And yet another thing about capitalism.. I discovered it recently (but the news dates the beginning of this year), but I swear this is so fucked up I want to speal some water on it anyway. So here you go. Together with the very "futuristic" and "innovative" news that Bmw is going to sell you heating for your ass with a subscription, now Intel thought why tf we are the last in this race and let's sell some extra Ghz for your processor as microstransactions or possible a subscription plan in futher. What are the fucking clever lads.
This madness is possible because of the urge for profit is endless really. Just wait a bit while a few generations of humans will be changed and everyone totally forget that it was actually usual to buy things once back in the days, without a need to pay for it monthly afterward
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And yet another thing about capitalism.. I discovered it recently (but the news dates the beginning of this year), but I swear this is so fucked up I want to speal some water on it anyway. So here you go. Together with the very "futuristic" and "innovative" news that Bmw is going to sell you heating for your ass with a subscription, now Intel thought why tf we are the last in this race and let's sell some extra Ghz for your processor as microstransactions or possible a subscription plan in futher. What are the fucking clever lads.
This madness is possible because of the urge for profit is endless really. Just wait a bit while a few generations of humans will be changed and everyone totally forget that it was actually usual to buy things once back in the days, without a need to pay for it monthly afterwards to unlock some functions when you already payed for it. This is totally artificial constraints and absolute waist of resources. Just imagine an entire pack of engineers to design such a low level system for the sake of sucking more money from you. Unbelievable. Bet they patented this miraculous "innovation"..
Most disturbing here is that since Linux kernel major contributers are actually the big hardware vendors and one day (as usually happens with every good idea when trade is involved) they may overtake the community achievements to their profits with incorporating such invasive things into the kernel. This is why, in general I think, the FOSS is not possible in the union with monetisation, corporate approaches, the last eventually win and we should be aware of that.
Totally. FOSS is a valueable and working alternative to the greedy corporate for-profit software approach and Humans should prefer FOSS in as many areas as possible. But to think that you may combine both worlds and create some sort of chimera which will be a sustainable business and at the same time will provide real meaning and value for Human beings, this is just an illusion. It is an attempt to create a positive image for the capitalistic system which nowadays prevail. Something like saying: "Hey, we actually aren't greedy-neety bustards as the capitalistic system force us to be and what our real nature is, you see, we provide free services and software. Yeah, this is a totally legit way you can monetise your creation and be a good guy at the same time, wow, how cool is that?!" No! It isn't. And you know, my friend @Tio, more than anyone that it always ends up in a fuckery pretty much like in the post above :winking face:
A very interesting angle on the idea which is dominant nowadays that the capitalism is the best tool we got out there and the only one which works. This is more and more disturbing that instead of rational and weighted discourse about the possible ways of organizing the society so all the people can benefit from it, not only the luckiest one, humans select emotional evaluation of the problem (like all the socialistic experiments were a disaster, hence all socialism ideas equal evil and vise versa - the capitalistic organisation is the best because this is all I know and trying something new is scary af). Actually in this video it is very well explained, how capitalism is super successful in selling this plot too.
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Can you see these little clouds there on the pictures too? Wow, this is unbelievable.. :astonished face: Can't believe it is real.. And this is a Saturn's Moon relatively close to us. What else can wait us in other places throughout our calm island - Solar system and unpredictable vast Universe? There are way more mysterious and unimaginable objects out there like quasars or black stars... way more fantastic than any Human mind can possibly come up with.. And yet Humans are only known species so far which have a unique potential: not only to be able to craft the tools to discover how this world works, but also to realize an opportunity they have - to live in such beautiful world and enjoy this one chance at full. Isn't it what we should do instead of fighting or compete with each other? To use our potentials at max? Hope there's still a chance..
By the way I love these posts of your Roma! Keep on being a human. Share your thoughts more often too :)
And yes, Titan is one of the most earth-like place that we know of, in terms of how it looks like: clouds, rain, mountains, lakes and rivers. But all methane. Which makes you wonder....can a different life based on methane have evolved there? We should focus on these mind blowing mysteries, help send some probes there, enjoy these pieces of knowledge, and so forth. I wish our species was intelligent.
Thanks man! It is a pleasure to share when there's such a topic to think about.. And thanks for helping with the image. I did it myself, but it didn't appear it seems.. weird.
Btw, another one is cool too :winking face with tongue:
Adam spittin' the truth! I really think he's on point here.
This is what have been really bugging me for a long time actually.. I always heard how those 0,000..01% humans are the best of all, how genius and hardworking they are and how everybody should dream about being them.. But more I looked at this, more it appeared as just a modern myth to me. Most of them were lucky enough to become super rich from a certain event + the PR whitewashing, a ton of it.. and Voila! The modern mythical heros have just been born: so modest, so genius.. Then media and politicians keep speading this thought about having business men and big businesses actually make the lives of all in a society better. Yeah, say that to those people who got fired recently or lost their money believing in bullshit crypto or NFT scam.
