
Curious Octopus
Yesterday I went for a dip in a quiet rocky bay in the Mediterranean Sea. When I came out of the water I noticed an octopus close to shore, looking at me.videos.trom.tf
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- Deep Ocean https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/17621/deep-ocean/
- Colour: The Spectrum of Science https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/17616/colour-the-spectrum-of-science/
- Smash And Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/17670/smash-and-grab-the-story-of-the-pink-panthers/
- Bird Brain https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/17678/bird-brain/
- Perfect Child Mummies https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/17716/perfect-child-mummies/
- Our Planet https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/17741/our-planet/
- Seven Worlds, One Planet https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/18637/seven-worlds-one-planet/
- The Dissident https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/21767/the-dissident/
- Einstein’s Quantum Riddle https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/18789/einsteins-quantum-riddle/
- Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/18793/breakthrough-the-ideas-that-changed-the-world/
- Anthropocene: The Human Epoch https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/19896/anthropocene-the-human-epoch/
- Earth from Space https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/19988/earth-from-space-2/
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/20561/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/
- The Social Dilemma https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/20858/the-social-dilemma/
- I, Pastafari https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/20647/i-pastafari/
- For Sama https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/20656/for-sama/
- Free Solo https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/20704/free-solo/
- Three Identical Strangers https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/20761/three-identical-strangers/
- Last Breath https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/20757/last-breath/
- Searching For Sugar Man https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/21445/searching-for-sugar-man/
- Chasing Coral https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/21477/chasing-coral/
- Secret Mind of Slime https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/21683/secret-mind-of-slime/
- A Perfect Planet https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/21725/a-perfect-planet/
- Can’t Get You Out of My Head https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/21803/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/
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How To End Capitalism!
So many people calling for an end to global capitalism, but do we really understand what capitalism is, and where it comes from? Are we also prepared to ques...ytb.trom.tf
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As for testing some OS for the phone and tweaking it to be trade-free, if it was as easy I would have done it :D. Maybe a trade-free manjaro os spin....who knows...but I am already full of stuff to do...I can't really take on this challenge.
And out of curiosity: you use a phone much? If so isn't it a pain in the ass to have such a small screen and have the notifications and updates and all that with you in the pocket all the time? :D
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Just to be clear, I meant to ask you about your phone. You can install a privacy friendly OS on it like LineageOS, if your model is supported. Also you can install lots of FOSS apps from fdroid. This way you can mitigate the trades on your device.
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I use PC for watching movies and documentaries, linux stuff - terminal, keyboard, vim, shell scripting, etc. Its a more focused environment for me I guess
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I agree phones can be useful (for sure), but with today's online trades they will eat your life away :D.
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But, when Linux phones will become a thing, and I have money, I'd like to give them a try.
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I think that's the coolest thing about linux phones, you can automate stuff by writing shell scripts. I once tried a terminal app called termux which runs on Android, and the entire experience sucked cause I couldn't use the terminal without keyboard and a big screen, lol 😂. I think the same can happen to linux phones, but its still much better.
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It is a race between youtube and the invidious dev. Youtube changes things, invidious dev have to fix it. But since many invidious instances may not keep their instances up to date, then that's why they break.
So yah, let's see, but if you keep your invidious up to date it should work.
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Read more here https://climateadproject.com/offsets/
Another example, out of billions out there, showcasing how rules and laws DO NOT FIX ANYTHING. I mean, sure, they may fix a few things here and there, but overall they do not.
Look at it this way: if you have a zoo, you don't throw in the same cage alligators and polar bears. Also, no polar bears in fuckin Florida! Please! Even when we build zoo enclosures we need animal experts who know what those animals need, else these animals will die or become fucked-up. Put an orca in a very small enclosure and not feed it properly, and it will go berserk. Yeah, zoo enclosures are really not that good for animals, but we created a zoo for us, humans, too. Yet we have no human-experts that created that. It is like we let children manage a zoo.
Same way that orcas need a lot of swimming space, food, interactions with other of their members; same that polar bears need a wide area to walk, proper food, proper climate; same way alligators need their own environment; Humans also need that! We need a safe environment, we need trade-free access to at least our basic needs, free time, and so on. Else we are going to fuck everything up. We are put in a trade-based society where we are forced to trade else we die. Think about that!
So, when we see climate change, we we see corruption, pollution, violence and so on....if we do not study the human animal to see what pushes "it" to do these bad things, we will have 0 chances to ever change anything. And if you look at it this way, you realize that our trade-based society makes us behave violently, corruptly, ignorantly, and so forth.
