This is the first image released by the James Webb Telescope:
If you take a grain of salt, put it on the tip of your finger, and stretch your arm...that is the area of the sky that this represents.
Imagine how small we are, yet how big our eyes have become. Imagine how further we can see from one dim pebble. All of those ellipses of light and little dots, are galaxies. Billions of stars each, trillions of planets. Not enough grains of sand on Earth to match the number of planets in our Universe.
Such revelations should shake our species; our values should be reevaluated. Our priorities re-organized.
And yet, such astonishing truths, are a mere excitement for a select few; such images will become one of the trillions of images in the digital universe. On par with any other. Our society will fail to be moved in any direction; our values seem set in stone; our priorities will follow the same mindless and insignificant profits.
To say this is sad, is unjust. It is unbearable for anyone who understands all of this.
We have created a society of idiots. But we should know the cause by now. It is because humans ended up with a society that is based on trade. Trade this, trade that. You cannot survive if you cannot trade. And so, all of the humans are trapped in a nightmare. We can only wake them up, if we take care of them. Feed them, treat them, give them a shelter, a life. Only then we can hope to see them being curious about themselves and the world they live in. To focus on significant endeavors; to discover the universe, to understand their connection with nature, to protect what needs to be protected, to explore what is unexplored. To become a human species that has grandiose goals, and saner wants.
This is the only path forward. We have to march on the streets, we have to scream online, to provide humans with access to their needs, as trade-free. To decouple them from this hamster wheel, this nightmare. To give them back their brains. No change in politics or policies will do anything if all humans are consumed on a daily basis, for mindless trades.
Provide humans with their needs, as trade-free. Do it!
TROM is marching for this for at least a decade now. What are you doing? Where are you? We need you! #tromlive
I cannot trust any company. Period. It is like trusting Coca-Cola to do research on the effects of sugar on health. Any company is entangled with whatever they are selling. This entanglement is too strong. Even if there are any companies that seem to be more fair, in the long term they will fuck things up. I've seen this countless of times. Also, overall looking at the entire world-wide society, even if you may get a few more "fair" companies, overall most are corrupted and fucked up.
So yeah, companies should not even exist in a saner society. We should have organizations that do things. Plant trees, make computers, software, whatever. Like we showcase here. But no trade involved.
Did a decent job today for TROM II. Adding some new footage to it. Can be a bit tricky to insert it now but am managing it so far. See how I have to make a gap like that in the project and work within that. It is not as easy as it looks like because you have to be careful not to unsync parts of the documentary.
And damn look at how many clips are in the project hahaha. Nuts. #tromlive
No. I've hear that it can do video editing but I never tried it. I use Kdenlive and works great. I tried loads of video editors but Kdenlive is the best trade-free one.
the UI looks similar, honestly. Cleaner perhaps. You've got some nice titles in your videos, which might be a little more challenging in Blender. But, not bad. But, yeah, Blender has a great video editor.
I looked at some video tutorials and Blender looked very limited to me and difficult to use. Kdenlive is geared to be a video editor. Has lots of effects and editing tools. And is super easy to use. Have you used Kdenlive? If so what do you think Blender does better?
TROM II - we are starting to work on it again thanks to some recent donations! A huge thanks to Guil for donating 250 Euros and to Roma who donated 450 Euros. This, together with some money we were able to make ourselves, allow us to restart the work on the documentary.
That's it I am rebooting the work on TROM II. I already work on it ;) . I will only stop if I get any new websites for webape.site (making money project....) since I need money to support the TROM work. If I get more financial support these months then I can fully focus on it. Here's me when I was little:
You'll see bunch of footage with us when we were little humans and how we grew up and such. What influenced us and so forth. It is a personal documentary BUT full of facts and stats too, plus a general view of the world/society. It is sparkled a little with several styles/approaches/moods: fresconian, carl saganian, george carlinian, richard feynmanian, adam curtisian and so on :) - the way we explain, the way I am editing, it, etc. Mind you first 2 parts are 90% done. But I need to add some new footage to both and this is my main focus now. The next 2 parts are done in terms of the story-line
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That's it I am rebooting the work on TROM II. I already work on it ;) . I will only stop if I get any new websites for webape.site (making money project....) since I need money to support the TROM work. If I get more financial support these months then I can fully focus on it. Here's me when I was little:
You'll see bunch of footage with us when we were little humans and how we grew up and such. What influenced us and so forth. It is a personal documentary BUT full of facts and stats too, plus a general view of the world/society. It is sparkled a little with several styles/approaches/moods: fresconian, carl saganian, george carlinian, richard feynmanian, adam curtisian and so on :) - the way we explain, the way I am editing, it, etc. Mind you first 2 parts are 90% done. But I need to add some new footage to both and this is my main focus now. The next 2 parts are done in terms of the story-line and cuts, but I need to fully edit them.
