We have updated our Peertube (perfect timing) and we are now able to create our own homepage where we can showcase other Peertube videos/channels/playlists. Tell us if you know any peertube accounts that are sane and relevant. #tromlive
I've done a few last touches to our TROM Friendica themes last night and added a new color to the mix. In case @Hypolite Petovan you still interested in them, I updated them all here drive.tromsite.com/s/zQCd56a6P…
Or for anyone who wants to use them for their Friendica instances.
I managed to be very efficient today and worked a lot on trom.tf. Released TROMmaps officially and made a very cool presentation page for it ;). I like it! And it is such a great tool.
We will also move to Matrix. Our instance works great so far, there are millions using it already, and yeah is simply functional and easy to use. Will make it public soon so anyone can use our instance too. What I love is that so many open source projects already have Matrix rooms and I joined a few like for Invidious, Kdenlive, Matrix, Yunohost, and other, and got in quick and direct touch with the people behind these projects and managed to track down some bugs and ask some questions and such. It is great to have direct access to their chats like that.
Worked on improving our TROMsocial presentation page and a bit the other ones trom.tf/ + now all cards info from the front page open in a new page. It is better like that than popups since in popups certain elements didn't work.
O put TROM II on hold these days...I want to fix some stuff with trom.tf and other things. I will get back to it after TROMcast. I tried to work last night but I had a mental collapse when I saw 5 hours of materials, clipped into so many parts + so many notes, that need to be reduced to 15 or so minutes...I did a bit of work but could not do much...
I don't want to stress myself with TROM II or any project. I want to enjoy life and let these things be part of this enjoyable life. So if I don't feel like working on TROM II, I am for sure in the mood to work on trom.tf, or tromjaro, or something else.
In today's society humans deal with problems by trying to clean the mess, instead of looking where the problems come from.
Waste? Let's clean up! Climate change? Let's implement renewable energies! Human trafficking and slavery? Let's go after the traffickers and put them in jail! Drug consumption? Punish! Theft? Jail! Inequality? Well...tax the rich!
This is similar to the ambulance approach. Imagine if we dealt with human health problems the same way, by quickly intervening when someone has a heart attack, or cancer, or any disease, and try to save them. This would be a disaster! We need research to see what creates heart disease, cancer, infections, so that we try to both prevent it and be able to save these humans when they suffer from such diseases.
In essence, we need a health care SYSTEM if we want to deal with the human health problems. There is no other way around this!
Therefore, if we ever want to have a chance to deal with the other human problems such as waste, corruption, pollution, climate change, inequality, slavery, and so forth, we need a SYSTEM. We need "hospitals" and "research centers" that can study what creates such problems in the first place, and try to prevent them or learn how to better fix them. There is no other way around this!
Ambulances are great! very useful! Without them we would be in big troubles. Someone having a heart attack needs an ambulance to come and save him/her. Organizations that try to reduce waste, keep us safe from "bad" people, push for renewable energies to replace fossil fuel sources, and so forth, are also a necessity. But they will lead to nowhere unless there is a similar system that studies these problems, as it is the healthcare system.
So, imagine we only had ambulances that came and tried to save humans when they had health problems. This would be a ridiculous and primitive system. Right!? Now imagine that we do it like that when it comes to the other problems we are facing today, as a species. We have no research system that looks at what creates these and tries to prevent them.
We need "ambulances", but they are useless in the long run. What we really need is "hospitals", "research centers", and overall a "healthcare system" for our global non-health related problems. #tromimg
!Friendica Support If you open our page profile in an incognito mode (public) social.trom.tf/profile/trom then under categories you see a ton of them. I only have made 1 category Blogs. So why do I see so many?
See the small red bar on the left? That's the "done" part of the documentary, some 25 minutes. See the other big red line and underneath it a lot of things...? That's around 5h of recordings that I have to narrow down to less than 20 minutes. haha. Nuts. I will start that tomorrow....idk how I'm gonna do it...
Then I only have around 18 more hours to go through hahaha...wtf did we do!? I will have to delete at least 15 hours of footage overall. If not 20 hours...
Seems like lots of flooding recently...are they worse than in the past? Some sources say yes. What is quite a few years new tho, is the absolute morons who film vertically ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=525UOgzosA…
I understand this is a tragedy, but if these humans want to film it anyways, and document it, then for fuck sake film it properly else you can't even tell how it started, what is the impact, the aftermath. People with phones, please, don't ruin the human vision. I swear 95% of all videos today are filmed through a fence. You can't really see anything.
