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Bucuresti, Romania

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11 months ago • •

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11 months ago • •

This is Jupiter and 4 of its moons at daytime :)

I find it fascinating to see Jupiter when it is daytime. A bit bizarre. And beautiful.

#astrophotography #pixel4a #telescope #jupiter

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A solo TROMcast by Tio, looking back at what TROM did this year, and what we want to do for the next year(s).

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2023-12-31 02:58:05

TROMcast: Looking Back, Looking Forward

A solo TROMcast by Tio, looking back at what TROM did this year, and what we want to do for the next year(s).

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Great update! Good luck with your car driving license hahaha! And with the motorhome :)

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Thank you!

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11 months ago • •

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The Orion Nebula with a mobile-freaking-phone:

Pixel 4A + Celestron SLT 130, 10mm eyepiece.

My telescope was in auto-tracking mode and the exposure time was 4 minutes with the default Pixel Camera app.

I am astonished by this photo! You can see freaking color! COLOR! I only tuned down the gamma a bit but that's all of the editing I've done. Here is another unedited photo with a 20mm eyepiece:

I was soooo surprised to see this coming out of the phone :D - damn so fucking cool! 1.3 thousand light years away, stars forming.....so beautiful....so mindblowing!

#astrophotography #deepsky #orion #pixel4a #telescope

#Orion #astrophotography #telescope #Pixel4a #deepsky

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Rokosun

in reply to Tio • 11 months ago • •

This is so cool! 😍

So you attach your phone to the eyepiece of your telescope, right? Also, could you see this nebula with your naked eyes or did you had to use the 4 minute exposure photography to see it clearly?

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Yes. I will do a video about these but basically yes I have a special adapter that connects my phone to the eyepiece of the telescope. Interestingly with the night mode for my phone (the default pixel camera app) you can see this nebula almost like you see it with your naked eye. But ofc not that sharp and clear. So you can see it some, but it is ofc colorless if you look directly at it. And it is nowhere near close to what you see in this photo I took. That's why I love to take these photos because they reveal the invisible.

Also the light pollution makes a massive difference when it comes to seeing such faint objects. This is an interesting article with illustrations about what you can see and how through different telescopes and conditions - deepskywatch.com/Articles/what…

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11 months ago • •

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11 months ago • •

Going Live in about 2 hours at 21:00 Madrid time, here videos.trom.tf/w/cZqJuu8qEHvbC…

TROMcast: Looking Back, Looking Forward
A solo TROMcast by Tio, looking back at what TROM did this year, and what we want to do for the next year(s).

#tromlive

TROMcast: Looking Back, Looking Forward

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#tromlive

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1 year ago • •

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@Aaron is going to present TROM tomorrow in Hamburg at the Chaotic Computer Club event. Unfortunately he only has a small, few minutes long opportunity to present the project in a workshop-like way. We tried to get TROM to the main event but there were too many applying (over 600) so we were no accepted. We will try next year.

But awesome that Aaron is there and he is trying to spread the message.

If we will have any videos and photos we will share with you on our Friendica :)

#tromlive

#tromlive @Aaron

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1 year ago • •

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1 year ago • •

European Climate Pact Ambassador

I have some good news, I've just become official EU Climate Pact Ambassador for Latvia.
What it means basically I became a member of EU initiative to promote ecology, biodiversity, climate issues and solutions in Europe. They have many ambassadors all over EU from all different backgrounds and professions, with all kind of skills. But everyone have a common goal to improve ecology in all possible ways.
From now on I have access to some European Union projects, initiatives and trainings. Also will have a chance to present Be Brave To Act in Euro Parliament in Brussels next year.

Here is the list of all ambassadors if you curios : climate-pact.europa.eu/about/m…

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Tio

in reply to Dima • 1 year ago • •

That's a very good news. I hope you get more exposure. How did it happened? You contacted them, or they reached to you? Will they also help you financially a bit so you can continue your project?

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Dima

in reply to Tio • 1 year ago • •

They had an application form on their website, where you could apply.
I don't think they will help financially, I am not sure what to expect really, i guess it's more about me having access to several activities they are doing in EU. And also possibility to connect with other similar "activists". Also not sure about exposure, but probably If I will have a short presentation in Brussels then I might get some good contacts or opportunities.

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1 year ago • •

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1 year ago • •

Awesome sunset. I am impressed how the Pixel 4a can capture the real colors. Phone that @Aaron gifted me :D. Even brand new it was 3 times cheaper than most high end phones when it was released.

