Scientists, IT experts and researchers from German universities are asking their rectors to move away from proprietary social media platforms such as X...
bewegung.social/@neuSoM/111720…
... and adopt free, open and federated solutions, such as Mastodon.
KDE applauds this initiative and we encourage you to sign their petition:
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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).
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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 :)
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TROMcast Live: Plans for the next year
Saturday 30st, 21:00
I (Tio) will do a live for several hours to talk a bit about my plans for TROM for the next year(s). I may allow others to join in but since this is a special TROMcast about some specific updates I want to talk about, it may only be me streaming. I will post the Peertube streaming link on the same day :).
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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.
If you want to help us translate the documentary in more languages please contact us. tromsite.com/contact/
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Wow. @emilymbender, University of Washington computational linguist, deconstructs algorithmic tools, aka automation.“#AI” is a marketing term dating to the 1950s, when it was employed to secure research dollars.
What is being automated?
By whom and why?
Who benefits?
Who is being harmed?
How well does it work?
Who is accountable?
What laws/regulations apply to what is being automated?Well worth the ~5 minute investment
youtube.com/watch?v=eK0md9tQ1K…
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@futureisfoss @alexHow should regulators think about "AI"?
On Thursday 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Bobby Scott on "AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstand...YouTube
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‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza
And here we are, folks, using the modern tech to kill people more effectively. Don't forget to ask the chatgpt which people of what part of the world deserve to be anihilated today, while consuming your morning coffee..
And yeah, there's something utterly disgusting and barbaric in naming their war AI in the name of religion, the holy crusades are back..
Crazy, fucked up world we live in..
theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…
Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly increases the number of targets for strikes in the Palestinian territoryHarry Davies (The Guardian)
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Zeitgeist Requiem by Peter Joseph
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Continuing the 4th installment of the globally acclaimed "Zeitgeist Film Series," author, activist and director Peter Joseph presents "Zeitgeist | Requiem”AP News
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Hey I put that image in TROM II if you didn't notice videos.trom.tf/w/nrhE21Nuqsr3F… :D
100% agree with you ofc!
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Annular Solar Eclipse "Ring of Fire" hits the North America continent.
Watch it live at NASA's official broadcast: youtu.be/LlY79zjud-Q
Watch live with us as a “ring of fire” eclipse travels across the United States on Oct. 14, 2023, from Oregon to Texas. This event occurs when the Moon passe...YouTube
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You know why the moon can perfectly cover the sun during a solar eclipse? There's nothing mysterious about it, the moon is actually getting further away from Earth as its orbit grows about 1.5 inches larger every year, it's just that all of us happen to live around the exact time where earth and moon are at the right distance away to make total solar eclipse possible - a wonderful coincide 🙂 However this also means we won't always have this kind of eclipse forever as the moon gets further away from earth.
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TROM Files (Nextcloud) provides 10 GB of storage space for everyone! And we can extend up to 20 GB to whoever needs more storage. All trade-free.
TROM Files is like Google Drive + Google Photos + Trello + more into one single package, but no bullshit subscriptions, ads, data collection.
You have access to Collabora (Libreoffice cloud) - a powerful Office suite that allows you to edit any documents and collaborate on them.
You have access to a Photo Gallery app and the ability to edit your photos directly in TROM Files:
You have access to a Notes app and a Music player. Plus "Deck" to organize your teams and tasks.:
Lastly you have access to a fully featured Calendar:
Please share so that everyone takes advantage of this. There is no catch if you understand what we do at TROM. We've been creating trade-free materials and services since 2011.
And please consider becoming one of the 200 people that we need in order to support this TROM project forever --->> tromsite.com/donate/
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The first part of the TROM II Documentary, Humans, is fully translated into Spanish videos.trom.tf/w/uzkzwYtn1XK2E… thanks to @Rafa Peris and Vicky! If you want to help with the translations please head over to our Translations chat on Matrix matrix.to/#/#translation:matri…
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Faroe Islands - Should you visit or boycott ? Consider this first!
I've spent few weeks in Faroe Islands volunteering and learning about the Grindadrap tradition.
Which is obsolete in modern society and should be banned and forgotten. But it's not happening.
What can we do and if there is a chance to change it?I am very grateful for organizations which are there on a ground trying to protect pilot whales and Atlantic white sided dolphins. Bunch of brave people acting when politicians and governments keeping quiet.
To support, donate, volunteer and find more information : paulwatsonfoundation.uk
@captainpaulwatsonfoundationukMy music video with the sounds of pilot whales : youtu.be/_fz9jwHPanU?si=jSoCIV…
00:00 Intro
01:10 What is Grindadrap?
01:51 Life as a volunteer
03:47 Pilot whales hunt
05:15 What happens after
06:18 How this is even possible?
07:34 What can you do?
08:56 Bottlenose Whales#grind #dolphins #visitfaroeislands
Hello people,
I (Tio) had a great time in Prague at the ZDay event, and I made a blog post all about it, here - tiotrom.com/2023/09/the-zday-e… - it is a big blog post, because it was a big and wonderful experience.
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ZDay: How to Grow a Saner Society. A Lifetime Adventure - videos.trom.tf/w/6R92qduTeGHma…
We have improved the audio for the ZDay presentation as much as we could. Plus we added the recordings from a secondary camera to make it more interesting.
The video is translated into Spanish, Catalan, Polish, Romanian, Czech and Portuguese. And it is perhaps the shortest and most to-the-point video about what we are trying to do at TROM.
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A mesmerizing image of the protostar by JWST
This Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211) object image depicts a Class 0 protostar in the state that our Sun could be when it was a few tens of thousands of years old.
I was thinking recently how fascinating is the fact that something beautiful and unique like our Earth can be born out of probably one of the most powerful, horrific and destructive events in the Universe - a Supernova. Indeed, the scale of those events isn't even comparable with what we experience in everyday life. Any of these happening relatively close to us and everything we know would be annihilated within the seconds.. Another reminder how fragile our world is and what unique opportunity we have here, simply wasting it on meaningless fights, trades, money..
esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/…
#jwst
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The plans for the next weeks:
- Update our Friendica and test to make sure everything works fine
- Move our Peertube storage to an object storage so we free up space on our server. Currently we are at the limit when it comes to storage. Using an object storage allows us to scale up.
- Add Pixelfed to our TROM.tf services
- Release a new TROMjaro
All of these require a lot of time and resources. So it make take more than just weeks.
If you can support this work and can donate 5 Euros a month, maybe you can join the 200 for TROM tromsite.com/donate/ - currently there are some 30 people supporting us and we only need 170 more to make TROM forever sustainable :)
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Our ZDay presentation is now translated into 4 languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Czech and Catalan videos.trom.tf/w/d5wwwrwGD7D3E…
Kudos to the people who are translating these TROM videos without anyone asking them to do so or how to do it. At TROM we work in this decentralized and more emerging style: people can get involved with whatever they can, and do it on their own.
We only provide some tools and platforms, like our Translation Matrix chat matrix.to/#/#translation:matri…
Amazing people. One of them actually, Lenka, we meet at ZDay. She came because of TROM and she quickly became our friend.
On 26th of August, 2023, we presented TROM at the annual ZDay event in Prague. This was the last ZDay after a decade long of making them every year.videos.trom.tf
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