Oh look silly video about a hydrogen car named Toyota....requested by Toyota...So the "physics" gurl doesn't quite understand that if a company asks you to review their product, and probably pay you for that, plus they supervise all that you are doing with their product, then that's BIASED. I cannot trust 1 single thing from what she says in this video. Also, these technologies are just ads. Fuck them with their "sustainable technology ideas". There is nothing sustainable to sell individual cars to individual people and have to keep on doing it endlessly.

So if for fun you watch it, they repeatably said they are not allowed to film inside their building cause "confidential". If these MOFO wanted to do something good for the disaster called climate-change that they give a big push for it to happen, they would open source all of their patents and collaborate with others to create a clean transportation system.

These bloody companies now they are selling the "clean". They made everything dirty and pretend to start a new thing, "clean". Fuck them. And these naive tubers... #tromlive

I finished (I guess) our Invidious instance theme ytb.trom.tf/ - I only have enabled the dark theme and deleted the switch-to-light-theme button for now, until I have some time to do it later on. Idk if this themes is optimized for mobile phones, but you may know by now that I do not care about it :D. When there will be a functional Linux phone then I will optimize all websites for mobile.

I will also try to move from gitlab to our own gitlab instance and allow anyone to use it. But this will happen whenever I have the time this month.

No more work on TROM II today. Too tired to consume myself over that. May work tomorrow, may not. Will see. Need not to rush with it. #tromlive

I finally made a good Invidious theme that I like. Spent a few hours doing it. Just the dark theme mind you and may not be 100% done. Will try to do the white one tomorrow.

Clear your cache tho else you won't enjoy it. ytb.trom.tf/

Invidious is awesome but the way it looks is just awful :D. Looked like 1992. At least in my view. I feel like open source projects need not to focus 100% on the software and how it works, but also User Interface. And sure many do, but at times maybe they don't. Also, again, I may be wrong since this is subjective.

Anyways....I did it now...it was on my list so...

#tromlive

Ok so this extension is amazing! sponsor.ajay.app/ it skips sponsored content from youtube videos and even works with Invidious. Had no idea such amazing extension exists and makes watching youtube videos finally ad free. You bet in the next TROMjaro release it will come pre-loaded with Firefox and properly setup.

As much as I am thrilled for this extension, I cannot help but feel a deep disgust for the fact that we even have to have such ad-blockers. What a bonkers world! #tromlive

Not surprising. As predicted. Cars will follow the same path as phones....they will become more and more "smart". Meaning, they add mostly useless features but will allow them to sell way more cars because it is way easier to come up with "digital" features (different led lights inside that you can change via the dashboard, different driving styles, all kinds of maps or auto-parking, and so forth), than it is to do something to the hardware part of it (the physical car).

On top of that they can control the car: buy premium addons/features; do not pay, we shut down the car; insert ads; and so forth.

That's the world, brought to you by TRADE. Same system that created the banks and their charlatan practices, and so much nonsense. Same system creates this bullshit. Enjoy! #tromlive

haha so Apple is gonna scan users' phones for "illegal" content bbc.com/news/technology-581097… - there we go...

I don't care the reasons, this is not ok at all. What's next? Install a CCTV in all of your rooms that ONLY detect if you are abusing your children, then send the video to authorities!? This is an insane world that thinks punishment and such measures prevent anything. They only invade people's privacy and make the "offenders" go underground and avoid such "detection tools".

Insane. #tromlive

Really tough job with this section of the documentary. I finally managed to take all of those leftovers and assemble them together into one peace. Kinda...

Now I have to take all of those clips inside red red box, and cut it down so it kinda fits into the other empty red box.

Won't be easy. I find it so difficult to ditch so many recordings, but on the other hand I really want to not make this boring. Need a break :D. #tromlive

So happy I managed to get Sophia Moskalenko on TROMcast. We will talk about Qanon and similar conspiracies to try and understand where they start and how can we approach them. She is an expert on the topic.

10/08/2021 - at 19:00 Madrid time. Just in a couple of days. I'll bring back the cool live thing on tromsite.com/live/ where you can both watch the stream and use our live chat to comment. Stay tuned! #tromlive

Done some work on TROM II today. Still more to do to finish this part. See bellow. The red boxes are parts I've managed to select/cut and merge together to create a story out of them. The red lines are parts that I still have to edit and cut and merge them together somehow, and with the other two finished parts. Then the two boxes need to be connected somehow and I have to add music and lots of other footage on top of them to showcase the visual aspect of it.

And then I need to take the remaining parts (this big red box bellow) and merge them together and insert in between or at the end of the above work. This is a big red box but lots of spaces in-between :).

Lots and lots of work ahead that's for sure... #tromlive

After I created the poll about maybe moderating videos.trom.tf/ and added some messages about asking people to not abuse our platform with conspiracy crap, plus after I created a new homepage and front and center is a documentary on the frontpage about the crazy antivaxxers, seems like little to no crap content was uploaded to our instance. What if it works this way? To stop them from uploading in the first place rather than wait for them to upload and then remove their content!?

What if it works to annoy them by making scientific content, and some that debunks their beliefs, front-and-center on our instance?

Lets see. I will push that and wait for our poll to end in a week or so - here it is poll.trom.tf/studs.php?poll=J5… - vote please if you haven't.

After the vote is done I will make another TROMcast and invite admins from other instances if they want to participate. #tromlive

spectrum.ieee.org/world-record…

Oh wow so they managed to get 319 terabits/second—across more than 3000 km. This sounds insane. Would it be possible in the future to get such insane speeds for most connections? Well...I remember the old internet when i was downloading movies with 25Kb/s....and now you get 25Mb/s easily. But yah, they are using an extreme setup there to achieve these speeds. In any case, keep an eye on tromnews.com/ for such interesting news ;) #tromlive

Privacy Redirect added a Wikipedia option alongside Youtube, Twitter, Insatgram, Google services... I do not agree with their decision and I argued here why github.com/SimonBrazell/privac…

It is weird that they add Wikipedia to the list, as if Wikipedia is a privacy concern, and their reasoning (believe it or not) is that NSA may be infiltrated into Wikipedia...an assumption of course.

On the other hand they add alternatives for reddit such as old.reddit.com that is full of trackers and ads. And for search engines they add ad-based ones like DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Ecosia or Qwant.

Very very inconsistent! Opened an issue here github.com/SimonBrazell/privac…

#tromlive