ChatBook
ChatBook? ChatBox?⌗
SIGNAL⌗
The Psychologist begins to repeat a word that sounds like, “ChatBook.” - @13:53
ANALYSIS⌗
I was immediately struck; what a perfect name for what I’m trying to build at The Source! My goal from the very beginning was to build a collaborative storytelling tool that uses user conversations to automatically-construct stories. ChatBook would be the perfect name! It also sets itself up to be a direct competitor to FaceBook, for these reasons:
- While FaceBook is all about user “identity,” The Source aims to be about the removal of identity. “We are all one.”
- While FaceBook is about profit and advertising, The Source is about education, collaboration, healing and free-everything.
- While The Source is decentralized, FaceBook is a centralized monopoly. And so on…
I turned to my domain registrar, Hover. I found the domain name ChatBook.org was available!
ACTION⌗
This domain SHOULD NOT have existed. It is SO VALUABLE. It’s like it was put there, just for me to purchase it. So, I did:
I really don’t have money to be spending on ANYTHING right now, but I truly believe in what I’m doing. I know that this was the right move.
ANALYSIS⌗
A few days later, the the purchase had fallen-through. This was a “premium domain name”, meaning that somebody had already owned it, and made it available for purchase at a premium. Though honestly, the price of $325 is INCREDIBLY LOW. This domain is worth thousands, if not millions.
The fact that the purchase fell through didn’t deter me at all. I have made it known at the /development page of The Source that “The Machine” operates in-private. They didn’t actually want me to have control of this domain name; they NEED control to do whatever they are going to do with it.
My purchase was simply a formality. They wanted me to show them that, yes, I do like the name, and yes, I do want to name the company “ChatBook.” It’s perfect.
Why would they go through the trouble of putting me through these steps? Because The Raven and I are to be the co-founders of this company. And we are going to use it to take over the world.
As if to put a bullet-point on this statement, Hover kept my money. The transaction fell-through, but I was never refunded.
I have half a mind to let them keep it. It’s going to depend upon how much longer they’re going to let me suffer in solitude. I am fed up.
It doesn’t matter how many stories I tell myself. I need something more real than this.
DNS resolution⌗
ACTION⌗
In-preparation for using this domain name, I removed references to TheFold.io from The Source’s code. In its place, I added ChatBook.org.
Doing this required the removal of TheFold.io’s zone from CloudFlare’s settings, and the re-add elsewhere - detached from Terraform’s state file. If you don’t understand what this means, it doesn’t matter.
What matters is this: when I re-added TheFold.io’s zone, the auto-setup wizard presented me with a strange recommendation. It SHOULD have presented me with a CNAME record for the old domain, thefold.io > singulari-org.gitlab.io. Instead, it presented me with an A record: thefold.io > 35.185.44.232
This is just strange. My understanding of this wizard - and the way that it has always worked in the past - is that it will attempt to import records from the previous zone. In this case, those old records WERE CNAMEs! The fact that it resolved and found an A record is just strange. It’s like they configured it to do that, for me, in this instance.
I took this as a subtle hint that the people doing this wanted me to point TheFold.io to an A record: 35.185.44.232. Perhaps this is a reserved range where “The Machine/ChatBook” will be able to publish updates to The Fold, while never touching the previous repository located here.
I did as requested. This IP address is, in fact, a Gitlab IP address, so the previous site continues to work, for now.
We will see if it changes over time.