To make human lives better we have at least to try to start fulfilling the vital human needs in a trade-free way: shelter, food, water, medicine, transport, etc. and for EVERYONE around the world. Otherwise, all we do is allowing to have great, unbelievable lives only to a lu
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Adam spittin' the truth! I really think he's on point here.
This is what have been really bugging me for a long time actually.. I always heard how those 0,000..01% humans are the best of all, how genius and hardworking they are and how everybody should dream about being them.. But more I looked at this, more it appeared as just a modern myth to me. Most of them were lucky enough to become super rich from a certain event + the PR whitewashing, a ton of it.. and Voila! The modern mythical heros have just been born: so modest, so genius.. Then media and politicians keep speading this thought about having business men and big businesses actually make the lives of all in a society better. Yeah, say that to those people who got fired recently or lost their money believing in bullshit crypto or NFT scam.
To make human lives better we have at least to try to start fulfilling the vital human needs in a trade-free way: shelter, food, water, medicine, transport, etc. and for EVERYONE around the world. Otherwise, all we do is allowing to have great, unbelievable lives only to a lucky few.
Tech CEOs aren't geniuses, and here's the proof.
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By the way if anyone wants a Mastodon server I provide via webape.site - I am already getting new requests and will take a few days to process new ones, but if you want one you can simply pay and have it all setup. Backups included.
Mind you I also provide trade-free services via trom.tf and lots of stuff via tromsite.com. WebApe is to allow me to support these free projects.
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Basically I need to take what is in this photo (except those galaxies):
With all of the shoeboxes full of HDDs and cables:
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the once-hidden features of the protostar within the dark cloud L1527, providing insight into the beginnings of a new star.
I'm starting a new video series about hiking the GR11 (an 840-km thru-hike across the Pyrenees) on a very tight budget. Here is the first video: https://videos.trom.tf/w/bscuS7uYA2PYVJWoa7h1qw It's me packing my Ultraheavy backpack :D
Here's me getting ready to trek the GR11, alone, but not alone, since my backpack is kind of like a medium-sized person... piggyback riding me for 840 kilometers... Let's see how this goes! Thru-hiking ULTRACHEAP - the opposite of ULTRALIGHT!
At Intel Innovation 2022, #Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sat down with Linus Torvalds, the creator of #Linux who is also known as “the godfather of #OpenSource,” to talk about everything from the beginning of Linux to Linus’ advice for Intel and why he cho…
100%. Finally someone saying it as it fuckin is. He should maybe look at it through the lens of "trade". Would make a lot os sense and easy t explain. Great share!
Agreed, the trade lens would be just perfect here to explain a real reason of this fuckery to even exist.. But honestly I was so surpised to hear it even in this shape from a public figure. So rare.
Yes! I am really pleased to hear that. He really unpacked it very well. But the other ones, especially the psychologist (of course) keep on talking about "the mental diseases"· out there. What in the actual fuck. Pills and shit. Well....friend...look at society and what these platforms are incentivized to do. The comedian was more of a scientist than that psychologist hehe. :D
Totally! He looks like the only one real and sane person in the room speaking to a fuckin brick wall or something I'm following Bo for quite a while already and I generally like what he's doing. He definitely has a clear mind for some very untoucheable topics which humans don't even question usually, well packed in form of comedy.
I'm just really glad that fediverse is not into this attention trading business, no ads and algorithm here. Just the lack of these 2 things make a big difference, I feel like I'm in control of my online presence here.
Can't thank enough the communities of Fediverse for bringing these awesome projects to the world, feels like a fresh air after all the big farty ad spitting dumpsters :grinning squinting face: I personally admire an ability to choose between literally dozens of the ways to communicate by selecting specific implementation like Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma, etc. with all the different ways to organize news feeds, size of the messages, etc. and after all staying connected with all your peeps which may choose another project to stick with and all of that because of the unified protocol. This is fuckin amazing and liberating..
Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend -- not for what they get done.
VIOLENCE in all its forms is perhaps the most ancient human problem, and today as humans have created systems and weapons capable of wiping out all life as we know it, and with crime, gun culture, school shootings and war on the rise, the topic has n…
Another biggest technogenic catastrophy currently passes below the radars and one of the many negative outcomes of the war and an outdated system of international relationships.
The ruptures on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline system under the Baltic Sea have led to what is likely the biggest single release of climate-damaging methane ever recorded, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Friday.
If you put a title on your post then it looks like this on mastodon (see the screenshot). So because of this its better to avoid putting titles unless its a bigger blog post.