#photography #nature #landscape

#Photography #nature #landscape @Aaron

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1 year ago • •

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TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (documentary) - tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…

Now fully subtitled into Spanish, making it available to many millions of people who only speak spanish. All thanks to the wonderful Rafa and Vicky, and Cesar.

The amount of work to subtitle such a documentary in a professional way is quite intense and these people are doing it without asking anything in return. That's how we all should be. To do the things we feel are important and not worry about how to survive on this planet.

If you want to help us translate the documentary in more languages please contact us. tromsite.com/contact/

#tromlive

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1 year ago • •

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2023-12-01 10:20:42

Thank you to everyone who is supporting our TROM project via donations. Currently we have 36 people supporting our 200 for TROM cause https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - basically we need 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month to support TROM forever. Distributing the toll we put on everyone to make the project sustainable.
You support some 20 websites and a lot of digital materials, plus future projects. See the main website https://www.tromsite.com and the tools that we have.
It would be amazing to achieve this goal and it is not an unrealistic one. Thousands of people use our tools and websites.
Again a big thank you to everyone!
#tromlive

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1 year ago • •

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1 year ago • •

@PeerTube we have released our documentary exclusively on Peertube and only there, in June. It is 5 hours long, 4 parts, and we worked 3 years to make it. Here it is videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrW…

Please consider adding it to your joinpeertube.org/#find-peertub… website as a showcase of original Peertube releases if you think it is worth it. We have it subtitled in a few languages already and it is basically about why the bad things that happen in the world (where do they originate from), but also about how we could maybe change that. It is about open source, volunteers, and overall treating people as humans and helping them. To help each other.

Please consider it and maybe our instance too - videos.trom.tf - dedicated to science/technology/activism.

#tromstuff

TROM II: A Message to the Aliens (documentary)

We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.

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#tromstuff @PeerTube

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1 year ago • •

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1 year ago • •

Tested the move to a new server for our Matrix/Synapse. 60GB database, 15GB of files. All worked great! We are ready to move. I am trying to find the safest and easiest way to manage the entire TROM.tf server.

So. I bought a Hetzner Auction server for 45 Euros a month - similar to what I am currently paying for Contabo. But this server has 4TB of SSD, 8 core i7-6700 CPU and 32GB of RAM. Overall better than Contabo's. What we needed was more storage space. And now we got double.

So Matrix being so massive takes around 25 minutes to backup and around 40-50 minutes to restore from a backup. But this is by far the worst of them all....

Basically for the new server I want to be able to easily restore a service/app in case it fails to update. Now I can. Plus I am setting up Timeshift since you do not have snapshots for a dedicated server....but with Timeshift I can restore in case I fuck up the system itself or cannot, for some odd reason, restore an app from a backup.

I did so many tests and @

So Matrix being so massive takes around 25 minutes to backup and around 40-50 minutes to restore from a backup. But this is by far the worst of them all....

I did so many tests and @Roma helped out a lot. He is also looking at another option, using Proxmox to manage the server, this way we can have snapshots. Snapshots are fast and I have used them a lot on Contabo, but the massive downside is that you restore the ENTIRE server with snapshots, losing data from any other services that are running between the time you took a snapshot and restored it. In other words if I take a system Snapshot before updating our MAtrix, and takes me 15 minutes to update Matrix without backing it up, and then I realize it failed to update....with a snapshot I can restore the ENTIRE system in seconds. Nice. Matrix works now. However, it will revert back how the entire system was 15 minutes ago for TROM Files, Friendica, and everything else...

It means that if you made posts on friendica, synced files on TROM FIles and so forth, they will be LOST. Yeah I could easily restore a failed Matrix update but I mess up the rest of the apps, at least a little bit.

Therefore I need to do this properly per-app basis, despite taking around 1h to restore Matrix, is worth it I guess....

The following days we are ready to move the entire trom.tf!

#tromlive

#tromlive @Roma

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1 year ago • •

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To change Healthcare and Transportation

Transportation.

In Germany they came up with a plan: pay a monthly fee of about 50 Euros and have access to all of the public transport across Germany. Lately they proposed that if you are to "surrender" your driving license, you can get access to all of that for free. (source).

Now this, if properly managed and made even more accessible for everyone in Germany, can severely cut down the use of cars. Why would anyone want to buy a car, maintain, take care of, repair and so forth, if they have access to an affordable and good transportation system that is efficient? If people are to use a lot less cars, then we need a lot less roads. Thus you can transform the roads and parking spaces into green public spaces. Add bikes to the mix and you can create much better places for people to live.