Phones need a bloody camera app that films vertically regardless of how you tilt your phone. This is so dumb I feel more outraged by it than floodings. Floodings happen and will keep on happening and this is very tragic, but people documenting these events are beyond retarded.
I agree that filming vertically is annoying, especially when you're watching it on a PC. But I'll just say that mobile phones are not as bad as you think they are. You can say that they're mostly used for consuming, but so are PCs these days. The only reason companies turned more towards mobile phones are because more people are using it. And the reason most people use it are mainly because of practical reasons.
I just feel like this is why you're not motivated to fix your sites on mobiles
Look, filming vertically is, regardless of the device, not practical. You can barely fit anything in a vertical space when you film. Human vision is 2 eyes that see wide not narrow. I cannot see how this is ok, even when you watch it on the phone is not like you can see more....
It is true I may be biased when it comes to mobile phones, but can you tell me what can they be used for other than consuming content and keeping in touch with others? I am honestly curious since it is such a small device is not like you can create stuff like write books or blog posts (basically valuable thoughts transformed into words), nor can you edit videos or anything else for the matter. So yah I am curious...
You are right computers too are mostly used in the same way, but at least they are fit for doing more than consuming.
Everyone has their preference I guess. I use both PCs and mobile depending on what I'm doing. I watch videos in landscape as well, most youtube/peertube videos are on landscape and all I have to do is click the fullscreen button and rotate my phone.
I know people who don't even have PCs, cause most of what they do can be done on mobiles, plus phones are cheap. If Tio didn't optimise his sites for mobile screens, he'll loose a lot of people, that's why I brought this up. @tio
@Future is FOSS Yeah I will optimize them at one point but I was genuinely asking what can you do on the phone except consume media and keep in touch with others? I meant that the screen is so small and the OS is so consumer-driven that I do no think you can create anything relevant on the phone. I was asking because I do not use a phone much at all, and so is the case for my close friends.
From my experience, most people use phones cause its small and compact. You can fit this on your pocket and bring it everywhere you go, and it'll notify you if someone sends you a text for example. You can even use your phone laying on bed, sitting on a sofa etc.
Sitting on a chair and using a PC for a long time is uncomfortable for me, maybe I should change my posture and buy a more comfortable chair or something, lol 😅
For a long time I didn't knew why I should use a PC. Most people use PCs for gaming and production stuff, I did neither. Now I'm using PCs more and more as I learn more about linux & programming :)
@Future is FOSS :P - I for sure agree the compact design is useful. I agree there are many advantages of having a phone like keeping in touch with others or consuming media. But my point was that this device is all for consuming not creating, and thus people who only have phones will ad best tweet or post photos of themselves. That's what they create and how they express themselves. It is no necessary to express yourself and idk write books, make videos, etc.. But phones are designed to be consuming devices from what I can tell.
In any case, I really hope we can see a Manjaro Phone that works and we can customize a mobile TROMjaro so that people consume media without trading their attention and data at least.
And buy you a proper chair. I had back problems for years I felt like dying. Then I bought a "gaming" chair and no more back problems. And I do not game either haha.
People consume media more than they produce them, and I think that's normal human behavior. How many people do you know IRL that produce content ? like writing books and stuff. Also, if all of us humans started writing books, who would read those books ? Do you think I'll have time to read your books if I started writing books of my own ? lol 😂
@Future is FOSS haha no no that's not at all my point, my point was (again) that phones are designed for that purpose only. That's my beef with phones. While computers can be used for more uses. It is like I would criticize the TV for being a passive media consuming device and I'd argue the Internet is better since you can both consume and create. Phones are like little TVs in your pocket.
I deleted and redrafted my previous post to fix an error. Sorry, my bad.
Phone can be used for small productive things, like I occasionally post linux tips on my account for example. They're not well made media like stuff, but still productive IMO ;)
But my main point is that consuming isn't a bad thing in itself. The important question is what you're consuming. Do you think its bad reading your books and watching documentaries just because I'm consuming them ? That's my point.
@Future is FOSS consuming is not inheritable bad of course. But this is in today's context. Android and iOS and both geared towards their own consuming paradigm, and everyone uses those 2 OSes. Combine that with the form factor of such a tiny device, and you have the perfect consuming device.