If I get enough financial support from donations and I can fully focus on it this year, I may finish it this year....we have a little bit of money now that Sasha also makes some, but not enough to make me feel relaxed about it. I wanted to do a donation campaign for like 2-3 thousand euros to make sure we have enough to allow me to finish it, but then I feel bad making another one. So will see. I will focus on it as much as possible.
Excited.
Also, I feel better health-wise. My throat pain seems to be going away. I still not feel entirely fine since I still have pain, especially when I wake up and eat. Not when I wake up and eat, but when I wake up, and also when I eat :). And also when I wake up and eat. Ok shut'up.
Tomorrow I will probably send a newsletter about this all. I wanted to share some video-bits from what I made so far but I'd rather not...trust me on this, it is going to be interesting I am sure. I personally really like it.
Yeah no more donation campaign. These crazy dudes donated 750 Euros between them....same day....wtf...I will make a bigger post tomorrow for the TROM page, about TROM II and the people who have supported this project, because it is unbelievable the amount of support...
We are experiencing some issues with the TROM.tf server. ytb.trom.tf (invidious) and bird.trom.tf (nitter) do not work currently. We've seen similar issues with these instances in the past and we have not found a solution. We will look more into this.
files.trom.tf (nextcloud) cannot connect with our OnlyOffice server. OnlyOffice is not well maintained by @YunoHost it seems - not updated in more than a year. So maybe that's the issue. We have enabled Collabora as an alternative to this.
Changing politicians is like changing hats to become smarter. We don't need new politicians, we need a different way of organizing our society, to move away from a trade-based society, to a trade-free society. #tromlive
That's how we should all be. Kind to each other. Help each other. But we do not have time for this...we have to trade for the sake of trading...what a waste of humans. #tromlive
The best way to counter the evil is with kindness. When the empire wants to starve and kill people for profits, let's help the community whenever we can. That's the resistance I believe in.
It is great that XFCE's file manager Thunar will get a proper search function. This is really needed and basic. But XFCE takes ages, literally, to push updates to stable....luckily in TROMjaro all I have to do is search for the git version in Add/Remove Software and click install. And voilla I run the latest Thunar:
With search and new cool features. Cannot wait to get to stable so that TROMjaro has a proper file manager.... #tromlive
What fact about reality blows your mind if you were to pick one? For me is the entangled particles. Basically you can have 2 particles in different galaxies. Tweak one, and the other one also changes. Instantly. And this is proven. Watch this mindblowing documentary videoneat.com/documentaries/18…
That's something that blows my mind. It makes 0 sense. How is the information transmitted!? Like...wow.... #tromlive
But in case of quantum entanglement, I know we've transported data using this before - youtube.com/watch?v=yb38jozeDO… Its still so fucking weird that this is even possible, haha 😄
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Just another reminder that we do live in an abusive and fucked up society. Like I was saying before: Me and Sasha, much love. We get along really well, all great. We wanna stay together and do things. We want to work more on TROM and TROM related projects. That's how we met.
Now, she is from the USA tribe and I am from the Romanian tribe. Believe it or not, dear aliens, but we are not allowed to be together in the same place for more than say 3 months (that if we can afford). On Planet Earth. The blue marble. This is true. "legally" we cannot.
Anyway, we've been through this, I wrote a big blog post here.
We managed to get "married" (papers and papers, human imagination). I am also a resident in Spain. Finally. Now we can live in Spain together. But she cannot leave spain else she can get deported and we are fucked....also, she cannot work in spain because she does not have other sort of papers to allow her to do that....
