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My mastodon account is @Rokosun. I'm just testing out friendica for the first time, this could possibly be my new home in the fediverse. All I lack now is a good client for friendica, if #fedilab starts properly supporting friendica then I'll move to friendica completely....
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I Had To Break My Radiometer For Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0cq_nEWduY

Okay that was pretty cool, NGL.

#YoutubeVids #Science #Educational #TheActionLab
Thumbnail of the video from YouTube. It shows a laser hitting a lens with a text on top that reads "Why did this happen?"

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https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-12-08-2023-big-update-many-changes/183

So.... um, yeah I had to code on my mobile 'cause my laptop broke, lol 😅 Not really the cleanest code ever but I'll improve it 🙃 Also just take a look at #Tromjaro and see how much it has grown over the years! I like how @tio pays attention to every little detail of how an average nontechnical person uses Linux, where they get confused, etc and try to improve/fix everything he can - what you end up with is not a perfect distro but one with a much better UX than most.

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Thumbnail of the video from Peertube. Its a picture of a boat in the ocean with a whale under the water, and the text on top reads "Sperm whales expedition".
@Dima

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Watched it too. Very sad to see the state of the ocean declining rapidly. Like I said to @Dima before what I'd wish to see more is some focus on the why people exploit and do these bad things. I think that woman in the video that's kinda the "main" character, appeared in another of Dima's videos and she did great at explaining how if we do not help the people, these poor people will have to exploit the oceans in order to survive. I think she was saying that they are using dynamite to kill a lot of fish.

But this is something I rarely see in videos/documentaries, the focus on why these things happen. Dima said he will try to emphasize on that more in the future. I understand that you can get repetitive since it all starts from this trade-environment (mostly), but it is definitely worth adding the "why people do these bad things".

Anyway, Dima does a great job with these videos, from editing to highlighting these wonderful people who do wonderful things. Like he was saying, these are the heroes.
@Dima
@Rokosun Thank you ! Glad to hear that it inspired you.
@Tio actually i had to cut out few scenes out of the video, when Aylin (that woman) is explaining how everything is rigged by oil and gas industry and military exercises. Because she is protecting sea she is in a conflict with Turkish oil industry, they sued her for some kind of bullshit which his not truth, but anyway she got court right now. And before publishing i showed video to her and she liked a lot that part, but decided to ask her lawyer if it's possible to publish that. Because in that part of the video there were also cuts from Turkish media news outlets how they support basically destruction of an environment for a profit. And lawyer said that it has to be out of video 100%. Because if published she will had huge problems in the court. Imagine that!!! That's a fucked up world where you can't really point on the problem because you can be fined or even jailed. And Turkey is not the most "free speech" country in the world.

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Oh wow ok....that's fucked up. Not surprising but fucked up. These motherfuckers can silence you so easily, can sue you for any kind of bullshit to drag you to courts. Classic "legal mafia" behavior.
Oh another thing, maybe when these things happen you can also add a commentary about it. Take it on you basically. No one sues you for now 😁
yeah good point, next time i will take it on me. Now it all happened before i started uploading video to youtube, and i just cut this part out. I couldn't even imagine that such a minor thing can be a problem.

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https://videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrWawHkggKi7Wz

In June 20, 2023, a documentary miniseries called TROM II was published on #Peertube, making it the first feature-length film to ever be released exclusively on the #Fediverse. Question is, were you aware of this documentary before?

Boosts appreciated.

  • Yes (6%, 4 votes)
  • No (93%, 56 votes)
60 voters. Poll end: 2 months ago

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For some unknown reason my @fosstodon account stopped working on #Fedilab, I tried logging out of the app but now I can't log back in, when I select the fosstodon instance on Fedilab and hit continue it doesn't open up the login page like it should. I even tried reinstalling the app from #Fdroid but the issue persists.

@kev @mike did you guys make any changes to the server these past few days? @apps do you have any idea what might be causing the issue here? 🤔

(I'm now forced to use the webapp)

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Switching between WiFi or mobile data changes something?
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I just tested it by turning on the wifi hotspot of another device and connecting to it from my phone, surprisingly the issue still persists. One thing to note here is that both phones use the same ISP, tomorrow I'll try connecting to another phone with a different ISP, to see if it connects better/faster with fosstodon. I'm sure this has something to do with the connectivity between my device and fosstodon servers, but for some reason tusky handles the situation better than fedilab does.
I think it's a matter of timeout between two apps.
I also feel the same, timeout or something related to connectivity is different between fedilab & tusky.
I still can't see the notification for your last message on fedilab in its notification tab, if I try to refresh then it'll keep buffering but nothing loads. If I connect to a VPN and then refresh the notification loads.

@StrepsipZerg
Ah, I hadn't considered that they were eating the gel... I found a nice answer to explain more about that here in case others are also wondering about it:
https://wildaboutants.com/2012/06/01/reader-question-about-harvester-ants-eating-ant-farm-gel/
@BB @StrepsipZerg
That was a good read, thanks for sharing 🙂

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I may write more about this documentary later but now I'm just too sleepy, lol 😅 So I just wanted to give people a little heads up that its finally out and that I recommend watching it.

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I don't think it was a good idea for instance admins to agree to talk to Meta under a nondisclosure agreement, but that DOESN'T make it an excuse for people to go and harass those admins. If anything they're the victims of Meta IMO, and a lot of them may still be in favor of blocking Meta regardless of whether they agreed to the meeting or not. I think we have to stick together in situations like this and act accordingly, keep in mind that "divide and conquer" is a proven strategy.

