anything. Decentralized apps in that case are the BEST BUY!
IN case of the bust you can always try Memo.Cash and MemberApp.
If you just must have that one extra app, regardless of the reason (news, family, local events, friends, hobby, volunteer work) but you want it all private and well cushioned, I guess there will be a few disappointments along the way.
Aside of the Mastodon (zero-censorship Gab included), Mewe, Friendica, Movim and Pleroma there not much to name. It is disappointing because they are not attractive or inviting to be absolutely frank. Whatever looks like the privacy fiasco once known as the Facebook is definitely alluding on boredom and self-loathing. This includes Mewe and Friendica, maybe somebody will find them attractive, but I am not personally interested. Mastodon, Movim and Pleroma with multiple instances each are definitely more inviting.
Usually the instances have a few users, far little to be relevant in comparison to other bigger social networks. Number of the users could be a reason why majority of the people flock to these big social networks.
If you are into Instagram you can try VeroCO, or maybe creative hub, the ElloCO.
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