Oh wow Matthias and Ann :) that was such a great surprise! Very positive video to see these people doing something to protect these seals.
I have a "technical" question @Dima . Here videos.trom.tf/w/8cqikT49xCZXR… did you put the sounds of that seal separately? When it was breathing? I've seen in many documentaries that they do the sound afterwards, even these little bits, and I think it makes it all more of a close-up experience. Because usually they film from afar and you cannot get a good sound of these creatures. And I love that effect of feeling the closeness of whatever nature they present. It makes it all so much better.
Anyway, I am very happy to see you continuing this work!
Thank you Tio! Yeah, I was staying at Matthias places for a few days while I was in Belgium. And he also invited Ann to join us when we went for the seals :)
So it's very weird, But I was surprised by this sound. The fact that it was so audible, although I was quite far away. No it's real sound :) Imagine that! I just lower a little bit background noise and raise a little-bit his sneezing snoring :) But even without a tweaks it was audible quite well. I have a small shotgun mic on my camera, and it works very good, but it turned out also for a long distance. I really was surprised by that, normally you wouldn't hear that without very long shotgun mic. And I was quite far away :)
But quite often in such videos it will be different sound which is put on top, because it's quite hard to record a video of a wildlife and also record proper sound of it. Especially in a distance.
Ahh ok. Interesting, that for sure must've been loud. Because I thought you added that effect after since you were quite far away from what I could see in the video.
Our Friendica instance got updated to the latest stable and all of our custom themes were updated and we added 2 more: Brown and Grey.
Go to Settings - Display to test them out.
They will be shared with the Friendica's developers if they want to include them in the default Friendica's themes or get some ideas about future changes.
Big thanks to these people who create Friendica for being so awesome and for keeping Friendica so useful and feature-rich!
I am working on the new themes for our Friendica. From scratch and this time with the least amount of changes so that they will be compatible with future changes to the core friendica theme. And I will share these ones with the Friendica devs maybe they wanna include them in the official Friendica release or get inspired idk.
I think I will be done with them in a day or two.
So for now the friendica update went well. All seems to work. Except that I see a ton of processes in the queue...
The old issues....will have to check these days in more detail. I hope Friendica won't collapse because of that 😄
If you are using our Friendica instance you can already use the TROM Red Light theme that's almost done. And the "Test" theme that's the dark variant of it - but that's not fully done.
hahaha yes. but the thing is the YNH package will take some time probably to update to the 2024 one. plus we need to test some stuff for the ynh package.
That's the building of European commission, I would say one of the most important buildings in EU. And you can feel it, first of all you need to register way in advance before the event, they made you a pass for the day, and not only day but only for the specific hours of your visit.
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That's the building of European commission, I would say one of the most important buildings in EU. And you can feel it, first of all you need to register way in advance before the event, they made you a pass for the day, and not only day but only for the specific hours of your visit.
The place feels like an airport, they have quite serious security and scanners like at any airport.
It's a huuuuuuuge building, I can't even imagine how many thousands of people works or present there every day. Last week I was visiting it as I took a part in Climate Pact Conference there. I am climate pact ambassador of Latvia, and that was my first offline event at this position. The whole building is full of artworks, paintings, sculptures and countless maze of halls. By the way I wasn't allowed to freely walk there, there was always people who was making sure that we are staying only in the places we supposed to stay.
So yeah, quite fancy and stylish place. During the day I attended several talks, discussions and panels. There were about 170 attendants, some like me ambassadors from other countries. It was a nice mix of various people from all possible backgrounds but all sharing the same passion and dedication for ecology. I've met marine biologists, actors, molecular scientists, photographers, politicians, business people, athletes, musicians, engineers. And I love the idea and the fact that each of them doing something trough their field their expertise for the climate.
I was sitting in such chair listening and participating in some climate related discussions. For example about online green washing or climate deniers online. How algorithms push conspiracy and anti climate change topics and so on.
