These days I kept an eye on the current war, from 4-5 sources. DW (germany), Aljazeera (qatar), BBC (uk), Rt.com (Russia Today), and TASS (tass.com - russian news agency). So 2 are from Europe, 1 from Asia, 2 from Russia.
I was curious to see how they report it and how the information is presented.
What I've seen:
Aljazeera, DW, and BBC (ADB) kinda present the same things, the same story line. BBC seems to be more jumpy with the facts, as in presenting more information that even they say could not be verified. More politicized I felt. Also they add a lot of opinions from their editors. You kinda sense it is "Let's beat Russia now! Fuck them.". But seem to try to also be balanced in regards to "he said that, she said that" sort of thing.
So ADB showcases a lot of the horror in Ukraine and how Russia is doing a lot of bad things. They show footage and photos from the conf
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These days I kept an eye on the current war, from 4-5 sources. DW (germany), Aljazeera (qatar), BBC (uk), Rt.com (Russia Today), and TASS (tass.com - russian news agency). So 2 are from Europe, 1 from Asia, 2 from Russia.
I was curious to see how they report it and how the information is presented.
What I've seen:
Aljazeera, DW, and BBC (ADB) kinda present the same things, the same story line. BBC seems to be more jumpy with the facts, as in presenting more information that even they say could not be verified. More politicized I felt. Also they add a lot of opinions from their editors. You kinda sense it is "Let's beat Russia now! Fuck them.". But seem to try to also be balanced in regards to "he said that, she said that" sort of thing.
So ADB showcases a lot of the horror in Ukraine and how Russia is doing a lot of bad things. They show footage and photos from the conflict, with the victims, with the refugees, with the people sheltering.
The Russian Media (RM) doesn't even call it a war, and their main pages are quite voided of any photos or videos of the horror of the war. Almost as if those dead people, sheltered, the refugees are not even existent. You can clearly see a bias in this regards. Their websites are full of "diplomatic" photos with the politicians that discuss these events.
Here are the ADB front-pages, in order:
And RM:
Clearly ADB is like "WTF people are dying, Russia is at war, Europe is at war". While RM is like "Russia is doing a special intervention to free up Ukraine. Calm down." Although ADB may exaggerate things and make them too bloody explosive, and they are for sure biased too, RM is clearly biased and being a jerk for not highlighting the human suffering.
As for what they are saying, ADB tells us that Putin is a lunatic and has no reason to invade Ukraine or fear NATO. Putin may start a WW3. They do not tell me why he fears NATO or how we came to this point very much. They tell me that what Ukrainians say is probably true and that Ukrainians are heroes defending their land. It feels like a clear fight between the good (ukraine and the world) and the evil (putin and russia).
ADB tells me that Russia is full of lies and Putin is a dictator basically. They say RM is full of propaganda.
RM tells me that this is not a war, but a "special intervention" and that Russia only attacks the Ukrainian military and not civilians. RM tells me that there are Nazis in Ukraine, but ADB seem to not talk much about it. Is it true and to what extent? Who knows for sure, but RM sounds like some 1930s Germany Nazi propaganda in my head - the irony...
So overall RM tells me that Russia had no choice, it got scared of NATO and NATO broke its promises + NATO is a bad bad guy. Tells me the USA is a monster and a snake. Does not seem to at all criticize Putin and Russia's actions. They do however present criticism (as quotes) coming from some politicians and such. But not criticism from their editors. They say that the other media is full of propaganda and lies.
So that's what it is...a bunch of things.
ADB: NATO good, USA good, EU good, sanctions good. Russia and Putin bad. Putin crazy, a criminal. Russia needs to be destroyed via sanctions.
RM: NATO bad, USA bad, EU a puppet of those, sanctions don't matter much. Putin has reasonable motives to do the "special operation" and all is going to plan.
My thoughts?
Very likely RM is full of shit. They may post some truths about NATO and the USA, but to not report much on the war itself and not even call it a war? The dead? The refugees? The crisis? Unacceptable. Where are the horror photos of the injured and destruction? So fuck off RM. You are a prostitute.
ADB should also be a lot more balanced and less emotional. Aljazeera seems to be doing better. But they seem to not address much the reasons why the invasion has happened and make it seem like Ukraine and the people there are saints and heroes and woke up one day with Putin and his army in their country.