PCs suffer from the same OS-driven consuming-paradigm (Mac and Windows), but at least their form factor is geared towards either "creating" and expression (see writing books, blogs, making videos, programming, etc.), or better "consumption" (watch long form content, read long form content, and so forth).
I think I'm fine reading long text on mobiles, I read some of your blogs on my mobile and your book on a tablet device I have. I think I'm more comfortable reading like that 🤔
About watching long medias I agree, I watch documentaries/movies/TROMcasts on my PC. But if I had a better TV, I might watch it there using a USB or something. In short, for most people a mobile and a TV fills all/most of their needs, that's why people use them.
In short, here's my thinking - changing the device you're using doesn't bring much change in your consumption, I'd rather introduce you to good contents like documentaries, educational videos on youtube/peertube etc. because that's the important thing that can actually change your consumption to something better.
@Future is FOSS There is no FOSS functional phone right now so you are bombarded by Apple or Google with ads and trades overall. I tried to declutter my phone many times, it was impossible. I have an Android phone. I do not have control over it. If I want to have no ads experience then it is not as easy to do that on the phone. Apps can be encrypted and no adblocker can block those ads. Browsers (main tool to access the internet) seem like a mess on mobile from my tests, full of notifications and ads, and regardless people are used to "apps" rather than websites.
So phones push you to consume more and more; make you used with the apps idea instead of websites, and apps are either fully controlled by them via their store (so I as a "content creator" can't even add my apps so easily into these "stores"), or these apps are hard to make. Much easier to make a website than so many apps.
Here's an example: a friend of mine wanted to watch our Videoneat content on
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@Future is FOSS There is no FOSS functional phone right now so you are bombarded by Apple or Google with ads and trades overall. I tried to declutter my phone many times, it was impossible. I have an Android phone. I do not have control over it. If I want to have no ads experience then it is not as easy to do that on the phone. Apps can be encrypted and no adblocker can block those ads. Browsers (main tool to access the internet) seem like a mess on mobile from my tests, full of notifications and ads, and regardless people are used to "apps" rather than websites.
So phones push you to consume more and more; make you used with the apps idea instead of websites, and apps are either fully controlled by them via their store (so I as a "content creator" can't even add my apps so easily into these "stores"), or these apps are hard to make. Much easier to make a website than so many apps.
Here's an example: a friend of mine wanted to watch our Videoneat content on her iPad. I tried for hours to find an app that lets you download torrent/magnet links. No way. I could not find any.
Another example: a friend wanted a PDF editor, a simple one. On Android the main way to do it is via their store, and we found and installed a bunch to then be faced with 1.000 charlatan judo-moves. We didn't realize many were trials, other limited you in so many ways, and so on. All of them wanted you to trade trade trade.
And my experience is endless. Phones nowadays are owned by 2 companies, and the experience using these phones is very bad. Considering that there is no FOSS working alternative at the moment, then I do not see phones a priority at all since they are already a time bomb haha.
Whenever I'll see a proper FOSS phone I will struggle to make our websites mobile-friendly. And maybe I will give them a better chance.
Right now I see phones as a tool that mainly keeps you busy and it narrows your filed of view, both visually and mentally :D.
Even if there will be a FOSS phone that's good, I hope I won't use it much. Having a computer in your pocket may not be a great idea anyways. Enjoy life while out there ;). That's the way I think and so far it works. And I love that my closest friends are the same.
I think we can agree to disagree on certain aspects, and you may be right since I did not use phones much for the past years, but I still think my points are relevant (at least a bunch of them).
Thanks for engaging and tell me what OS and phone you use, out of curiosity. Maybe I asked you before but I forgot...
From reading all of this, I can say that you had a very shitty experience with mobiles. Firstly, I wanna say that mobile apps are a shithole. They're full of ads and premium shit, and I hate them with a passion.
The biggest revelation for me was f-droid.org. If you have any friends who use mobiles, tell them about it. All apps on fdroid are FOSS, that means no shitty apps with ads and trackers. Also its similar to linux in that anyone can add a repository, so no lock-in.
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
There are also some other things you can do to improve android, this video explains it well - tube.privacytools.io/videos/wa… Although this video is talking from a privacy/security perspective, it'll also reduce most of the trades like ads and stuff.
