TROM Files now has a wonderful calendar app https://files.trom.tf - you can even integrate it with your local apps. Import from your trade-based services into this trade free calendar!
Our Friendica is now super fast, same is for our Matrix! So TROM Social and TROM Chat seem to work great now!
May I say that Friendica's drag and drop or paste images into the composer is a godsent! Wow this for me is a game changer. To be able to copy paste images (like a quick screenshot) into the composer, or drag and drop images, is fucking essential! How cool!
Next: make a WYSIWYG composer 😃 so that even the most stupid idiots can create awesome long posts, with text formatting and all that 🙃
It started with a WYSIWIG composer (tinymce). People hated it, because it really wasn't WYSIWYG and had a real tough time with code blocks and pre-formatted text. I removed it by popular request and nobody complained. In Friendica's great-grandchild (the streams repository) you can drag and drop all kinds of stuff. spreadsheets, text, maps, phone numbers, music scores, activitypub posts, urls, audio/video/photos, pdfs, svgs and probably a few I forgot. It embeds anything it can find a way to embed - and attaches anything it can't.
I see....I do think that a WYSIWIG composer can be super helpful, something like Wordpress had but more simple. Right now it seems it only works with images but not videos or other files....
So the practice of "donation" has been completely bastardized nowadays. Mastodon has a "donate" button on their main page:
That leads to their "sponsors" page joinmastodon.org/sponsors :) Where you can get your logo (ad) for your company, directly on their page that they brag gets hundreds of thousands of views per month:
And their Patreon has all sorts of "levels" of "donations" that "unlock" special features and add your company ads to their websites.
What a shitshow!
Motherfuckers it is not a "donation" when you get something in return for your "donation", such as special treatment, merch, ability to advertise on their website, etc.. This is a "trade". A payment. 180 degrees opposite to a "donation".
Such a weird society we live in, where Mastodon gets "donations" and Facebook is "free".
> Where you can get your logo (ad) for your company, directly on their page that they brag gets hundreds of thousands of views per month
This is basically begging for corporate sponsorship, mastodon may not have ads on the platform itself but they do show you ads of these sponsor companies in their website. I kinda feel bad for most FOSS developers who are having to stoop so low to get "donations" (sponsors) because I know they're probably just trying to get by, especially small projects.
I got the login prompt there too, that's where I logged in from. It's always a bit slow for me. It's that networking thing I think and not your servers
With this new Friendica update some weird thing happened and my Network tab is so slow....thats why am wondering if it is the case for others too or just me
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.
Amazing people. One of them actually, Lenka, we meet at ZDay. She came because of TROM and she quickly became our friend.
Now she made the Czech subtitle for the presentation and she wants to work on the entire TROM II documentary to subtitle it into Czech. Awesome people!
Capitalism is good. Let me explain. - by physicist and lost-in-the-woods Sabine Hossenfelder - inv.citw.lgbt/watch?v=CRPHp2Ej…
I watched this video and I almost cried laughing. It made me finally remove this channel from our curated videos tromnews.com/videos/ - this woman was going downhill for some time now.
She argues that "capitalism" is great because....it allows us make more things and better, and she spreads all of the simplistic and unrealistic beliefs of "capitalism" in such a way that I wonder if this woman knows anything about the real world...that of climate change, slaves, waste, unnecessary products, corruption, and so forth.
The positive part is the comment section that seems to be made out of humans who understand that this "capitalism" (trade system) is cancer. To quote a few:
It really fits both the topic and the general vibe of the video to fe
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Capitalism is good. Let me explain. - by physicist and lost-in-the-woods Sabine Hossenfelder - inv.citw.lgbt/watch?v=CRPHp2Ej…
I watched this video and I almost cried laughing. It made me finally remove this channel from our curated videos tromnews.com/videos/ - this woman was going downhill for some time now.
She argues that "capitalism" is great because....it allows us make more things and better, and she spreads all of the simplistic and unrealistic beliefs of "capitalism" in such a way that I wonder if this woman knows anything about the real world...that of climate change, slaves, waste, unnecessary products, corruption, and so forth.
The positive part is the comment section that seems to be made out of humans who understand that this "capitalism" (trade system) is cancer. To quote a few:
It really fits both the topic and the general vibe of the video to feature sponsored content and soliciting of donations where should normally be a list of citations and literature for further reading
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From a science communicator I would have expected facts and data, not a lot of opinions in the form of an essay
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Ah yes, capitalism allocating resources where they are most needed ... the offshore bank accounts of millionaires
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There is a core problem even with the basic capital you mentioned. Those with the money to invest are the only ones getting the return, thereby continually concentrating wealth and disrupting the ability for the majority to trade. And that doesn't even include all the psychological biases that make it even worse like reducing people to resources, corruption, and imbalance of power.