Overall it can become a confusing mess if you want to stay up to date with the current situation.
What I am sure of is that:
Currently millions of people are suffering because of Russia's invasion. Some dead, some scared, some have no home, or food, and so forth. That's awful
Media is biased but the level of it makes the big difference; picking your sides should be a variety of a few from different parts of the world. I still think RM is a lot more biased to the point of fully propaganda. But they do point towards some things that the others do not talk much about and are true: how USA invaded other countries under a false pretext and killed and destroyed a lot without being sanctioned and such; but I feel they use these as distractions from whatever Russia is doing.
Speaking of that, Russia is doing awful things, but is nothing that unique; USA and EU tribes, and others, have done atrocities too in the past and all are snakes and charlatans.
Ukraine is not a saint.
Ukraine does not deserve to be destroyed.
It is all politicized and tribes + politicians take advantage of this. USA is like "OMG Russia is doing war crimes!". Fuck off USA, you are still doing these and more. And Russia pointing to that....Fuck off Russia, don't divert the attention from the crimes you are doing!
Lots of money are made by arms dealers nowadays.
Ordinary people who did not start this or fuel this, are going to suffer more than the ones who started and fuel this conflict.
What else? I don't know...but these are my thoughts for now.
We are thinking to do a TROMcast and invite some people from Russia and Ukraine to discuss the situation. Will see....
I think there is also a lot of online censorship from both sides, which could play a big role in this. There is a very thin line between moderation and censorship, especially if the moderation decisions are not being made public. I hear Russia is going big by even blocking access to major websites, use the Tor browser folks. If your internet access is not censored, install this extension to help users in censored areas: snowflake.torproject.org
tromnews.com/illustrations/ is a very interesting place to keep an eye on these days. Illustrations are a simple, yet powerful way to send a message. #tromlive
The Green Planet documentary. It is one of the best documentaries I've seen. And I've seen a lot of documentaries. Anthropomorphism aside, this documentary is astonishingly unique. #tromlive
In 2003 the USA with a few friends like UK, Australia and Poland decided to invade Iraq. Their reason for the invasion was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. It was not true and they kinda knew that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Iraq_War
The USA and its friends were not punished. No sanctions, nothing. Today Russia seems to engage in exactly the same manner. They are severely punished.
The history is full of such crimes conducted by tribes.
This goes to show the "double-standard" of our world. On top of this, we shall not forget that crimes and atrocities do not only happen in wars, but everywhere else. Slavery and coercion, draconian laws, the utter destruction of the biodiversity on Earth, the forever-chemicals, the plastic, the pollution. The hunger and starvation, the inability to access medical care unless you have some imaginary papers. All of that.
Where is the world united against these atrocities?
For sure, we need to act quickly to immediate threads like it is the case with Russia. But we need a reminder about how this world truly is.
This is a recent photo from the current war in Ukraine. This is what Russia is doing. This is the brutality and reality of war. Take a deep look. Everyone should be exposed to these events via such direct means, not just numbers and statistics. But the reality of it:
If the world thinks that severely punishing Russia for these atrocities is a necessary, good and united act, then we should do the same for any such acts, performed by any other tribe. And we should do the same for the other atrocities too. Else this is hypocrisy.
So let's see when they are going after the billionaires, the companies that create so much suffering, the profit motive itself; hell, go after trade and eliminate the need for it. Let's see...
@Roma is from Russia, and he is one of the kindness humans I've met. So nice, so human, so friendly, so helpful. Him and millions of others from the same tribe, have nothing to do with this madness. Just saying...
@Roma is from Russia, and he is one of the kindness humans I've met. So nice, so human, so friendly, so helpful. Him and millions of others from the same tribe, have nothing to do with this madness. Just saying...
Do not forget that there is no democracy out there. No matter if it is USA, EU, Russia, they are all as far from democracy as Andromeda galaxy is from us. Humans "elect" a few others, in questionable ways, and then the few others take whatever decisions they want.
Have Russian creatures voted for this war? Was it a democratic decision? How about the American creatures, did they vote to go to Iraq or Vietnam and massacre those people? None voted.
