How awesome that on the fediverse you can follow our Peertube TROMhome channel directly via tromhome@videos.trom.tf - no need to have any Peertube account. Follow it from your Friendica, Mastodon, or whatever network you are using.
This is light years ahead of the BS of Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and the like, who are islands of ads, controlled by a few rich people.
Thank you to everyone who works on making the fediverse as great as it is!
Well, it went exactly as wrong as we were fearing. Very bad! But we managed to fix it. And we broke our second electric tool while doing this. Putting an extraction fan in the bathroom is really a ...
These "influencers" are a lot of scam and con. They found new ways to make money off of gullible people. This is the trade society and its influence on people.
These "influencers" are a lot of scam and con. They found new ways to make money off of gullible people. This is the trade society and its influence on people.
YEAR: 2024 | LENGTH: 1 part (59 minutes) | SOURCE: BBC
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Logan Paul is one of the biggest influencers in the world, but he has faced criticism for his role in promoting various cryptocurrency projects.
Matt Shea investigates the allegations against him and the power of his influence. Shea dives into the wild world of influencer-led cryptocurrency projects and uncovers allegations that Logan Paul may have misled his fans in a bid to make money. Paul rejects these criticisms and insists he can be trusted.
Speaking to law enforcement and alleged victims, and trying to get close to the man himself, Shea seeks to finally answer the question: did Logan Paul do anything wrong?
I think if I'd live 678 years I would never get bored and I would have new projects to do all the time. I feel like I want to do a lot. And I do a lot every day, but the days are too short for my motivation and drive. The weeks, the months, are flying by so fast. The years, still more ahead than behind, but soon they will balance, and then you'll ride the ones ahead. But it's all about making the best of this ride, even tho too short.
This year we have a motorhome, very little money, and a lot of plans.
Make sure you follow us on Peertube videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/vide… - we will go chase the darkest skies in Spain, meet with some wonderful friends from the project, volunteer, and do a lot.
We decided that replacing all of the windows' blinds is quite a must from a privacy and security perspective. And it was not too difficult to put the new ones. This may be a useful video for those who want to do this for their own motorhome.
We decided that replacing all of the windows' blinds is quite a must from a privacy and security perspective. And it was not too difficult to put the new ones. This may be a useful video for those ...
We have updated our Peertube to version 7! Lots of cool stuff - read more here.
But the most important for us is the visual aspect. Now we are using the main and default and much improved Peertube themes (Dark/Light) with very very minimal changes (maybe 5 lines of CSS).
No more broken UI, no more being unable to have a proper dark theme, no headaches with every Peertube updated. They have made an awesome theme and we will go with that.
We need to promote this platform more often and I ask people to try and be a bit more brave ;) and prioritize Peertube. Post there like we do. Sure you may get less views, but you are growing a trade-free (saner) platform, and thus saner minds that do not have to be exposed to the tsunami of ads that Youtube infects every viewer with.
@Tio not sure; but I tried also to set the browser's user agent to imitate firefox and it still didn't work, so it may just require more up-to-date web tech.
We now have a Wishlist for our TROMhome project because we are broke and if anyone wants to help they can directly do so. Here tromhome.com/#wishlist
For example we need to put a satellite dish (a Starlink Mini) so that I can keep our servers updated, do backups, upload our TROMjaro ISOs from the middle of nowhere, and in general be available online to help with the TROM projects. We need it specifically for my work on TROM.
So if anyone can help we have a GoFundMe for it gofundme.com/f/help-us-get-a-s… (450 Euros). I hate that they are putting satellites into the orbit, but we have no better option in Europe. The monthly fee of 72 Euros is also gigantic for us, but again I need an unlimited Internet access...
If anyone can help that'd be fantastic. If not is ok we will buy it eventually.
