The ZDay event and the fun days with the fun people are over now. I am just with @Roma and we will chill, relax, and plan for the future of TROM :). Well, he has to work....unfortunately.... I wish he would not have to.
So everyone left. Well, except one girl who is from Prague and came to the event because of TROM. That was super cool. She, Lenka, is such a nice person and we spent a lot of time together. This week we will for sure meet again. I will still stay in Prague for a week or so.
I will work on the presentation video and I will perhaps make a bigger post about the entire experience. Stay tuned! #tromstuff
hahaha guess why? when i tried to take a landscape one @Fedilab Apps deleted my message and showed no photo. i dont have time to report this but maybe someone can replicate. i was quite pissed off that i had to take a vertical photo hahaha
It makes me so happy when I see new people donating to our 200 For TROM campaign tromsite.com/donate/ :) - even if we still need a lot more to achieve the goal, I feel hopeful because donating 5 Euros a month is not that much and this can be sustainable for a long long time.
If you use any of our TROM.tf services, or TROMjaro, or VideoNeat, or enjoy the content that we do via TROM and can support us with 5 Euros a month, it would be amazing!
You know we are running out of disk space for TROM.tf so I will have to move Peertube to an object storage solution soon, and that would cost me a few bucks a month and a lot of time perfecting it. So even 2-3 people donating 5 Euros a month can pay for this big change that would also allow us to increase the quota for our TROM Files for instance.
If you can, do it please. If not, at least a share could help ;)
TROM II is now fully translated into Romanian thanks to @Georgi who worked like crazy for the past months to do it.
It is particularly difficult to translate into Romanian because this language comes in 2 main flavors: the official language and the language that people normally speak. And there can be a big difference between the two.
Georgi tried as much as possible to translate in a way that people talk and not in this official robot-like way. She used Kdenlive for the entire translation process.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023Â Â /Â Â Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
I had to restore a snapshot of the server to get back to a working Friendica. We almost did it but the loading times for Friendica were terrible. I opened an issue here github.com/friendica/friendica… but I need to wait after my Prague presentation in 2 days time to try and update, else it is pretty stupid to present Friendica when our instance does not work properly :D
Updating the Friendica YNH package was always a huge mess and I should not do it before such an event.
Some data that was created for the past 10h on trom.tf may have been lost. This was something that I had to do. Sorry about that.
This is something so weird and I still do not understand it. Context. This is our instance https://social.trom.tf . Our database is around 30GB in size. We use a daemon for Friendica with these con...
!Friendica Admins Our database is around 30GB in size and I use the YNH package plus BORG to backup to a remote location. Problem is that midway the database fails to backup because:
2023-08-19 00:35:12,150: WARNING - mysqldump: Error 1412: Table definition has changed, please retry transaction when dumping table inbox-entry at row: 0
Now I put friendica in maintenance before the backup but that means having it unavailable for 30 minutes while the database is being dumped. Is there a better way?
The latest FreeTube release is amazing! freetubeapp.io/ - Now all works perfectly fine even with a local API so no need for 3rd party like Invidious. Now you have the option to replace the clickbait titles with community generated titles so that you know wtf a video is about.
You can replace the thumbnails too and also skip all sponsored and BS parts of a video.
If you wanna watch Youtube and stay sane and enjoy it, FreeTube is absolutely amazing. Get to see how a trade-free youtube can look like.
Maybe I want to do an experiment when I will do the Prague presentation. What if we try to stream it to our Peertube via a mobile phone? :) Is there a FOSS app that allows us to directly stream RTMP to @PeerTube ? Anyone knows? Am curious.... #tromstuff
EDIT: Ok I can stream with the awesome Peertube Live app codeberg.org/Schoumi/PeerTubeL… but they need to update it to support the new Peertube API. If they do it in time and I can create permanent lives and with transcoding, we can give it a shot and stream the Prague presentation to our Peertube.