All day was fun and good, they even served everyone vegetarian and vegan food. In fact it was only that, there was no meat or fish. Which is awesome. So what I have learned and took for myself after whole day there ? Well, honestly not much.... As soon as I left the event and was about to call Mara, I stopped and tried to realize, ok what should I tell her know. What was all this event about. And you know what. I couldn't remember anything... I was almost like blinded, someone erased my memory. During the day I heard so many politicians, MP's, presidents of all kinds of departments. They been talking, talking and talking. On a simple question they will give you 15 minute long answer, so while they are replying you already forgot what you been asking. And the end is always the same, it's Yes, but No. Or not Yes or not No. But since you already forgot the question and they speak so much with smart terminology you are just confused.
The main realization was that we have politicians only to speak. It's their job - speak. And that's it, they don't need to do much more, maybe vote :) But mainly speak and speak and speak. So the whole day felt a bit like a fast food, you eaten something, but you haven't received any nutrients and after 1 hour you will be hungry again....
I was thinking maybe they will inspire me to do something more, or they will offer some kind of projects, collaborations or so on. But no, I was naive, or I have no clue what politics is about. I think politics is not for me. But as yesterday my friend told me even if it's small changes that can be done with the help of politics and policy making it still worth the fight. It kind of encouraged me. And he is right, we should fight even if there is some slight chance for a change or improvement. So I will see how my "political" career will unfold :) for know I am mainly researching and looking into it, if it's something I can do. But still at the moment I feel for me it's better to go and plant a tree or save a turtle rather than attend a conference.
But all fights are important, and we should do everything what is in our capabilities. If you would like to support me and read more of my blogs you can join me on patreon : patreon.com/BeBraveToAct[/shar…
We provide Mastodon/Peertube/Nextcloud/Friendica and more, as a service. For a cost. Just order and have your own instance, no headaches.
I always do trade-free stuff, but since I am trapped in this trade-system and I do not get enough financial support via the projects that I do, I have to also trade a bit.
WebApe webape.site/ is what I do to trade. Basically we create websites, install Mastodon/Friendica instances, Peertube, Nextcloud, etc.. We setup, manage, update, customize.
We try to do something decent and make some money with that, to then support our free projects.
So if you want a Mastodon instance for example, or any other website/service, please see webape.site/. I have lowered the prices now, so a Mastodon instance starts at 30 Euros per month.
We will take a limited amount of websites so to not overwhelm ourselves.
Please share if you think others might be interested. In a way, we can make the fediverse more known and accessible via the WebServices that we provide.
The paper world. Spain is the captain of bullshit. Sasha's papers, to allow her to stay legally in Spain, are still in waiting.....6 months on, after tried for 4 years and we've been told it will only take 2 or so months when we last submitted the papers 6 months ago.
Anyway. Now I lost my bullshit paper with my residency. I only have a copy that I have used successfully whenever needed, but for the driving school I need the original one.
Listen to this: I go to the local police to report it as lost. They say "Oh no, we do not deal with this, go to the regional police.". I go to the regional police, they tell me "Oh no, we do not deal with this, got to the national police." We call the national police, they tell us that in fact a sub-division of them deals with this.... We call the sub-division and they tell us "Oh no, the national police deals with this..."
I swear I can't make this shit up.
Eventually we are given a website that we can use to make an appointment. We try to make one for the past hour, we can't. We are told "try later...". We know this onli
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The paper world. Spain is the captain of bullshit. Sasha's papers, to allow her to stay legally in Spain, are still in waiting.....6 months on, after tried for 4 years and we've been told it will only take 2 or so months when we last submitted the papers 6 months ago.
Anyway. Now I lost my bullshit paper with my residency. I only have a copy that I have used successfully whenever needed, but for the driving school I need the original one.