Democracy is a myth, a ridiculous idea that has nothing to do with how anything is organized on this planet, or should be organized perhaps. Profit, birthed by trade, is a lot more of an influencer than anything else.
And so, if you get angry at Russia, do not forget that are not the Russians attacking anyone, but a handful of powerful people. Also do not forget that USA, EU, and the rest of the world, share the same bloody hands, but yet again it is not the people, but a handful few.
We cannot resolve conflict with conflict in the long run. Sure, it may be necessary to act aggressively if you are attacked, in order to protect yourself, but if there is no plan, no understanding, no approach at how to prevent such situations, your solution is momentary at best.
We need weapons of mass-helping rather than mass-killing. So that we create a global society of humans, who have free time to educate themselves, think, learn, create relationships, research, be creative, help each other. The only way out, long term, is to attack the world with solutions. To move beyond this mass-trading society. To free men from trade. To free the world from its effects.
War is not about who is right, but about who is left.
Thanks my man :) Totally likewise. And I'm not tired to say that TROM people are my favorite people in the world!
Yeah, if to speak about Russia, there's one of "the best" place to live and see how entirely the social system is fucked up (don't take is an advice, especially now.. :D). All the "success, growth, wealth" of the people and state is just an illusion there, a propaganda's entity, nothing more. Instead of "democracy", "the voice of the people", there's just a 0,1% of the entire population in Russia, who "own" everything, a bunch of friends, relatives, who steal, murder, torture, imprison.. And 144 mil other, usual and in general good people being "bombarded" everyday with awful, agressive lies from TV, like, seriously, 24/7. They created an illusion that they are the best country, best people, best "democracy", best courts, best leaders, only successful projects are everywhere, and of course, every problem, catastrophy, tragedy, mistakes are hidden. Of course it's super hard to do, especially with open borders, when people can actually see how "agressive" the west
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Thanks my man :) Totally likewise. And I'm not tired to say that TROM people are my favorite people in the world!
Yeah, if to speak about Russia, there's one of "the best" place to live and see how entirely the social system is fucked up (don't take is an advice, especially now.. :D). All the "success, growth, wealth" of the people and state is just an illusion there, a propaganda's entity, nothing more. Instead of "democracy", "the voice of the people", there's just a 0,1% of the entire population in Russia, who "own" everything, a bunch of friends, relatives, who steal, murder, torture, imprison.. And 144 mil other, usual and in general good people being "bombarded" everyday with awful, agressive lies from TV, like, seriously, 24/7. They created an illusion that they are the best country, best people, best "democracy", best courts, best leaders, only successful projects are everywhere, and of course, every problem, catastrophy, tragedy, mistakes are hidden. Of course it's super hard to do, especially with open borders, when people can actually see how "agressive" the west world in the reality. Or with the open Internet, where any alternative points and views are available in abundance. But nonetheless, the propaganda is still super effective. It's so effective that it's hard to believe that some of those peaceful and good people, who remember the nightmare of WWII (there's actually almost no families, whose close ones weren't affected by that war) can now think that the war is necessary. This is just unbelievable and utterly scary..
Russia isn't the only one, of course. Almost all tribes live in the same illusion, some are better, some are worse. Russia is just an example of the super extreme case, the result of almost 10 years of non-stop brain-washing and a terror upon own citizens. The illusory picture of the world in other countries may be created by "free media", social media, politicians, who exaggerate things and lies, competing all over for the "breaking" news. Russia's case is just another, but very advanced symptom of the world's common disease.
There are still a majority of people of Russia, who don't support this war in Ukraine and believe that it has no goal, absolutely no real reason for that to happen and this is just another attempt of mad putin to recieve some legitimacy from this war as a some sort of "imperor", "war hero", "conqueror", "savior" or whatever bullshit his propaganda is trying to feed, as he has already done it in 2014. But this time, of course, he has gone too far and sadly, but as usual, the cost of that will be a burden on the shoulders of those good, peaceful russian people for many years in further..
I wasn't that interested in whatever Russia was doing around Ukraine's borders these past weeks or in general. It then surprised me when I've heard they invaded Ukraine. Today, with Putin flexing his nuclear muscles saying that their nukes are in high alert, and with the sanctions that have taken place for the past days + EU now officially, publicly and vocally sending as much weaponry to Ukraine as they can, I honestly start to feel like we are in the early days of WW3. And I usually try to contain myself about such things.