Basically it just sends video directly from browser to browser, and apparently works to stream from phone too. I remember having to tweak the advanced settings to get the best out of it, but maybe the defaults work better these days: docs.vdo.ninja/advanced-settin… github.com/steveseguin/vdo.nin…
@futureisfoss I have no experience with PeerTube, but from a quick look at the docs for that I guess it should work with their "Import with URL" option?
@futureisfoss This might also be of interest for more advanced uses, but I don't think you should need anything extra to the above just to send a simple stream to Peertube: github.com/steveseguin/social_… docs.vdo.ninja/steves-helper-a… " peertube (triggers on: https://*/plugins/livechat/router/webchat/room/) "
@futureisfoss There are also native Android and iOS apps for it, but not sure if they are preferred over the browser version...
While the VDO.Ninja browser-based app version is suggested for most users, this native Android app version has a few key advantages: - Can stream video while running in the background or with the screen off - Screen sharing is supported, including the sharing of third-party apps - Works on certain devices that won't support webRTC via the browser
The @YunoHost package for Friendica has not been updated in many months github.com/YunoHost-Apps/frien… - we are trying to figure out but personally I am lost. If anyone can please help out? I think it is a must to give some love to Friendica and fix the update issue.
If @Michael Vogel @Tobias or @Hypolite Petovan have any time to quickly look why it fails, could be awesome :D - but if you are busy totally understood.
I see 140125 WARNING ERROR 1146 (42S02) at line 1: Table 'friendica.addon' doesn't exist
In any case we must find a way to update the package. I pinged some friends, let's see :D
Soon I will do a presentation in Prague about our TROM project and a good part of the presentation is about the Fediverse and Friendica, so I'd like our instance to be up to date of course, and showcase to people a new social network basically. Any help is also a sort of help to push more people to migrate from FB and the like, to Friendica and the fediverse overall.
@Tio I'm not sure what this error is about. More context is needed. The addon table is part of Friendica Core and should be created during the regular install.
However the addon table should be created by the following statement in database.sql:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `addon` (
`id` int unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment COMMENT '',
`name` varchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' COMMENT 'addon base (file)name',
`version` varchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' COMMENT 'currently unuse
Thank you so much for the input and the comment you left on github. I will ask the ynh devs to look closely into what you have asked. I love Friendica and YNH allows people to easily install it. I hope we can fix it :).
Yes that's what I meant when I mentioned your github comment. I pinged the YNH developers to make sure they are aware of it. I appreciate you taking time to look a bit into it.
I kinda finished the presentation for ZDay! :) Am happy with it. Around 40 minutes long and I tried to make it fun and interesting and put things in a different perspective from what I did in our previous TROM materials. So even those familiar with TROM may find it, I hope, interesting.
75 slides, and a lot of animated stuff :). I LOVE LibreOffice Presentations. Trade-Free software at its best. You can make some really cool presentations with it.
Half the talk will be about what our society is made of. You know, trade...and how it influences everything. The other half is about our trade-free approach. I will also explain The Fediverse, will talk about TROMjaro and our other tools.
These days I need to get ready for the trip. How awesome that I now have a good laptop that I can take with me, thanks mostly to Roma and Gui who donated money so that I can buy it. I definitely use it mostly for TROM.
That's all. I kinda struggled with this presentation and I worked on it quite a lot. But now that it is done I am relieved ;).
Instead of us killing the cancer cells, or explore the Earth and outer space, humans are dragged into pointless conflicts that in the end amount to nothing. Shame!
Absolutely mindblowing fuckup it is.. Indeed the human imagination's so powerful to invent fictious values to justify the unreasonable conflicts, instead of using all its potential to make unimaginable progress and conquer new horizons.
@esh the money, resources, time, energy and most of all the human lives we spend on wars, if only we put the same kinda effort into doing something good and positive for the world....... *smh*
On the 26th of August, in less than 2 weeks, I (Tio) will go to Prague for the last ZDay event. ZDay, or Zeitgeist Day, is a global yearly event organized by the Zeitgeist Movement (TZM). It is meant to invite people from all around the world to present similar ideas to those that Zeitgeist stands behind. TROM started soon after the Zeitgeist Movement sparked into existence as the activism arm of The Venus Project. Our views are very similar and we are heading towards the same direction.