In the meantime we are poor as
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Just another reminder that we do live in an abusive and fucked up society. Like I was saying before: Me and Sasha, much love. We get along really well, all great. We wanna stay together and do things. We want to work more on TROM and TROM related projects. That's how we met.
Now, she is from the USA tribe and I am from the Romanian tribe. Believe it or not, dear aliens, but we are not allowed to be together in the same place for more than say 3 months (that if we can afford). On Planet Earth. The blue marble. This is true. "legally" we cannot.
Anyway, we've been through this, I wrote a big blog post here.
We managed to get "married" (papers and papers, human imagination). I am also a resident in Spain. Finally. Now we can live in Spain together. But she cannot leave spain else she can get deported and we are fucked....also, she cannot work in spain because she does not have other sort of papers to allow her to do that....
In the meantime we are poor as fuck...
BUT hey, if me (the hus-band) were to have had a job for at leas 1 year and currently work, and make at least 1k Euros a month, or had lots of money in my bank account, then they would get her the papers. If not, we have to survive for 3 years in spain, without her working, and then she can get the papers...
So....stay in spain but dont leave! Do not work even if you are poor! Get no financial help! You get the papers only if your hus-band works and makes a lot of money. If you survive for 3 years in spain in these conditions we will give you the papers so you can work.
Wtf is this insane game?
Oh, and if you want to see if we accept you, pay 400 Euros to submit your papers to the gov. And we did. And just got denied. So give us money to check if you have enough money to be able to work and make money. If you do not have enough money you are not allowed to work and make money.
Because, folks, as I've been saying for years now: it is all about that trade. Your value is about trading. If we were good traders, we could have stayed together. But since I chose to do good and honest projects, and provide them as trade-free for anyone, then I have no right to a life in this society.
That's the shocking truth. But I am screaming in the abyss. #tromlive
btw, we will pierce through this...we will be ok and trick the society as much as we can to be able to do what we want to do; we are together, stay together, and will continue to do so. There will be more positive news the coming days about TROM. ;)
I am starting to feel better. Fuck you covid. Anyway, I worked several hours today to upgrade some websites and stuff like that. My plan: see what money we have this next month and based on that decide if I should start working on TROM II again. Sasha managed to get some "job", tho is not 100% sure. If it is we can push our existence to the next year. I will try to get new websites for WebApe to make, tho is quite impossible to it seems.
In any case, there is a good change I will restart my TROM II work....but I need a few days to recover, do some otehr things like I want to make another TROMjaro video, and so on. Then I can decide. I may create a page for TROM II on tromsite and showcase there some samples from the documentary and ask people to donate if they wanna help out...
My brain is not at the sharpest right now so yeah let's see.... #tromlive
This is a show from a few days ago from the little town I live in:
It used to be this:
So messy.
Great! It seems that the world is starting to replace fireworks shows with drone shows. No more noise pollution, smoke, waste from
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This is a show from a few days ago from the little town I live in:
It used to be this:
So messy.
Great! It seems that the world is starting to replace fireworks shows with drone shows. No more noise pollution, smoke, waste from the burned fireworks, and so forth. Sounds much much better!
Here's a more advanced and cool example:
But I am concerned they will use them to also display some ads, like brands and promote shit...
Oh wait, they already do it!
FUCK.
Above Sydney so that everyone can see them...and loud music....so still noise pollution. What about those batteries and components for these thousands of drones that are used for such shows? Where do they go after not working anymore? Probably land-fields...
Ok ok....I know, nothing can end up well in a trade-based society. Everything gets traded, and thus marketed. Nothing is what it seems. A drone show is not just a drone show, it is an opportunity to advertise. A book is not just a book, it is an opportunity for the author to buy a new car. A piece of software is not just a piece of software, it is a way for the developer/company to collect more data, to then transform that into currency, to then transform that into holidays, houses, and fancy shit and so on for themselves.
This is the most fundamental thing that everyone should understand about our society, that we are forced and incentivized to trade. Very few people can afford to, or are willing to do things for the sake of doing things. And of course this creates a very messed-up society when you do something in order to get something else. We did that in school where the goal was to get good grades to pass the exams. Most kinds would cheat, not learn anything, because the goal was not to learn. And so it goes for our society...the goal is not to write books, do drone shows to protect the nature, create a PDF converter or whatever. Nah....