But....I doubt Putin backpedals and now that everyone is kinda cornering him....and so openly...and he has thousands of nukes....to me it feels like the perfect recipe for WW3.
I know it sounds crazy, and I hope I am wrong, but I feel like this has gone too far already. Russia will suffer enormously in this trade game with the sanctions and all that, and Putin cannot accept such a humiliation and pressure from what I can tell. So he needs to react more violently and that cannot be good.
I could not even focus on TROM II today because I was re
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I wasn't that interested in whatever Russia was doing around Ukraine's borders these past weeks or in general. It then surprised me when I've heard they invaded Ukraine. Today, with Putin flexing his nuclear muscles saying that their nukes are in high alert, and with the sanctions that have taken place for the past days + EU now officially, publicly and vocally sending as much weaponry to Ukraine as they can, I honestly start to feel like we are in the early days of WW3. And I usually try to contain myself about such things.
But....I doubt Putin backpedals and now that everyone is kinda cornering him....and so openly...and he has thousands of nukes....to me it feels like the perfect recipe for WW3.
I know it sounds crazy, and I hope I am wrong, but I feel like this has gone too far already. Russia will suffer enormously in this trade game with the sanctions and all that, and Putin cannot accept such a humiliation and pressure from what I can tell. So he needs to react more violently and that cannot be good.
I could not even focus on TROM II today because I was reading about this and staying up to date, and I honestly started to have a feeling that this is worse than we might think... #tromlive
Yeah, I know everyone hates putin and all, but if this conflict continues on like this and everyone starts cornering him like this, then he'll be taking more violent measures, which can't be good. Nuclear weapons worry me.....
So yah officially Borg + Mega are backing up all of my stuff. It is a bit more expensive but works great. In total 360 Euros a year. That's 30 Euros a month. Luckily people donated for a 1 year payment so now it is all paid. 30 Euros a month seems like a lot of money but paying it yearly to have full backups of everything, including the servers, trom.tf, all of our TROM websites and files, all that you see on videoneat.com, the TROM II documentary project and all that, doesn't seem that much. We are talking about 10TB of backups. #tromlive
Improvements/Changes: Latest ISO did not use the latest LTS Kernel. Sorry about that. The latest ISO only used the latest kernel (515) for the live ISO. We fixed it now. To migrate to kernel515 you have to do it via Add/Remove Software.
Important read. We should not also forget that US and other such tribes, attacked other tribes for little to no reasons. And how media reported that. I like Aljazeera so far. They seem to be a bit more balanced. #tromlive
Oh wow, I wasn't expecting this much racism...... Also its kinda scary how much power medias have over us, we need less biased medias like this to know the truth. Definitely a good read, thanks for sharing.
Yah well idk when people cluster the "western media" what they are referring to. I mix PBS, BBC, Aljazeera, DW, and a few other orgs from UN to OCCRP. They seem to be criticizing all sides when necessary. When it comes to politics is always going to be a mess-in-the-press. The tricky thing is to choose the lesser-mess.
Many Russian, Chinese, and so forth media are also biased.
USA is indeed a hypocrite monster. Same is Russia. Same is perhaps any tribe out there.
I've seen two documentaries about the war in syria - "Last men in Aleppo" & "For sama". Most of it was bombing but they also started using chloride gas, which might be what you saw on that video. Both documentaries follow the lives of humanitarian workers, it'll really show you the true brutality of war and how it affects human beings. You can find these documentaries on videoneat.com
Tomorrow I will release a new TROMjaro ISO. I realized the latest one we switched to kernel 515 ONLY for the Live session....so if you installed TROMjaro you'll still gave the 5.10 version. Sorry....It is fixed now. Plus there is an error with upgrading the kernel from the Kernel tool. But there is a simple fix. Will release all that tomorrow. #tromlive
War insanity aside, it is interesting how you get better war footage from 100 years ago than today because today people film vertically and I swear you can't tell what's happening or the scale of what is going on. Cameras in every pocket, and yet we will have a vertical archive that you can't even use to understand the scale of destruction. Watch "World War II in Colour" videoneat.com/documentaries/14… to get an idea about how war can escalate so quickly. And how human beings can be so obedient and destructive. #tromlive
Footage on the ground filmed by normal people can be invaluable. Millions of cameras vs a few for professional filming. Many documentaries of this sort use the footage that people captured actually. See the documentaries from VN called "Exodus".