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Sabine out here proving again that a tiny amount of knowledge is more dangerous than knowing nothing at all.
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Sabine, I just wanted to come here to congratulate your audience. I envy it, I hope that if I ever publish something as unsubstantiated, narrative-driven and narrow as this my audience holds me accountable the way yours has. This community gives me hope.
Yeah, it is terrible when such people who pretend to be scientists and have a huge following do a terrible job at "informing". Could that be because of....you know, capitalism (trade)???'!!! Hmm....is dear Sabine influenced by the power of trade to keep on making videos outside her expertise to get more views, and thus more money??' hmm....interesting indeed :D -
A victim of "capitalism", making uninformed videos to make more money. Ironic!
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I just watched that video and it was much much worse than I expected! How can someone like her become so delusional?!
Capitalism only ever works in theory when you're talking about trading apples for eggs and such, but it's a completely different story when you practice it in large scale. In her previous video this woman was talking about how to do your own research and stuff, ironically in this video it feels like she hasn't done any research at all and is just giving out her opinion on things.
> Scientists tent to associate the stunning societal progress we've seen since then to science and technology, but I think that's having it backwards. The driver of all this progress was the capitalist system that allowed an efficient allocation of resources.
It's baffling to me how someone can ever reach that conclusion, especially coming from someone like her. So then she goes on to talk about how people only started manufacturing penicillin a decade after Alex
I just watched that video and it was much much worse than I expected! How can someone like her become so delusional?!
Capitalism only ever works in theory when you're talking about trading apples for eggs and such, but it's a completely different story when you practice it in large scale. In her previous video this woman was talking about how to do your own research and stuff, ironically in this video it feels like she hasn't done any research at all and is just giving out her opinion on things.
> Scientists tent to associate the stunning societal progress we've seen since then to science and technology, but I think that's having it backwards. The driver of all this progress was the capitalist system that allowed an efficient allocation of resources.
It's baffling to me how someone can ever reach that conclusion, especially coming from someone like her. So then she goes on to talk about how people only started manufacturing penicillin a decade after Alexander fleming made its initial discovery, and in her mind that somehow proves that capitalism is good and helpful - if anything this proves to me that capitalism stalled us from manufacturing this medicine for a decade until someone with enough money and resources was finally willing to invest money in it.
>. For the market to optimize the use of fossil fuel resources, we should have put a price on releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We did not, and this's why we're now in deep shit. So, yes, our current capitalist systems do have a problem with environmental protection. But the reason isn't that there's something wrong with capitalism per se, it's that we didn't set it up correctly in the first place. Basically, the origin of the problem is that no one paid attention to economists.
This is another one of those nonsense takes in this video, and keep in mind that this is just one of the many many issues with capitalism that she brushed aside by saying "but that's another story". How many more patches we'll have to apply to this unjust & broken system called capitalism until it finally works? How many more new laws and rules we'd have to make? If capitalism was a bucket then there'll be so many (loop) holes in it that you'd think it was a strainer, lol 😆 And talking about putting a price on carbon emissions, perhaps we should also ask those economists what's the price of pollution, famines, slavery, mental anguish and even deaths around the world that are directly or indirectly caused by this capitalist system. What is the price of human beings? What is the price of happiness? What is the price of our natural environment? Because I can imagine someone in the distant future repeating these same talking points and saying the reason why this system caused the destruction of so many human lives and the environment is because we didn't put a price on it.
Such an amazing guy! As always. In 2 days I will return home, I am still at @Roma 's place.
After I return I will make a big article about the entire ZDay experience and meeting lots of wonderful people. Then I will focus to update our servers and services, including our Friendica! Currently we need to put Friendica in maintenance mode for some 20 minutes a day to backup the database....but that sucks since you cannot use it for this period of time. So I need to fix that too.
Anyway, I have had a wonderful experience for these past 10 or so days and I hope to have more of these experiences.
If Jesus or Superman were to exist in today's society, they would not be able to survive just by doing good things, by helping others and so forth. They would have to become social media influencers:
Sell their own shampoo line, advertise for companies...
Ok people, my ZDay talk is available now: ZDay: How to Grow a Saner Society. A Lifetime Adventure --- by Tio videos.trom.tf/w/d5wwwrwGD7D3E…
We do not have a better audio, I am sorry. We did not know that they would not record directly from the mic itself so we used the camera's mic. If we knew, I would have taken my lavmic.