Think about how much space cars take:

Transportation.

Think about how much space cars take:

And the fact that the more lanes we make, the more traffic there is:

And the fact that most cars transport only 1-2 people. A massive waste of space...

And of course, how polluting they are:

Did you know that most of the microplastics in the air is due to car tires? It is true.

So of course it makes total sense to ditch this outdated practice. Paris, Barcelona and other places are trying do to similar schemes. Some cities are restricting the access to cars in some areas.

This is one of those massive problems that we can easily fix even within this bullshit trade system. And the solution is simple: make the public transport very cheap (or free), and efficient. Plus restrict car access to many areas. The goal should be to make it trade-free, so that it will become a lot more efficient. No more tickets, no more ads in the buses or any of that crap. Because what many seem to not realize is that advertising is a massive drive of consumerism (of course, that's its only purpose), and that in turn creates the destruction, waste, pollution and all of the crap we see.

Therefore the way forward is to aim for a trade-free transport system in different parts of the world. No currency, no data trading, no ads, no bullshit. And this will create a much better environment for people and nature.

Restoring nature... and a good life....

Doable now. Happening (little by little) now.

Healthcare

In USA the healthcare is private and thus trade-based for its citizens. Therefore USA has the most expensive healthcare systems in the world with a life expectancy of just 76. (source 1, 2) - In short the people in that tribe pay more because companies decide what's the price of this drug, that surgery, and so forth. And their incentive is of course to charge more and more.

In other tribes like Spain where the tribe members do not have to pay anything, the government is the one negotiating the prices with companies, and thus they are able to get a less expensive deal. And overall a much better organized healthcare system. The life expectancy is around 83-84 years, almost 10 years more than in the USA. (source 1, 2).

It is obvious that if you create a healthcare system that's free (or trade-free if you can) then people live longer, healthier, and you spend a lot less resources on that.

Conclusion.

In both cases, the evidence is clear: if we make these services free (and aim to make them trade-free eventually) then we see a lot of positive outcomes. And as you can see it is not only doable, but happening. However we need to push for more of these, in more parts of the world, and inform people about trade as the origin of most problems.

Let's stop dreaming about hyperloops, round cities, futuristic 3D nonsense. These are fantasies. We need to focus on realistic solutions that can have an enormous impact, while keeping an aim in sight: that of making this trade based society obsolete.

#tromlive

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Rokosun

in reply to TROM • 1 year ago • •

This is good stuff, finally some positive changes in our society 😌

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1 year ago • •

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One week to go, until the #LibreOffice Conference 2023! Download our essential guide to Bucharest, and join the chat channels: conference.libreoffice.org/202… #foss #opensource

Bucharest, Romania 2023 | LibreOffice Conference 2023 - Bucharest (Romania)

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#opensource #libreoffice #foss

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Tio

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@Alexio maybe you are interested

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1 year ago • •

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I have visited Aaron this weekend:

Such an amazing guy! As always. In 2 days I will return home, I am still at @Roma 's place.

After I return I will make a big article about the entire ZDay experience and meeting lots of wonderful people. Then I will focus to update our servers and services, including our Friendica! Currently we need to put Friendica in maintenance mode for some 20 minutes a day to backup the database....but that sucks since you cannot use it for this period of time. So I need to fix that too.

Anyway, I have had a wonderful experience for these past 10 or so days and I hope to have more of these experiences.

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1 year ago • •

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Capitalism is good. Let me explain. - by physicist and lost-in-the-woods Sabine Hossenfelder - inv.citw.lgbt/watch?v=CRPHp2Ej…

I watched this video and I almost cried laughing. It made me finally remove this channel from our curated videos tromnews.com/videos/ - this woman was going downhill for some time now.

She argues that "capitalism" is great because....it allows us make more things and better, and she spreads all of the simplistic and unrealistic beliefs of "capitalism" in such a way that I wonder if this woman knows anything about the real world...that of climate change, slaves, waste, unnecessary products, corruption, and so forth.

The positive part is the comment section that seems to be made out of humans who understand that this "capitalism" (trade system) is cancer. To quote a few:

It really fits both the topic and the general vibe of the video to fe

Capitalism is good. Let me explain. - by physicist and lost-in-the-woods Sabine Hossenfelder - inv.citw.lgbt/watch?v=CRPHp2Ej…

I watched this video and I almost cried laughing. It made me finally remove this channel from our curated videos tromnews.com/videos/ - this woman was going downhill for some time now.