> Many documentaries of this sort use the footage that people captured actually.
So why are they in landscape then ? What did people use before mobile phones ?
People should know that shooting in landscape is preferred for important things like documentaries. Also I think social medias like instagram and tiktok is what made these vertical videos popular, they could've just rotated the video player and shown landscape videos (like how youtube did it)
Well you may be shocked but people used to use small digital video cameras back in the days hahaha :). I too had those. Plus before 2015 or so people filmed in landscape mode mostly, from what I can tell, even with their phones. Facebook, insatshit, and tiktoks made people look through a fence.
I kinda finished the first 10 minutes of the second TROM II part. Probably I'll have to improve here and there but likely I'll move on. The next chunk is gonna be bigger, maybe 30 minutes. Need to sort that out next. #tromlive
This is absolute fucked up.. Honestly, each time I think that it cannot be worse, this planet surprises me too. Humanity can fly to space, send rovers and probes to the other planets, produce almost anything in enormous quantities, create new materials, which never existed before, modify DNA and potentially cure almost any severe desease.. and in the same time having THIS: produce tons of weaponry of any kind and of any sort and kill each other blatantly, just like that. Of course in the name of good causes. Unbelievable.. It'd be just funny if it wasn't so sad..
And, of course, this is direct consequences of our failed system. How you can name the system like that "prosperous and effective" if it allows the wars and suffering? And by allowing I mean allowing to freely produce guns and ammos, to set a special arms industry, to give permissions to trade it everywhere in the world and expect that it will be used only for good deeds. Seriously?! And then to sit in your lovely house, somewhere in your very "prosperous and effective" co
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Hey Universe,
A human speaking.
This is absolute fucked up.. Honestly, each time I think that it cannot be worse, this planet surprises me too. Humanity can fly to space, send rovers and probes to the other planets, produce almost anything in enormous quantities, create new materials, which never existed before, modify DNA and potentially cure almost any severe desease.. and in the same time having THIS: produce tons of weaponry of any kind and of any sort and kill each other blatantly, just like that. Of course in the name of good causes. Unbelievable.. It'd be just funny if it wasn't so sad..
And, of course, this is direct consequences of our failed system. How you can name the system like that "prosperous and effective" if it allows the wars and suffering? And by allowing I mean allowing to freely produce guns and ammos, to set a special arms industry, to give permissions to trade it everywhere in the world and expect that it will be used only for good deeds. Seriously?! And then to sit in your lovely house, somewhere in your very "prosperous and effective" country with imaginary borders and to think "how good that I have no war in my, no doubts, very "prosperous and effective" country". Honestly, I can't understand seeing this distancing as a "normal" situation.
In the sane world people couldn't be blind and deaf to the problems and suffering of others in any place in the world, because they know - we share the same planet, same air. They can move freely and can go and help everyone, make their lives better and, by the way, making own lives better too.. You cannot isolate youself on a piece of soil and think that nothing else will affect you. If your neighbor still pollutes the air, soil, water, dunno.. starts a fucking WAR, for example, you will never be safe anywhere.. To me this is cristal clear.
I guess, what I am trying to say, the Universe. Yeah, you're right.. seems to me too that there are still no signs of intelligence life here.
I've set a goal to finish TROM II in 2-3 months and work like a nut these months. Ideally I should not do this and enjoy the ride, however towards the end of this year we have to probably move out. Our "trade-free" accommodation will no longer be available so we will have to make some money and keep these projects alive. Our "dream" is to buy a motorhome and travel around spain and the neighboring countries and work from it. I plan to write more books, do more tromcasts and videos, and so forth. Sasha should also release the book this year.
But anyway I am pushing myself these 3 months like a crazy man, to work maybe every single day on the documentary.
Today was a good work day. I shall continue! #tromlive
So the way I was backing up the servers previous to Borg was very wasteful. My computer had to check millions of files every day + store around 2TB of files + some 120GB stored on the servers themselves. That is for 7 days file versioning.
So around 2TB of data for 7 days backups.