On my personal device, I have installed lineageOS without any kind of Google apps, so my device is currently completely google-free. I understand that lineageOS don't support many devices, and that sucks. But most popular device models are supported.
BTW, I also like to note that ios is much more worse than android. Everything is locked down on ios and there is no fdroid for it. App availability also sucks compared to android, that's probably why you couldn't find a torrent client on ipad. TBH, I don't really know why people use ios. I mean, apple devices are too pricey, you can buy a PC for that money. But android is usually cheaper than a PC, so many people in developing countries only have access to that.
@Future is FOSS You make me mo comfortable with phones and because you are such a kind human and help me understand better your point of view, then I am more likely to change my views ;). Thank you!
And yup I know about f-droid but that is a bit cumbersome to deal with. Updates are not automatic, nor is a way to update all apps at once. I use it too, it is my only "app library" on my phone in case I need any app on my phone. But I can't stand google+samsung they piss me off quire often. I hope in the next 2-3 years a good Linux phone will be out there and I'd love to test it a bit. Maybe I will start to love phones haha, although I can never see myself using them that much nor film in portrait mode :))
Currently the state of linux phones are not that great. But I like to believe that this is a first step towards something better and more open.
If you asked me which is better - linux or android, I'll always go with linux 100%. Being a more advanced user, I probably use more of the freedom & choice offered by linux ;)
The only thing I disagree with you is when you said that mobile is bad purely based on its form factor, I like to believe that every technology has its own advantages :)
I finally managed to release a new TROMjaro ISO with Dash to Panel instead of Dash to Dock. Info here tromjaro.com/releases/ and grab it from here tromjaro.com/install/ . I hope to be able and focus on TROM II from tomorrow on. I'll have to take a decision about our Peertube instance and organize a new TROMcast. But well, they are part of our project so... I gotta do them.
It is such a shame that this world is full of idiots. And I still argue that it is because of our trade based society. Simply because humans are not humans, they are workers. Meaning, specialized in doing a specific task. They do not know more than that. Plus, they spend most of their time working or consuming. And their phones also consumes them since they trade their data and attention to these black holes like fb, twitter, ytb and the like.
So these mindless creatures are super busy consuming and being consumed. There i
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I finally managed to release a new TROMjaro ISO with Dash to Panel instead of Dash to Dock. Info here tromjaro.com/releases/ and grab it from here tromjaro.com/install/ . I hope to be able and focus on TROM II from tomorrow on. I'll have to take a decision about our Peertube instance and organize a new TROMcast. But well, they are part of our project so... I gotta do them.
It is such a shame that this world is full of idiots. And I still argue that it is because of our trade based society. Simply because humans are not humans, they are workers. Meaning, specialized in doing a specific task. They do not know more than that. Plus, they spend most of their time working or consuming. And their phones also consumes them since they trade their data and attention to these black holes like fb, twitter, ytb and the like.
So these mindless creatures are super busy consuming and being consumed. There is no more space/time left for anything else, like learning and thinking about the world, engaging in calm and meaningful discussions, and so forth.
Combine that with today's politics that is just football with teams and supporters that scream online for their favorites, and with politicians spreading misinformation online to gain votes (and using the trade-based ad-networks like fb, youtube and so forth, that allow for payments to buy influence) and you get mindless consumers that are angry and loud.
min 21:34 ! Exactly what we are talking about. The "free" notion is nothing more than the same trade system. Cows for mils > service for a good > skills for food > then later on we invented some mediums to keep track of these, called currencies. So it went something like: I trade my skills for money, because money represents some value and can be traded later for some food. In the present we trade our data for entertainment, our attention (via ads) for all kinds of other services. It is THE SAME EXACT SYSTEM. Only different are the flavors of it. We explain it all in detail in two books - one about the beginning of it all tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-d… and one about the present of it tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-d…
A keynote I gave at The Next Web 2014. The original video has now been unlisted on Google’s surveillance-based video sharing site and so cannot be easily found…
These goods and services are submitted and reviewed by people like you. We cannot guarantee that all of what you see here is trade-free, since at times it is very difficult to review them all and do so properly.