We need to admit that our worldwide trade-based society is unfixable. We should start to think about different ways of organizing ourselves. And one simple and powerful idea for now is to TAKE CARE OF HUMANS. Give them trade-free access to their basic needs so we are not like fuckin crazy bears and orcas killing and scamming each other. #tromlive
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C0mon there should be an app that does that...you can even make it look through-the-fence while holding your phone in portrait mode, like cropping a wide video into a through-the-fence one for your own entertainment, and then if you tilt the phone in landscape mode, to be the full wide shot. Am I an inventor or what?
But yah idk...maybe I am too old for this and I don't use phones much at all. But seeing the world through-a-fence makes me dizzy.
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Yellow is not a special color
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How I got so disappointed because of my brain. Who are you, brain?
Read it on my website (recommended):
https://www.tiotrom.com/2021/04/yellow-is-not-a-special-color/
Or read it here:
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For some reason I thought that yellow is a special color. For years now I’ve heard how yellow is made up of green and red, so it is not its own wavelength. I learned that we have 3 main special light receptors in our eyes that can pick up some specific frequencies, and we interpret one as red, one as blue, and one as green. And the other colors are a combination between these.
But I kept on seeing videos and read about how yellow is weird cause green light and some red light stimulate 2 of these receptors (cells) in our eye and it creates “yellow”. And I started to pedal this notion and be amazed by it. I was like “Woah we can’t really see yellow…like we see other colors…because yellow is a combo between 2 colors and it is a trick to our mind because of our eyes.”.



I was not really wrong (I think) – but I missed some very important points. So yah, I was excited how we can’t really see yellow because we don’t have a specialized receptor for that wavelength, and how mind blowing it is that our screens are made up of just 3 colors and how they simulate yellow. I am still amazed by this. When I did this interview, Alex asked me what is my favorite color, and I said “yellow because we can’t really see it”.

Last night Sasha was asking me about this…and we ended up debating for like 5 hours about light, colors, and especially “yellow”. We watched videos and took a snack break :)). Till almost 5 in the morning. Long story short, I was very very wrong, so much so I am disappointed in my brain. Deeply.
I was yellow-blind. But not to the color, to the facts and the interpretation of them. Of bloody course that yellow is not special…the monitor creates all of the colors we see out of Red, Green and Blue because they are the same as yellow. DUH! All colors have either a particular wavelength or they are formed by different wavelengths hitting our eyes and we combine these and see that particular color. In a sense, orange is the same: triggered by either a particular wavelength hitting our eyes hitting some of the 3 main receptors we have, or a few wavelengths that do the same….the output is orange.
I can’t believe I was so blind to this simple fact. Yes, light is such a complex thing to understand, but lets be honest my brain failed. I defended my position for hours, not because I am stubborn I hope, but because that’s what I thought even after Sasha was trying to explain this simple thing. It was too ingrained in myself this idea with “yellow”. I was kinda sure I saw this in the so many documentaries I’ve watched over the past 10+ years. But re-watching some of the videos about “yellow” after I realized I was in the wrong, I spotted some things I didn’t see before…how these people briefly (some less than 1s) mentioned (many in text form) that is the same story with other colors. They simply chose yellow as an example because yellow is cool…idk…
I was surprised at my stupidity to be honest. I could not even sleep much thinking how in the world I got fooled for years. Then I remember that for many many years, even in my 20s, I thought that another yellow thing is where it didn’t suppose to be. I honestly thought that urine was stored in the ballsack. Yah…Because I didn’t think much about it and when I felt the urge to pee I was feeling that urge in that area. I know this really sounds retarded, but when I was in school I also thought that there is God who created everything and I was praying to that creature.
The mind is the most powerful and sensitive organ we have. We can uncover unbelievable things and understand complex patterns, and yet we can be so easily fooled and tricked, it is astonishing. I am thinking now at the many who believe that the Earth is flat, Bill Gates wants to microcip us with vaccines, or that there is an “agenda” out there made by the most powerful people in order to keep us “in line”. Probably these people are wrong, but probably they also can’t see the “yellow” for its true value. But what if we, on the other side are wrong and don’t see what they do!? In the end it comes down to science. We need to investigate the world using the scientific method. But, at times it looks impossible. When it comes to yellow we can measure the wavelengths, we can look at the eye, we can do experiments. When it comes to some world-wide conspiracy we are left with trusting whatever others tell us. How can I truly know if there is an “agenda” out there made up of some dudes that call themselves as “illuminati”? I don’t think we can probe that the same way we probe light. We can say it is very unlikely. And I am fine with that.
We need to remain humble and understand that our brains are limited and we live in a world that is full of infocrap. Explosions of information from all parts, mostly due to our trade-based society that incentivizes people to post post post. I curate my news and videos from sources that seem to be known world wide for their seriosity; I watch so many documentaries especially about science/nature; and yet I got so fooled by this seemingly simple thing. I feel a deep betrayal of my brain. I fed it good stuff (I think) and yet it failed so badly.