With Borg this is reduced to some 1TB for more than 7 days file versioning. Half the size. And my computer is no longer involved in the backups. They are server to server. Can't tell you how much better this is.
Megasync seems to also be working good so all files are backedup now.
Today I worked a bit on TROM II. I am getting back to that. Trying some open source AI effects for the second part. Have to build that with docker - something new to me.
We are tiny and fragile. And we are all on the same spaceship. Fighting with each other, polluting, destroying ourselves and the spaceship with its ecosystems, is a sign of a primitive species.
Technologically we are advanced. Morally, primitive still. We look for signs of intelligent life out there, but there seem to be none in here.
We have created a system of "politics" that is a mere fashion show. We do not know what is true anymore, nor that we ever knew. Science is here to help, but the incentive to trade made us merchants and consumers, so the value is in how much we acquire. Science is thus, mainly a tool to help us sell more. Build taller buildings for richer humans, make thinner smart-phones for stupid-consumers; better tanks and rockets to destroy the others: more plastic, more livestock, more of the same products wrapped in different wrappers, all on the backs of our capable technology.
Science tells us that we are all one, connected through evolution, entangled with the universe. Atoms, cells, planets. But who has the time to embrace this reality when we are all rats in a trade-race!?
Conquerors, emperors, politicians, are self delusional. Even their victories are momentary. We should, by now, go at war with cancer, pollution, biodiversity loss, homelessness, other diseases, asteroids....not with each other.
Your tanks and missiles won't bring peace. Your lies and fake news don't exist. Your words are swords, that only cut A world of wars, online or not.
And even those who use no sword, Their words are empty, their actions fold.
Ok, so the backup situation for all of our TROM files. We have 4-6 million files and around 8TB of data. A struggle to find a proper way to back it up online. But I am perfecting it I think.
The server.
Millions of files, all around 1.5TB in size. With file versioning we get closer to 2TB. I used to grab them locally via SFTP with FreeFileSync but that took hours every day and TBs of data. No at all ideal. Now I am doing it with Borg. Finally managed to understand how it works. 2 servers, 2 repositories, 2TB of borgbase.com storage. The good thing with Borg is that you can have your own borgbase.com if you want, thanks to @YunoHost . But for now I choose to buy from them.
So Borg is great because it compresses and deduplicates all files and the Yunohost config is quite easy once you "get it". Now it should keep several versions of files and it is server to server. No more "I need my computer and a great internet connection to keep the servers backuped"
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Ok, so the backup situation for all of our TROM files. We have 4-6 million files and around 8TB of data. A struggle to find a proper way to back it up online. But I am perfecting it I think.
The server.
Millions of files, all around 1.5TB in size. With file versioning we get closer to 2TB. I used to grab them locally via SFTP with FreeFileSync but that took hours every day and TBs of data. No at all ideal. Now I am doing it with Borg. Finally managed to understand how it works. 2 servers, 2 repositories, 2TB of borgbase.com storage. The good thing with Borg is that you can have your own borgbase.com if you want, thanks to @YunoHost . But for now I choose to buy from them.
So Borg is great because it compresses and deduplicates all files and the Yunohost config is quite easy once you "get it". Now it should keep several versions of files and it is server to server. No more "I need my computer and a great internet connection to keep the servers backuped". The backups are fast and thanks to Vorta, their desktop tool, I can easily connect to these repos and mount them or extract any files I want, or delete some. As easy as that. I do not like the terminal, I feel blind when using it, but for Borg I will still have to use it to restore backups for example. And I can put up with that. Tested, seems easy.
So I use borgbase with 2TB of storage for all of the servers + my local system files, like config files and such, since Borg works great with tons of files that are not that big sized. From servers to Borg, from my computer to Borg. All seem to work really well thus far.
The files.
The rest of the files are around 6TB. That is TROM II documentary, VN stuff, and so forth. It seems that Mega is great for very large files. Probably Mega got stuck when I told it to backup tons of small files because now it seems to work well. So I backup the rest to Mega.
2TB of BorgBase + 8TB of Mega = 350 Euros a year. 50 Euros more than when I first planned for this and got donations for this purpose. It is fine. I'll add 50 more Euros for that. I am still testing this for a week or so before buying these for a full year. I want the backups to be seamless and "just work". Right now they seem so, but let's see. 1 week should settle this dispute :).