YEAR: 2023 | LENGTH: 1 part (64 minutes) | SOURCE: WIKI
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A small van traverses war-torn roads, picking up Ukrainians as they abandon their homes at the front. Shuttling them across the battered landscape into exile, the van becomes a fragile refuge, a zone for its passengers’ confidences.
38c3 with many Fediverse related meet-ups has just finished but we are already looking forward to meet at FOSDEM at the first weekend of February. Tobias from the Friendica devel team will give a lightning talk about Friendica at FOSDEM 25 in the Social Web Dev Room.
This is a recording I did after we finished filming for the TROM 2 documentary. I wanted to compress all of my thoughts in one go, one recording. And this rant is more than relevant today when it seems this world is fast slipping into idiocracy. If you did not see our TROM 2 documentary I recommend you better watch that instead of this video - tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
In essence I think that the human society has dug its own grave so deep, it is likely we cannot save it from a total failure. However, if you have the patience to watch the entire rant, you will see that despite this negativity I am still positively active with sane and nice projects and I will continue to do so.
If the world is fucked, it does not mean I, or you, have to be fucked and complete idiots, or to not care about the world.
This is a recording I did after we finished filming for the TROM 2 documentary. I wanted to compress all of my thoughts in one go, one recording. And this rant is more than relevant today when it s...
YEAR: 2024 | LENGTH: 1 part (88 minutes) | SOURCE: BBC
description:
In April 2019, a seemingly tame beluga whale approaches a Norwegian fishing boat seeking help. It is wearing a harness fitted with a camera mount. When the words ‘Equipment St Petersburg’ are discovered printed on the buckle, speculation breaks out that he has been engaged in some kind of sinister undercover activity.
This documentary explores the mystery of the strange whale and asks where he came from, who trained him and why, and what he was doing in a critically important part of the Arctic, close to Russian waters. With exclusive interviews and access to unseen footage, the film explores the secret world of marine mammal training and international espionage, and sheds new light on the true identity of Hvaldimir, the ‘Spy Whale’.
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Posts posted on friendica failed to be delivered. I have used chatgpt (need ...
We put 260W of solar panels on the roof and connected them to our Bluetti AC180. And we had to do part of it in the dark.
We post only on @PeerTube despite getting a lot less views there, for now, than we would on Youtube. But we need to create new/original content on Peertube if we are to make it more popular.
On top of that I love Peertube. No ads, no bullshit. Just a sane video platform.
Social (friendica): we have 1.100 users and this year it was a record of sane registrations. Still the majority of accounts are likely not active. Our database is around 50GB in size and we store 23GB of files.
Files (nextcloud): we have 100 users and 81 of them are active. We store a total of 370GB of files. We are still able to provide trade-free accounts with 10GB storage space for each.
Social (friendica): we have 1.100 users and this year it was a record of sane registrations. Still the majority of accounts are likely not active. Our database is around 50GB in size and we store 23GB of files.
Files (nextcloud): we have 100 users and 81 of them are active. We store a total of 370GB of files. We are still able to provide trade-free accounts with 10GB storage space for each.
Chat (matrix): around 500 users, 22GB of files stored and a 200GB database (too big, needs optimization). Unsure how many of these users are active but we are using this for our own TROM chats every single day.
Videos (peertube): 1.400 users, 2.800 videos stored with a total of 400.000 views and 1TB in size. Unfortunately only a few users are active and uploading but this is our main TROM hub for videos and we will do our best to keep it alive and grow it.
In total our TROM.tf provides 17 services and is around 2TB in size. We do daily backups of the system with Timeshift (some 1.2TB) plus daily backups of our files and services to Borg.
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TROMjaro : This year we have coded from ground up our own custom made Layout and Theme Switcher apps and made them better. We are still managing a library of over 600 curated trade-free apps and have released a new ISO almost every single month!
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TROMnews : This year we did a major upgrade to the website. We made it a lot better, more diverse, and relevant. Every month there are thousands of items that are posted to this website.
