People in this society: This is such an amazing tool, a free Photoshop in the browser! Look: https://www.photopea.com/ - and so many comment and get excited about it and praise it.

People who understand how this trade-based society works: This software is not trade-free! You have to trade your currency (to unlock features), your freedom (accept their terms), your data (that they collect), your attention (because they inject ads).

This is how the understanding of trade cuts through the bullshit of this society where people pretend to provide "free" goods and services. Most do not. Be aware of that! #tromimg


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I know you're honest about your work. In fact, I learned all this VADOSE stuff from reading your books :)

I don't know you irl, but it feels like we think in much of the same way. We're both curious about the world we live in, and are not afraid to question societal norms. I don't know about other people at TROM, but it feels like that's what connects all of us

I believe there are others who support you here, but yeah, @trom is underrated af. We need to reach other curious minds like us 🙃

@TROM

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You know my best "offline" friends now came from other parts of the world because of TROM. So maybe one day we will meet you too ;). We planned to make a TROM meeting videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/95… every year, bus because of COVID we could not. Maybe we could do one this year and we will invite people like you if you can come ;). And thank you again for your nice words. You are a little "known" inside our little TROM group because of your feedbacks :).

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I am adding all of the TROM 2 footage into a massive Kdenlive project. 20 or so hours of 4k footage. It will take a few days to add all videos, sync the audio again, and create proxy clips for all. Am not sure it is a good idea to have one massive project but it is easier to work with all of the footage like that. Once added, I'll try to see how and what I can edit. #tromlive

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Beginning of the month money count for TROM. We are left with around 900 Euros total to run all of our projects. Which is desperately low. We have to pay around 50 Euros a month for hosting, and some 50 for the Internet maybe, in order to keep them. Also, what do we eat? Well....

If you can help us, please make a donation here https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

Mind you, we provide a ton of tools trade-free for everyone. So if you consider this work as important, and you are able to help, that would be great. https://www.tromsite.com/ + https://www.tromsite.com/tools/

#tromlive


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I imagined for a second, when societies will start to throw all their trash out of planet Earth, maybe in some nearest future, just to not deal with that problem here on the ground, it might be a real story someday that some long-awaited mission to Titan or Pluto with dropping off another rover or probe there, will end up on just finding someone's trousers or used condoms there :D
It's madness, but after this kind of news, it's no longer that far-fetched in my mind, you know :(

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You should watch this documentary to see how even science gets trapped into the trade bubble. Great documentary. Makes you even more confused at who tot trust haha... #tromlive


Fact vs. Fake

Asbestos, climate change, 5G, coronavirus – the public is caught in a battle for the truth. Science is being manipulated and undermined to sway opinion and create doubt. What are the mechanisms behind it all?

Watch it here:

videoneat.com/documentaries/22…


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Yes but there are sources like snopes, healthnewsreview, respectfulinsolance, science based medicine, DW, UN, or on the video section there are people like thunderf00t, healtcaretriage, Last Week Tonight, VOX, Veritasium and more who are myth busting a lot. :) - Also, depends myth busting what? Health news, we have a few great sources. Science in general!? Snopes is what I am aware that does this all the time.
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Absolutely. But at the current state one could argue that setting up a server and using somewhat polished clients may actually be less friction than struggling with the current incarnations of p2p messengers.

To be clear: I'm excited about the p2p solutions mentioned and can't really say anything about how "easy" they are as I didn't test them in ages. But if you ask for the "best" currently available tool, self hosting may be an option to consider.

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Yes p2p msg apps right now are not super reliable, but if I think about my parents, friends, and people I know, I don't think anyone could setup their own server for Matrix or XMPP, but pretty much all of them can install one of those p2p apps. Several of which work quite great. I tested qTox for a while and it really is reliable between computers. Jami looks great and works great, but cannot sync properly with the mobile app. The rest lack features like video/audio calls or group chats, but for simple messages they seem to work great.

This entire month we will be busy moving out of this apartment. We are broke so we can't stay here anymore...I will be busy with that so not many, if any, updates for the next 10 or so days. I am trying to maintain the "trains" working and updated. I will probably make a blog post about the move since I may want to touch upon some general and relevant topics. But yah, that's what it is. Finally, the financial support got so low I can't even ask for support anymore since it will make no difference for our current situation :D. #tromlive

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Really great documentary! Super positive and relevant. Imagine if human beings didn't have to trade all of their lives for nothingness (stuff and stuff), but have the time to get involved with relevant projects to help solve diseases, poverty, mysteries...to learn about the world and explore. Fantastic documentary. I wish there were more such documentaries out there. #tromlive


The Crowd and The Cloud

Are you interested in birds, fish, the oceans or streams in your community? Are you concerned about fracking, air quality, extreme weather, asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, Zika or other epidemics? Now you can do more than read about these issues. You can be part of the solution.

Watch it here:

videoneat.com/documentaries/22…


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20+ more documentaries to add to VN are on the pipeline ;) - several that are very interesting. Will do my best to add them but this month I will be busy with moving to my parents' house (cause I'm broke :D ) - and all that...I am trying to have some more fun with @Aaron these days before he leaves. Tomorrow we plan to go here close where we live, spend a night in nature in the hammocks. See the stars, the water (hopefully we can see some bio-luminescence), make a bbq, talk, and enjoy. The following months will be very challenging for me working on TROM II and changing my working space. So yah, am thinking to simply enjoy this month, whatever is left from it. All trains are working so far, and I am supper happy about that. #tromlive

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