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@paramdeo With Meta coming to fedi I'm not so sure if defederation is the right choice here, but we'll have to see how their "profit making venture" impacts regular users of fedi, at the moment we have no idea how their business model works and that is a big question. Will they collect people's data? Put ads on their timeline? Or add paywalled features like the Twitter blue check mark? Such a big company like Meta could really make an impact here with their resources, that's why we're concerned.
Yeah I'm against any form of defederation outside of CSAM, but note that Meta isn't forcing anyone to use their (potentially ad-driven) instance, and so that choice is left entirely up to the user if they find the service compelling.

Like with Twitter under Musk, I think some Fediverse admins that are pro-censorship are afraid that Zuckerberg won't allow censorship. Coupled with the enormity of Meta's userbase that kind of freedom makes radical instances that defederate obsolete.

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@Tio @georgi @Sasha @PeerTube @Dima @Aaron @Kdenlive

Wow that screenshot is lit ! 🔥 Imma share that on my mastodon account 😁

> I hope you won't get too border by the documentary.

Don't worry I won't get bored by it, lol 😄 I'm actually really curious about it, curious to see all of you and hear your interviews & personal stories, curious to see how you weave these interviews together with facts and knowledge about our world to create an engaging story, curious to see how you did the music, editing, and other audiovisual effects using FOSS softwares like kdenlive, inkscape, krita, etc. Unlike most other documentaries this one was made by the work of one single person, so I'll keep that in mind while watching, to really appreciate your effort 😀
I'm sure @Rokosun will looove it 😀
+ = Hats off for a huge feet / work of art
But...
- = Huge filesize with it (my own personal thing about free or DIY is keep options for small is beautiful and not over bloat energy I. E. downloads / streams per user) unless really a final or big thing worth keeping / adding copies online in such sizes per file.

So only these monster rates available for your 4 min movie. .. just for example 1 file

●1440p (3.3mb/s = up + down rate) 102mb ? ?
●1080p (1.9mb/s = up + down rate) 59mb
●720p (1.2mb/s = up + down rate) 37mb
● no 360p?
(take off over'bloat useless 1440p maybe and save planet a bit?)

Again 4 mins of planets energy 102mb up then down + storage 24/7.
Not in balance or care. Measurably.

Consider 360p - knocking off 1440p. And make energy-peace a bit more even if you think it's just an opinion, because you're burning shit up too easily / cheaply.

Can't wait for then 12gb movie documentary ^_^
I used Handbrake to make an all-in-one version of TROM II with the trailer at the beginning, followed by all 4 parts, using the 480p resolution. The subtitles in English language are embedded over the video. You can get the file from https://files.alexio.tf/s/KAQCdBpjeaznKGC
You are honestly saving trom from a lot of its data sins.. Really appreciate actual effort and the all in one file. Feels like head doesn't care more than the helper minion-PR types who are and aren't even part of it somewhat. Who knows...

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https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2009/01/terrorists_may_use_g.html

This article is the perfect response to anyone who says that end-to-end encryption or privacy in general should be undermined because "the bad guys might use it". News flash, the same can be said about almost all of our existing infrastructures and the argument doesn't hold up when you consider how vital these are. End-to-end encryption provides the same level of safety & security to a victim as it does a terrorist, it protects activists & journalists from surveillance.

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@Tio try to do it not that exciting next time, ok, pls? People suffer to work in such conditions, u see 😆
@Tio
You guys are waaaay tooooo nice! 😀 I thank you so much 😀

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The Dark Cost of Electric Cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCECoZBZ5aU

#Educational #environment #Sustainability #cobalt #PublicTransit
#CobaltMiningInCongo #imperialism
#YouTube #OurChangingClimate #YoutubeVids
Thumbnail of the video from YouTube. The text reads "why cobalt mining is so destructive" with the picture of a miner behind it.

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It's a lost battle. Every high tech device in the world, requires a lot of dirty resources. The "green" shift is an illusion.
Thanks for this.

If environmental harm = number of cars x pollution, does make you wonder if reducing the pollution isn’t the only way to reduce the harm. …

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The official poster of the new TROM documentary. At the centre there's a photo of the earth taken from space, on top of it there's the big TROM logo as the title followed by the tagline of the documentary reading "A message to the aliens". There are dotted lines falling from the tagline to the earth below, fading away like a signal.
Landscaoe version of the official poster of the new TROM documentary. At the centre there's a photo of the earth taken from space, on top of it there's the big TROM logo as the title followed by the tagline of the documentary reading "A message to the aliens". There are dotted lines falling from the tagline to the earth below, fading away like a signal.
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In Defense of Disney's Strange Solarpunk World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQJHja9qxU

#YouTube #educational #PopCultureDetective
#animation #movie #disney #solarpunk
Thumbnail of the video from YouTube. The text in front reads "strange solarpunk world"

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This is the last thing you see when the TROM II documentary ends! 😍

If a single person can make a 5 hour documentary (split into 4 parts) using only #FreeSoftware then that goes to show you how much the #FOSS community has grown over the years. @kdenlive @inkscape @krita Be proud of what your software is capable of today! 😃
A screenshot of the end of the documentary where the credits are shown. White text at the center of the screen reads "This documentary was created with trade-free software." And three lines below it:

Video editor: Kdenlive
Image editor: Inkscape, Krita
Operating system: Tromjaro linux

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You're Not Immune To Propaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl2fnWIlDZg

This video hits hard, we're all immersed in propaganda without even realizing its influence on us, so when someone points it out you're in shock of how you didn't see that before.

#YouTube #educational
#propaganda #news #media
#capitalism #neoliberalism
Thumbnail of the video from YouTube. The text reads "You are not immune to propaganda" with the drawing of a person staring directly at the viewer.

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whatever you think is true, you should go and read the strongest argument on the opposing side.