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VideoNeat : Since 2012 we kept this website relevant and updated. We have over 1.300 documentaries/courses available trade-free!
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Trade-Free Directory : We have over 750 entries in the directory, manually added and reviewed. A must have database of wonderful projects that we will use more in the future. We are trying to add more to the directory whenever we have time.
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TROMSite : Do not forget that we are still providing 2 huge documentaries, over 30 books, and many videos. All trade-free, all full of relevant information. The hope is that we will start to create new content soon!
Lastly, we are almost half way with the support we need to keep these projects alive and relevant! 94 out of 200 people are donating 5 Euros a month! tromsite.com/donate Thank you so much!
If we are not going to fight for a different kind of world, offline or online, and walk the talk, then nothing, for sure, will ever change. We are trying to change the online landscape bit by bit, by providing trade-free, saner services, and scientific content. We need this more than ever in today's idiotic society.
To meet people who think Putin and what he does in Ukraine is ok, or to say that Trump is a good choice for the USA, is quite a shocking experience. Almost like seeing Bigfoot. It is one thing to hear about it, another thing to see it.
It is astonishing to me how some people can be so idiotic and brainwashed. Unbelievable.
I find this opinion quite astonishing considering it is Putin and Russia who decided to invade Ukraine. They had 0 reasons to send hundreds of thousands of soldiers and their tanks into Ukraine's territory to kill people.
So Ukraine did not start any war. The "west" did not start it either. It is Putin. And there is no excuse for it.
if you have an open mind its worth reflecting on the following statement:
NATO is an anti-Russia coalition.
Its probably a good thing there's an anti-Russia coalition; but pushing to continuously expand it is directly opposite to keeping peace. In fact I would argue it is closer to 'war-mongering' than it is to 'pacifism'.
There is no excuse to invade Ukraine and as a result kill hundreds of thousands of people and displace millions. Russia has the most nuclear weapons no NATO will ever attack it. If they wanted to, now it was the perfect opportunity. But they did not.
No one attacks North Korea because they have half a nuclear weapon, so you cannot convince me that NATO or Ukraine ever planned to attack Russia who has thousands of them. This is a Russian excuse that makes 0 sense.
And I do not think NATO are saints, quite the opposite.
I said im no putin defender. In my mind the west did actions they easily couldve conceived would prompt Russia to military action
Russia is 100% responsible for its own actions; but NATO are in my mind at least 40% to blame for causing this war to begin and for the west to continue to support war; they are responsible for every ukrainian that dies from this day forward.
The only result this war can possibly bring is ruin to Ukraine — if not a greater war in addition.
In my mind the west did actions they easily couldve conceived would prompt Russia to military action
This criticism I understand. But Russia's actions made any of such discussion, in my view, pointless at this time. And these discussions have the potential to give some sort of validity to Russia's actions.
Consider this: if Russia wanted to stop the war today, they could. USA, the "west", or Ukraine cannot unless they agree to give up parts of Ukraine to Russia, and agree to more such things. But Russia all they have to do is go back home. That says it all.
If Russia went home; they would have an emboldened NATO ally at their doorstep. This is not an acceptable solution.
Maybe it is not acceptable for Russia, but that's because of the hysteria the Russian leaders have created. Because in truth Russia, due to their actions, made NATO much stronger anyway and made a new NATO neighbor, Finland. Even if Ukraine was part of NATO should not pose any threat to Russia since it is almost unimaginable that NATO would ever attack Russia. Again, if they wanted to, they would have already. Great opportunity now!
So yes, Russia going home would stop the war, no more dead people, no more displaced people, or destruction overall.
That said the minimum terms Russia is likely to accept is keeping all their conquested land so far which as you say is an unacceptable solution.
I did not say is unacceptable, I said Ukraine has something real to lose, their territory, while Russia only their pride.
Ideally Ukraine or whats left needs to be a neutral nation — like it once was
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If Russia went home; they would have an emboldened NATO ally at their doorstep. This is not an acceptable solution.