TZM will stop organizing these ZDay events because it tries to decentralize itself. So this will be the last ZDay, therefore I thought it would be a shame to never have participated in this event, so I contacted the organizers and asked if I can come. They were very familiar with TROM and happy to have me there. We've just released a new documentary so this is a perfect timing for such a presentation.
The event will be in Prague at the Spojka KarlĂn Events on 26th this month. It will start on 12:00 and end at 18:00. There will be 6 speakers in total. 4 will do their presentations in Czech and 2 in English (one of them is me). This is the official website for the event zeitgeistmovement.cz/2023/07/1…
All of the presentations will be translated live via personal headphones that the audience can wear. The event can host up to 120 people and over 50 seats are already booked. In order to participate you have to book here cloud.tzm.community/apps/forms…
It does not cost money to participate.
My talk will be called "How to Grow a Saner Society. A Lifetime Adventure." and I will try to keep it more positive. I will talk about our trade-free approach, the TROM.tf project, and a lot more. But I will try to put it all in a new unique perspective. The talk will be 30-40 minutes long and it will be recorded. We will upload it to our Peertube whenever it will be available.
This is a first for me, so let's see how it goes. If you want to meet up, please come to the Prague event if you can! 5 of us from TROM will be there including Roma, Aaron, Vicky and Rafa.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023Â Â /Â Â Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
If people think that TROMjaro is "just another distro" then they don't know what they are talking about. Here's a sample of what we pushed recently to make the desktop experience better than most "distros" that I know, perhaps there is none that deals with theming and HiDPI, and fonts, and consistency and more in a better way than TROMjaro.
You know I watched one of the latest videos from @Nick @ The Linux Experiment where he talks about theming the Flatpaks. So complicated for the average user. Guess what!? We do it better and automatically, and we also sync GTK with QT, and fonts, and icons. If only more people would take a serious look at TROMjaro and by all means use the changes we made for your distro!
Tomorrow we will release a cool new TROMjaro ISO :) - if I team with @Rokosun and @Roma we create cool shit :) - you'll see.
Also, am working on the ZDay presentation. So far so good. I LOVE the LibreOffice Presentation. So bloody cool. I will send a newsletter about the ZDay event tomorrow or the day after. I was waiting for the organizers to send me the official "promo" for me....but they are busy with personal stuff so I would send a newsletter even without that. It is fine, just that on their website zeitgeistmovement.cz/2023/07/1… that leads to a FB event for ZDay my name is not listed, so some people may think that it is not confirmed. But it is.
@Dima I was watching the video, very well made, but at one point when they were talking about bringing more tourists I was like ahhhh damn....sounds good for them now, but fuck this will definitely ruin things in the long run. Then came your commentary about this society and trade and how this will fuck things up in the future. And I was like YAH Dima! Great!
Great job at showcasing these things, to combine the great work that these people do, but also more relevant commentary from you.
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@Dima I was watching the video, very well made, but at one point when they were talking about bringing more tourists I was like ahhhh damn....sounds good for them now, but fuck this will definitely ruin things in the long run. Then came your commentary about this society and trade and how this will fuck things up in the future. And I was like YAH Dima! Great!
Great job at showcasing these things, to combine the great work that these people do, but also more relevant commentary from you.
@Dima continues his volunteering adventures, showcasing how we can do better at restoring the nature and helping people. But also why we should seriously think about changing the foundation of our society if we are to have any long term positive impact.
Thank @Tio . I knew you going to like it :) haha. But yeah that was my disappointment when I was at this camp, that they really hope for the tourism. And i tried to speak about it with them about the trade and future problems, but no luck. On the other hand there are no other options to stop this Hydropower otherwise. Locals are brainwashed that power plant will be good for them, so tourists maybe the only alternative for now, to convince them otherwise. Anyway it's a mess and a lot of corruption.
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