So we should not be surprised that everything goes to shit. Pollution, waste, bad products, scammy services....
On a positive note, I'm happy they're getting rid of fireworks, I hated the loud noise, the smoke and everything. I've never seen a drone show before, so it'd be nice to see that one day.
But yeah I knew trade would get in the way, #TradeRuinsEverything - this is why we can't have nice things. So does this mean I have to watch ads in the f**king sky now ?! Why is no one talking about this ?
I was watching this video ytb.trom.tf/8eRsbv-rsU8?t=204 and I just saw something that tells us a lot about our society. Click it to see the exact moment. Got it?
I bet @Nick @ The Linux Experiment won't say any "bad" words in his family-friendly videos, but is completely ok to showcase a brutal murder/stabbing in a realistic-game. That's fine. Boobs, genitalia, bad! Even if they are in the same digital game-like format. Killing? No issues.
Mind you I do not blame anyone. I am fine with the naked body, and I am not put off by brutal games. But in our society, somehow, nakedness, sex, and the like are so taboo. Youtube will probably take his video down if that scene would have been a sex scene in a similar game.
I wrote 3 short digital books about this subject if anyone is interested:
This is not about the guy behind the video. He makes very nice Linux videos, although a ton of ads and sponsored content overall :D. Anyway I thought I should mention this because it is both hilarious and shocking. #tromlive
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I get you. But this is more directed to the way society views these. I am glad to hear you do not see any issues with bad words or nudity. I am sure many need to censor these for not having their videos taken down or demonetized.
Its a weird society we live in right ? There are so many such unexplained cultural things in our society, and when you think deeply about such things you understand that there's no real reason for it to be like that except cultural upbringing. I hope that people be more tolerant about these things in the future.
In this video series we will explore TROMjaro in more depth. Today we are looking at how easy it is to customize TROMjaro with just a few clicks. Our Layout and Theme Switcher apps make it quite straight forward. We are also talking about why the theming is broken in Linux and how we kinda fixed it for TROMjaro. #tromlive
Yeah well I don't want to be a youtuber for sure hahah. I can for sure make much better videos, but I do not want to spend too much time on this. I'd rather work on TROM II. Anyway. Can be interesting for others to watch them.
- We've added tasks.trom.tf/ - a complete Trello trade-free alternative. - We've added sketch.trom.tf/- a simple and useful online sketch whiteboard. Draw together with others and share your drawings. - We've added another one scratch.trom.tf/ geared towards learning programming and creating animations. - We moved yt.trom.tf to the original ytb.trom.tf. Do not worry, they are linked so it does not matter which one you use.
As you can see we are adding new trade-free services. Thanks to the people who donate to TROM. Now we have 27 trade-free services that are well maintained. So if you can, please donate to TROM here tromsite.com/donate/ to keep these services alive and relevant, and add more in the future.
We will make some "info" pages for some of these newly added services, soon. Enjoy! #tromlive
Here's a wonderful documentary! I wish to see more of these. Instead of nonsense Jurassic Park, how about such documentaries that are based on reality? You know...reality is mind-blowing...and it is, well...real! #tromlive
The documentary follows dinosaurs recreated with computer-generated imagery living around the globe in the Late Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago (Maastrichtian). It set out to depict dinosaurs using current palaeontological research such as feathered dinosaurs.
Here's me telling people again why Friendica is awesome:
Connect with pretty much anyone on the Fediverse: Mastodon, Peertube, Pleroma, Lemmy, you name it!
Works with pretty much any Mastodon App since it uses their API.
You can connect your Wordpress with it, and cross post to your blog. I do that regularly. And works great. YOu can also do the other way around: take any "source" you want and tell friendica to repost new posts to your profile.
You can schedule posts too.[[i]]You can follow any website that has an RSS.
You can connect with Twitter and follow people from Twitter and interact with them like you do on Twitter.
You can compose huge posts with inline media + do basic text formatting.
And a lot more, but these are the very cool ones I can remember now. Here's a more in-depth presentation trom.tf/social/ and here you can join our instance social.trom.tf/ . We have custom themes :). That's all! #tromlive
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