Maybe it is not acceptable for Russia, but that's because of the hysteria the Russian leaders have created. Because in truth Russia, due to their actions, made NATO much stronger anyway and made a new NATO neighbor, Finland. Even if Ukraine was part of NATO should not pose any threat to Russia since it is almost unimaginable that NATO would ever attack Russia. Again, if they wanted to, they would have already. Great opportunity now!
So yes, Russia going home would stop the war, no more dead people, no more displaced people, or destruction overall.
That said the minimum terms Russia is likely to accept is keeping all their conquested land so far which as you say is an unacceptable solution.
I did not say is unacceptable, I said Ukraine has something real to lose, their territory, while Russia only their pride.
Ideally Ukraine or whats left needs to be a neutral nation — like it once was
And then it got stumped over by Russia and by a crazy man like Putin who talks like Hitler about the USSR, the Russia's history, how Ukraine should not exist, about the Nazis in charge of Ukraine and so much more.
I can tell we wont agree so ill answer your point and give you a final response and we'll call this conversation done.
By the way should be fine to have discussions around these topics. We do not have to fight or "debate". But communication is crucial, else we close ourselves into our own bubbles and then fight with each other when our views become so separate.
Find by me if you do not want to engage anymore, but I am also curious to learn if I am wrong.
I think we share a philosohy there , which is why I gave you a final chance to rebut.
Exposing yourself to views you don't agree with is useful; but human connection is often key to having your opinions challenged -- and social media sucks for genuine connection.
I like to debate, but also often find with strangers I get frusrated quickly and thats not healthy for me; so if I get frustrated I try to civilly end the conversation.
I for one am not impatient or annoyed. I like to discuss calmly and to be open to whatever the other part is saying. Else I would not engage in any such discussions. Just so you know.
I also don't see NATO or "The west" as saints either, and I think it should be pretty clear to anyone now especially after seeing how they reacted to the war in Gaza. Makes me wonder if the reason why these countries support Ukraine is really coming from a good place to help people or they just want to advance their own political agenda. The usual story of people with power deciding to start wars and innocent people dying because of it. If you're born into a poor country that no other countries want anything from then you're fucked 'cause no one's gonna help you in times of war. Also it sucks to see how we humans are still engaging in tribal thinking, whether it be based on race, religion, or whatever..... Only people I can get behind are the volunteers working for humanitarian organizations like Doctors Without Borders
I also don't see NATO or "The west" as saints either, and I think it should be pretty clear to anyone now especially after seeing how they reacted to the war in Gaza. Makes me wonder if the reason why these countries support Ukraine is really coming from a good place to help people or they just want to advance their own political agenda. The usual story of people with power deciding to start wars and innocent people dying because of it. If you're born into a poor country that no other countries want anything from then you're fucked 'cause no one's gonna help you in times of war. Also it sucks to see how we humans are still engaging in tribal thinking, whether it be based on race, religion, or whatever..... Only people I can get behind are the volunteers working for humanitarian organizations like Doctors Without Borders, at least they seem to be genuinely helping people in times of crisis without discrimination or any hidden agenda. But other than that fuck politicians, they all suck! Leaders like Gandhi, Martin Luther king, Nelson Mandela, etc are rare exceptions - these days I didn't think we have any good ones.
TROM Send is back! send.trom.tf/ This time we are using Jirafeau instead of Lufi. It is simpler and easier to use. Encrypted and up to 10GB of file sharing. Enjoy! :)
Since we calculate our Petreon and Liberapay money as "people" (divide the amount by 5) we had to adjust the amount of people who support our 200 for TROM from 99 to 93. It is still great but we need more help ;).
We highly recommend that you use our 200 for TROM to support us and not the above ones since it is easier and most support comes from there anyway.
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Maybe the people from @PeerTube have an answer.
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