I wonder what are the other “yellows” in my brain that I do not understand….
But if I keep on listening to others, to criticisms, to suggestions, then it is a good chance of me correcting my failed brain. I need to force myself to be a lot more humble and park my car in a way that I can get it out of that parking lot if needed, and move it somewhere else.
Like this! Slowly and wisely.

Never like this!

Else I will end up unable to take my car (my mind) out of that spot and will get stuck like that.




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We do the same now with videos, or posts, images and so on. We equate views, likes, comments and so forth with "value". A well made and smart video is likely to have less of those anyways, compared to a moronic one. These things cannot be counted or valued. Such a retarded society....
Anyways. #tromlive
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This whole thing is really strange to me, I haven't seen anyone remove these numbers on peertube. But I like the way you think, I haven't thought about the numbers in such a way - they don't equal value. There's a lot of underrated content on the internet.
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Another killer feature for Peertube would be an Invidious like plugin, so that it merges Peertube with youtube. When users search for a video, to search on all peertube instances + on youtube. To prioritize the peertube videos, but to have access to the unmatched library of youtube. And all videos to be showcased on the same instance you use and in the same style using youtube-dl. Plus the ability to mirror any youtube video on peertibe with one click. And to subscribe via your Peertube account to any youtube account.
I honestly cannot use Peertube much because I cannot find any interesting videos/channels among the crazy ones. So integrating invidious on peertube I think could bring a fuck ton more people to Peertube. #tromlive
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This is a project started in 2011. We have more info here https://www.tromsite.com but it grew a lot in terms of materials for the past several years. So we have many books, videos, and all kinds of tools.
If I were to describe the project in a few paragraphs (sorry this is a bit long), I'd say that the project is about showcasing how our world-wide society is, at its core, a trade-based society (from China to US, from Cuba to Europe, from socialism, communism, or other isms that were ever implement); And this trade-based society gives rise to most of the problems we see in the world today: climate change, waste, slavery, bad products, corruption, and so on.
What are the world's biggest problems? Climate change, corruption, destruction of the environment, waste, pollution, slavery, and so on. What creates these problems? Humans. What makes humans do these bad things? The environment. What part of this environment? Mostly the trade-based society we all live under.
More:
Humans wake up in the morning to go to some places and do something there (we call those "jobs"), in order to receive something else in return (food, a shelter, access to goods and services, etc.). They do that for most of their lives. Basically they trade their energy, time, skills and so on, to get food, shelter, internet, healthcare, etc. We use money to represent these trades, but that's arbitrary. Could be bictoin, tokens, gold coins or whatever.
Now, if you look at pretty much everything humans do, it revolves around trades. Jobs take some 8h or more a day, 5 days a week. So, most of people's lives. The internet is a place where humans also trade their data, currency, and attention to websites that mine their data, put ads into their faces, or hide features or content behind paywalls.
In other words, if I am a human on this planet, I wake up every morning, go to my job for 8h, and do that for 5 days a week. I traded 8h of my life to get access to my needs and wants, out of 24h (with 8h sleeping). I have 8h as my free time. In between and after I am done with my job, I use my computer/smartphone to read the news, "socialize", talk to others, watch stuff, listen to stuff (movies, podcasts, articles, websites, netflix, facebook, youtube and the like). All of this time I am giving them my data, attention and at times currency to be able to access these. So, 8h at a job, 8h sleep, and a bunch of other hours online trading for entertainment, information, services. Plus spending time in traffic and dealing with bills and stuff, all because of the trade-based society's rules.
Job + Internet + societal duties = most of my day I trade.
Yes, I also enjoy those videos, talking to friends at work, learn and so forth, but they are all like flowers growing from the soil of trade. Meaning: when I use Facebook, since this is a platform I trade with, the contents I see, the people I follow, are driven by Facebook's algorithm and all they want is me spending more time there watching those ads, producing data that they collect, or buying the stuff they promote. It's like a supermarket that pretends to be a library.
So basically pretty much all that I (human on this planet) consume and do, is directed by trades and people I am trading with. Like a movie director directing my life. Therefore my wishes, my dreams, what excites me or triggers me, are all emerged from this trade-based society that I fed my brain with on a daily basis.
And the same way that we see Facebook's practices as bad, trapping people into an endless stream of nonsense content for the purpose of mining their data/currency/attention, pretty much all business practices are as bad, since they always want something from you and that makes them lie, exaggerate, deceive in order to make you their customer and keep you their customer.
Airline companies, taxi companies, pharmaceutical companies, food producing companies, you name it; all probably are corrupt and as good as "facebook", and if some are not, they will probably become.