Hm, weird. Seems like it heavily depends on the front-end. I've checked out in Tootle which is originally a mastodon client and it looks entirely opposite there (without title at all but with the text) :grinning face with smiling eyes:
In the sane, trade-free society it would be absolutely impossible.. But now here we go, everythyng is a good to trade, including living people.. Insane, sick world it is.
Traffickers in Southeast Asia force thousands of people into perpetrating cyberscams that defraud Americans out of millions of dollars. Here’s how they do it.
Like Jacque said many times: most of our problems have an engineering nature. Too bad in the trade-based world solving them is not a Humanity's first priority..
UPD: This video should be considered as an illustration of the interesting engineering ideas and as a possibility to questionize a structure and efficiency of the existing cities, towns, villages and not in any circumstances as a project to be supported or invested in, since it might be just yet another scammy project promising "the revolution" but without any real intention to do it. See this criticizing video: ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=rB_X5ZUcZl…
What if we could start again? THE LINE rethinks everything we know about how people live, work and play. A 170 km-long vertical city, designed around people, rather than cars. A revolution in urban living.
hm...unfortunately I think this is quite a "scammy" thing. Sounds good in theory, except for the last part where they talk positively about trade, but I recommend you also watch this video ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=rB_X5ZUcZl… :P
Unfortunately many companies are very good to lure us in, and I got sucked into a bunch of these too...impractical, money oriented, scams. I only recently found out about the above one, but sounds like many other projects I've heard of.
Anyway, if you have the time also watch the video I sent you.
I agree with what you said, but I am skeptical about this "LINE" thing.
Ah, yeah, that's true.. As any of such good looking projects might be scammy in the marketing world. Of course, it would never be possible for these ideas to come true because it implies that it is achievable in our trade-base world, but I doubt it ever is. We have seen it so many times with other good ideas around, like social medias, cloud technologies, etc., which in general very useful and helpful to people, but they turned out to become trade poisoned after all and right now - not more than just the shadows of previously great services..
I liked in that video that they are speaking about that the very essense of our cities and structures is not effective, being built too many centures ago, but we keep maintaining it - a thought, which is not told too much these days. All is focused on preserving the "cultural legacy", so those who is owning all of it can keep make money of it in different ways.
Also they speak about self-sustainability and efficiency and that in general we don't need that much space to be taken by the leaving structures - to me is a very avoidable
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Ah, yeah, that's true.. As any of such good looking projects might be scammy in the marketing world. Of course, it would never be possible for these ideas to come true because it implies that it is achievable in our trade-base world, but I doubt it ever is. We have seen it so many times with other good ideas around, like social medias, cloud technologies, etc., which in general very useful and helpful to people, but they turned out to become trade poisoned after all and right now - not more than just the shadows of previously great services..
I liked in that video that they are speaking about that the very essense of our cities and structures is not effective, being built too many centures ago, but we keep maintaining it - a thought, which is not told too much these days. All is focused on preserving the "cultural legacy", so those who is owning all of it can keep make money of it in different ways.
Also they speak about self-sustainability and efficiency and that in general we don't need that much space to be taken by the leaving structures - to me is a very avoidable discussion nowadays as well and in the same time - a very insteresting engineering task, which is very real to be solved. I still think that behind those ideas might be very good minds possibly.
Anyways, you are probably right and this project is not the best way to promote those discussions and it might be considered as that without a good explanation what I meant..
You know why it's pointless to debate "socialism" or "utopia" or whatever comparison people throw out when you criticize market capitalism? Because the system, in and of itself, without the need for comparison, is insufficient to be sustainable for the species. #systemssciencepic.twitter.com/SxDQsaKM7m
I am releasing a new project to, hopefully, make some money so that I can support our TROM project and myself. This is it -->> webape.site/
So. I provide managed instances for Mastodon, Peertube, Nextcloud, Friendica, and a few other services. On top of this I am making any kind of website in Wordpress. This is my "skill" and so I will try to make some money like this. I have to, I have no choice.
But listen.
I am not making a "business" out of this. I want to do a decent job at it, so I will only take 20-30 projects. Enough to sustain myself and have the time to focus on TROM, plus be able to properly manage these paid-for websites.
I tried to provide really cheap and very "tempting" offers, if anyone is interested, since I will only post once about this on my profile, the rest go on the Federated profile of the project -->> social.trom.tf/profile/webape
Here is what I offer:
Mastodon:
Peertube:
Nextcloud:
Wordpress:
I can setup huge instances up to 25TB of diskspace. And provide support over email or chat (Matrix).
If you think anyone may be interested, give it a share.
Absolutely nothing worse than a child in poverty. No better way to mess up human beings for their entire life than have them raised in deprivation, exposed to the characteristics we know empirically occur disproportionally in those low income environments.slate.com/news-and-polit…
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