The positive part is the comment section that seems to be made out of humans who understand that this "capitalism" (trade system) is cancer. To quote a few:

It really fits both the topic and the general vibe of the video to feature sponsored content and soliciting of donations where should normally be a list of citations and literature for further reading

From a science communicator I would have expected facts and data, not a lot of opinions in the form of an essay

Ah yes, capitalism allocating resources where they are most needed ... the offshore bank accounts of millionaires

There is a core problem even with the basic capital you mentioned. Those with the money to invest are the only ones getting the return, thereby continually concentrating wealth and disrupting the ability for the majority to trade. And that doesn't even include all the psychological biases that make it even worse like reducing people to resources, corruption, and imbalance of power.

Sabine out here proving again that a tiny amount of knowledge is more dangerous than knowing nothing at all.

Sabine, I just wanted to come here to congratulate your audience. I envy it, I hope that if I ever publish something as unsubstantiated, narrative-driven and narrow as this my audience holds me accountable the way yours has. This community gives me hope.

Yeah, it is terrible when such people who pretend to be scientists and have a huge following do a terrible job at "informing". Could that be because of....you know, capitalism (trade)???'!!! Hmm....is dear Sabine influenced by the power of trade to keep on making videos outside her expertise to get more views, and thus more money??' hmm....interesting indeed :D -

A victim of "capitalism", making uninformed videos to make more money. Ironic!

Capitalism is good. Let me explain.

Learn more about financial models, quantum mechanics, or many more topics in science and maths with Brilliant! First 200 to use our link https://brilliant.org/sabine will get 20% off the annual premium subscription.

^{Sabine Hossenfelder | Invidious}

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I just watched that video and it was much much worse than I expected! How can someone like her become so delusional?!

Capitalism only ever works in theory when you're talking about trading apples for eggs and such, but it's a completely different story when you practice it in large scale. In her previous video this woman was talking about how to do your own research and stuff, ironically in this video it feels like she hasn't done any research at all and is just giving out her opinion on things.

> Scientists tent to associate the stunning societal progress we've seen since then to science and technology, but I think that's having it backwards. The driver of all this progress was the capitalist system that allowed an efficient allocation of resources.

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I just watched that video and it was much much worse than I expected! How can someone like her become so delusional?!

It's baffling to me how someone can ever reach that conclusion, especially coming from someone like her. So then she goes on to talk about how people only started manufacturing penicillin a decade after Alexander fleming made its initial discovery, and in her mind that somehow proves that capitalism is good and helpful - if anything this proves to me that capitalism stalled us from manufacturing this medicine for a decade until someone with enough money and resources was finally willing to invest money in it.

>. For the market to optimize the use of fossil fuel resources, we should have put a price on releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We did not, and this's why we're now in deep shit. So, yes, our current capitalist systems do have a problem with environmental protection. But the reason isn't that there's something wrong with capitalism per se, it's that we didn't set it up correctly in the first place. Basically, the origin of the problem is that no one paid attention to economists.

This is another one of those nonsense takes in this video, and keep in mind that this is just one of the many many issues with capitalism that she brushed aside by saying "but that's another story". How many more patches we'll have to apply to this unjust & broken system called capitalism until it finally works? How many more new laws and rules we'd have to make? If capitalism was a bucket then there'll be so many (loop) holes in it that you'd think it was a strainer, lol 😆 And talking about putting a price on carbon emissions, perhaps we should also ask those economists what's the price of pollution, famines, slavery, mental anguish and even deaths around the world that are directly or indirectly caused by this capitalist system. What is the price of human beings? What is the price of happiness? What is the price of our natural environment? Because I can imagine someone in the distant future repeating these same talking points and saying the reason why this system caused the destruction of so many human lives and the environment is because we didn't put a price on it.

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1 year ago • •

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TROM II Documentary is fully translated into German thanks to @Aaron ! Watch it here tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…

He is not only part of the documentary but translated it fully! #tromlive

#tromlive @Aaron

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TROM is presenting right now at the ZDay Annual event in Prague!
#tromlive

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Q&A Panel with Tio at the ZDay Annual Event in Prague is starting!
#tromlive

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The ZDay is over and the reactions we got were really encouraging. We will give you more info and hope to post the recording tomorrow. In the meantime here are some photos:

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