So, we are showcasing how in the end this trade-based society makes human beings behave really bad and how it consumes them, and how it creates most of the problems we see in the world today. And our approach is to provide trade-free goods/services as much as possible, so that we remove this environment form people's life, little by little.
Sorry that was long. But this is a big project. I recommend you this book of ours, where we explain all of this in detail https://www.tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-df_6562/1/
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"Trom is about showing\educating that our trade based society is damaging humanity in many ways, and solving this by presenting trade-free goods\services to glide over time into a trade-free society."
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To explain it a bit: we want to create a trade-free alternative to Unsplash and eventually Video blocks and the like. We want users to upload original photos and eventually videos of all kinds. Like nature, objects, places, etc.. The platform we use makes is so easy to rename each item, add to folders and create folders, or tag each item.
So, create folders, drag and drop photos to them. Make each folder Public please, and enable "original" and "downloadable". Disable the rest. See these options in the folder's visibility (the eye icon top right corner).
To make this work, we need to properly name and tag each item, so we make them easy to find and categorize. So please do that as much as you can. You can select multiple items by click-and-hold + drag. And can edit multiple at once. You can also use the keyboard to navigate through the photos, press R to rename, T to tag.
That's pretty much it.
A reminder, all content from media.trom.tf will be trade-free, meaning purely free. Anyone is free to use it as they wish. There are no licenses because that means restrictions. In other words, anyone can use these materials without trading (giving back) anything to us. We don't want their currency, attention, recognition, or whatever.
For now, if you want to upload videos, please limit them to under 200-300MB. We are still in testing mode.
If anyone wants to help, please let me know and we will create an account for you ;). #tromlive
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Maybe in the future we will add bitwarden but only after we test it for a while and add a 2facetor authentication by default. I recommend you use KeePassXC which creates a single encrypted file with all of your passwords, and simply add it to say files.trom.tf (nextcloud) - sync it - so you have your passwords on any device. Basically a file with your passwords, encrypted, that can be synced on any device and decrypted locally via all kinds of apps that support KeePass. Easy!
So for now I'll take it easy with trom.tf since we already have a lot of apps there. Will focus on TROM II as much as possible. #tromlive
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No need to have multiple devices where I urgently need to be signed in.
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I am just saying, be aware of those. Yes, overfishing is a huge issue and it is something that big organizations are complaining about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing but that should be presented in a scientific way. We do not need to exaggerate facts and such. The reality needs none of that. ;)
So yah, be aware please! #tromlive
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Welcome to Sodom
Hundreds of thousands of mobile phones, LCD TVs, notebooks and the likes become useless and "out" relatively soon and end up in Ghana where children and adolescents dismantle them in toxic smoke.www.videoneat.com
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file. if you have SMTP and such set up and want users to confirm their email address, set the confirmation
one to true as wellfosuser_registration: true
fosuser_confirmation: true
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Maybe I'll even write a blog post tomorrow about how in our society no one believes anyone, except they believe some weirdos and conspiracy theories. And how much of a confusion is in the world today....
It feels, of course, as if we are shrinking with "our ideas" when you see the world engulfed in netflix, tiktoks, facebooks, youtubes, gaming and the like. Reality (science) and the other reality (society) seems of no interest to anyone, except for those who pretend to care or understand those, and label themselves as scientists or politicians. No humans left.
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I will invite him to TROMcast lets see if he will accept to come. I want to ask him about his approach...and what he thinks about changing the structure of the society to get rid of these monsters.
But yah....every company is probably corrupt, big or small, the influence of making more profits always corrupts. #tromlive

Interview with Terry Collingsworth on his upcoming Supreme Court hearing against Nestle and Cargill
Earth Live interviews Terry Collingsworth of International Rights Advocates. Terry focuses on litigating international human rights cases and leading evidenc...ytb.trom.tf
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Now select the "option" for say "Local videos" and edit it in that window and replace the "value" with any url you want. Now select that option in the Configuration and click save. That's it. You tricked Peertube!
Again: the idea is to change the value of any of the selected options in the Landing Page dropdown to any URL you want, and click save. Brilliant! #tromlive
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Peertube is amazing, but unfortunately is full of retarded videos coming from idiots who got deplatformed by big tech who just want a "clean" space for advertisers.
Anyways, at least now is less crap visible on the platform. #tromlive
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/etc/nginx/conf.d/videos.trom.tf/peertube.conf
. On the very bottom add:rewrite ^/$ /video-channels/trom redirect;
rewrite ^/videos/overview$ /video-channels/trom redirect;
And of course replace "/video-channels/trom" with a URL of your choice, and "overview" with whatever page is setup as the landing page in your admin settings.
Restart Nginx. Done.
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