Pirate Box Usecases
Pirate Box Use Cases Currently Identified as of 22/2/2022
-- Uncensorable --
1) Journalist to save audios, videos, files to IPFS
2) Non-interactive website publishers, for example
newspapers Nomadnet nodes also can be used to link files and host Pages
3) Blog publishers
-- General --
4) Very small, portable computer (size of a couple of decks of cards)
- Libre Office
- Web browser
- IPFS node
(to get files from, or put files onto IPFS)
- PI Hole
(to loose some tracking bugs and see less Ads and load less Garbage on your connection)
5) Use IPFS as personal, private cloud
-- Communications --
6) Website hosting (while PBox is online)
7) Portable hotspot (portable web hosting, for example at
events)
if PBox has wired Internet, can provide public access
point
A home decentral server
owning a cloud,and your own Data
Installed & Unconfigured -- Mesh Networking:
08) XMPP / Jabber (Prosody client)
09) yggdrasil mesh protocol
10) --- Reticulum network ---
- Nomadnet Reticulum Node
for transmitting & communicate data and Messages
but with its abilities comes also chance for
underground Marketplaces using nomadnet as a way to
host pages and Files as of course been able to contact
anyone by lxmf adress, no ip it does not need it at all to work.
- over internet stealthmode anonymous and safe
and/or
-transmitt w/o internet
- by lora,pmr cb or else as hardware addon, talk to walkie Talkies
- if cut from Internet by authority
-- Emergency Use --
- one can obscure the device with another os,
as it can double as a gamestation,just by inserting another sdcard
- needs less power than laptop devices and could run on battery
and solar or other small powersources
10b) EXTRA
UPGRADE THE SOFTWARE
sudo pip3 install rns --upgrade
sudo pip3 install nomadnet --upgrade
reboot
after the reboot to view Nomadnet and read the guide type nomadnet into the Terminal
but before it will start its JOB here are 2 Things to do for you first
also notice the 2 Tools we installed
are located inside Home/Userfolder path,
in order to see .nomadnet & .reticulum ,
activate in your Filemanager the
Viewing Option Show hidden Files.
now you can see and find the tools folders/paths
and the config files
in this folder .nomadnetwork the config you OPEN the Node
from line 83 Nodes
The MOST Important Part of ANY Interface in your CONFIG
is that it is used not just prepared in the File
ALWAYS Check if it is running
by using rnstatus aswell,
type rnstatus into the Terminal
to see all Interfaces listed
if its UP its running
but Client Interfaces can also be DOWN because of the Servernode
line 87 enable_node = yes
line 93 node_name = name-your-node
in the folder .reticulum file config
Scroll down to the bottom of the config, write your name behind the #
COPY This underneath and Paste it there below if its not in your list
#yourname
[[RNS Testnet Frankfurt]]
type = TCPClientInterface
interface_enabled = yes
outgoing = True
target_host = frankfurt.rns.unsigned.io
target_port = 4965
FINISH
you are ready to use Nomadnet,
and its use of Reticulum,LXMF via an Internetconnection is Online
to use Nomadnet type nomadnet into the Terminal
All of the above is available in Pirate Box today,
albeit not ready for grandma or average users.
Requires more testing and user interface refinement.
The current status of the Pirate Box is that of a prototype.
It has recently been upgraded to a full fledged 64 bit operating system
and is thus capable of supporting 64 bit applications
such as cryptocurrency wallets.
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