Listen to this: I go to the local police to report it as lost. They say "Oh no, we do not deal with this, go to the regional police.". I go to the regional police, they tell me "Oh no, we do not deal with this, got to the national police." We call the national police, they tell us that in fact a sub-division of them deals with this.... We call the sub-division and they tell us "Oh no, the national police deals with this..."
I swear I can't make this shit up.
Eventually we are given a website that we can use to make an appointment. We try to make one for the past hour, we can't. We are told "try later...". We know this online appointment thing in Spain and it never works. We know people here who tried for several years (no joking) to make such appointments.
Yeah. Planet Earth. Welcome to the Paper World. Are humans the "only intelligent" species in the Universe!? FOR SURE! :)
Omfg.. this is nonsense 😑 Took me half of a year to renew my papers as well but more than that is just a fuckin joke 😡 I share your frustration about this fuckery. Hope it will happen soon for Sasha 🙏 Entire system is bloated and ineffective af..
Yeah we are all trapped in nonsense....and for what!? Fuck nothing. But I will survive. We will survive :). I know how much shit you also had to go through. Insane.
Since there are still some people who donate regularly via Patreon or Liberapay for our project, we have added that amount of money to our 200 for TROM campaign, as "people" supporting us. In a way that would be around 76 people out of 200 that we need. tromsite.com/donate/
Not bad. Almost 40% of the support that we need.
If we'll reach 100% then TROM will be sustainable indefinitely.
Massive THANK YOU to the anonymous donation that covers all of our backups for another year! Massive thank you! https://www.tromsite.com/trom-backup/
This for sure boosts the confidence around TROM, that there are some people out there who can help out when TROM is in need. Hopefully more updates to come the following weeks about the new video series!
That being said we have removed the email notifications when new posts are created for all of our websites: tromjaro.com, videoneat.com, directory.trade-free.org, and so forth. This was done because the plugin we were using was discontinued for security reasons, but also because it is not a great idea to send emails like that, from a Wordpress website. And on top of this very very few people were using this feature.
All of our websites have a "follow" page where you can follow them via RSS or the fediverse.
We are so surprised to see Spain struggling with one digit temperatures while poor tribes in the Eastern EU are doing just fine with minus degrees outside. In other words, in Spain you'll freeze inside your home in the "winter" even if outside are no less than 10 degrees and sunny, simply because they do not insulate their houses much. Thus, it is a massive loss of energy (and thus pollution), and a lot of discomfort for people. It is not unusual for people here to stay with their shoes on and their jackets inside the house...
UK is in a similar, or worse situation, and now I'm reading "Failure to insulate UK homes costing thousands of lives a year, says report" theguardian.com/environment/20…
Insane! I bet there are thousands in Spain that also die because of this.
So not only that it is a massive energy loss and pollution as a result from using fossil fuels to create that energ
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We are so surprised to see Spain struggling with one digit temperatures while poor tribes in the Eastern EU are doing just fine with minus degrees outside. In other words, in Spain you'll freeze inside your home in the "winter" even if outside are no less than 10 degrees and sunny, simply because they do not insulate their houses much. Thus, it is a massive loss of energy (and thus pollution), and a lot of discomfort for people. It is not unusual for people here to stay with their shoes on and their jackets inside the house...
UK is in a similar, or worse situation, and now I'm reading "Failure to insulate UK homes costing thousands of lives a year, says report" theguardian.com/environment/20…
Insane! I bet there are thousands in Spain that also die because of this.
So not only that it is a massive energy loss and pollution as a result from using fossil fuels to create that energy; not only it is a lot of discomfort for people. But some are dying as a result, possibly thousands....
And all they have to do is to INSULATE THE HOUSES. Easy!