Anyway I edited it a bit. I hope you enjoy it and I hope I can do more!
Mind you, we already have a caption but it is not proofread yet. If you want to help with the translations join our TROM Translation chat - matrix.to/#/#translation:matri…
Ok people, my ZDay talk is available now: ZDay: How to Grow a Saner Society. A Lifetime Adventure --- by Tio videos.trom.tf/w/d5wwwrwGD7D3E…
We do not have a better audio, I am sorry. We did not know that they would not record directly from the mic itself so we used the camera's mic. If we knew, I would have taken my lavmic.
Anyway I edited it a bit. I hope you enjoy it and I hope I can do more!
Mind you, we already have a caption but it is not proofread yet. If you want to help with the translations join our TROM Translation chat - matrix.to/#/#translation:matri…
ZDay: How to Grow a Saner Society. A Lifetime Adventure (bad audio)
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.
Our presentation was focused on showcasing in a unique way how our society works and how trade is at the core of most of our issues. In the second half we focused on the positive side: how we and others create trade-free good and services and why this can become a tsunami movement if more of us engage into it, in a decentralized way.
We put a lot of effort into creating a simple narrative and interesting slides with animations, to make it all more fun and easy to understand.
This was the first presentation for Tio and we hope more to follow.
The ZDay event and the fun days with the fun people are over now. I am just with @Roma and we will chill, relax, and plan for the future of TROM :). Well, he has to work....unfortunately.... I wish he would not have to.
So everyone left. Well, except one girl who is from Prague and came to the event because of TROM. That was super cool. She, Lenka, is such a nice person and we spent a lot of time together. This week we will for sure meet again. I will still stay in Prague for a week or so.
I will work on the presentation video and I will perhaps make a bigger post about the entire experience. Stay tuned! #tromstuff
hahaha guess why? when i tried to take a landscape one @Fedilab Apps deleted my message and showed no photo. i dont have time to report this but maybe someone can replicate. i was quite pissed off that i had to take a vertical photo hahaha
It makes me so happy when I see new people donating to our 200 For TROM campaign tromsite.com/donate/ :) - even if we still need a lot more to achieve the goal, I feel hopeful because donating 5 Euros a month is not that much and this can be sustainable for a long long time.
If you use any of our TROM.tf services, or TROMjaro, or VideoNeat, or enjoy the content that we do via TROM and can support us with 5 Euros a month, it would be amazing!
You know we are running out of disk space for TROM.tf so I will have to move Peertube to an object storage solution soon, and that would cost me a few bucks a month and a lot of time perfecting it. So even 2-3 people donating 5 Euros a month can pay for this big change that would also allow us to increase the quota for our TROM Files for instance.
If you can, do it please. If not, at least a share could help ;)
TROM II is now fully translated into Romanian thanks to @Georgi who worked like crazy for the past months to do it.
It is particularly difficult to translate into Romanian because this language comes in 2 main flavors: the official language and the language that people normally speak. And there can be a big difference between the two.
Georgi tried as much as possible to translate in a way that people talk and not in this official robot-like way. She used Kdenlive for the entire translation process.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023 / Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
I had to restore a snapshot of the server to get back to a working Friendica. We almost did it but the loading times for Friendica were terrible. I opened an issue here github.com/friendica/friendica… but I need to wait after my Prague presentation in 2 days time to try and update, else it is pretty stupid to present Friendica when our instance does not work properly :D
Updating the Friendica YNH package was always a huge mess and I should not do it before such an event.
Some data that was created for the past 10h on trom.tf may have been lost. This was something that I had to do. Sorry about that.
This is something so weird and I still do not understand it. Context. This is our instance https://social.trom.tf . Our database is around 30GB in size. We use a daemon for Friendica with these con...
!Friendica Admins Our database is around 30GB in size and I use the YNH package plus BORG to backup to a remote location. Problem is that midway the database fails to backup because:
2023-08-19 00:35:12,150: WARNING - mysqldump: Error 1412: Table definition has changed, please retry transaction when dumping table inbox-entry at row: 0
Now I put friendica in maintenance before the backup but that means having it unavailable for 30 minutes while the database is being dumped. Is there a better way?
The latest FreeTube release is amazing! freetubeapp.io/ - Now all works perfectly fine even with a local API so no need for 3rd party like Invidious. Now you have the option to replace the clickbait titles with community generated titles so that you know wtf a video is about.
You can replace the thumbnails too and also skip all sponsored and BS parts of a video.
If you wanna watch Youtube and stay sane and enjoy it, FreeTube is absolutely amazing. Get to see how a trade-free youtube can look like.
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