Yeah I had to make our TROM Chat private because these "qanons" or whatever the hell, invaded us since we have stopped them from posting BS content on our Peertube and from creating hundreds of accounts. This world is insane. But I take it as a positive thing. It is a lesson for me. And I will have to figure out how to deal with it. For now I want to focus on the new TROMjaro iso and for sure TROM II. #tromlive
We are talking about the Peertube situation on our public chat here https://www.tromsite.com/chat - if anyone is curious or wants to engage. It is something we have to deal with. #tromlive
So this guy created the Internet Archive and his motive was to create a free library of books or any digital media. By doing this he managed to provide tons of free content for the world. He is not rich at all, but he created a lot of value for our society. His project is basically archiving the entire internet.
At the same period of time this other guy created a business out of selling books. Then he thought to sell more stuff. In other words, to not be kind and give people stuff for free, but to force them to trade for that stuff.
And now he is the richest man on Earth. He has more power than anyone else.
That's the winner of a trade-based society. As simple as that. Our society is producing these monsters and punishes the good people when they do not trade themselves. The story of the Internet Archive guy is a success story in the sense that he managed to keep the project alive due to volunteer help he got form others. But most will fail when approaching the society in the same tradeless manner. In other words, if you are not a ruthless trader, you will probably not make it in this world.
A sad society that humans invented.....and we have to make them aware of that and why we should give up to this primitiveness. #tromimg
Alright so @Hypolite Petovan the themes are here - drive.tromsite.com/s/E8tTkjbns… (php and css files). I am warning you I did not do them properly at all I apologize. They should be done in a smart manner so that the bulk of the CSS stays the same, while the colors and dark/light variations are changed via PHP. This way you can maintain them so much easier. See if you find it worthy to do anything with them. I worked a lot on them to make them look good with a lot of content types: mastodon, image posts, pixelfed, RSS posts (multiple kinds), peertube, videos, etc..
If you and the other Friendica dev want to include this theme type in the default themes of Frrindica I'd be happy to keep it updated if you manage to clean it and make it a proper theme. Up to you guys!
And here is a video where I explain what I mainly changed and why
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Alright so @Hypolite Petovan the themes are here - drive.tromsite.com/s/E8tTkjbns… (php and css files). I am warning you I did not do them properly at all I apologize. They should be done in a smart manner so that the bulk of the CSS stays the same, while the colors and dark/light variations are changed via PHP. This way you can maintain them so much easier. See if you find it worthy to do anything with them. I worked a lot on them to make them look good with a lot of content types: mastodon, image posts, pixelfed, RSS posts (multiple kinds), peertube, videos, etc..
If you and the other Friendica dev want to include this theme type in the default themes of Frrindica I'd be happy to keep it updated if you manage to clean it and make it a proper theme. Up to you guys!
And here is a video where I explain what I mainly changed and why videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/65… in case you have the patience to see or for anyone who is interested.
Ok that's all. I love Friendica and I managed to drag a bunch of friends over here and keep trying to bring more :). #tromlive
Ok so I'm done with the themes for Friendica. I'll eat something then make them available for @Hypolite Petovan + make a short video to showcase them for others. I am very happy with the result. #tromlive
1. The video is sponsored by the company making the car...so from the get-go this is 100% not ok. This type of media is going to get worse and worse. These ytb channels have millions of subscribers, and if they make videos about a company, and the video is sponsored by the company itself, I do not care what the company and product is about, this is biased from the get-go and I cannot take that information seriously. Unfortunately most people do not care and they just go about their day talking how cool self driving cars are and how safe, because they saw it on Veritasium.
2. Self Driving cars do have a lot of benefits over the current moronic transportation system: they should be safer, they should reduce the cost (in terms of resources) of cars (we need way less cars); but what else?
3. A public transportation system is the smartest way to go about moving people from one place to another. Period. If you let hundreds of companies dictating how we should move about, then their focus will always be on how they can make more profits on top of that. No bueno. A public transportation can include the vehicles (small or big, like trains or pods), but also the road itself that can be made as a total system. So no more crazy ass roads where both people and cars go about.
In essence: technology nowadays is "marketed". Big companies exaggerate claims about technology and pretty much everyone swallows that without thinking twice. This is not good at all. If we are to redesign our transportation system, we cannot rely on companies whose main (or sole) drive is to make as much profits as possible. This is like asking Musk or Bezos to come up with a better plan for exploring the outer space! Oh wait...maybe they are getting there. We are fucked...
How close are we to having fully autonomous vehicles on the roads? Are they safe? In Chandler, Arizona a fleet of Waymo vehicles are already in operation. Wa...
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