Thank you Wojmir for the 10 Euros donation! Let us remind you that we desperately need help to fund our backups for all of our projects. We need to raise 300 Euros in less than 2 weeks. https://www.tromsite.com/trom-backup/
To keep on doing trade-free things in a trade-based world is a fight that requires a lot of struggles, almost like swimming against a tsunami. But what is the alternative? Give up and not do anything? That's by far the easiest solution since the water current will push you into the "normal" direction. But for now we are still trying with TROM. We have reached many thousands of minds and with very little funding required. Thus, if you think TROM is still relevant, consider to support it since I (Tio) cannot push it all by myself.
Big thanks to the few people who are still supporting TROM, financially or not.
Welcome to Earth, where trade is the main practice that everyone is a follower of, willingly or not. Where humans care mostly, if not entirely, about trade and how to maximize their advantage.
How can we get ourselves out of this shit, unless we start by understanding what the shit is made of!?
First: understand the problem. TRADE. The fact that we've built a society where you cannot survive unless you trade this for that. Once we understand this, hopefully we can tackle it. Give people a way to have a decent life, access to at least their basic needs as trade-free, and then try to replace more and more trade-based services (like say transportation) with trade-free alternatives.
Volunteers plus trade-free goods/services can create more of them, replicating over time and replacing the cancerous trade-based practices.
Learn how to fight deforestation in paperback :) haha Some time ago there was an album of singer Jack Johnson who with it was fighting the plastic pollution. He made a nice music video collecting plastic on a beach, and was promoting especially problem on the beaches of Hawaii, of course the album was in a plastic CD format :) I pointed out that in the comments, and I believe his manager replied that if I don't want CD i can buy digital download :) But the fact that they are selling hundreds of thousands of plastic CD's haven't confused him at all :)
Yeah I am so not surprised. I wonder if these people understand the irony and choose to ignore it because they make money off of it, or simply they cannot see the connection there....
We have 2 weeks to raise 300 Euros to pay for our yearly backups for everything that we do for TROM. From TROM.tf services to our materials, our Nextcloud instances and everything in between. If you can please donate here https://www.tromsite.com/trom-backup/
If we cannot cover the costs of the backups then we will cut the backups short and not backup several of our services for more than a day or two. This will lead to the future cuts we will do at the end of the year if we cannot get enough financial support for TROM overall https://www.tromsite.com/donate/. It is unfortunate and I (Tio) will do my best to keep this project active and relevant, but I cannot run 20+ projects without enough financial support.
It is unfortunate and it makes me very depressed to accept that, but I am ready to accept it if by the end of the year nothing major changes in regards to the financial support we are receiving for TROM.
I will still do my best to start a new video series for TROM this year and will see what more.
Much respect for those who are still supporting TROM financially after so many years.
One of the things I've learned from the driving school is that newer cars that have a lot of safety features, are involved in more accidents than older cars that lack these features. They say it is because people do not know how to use these features or are more confident while driving thinking that the "safety" features are going to protect them.
Isn't it interesting!? Where is that news ha!?
Everyone talks about the new cool features in these new cars, but isn't it extraordinary to learn that they are less safe than old cars?
it's unfortunate that you're having to learn from a bad English translation, but relevant info like this is what they should be teaching at driving school.
We need help to pay for our backups. This is a yearly funding campaign that we do, so if you can help us please see here https://www.tromsite.com/trom-backup/ - we only need 300 Euros for a full year of 4TB encrypted backups.
This means everything from our videos and documentaries, books, websites, including trom.tf (meaning all of the files that users have uploaded to our services - from Peertube videos to Nextcloud files). Everything!
300 Euros to make sure that we have everything backed-up in a secure place.
Please help if you can and thanks a lot for doing that!
This Rats Search app is amazing github.com/DEgITx/rats-search - it lets you search on the Bittorrent network and download from there. No website needed. Unfortunately the interface really looks like some rats on a boat did it...
Does anyone else know a similar application? I'd like to even include it into TROMjaro if the Interface does not suck like this one does....