Backups are damn important so you should do them properly, regularly, and safely. The options I chose are encrypted end to end. And easy to setup it seems.
I want to go back to TROM II after this. Tomorrow I shall start. #tromlive
Good to know that you're getting a handle of the backup situation. I like this idea, use a combination of 2 services that are good at different things, that should account for all I guess..... @yunohost
Backups overwhelm me ahgain...making local backups is super easy for millions of files and some 7-8TB of data. But doing them online is not easy at all. Megasync is super easy to setup and is encrypted and all that. But fails so often because of so many files... Bor is kinda a pain in the ass to use and I feel like I can't have proper control over it. Trying to backup the trom.tf server with it now let's see how it goes but is not as simple to backup and restore with Borg.
So Vimeo deletes a video of me showing how facebook is still full of porn videos when you search in their main search engine. So it is me scrolling through the search results to showcase that for one of our TROM books. Then Vimeo proceeds by deleting my channel for that.
They said:
Ok masters, so you "do not permit content that depicts explicit nudity or sexual acts.". That video should still not be removed, let alone my entire channel.
And of course is full of nudity videos, or sexually explicit ones...
Not that nudity or sex are bad, they are great actually. People should celebrate that and ban money or any trades from such platforms, but Vimeo screws me for uploading the videos that their website is full of. And so many are years old.
Yeah, go jump off a cliff Vimeo, you are retarded.
Sure, they restored my account after I complained, but that video is still deleted. They also warned me so they may delete my account anytime... #tromlive
I like how videos.trom.tf is actually the exact opposite of that - exploitative porn is removed, but educational nudity is allowed. Porn and movies are mainly removed because they're considered as an exploitation of the limited server space. @tio
A trade-free video hosting platform for science/technology/nature videos in the English language. You do not have to trade your currency, data, attention, freedom or anything else, in order to use it.
So most of the videos used for our books were hosted on vimeo. That is, short clips and such that we grab from the very unstable internet. We did that so they don't get deleted and vimeo, at that time, was the only option. We paid for a vimeo subscription. For the past 2-3 books we used archive.org. Too stupid to know that archive.org was such a great alternative before that...
Since there are hundreds if not thousands of such small videos across thousands of pages of books, I could not fix this issue even after finding out about archive.org, or better yet after having our own peertube instance. And it was on my to do list but I never did it.
Ok. So now Vimeo deleted my account because of 1 video where I recorded the screen showcasing how facebook fails to ban porn videos on their website. It was me scrolling through the fb newsfeed showcasing porn videos without playing them. Eventually I managed to talk to them and restore the account but they can delete it at any time. They have deleted that video...
Now I am grabbing all videos from vimeo with youtube-dl and
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So most of the videos used for our books were hosted on vimeo. That is, short clips and such that we grab from the very unstable internet. We did that so they don't get deleted and vimeo, at that time, was the only option. We paid for a vimeo subscription. For the past 2-3 books we used archive.org. Too stupid to know that archive.org was such a great alternative before that...
Since there are hundreds if not thousands of such small videos across thousands of pages of books, I could not fix this issue even after finding out about archive.org, or better yet after having our own peertube instance. And it was on my to do list but I never did it.
Ok. So now Vimeo deleted my account because of 1 video where I recorded the screen showcasing how facebook fails to ban porn videos on their website. It was me scrolling through the fb newsfeed showcasing porn videos without playing them. Eventually I managed to talk to them and restore the account but they can delete it at any time. They have deleted that video...
Now I am grabbing all videos from vimeo with youtube-dl and idk...I'll have to add themto our peertube as unlisted then fix all books!? This seems like an insane amount of work so idk wtf to do...
For now is ok because the account was restored but I am walking on thin ice...
Damn these platforms....I knew very well why I always wanted to have my own such platforms. Fuck these fuckers with their stupid rules...
And yeah, you should've started using archive.org long before. On a slightly positive note, its great that we now have our own peertube instance, so we're not completely lost. You should backup all videos using youtube-dl before anything happens. Changing the URLs from all the books is the hard thing. I hope we could somehow automate most of the work, but I don't know if its possible....
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