Recycling Doesn’t Work—and the Plastics Industry Knew It
And here we go about the waste.. As I have said many times, recycling plastic is not a solution, but rather a convenient distraction and a way to shift the responsibility of large companies for mass production of plastic onto the shoulders of the people. There are some very disturbing news that recycling is not going to help in a long run and there is only 5-6% of collected plastics estimated as being recycled (![url=https://cobaltkiss.blue/users/MostlyHarmless])[/url]. On the other hand, the poorest countries and regions suffer the most from toxic waste products and landfills, because this brings the greatest profit, and if this is still the case, the problem will never be solved.
We need more trade-free goods and services that can be designed from the scratch to reduce the waste, instead of generation the endless profit or competition advantage. In this way, more devices and products that are reusable, free to use, repairable, and durable can benefit our Planet's environment and Human society as a whole.
Great videos @Dima - I like the fact that the way you film and edit them makes it so easy to follow. From music and the audio overall, or the cuts, you do a great job. People should be more aware of the so many volunteers out there doing good work.
Great videos @Dima - I like the fact that the way you film and edit them makes it so easy to follow. From music and the audio overall, or the cuts, you do a great job. People should be more aware of the so many volunteers out there doing good work.
In February I've joined Slovakian Bat Conservation Society for their yearly census of bats in Opal mines. That's the oldest opal mines in the world, for around 100 they been closed, and recently opened for tourism. But it also perfect place for bats to hibernate during winter. And that's why it's the best time to count them to monitor their population.
that's great to hear. Because you know when my videos are not seen by many I always tend to think that it's because my production suck. Especially storytelling, like people get bored watching it, and it's my fault, because i have work more on the story flow and how to make it interesting. So I work a lot on that, to improve it. But then maybe it's not me, but the overall topics I choose to highlight, the algorithm game, values and interests of the people, and over saturation of content . In other words it's a mystery to me, which I try to solve, to understand what should i do next to make more people care about such stuff.
Yeah every year there are hibernating around 8000 bats and 13 different species
From my perspective and others' too, you not only do good, but great at that. To me it seems like a BBC production at times haha, like the documentaries I watch from BBC. I think is the way you follow the volunteers, the camera work, but also the audio like you feel that you are there when you watch it. It follows the story very well. You also add the human factor there, with the people involved and interview them a little bit and that makes it more personal - not just some researchers going through some caves, but you see these are real people who care about what they do.
Overall from my perspective you do great. The subjects you pick are very interesting for me, but yeah for today's retarded society may not be that attractive like most science/educational content is. But definitely I would not say the videos are boring. Quite the opposite.
Yeah I think you do a fantastic job with your videos, @Dima really professional and really interesting, from the story-telling, to the interviews, to the cuts, music and everything. It's just that in today's world, you have to make 10-second dancing videos to get lots of views. Where are those, Dima?!?!? 😆 haha but really, don't let that get you down, you make important and informative content in an interesting way, that's what matters.
ohh that's great Idea Sasha, will go to dance for a few seconds now :) finally some viral content ! Thank you, also great to hear that you enjoy my videos.
Dima
in reply to Tio • •Thank you Tio!
Yeah, I was staying at Matthias places for a few days while I was in Belgium. And he also invited Ann to join us when we went for the seals :)
So it's very weird, But I was surprised by this sound. The fact that it was so audible, although I was quite far away. No it's real sound :) Imagine that! I just lower a little bit background noise and raise a little-bit his sneezing snoring :) But even without a tweaks it was audible quite well. I have a small shotgun mic on my camera, and it works very good, but it turned out also for a long distance. I really was surprised by that, normally you wouldn't hear that without very long shotgun mic. And I was quite far away :)
But quite often in such videos it will be different sound which is put on top, because it's quite hard to record a video of a wildlife and also record proper sound of it. Especially in a distance.
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in reply to Dima • •Ahh ok. Interesting, that for sure must've been loud. Because I thought you added that effect after since you were quite far away from what I could see in the video.
Great job as usual!
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