Only 3 minutes left out of the TROM II documentary, last part :D. Yah. Getting there! But since these last 3 minutes might be quite important, it may take me a few days to edit them. Can't believe I am getting so close.
In other news, I started to unfollow a lot of people on the fediverse because my newsfeed became uninteresting. And I will unfollow a ton more. I only want to follow a few interesting creatures. The more you follow the more of a shitstorm your newsfeed will be. And with friendica I can also follow RSS sources so it would be a shame to ruin my experience here :D. Thus far it works and my newsfeed is more attractive for me now.
Anyway, probably my next TROM II update will be when I'll be done with the last part.
TROM Office will be removed from trom.tf/ towards the end of this year. This is a Cryptpad instance and here are the reasons:
1. We already provide a full Office Suite via TROM Files that is far better than the one provided by Cryptpad. 2. Sure, you need an account for TROM Files, but if you want a quick way to create a document we already have TROM Text. 3. We also have TROM Sketch in case you want to draw.
Therefore Cryptpad was not adding anything new. The last drop that filled the glass of decisions was that Cryptpad is offensively aggressive in the way that they inject the donate buttons in the app itself. Popups, multiple buttons, and so forth. Totally understandable that these projects need financial support but this way of asking for support is way too aggressive. On top of that they are changing the design of their service quite a lot and it is quite difficult to customize it, so every update breaks our clean TROM design.
Therefore no more Cryptpad.
Do not worry, it will be around for many months from now on, but it will not be visible from our main TROM page.
TROM II despite being some 5h long and covering lots of topics, does not use stock footage at all. I cut pieces and parts from hundreds of documentaries. Almost every piece of footage has a story. For example one time we talk about how humans, if they had more time, could learn more about how this world works, and I showcase footage with real scientists looking at real data and real stuff that they study. Not some random dudes and dudes pointing and fake shit. That's the kind of editing I have done.
I want TROM II to be genuine. And stock footage sucks. So yeah, I used only real footage from real events. And that was, and still is, insanely difficult. To cut pieces from hundreds of documentaries is a bit insane....luckily VideoNeat is my friend. I have collected thousands of documentaries there over the past 10+ years. All available for free.
So yeah....a ton of work.
Speaking of TROM II I finished a bit over 1h. Not much left out of the last part. But the end of the documentary should be very good, at least from my perspective. So I want to not rush with that.
This is something I've always loved about your work, first time I read one of your books I could see that there is a level of authenticity to it, the topics you were trying to cover was very big and it may not have cleared all my questions at first, but that uniqueness and genuineness in your writing is what kept me going and made me curious to explore more and look for answers.
You are very kind. By the way for the TROM books, at least the first ones, I did use stock images since back then stock images were not very much used like today, so it felt alright to use them. Now I hate stock images/videos. Like hate with a passion :D.
Anyway, I hope the documentary is interesting for you. May not be any new info for you tho....so yeah be aware of that haha.
I was talking more about the writing itself and the ideas you were trying to share, not the pictures on the book. And yes I remember there were a few stock images used, but you also made a lot of comic like characters which made it more interesting 😄
Just so everyone knows, boobs and genitalia are not bad. They can cause a lot of pleasure. Penises too. And overall the naked human body.
Therefore we won't remove any video from our Peertube instance just because some people are too sensitive to the naked body. You know, you too heave one. Enjoy it!
Guns, poverty, wars, violent games, ads, and so forth, are the ones we should stay away from and consider unacceptable. Not the naked human body.
Today I take a first look at TROMJaro, a Manjaro-based, XFCE distro that has a lot of awesome customizations.
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This is one of my favorite documentaries of all time, and I've watched thousands of documentaries and I've recommended a ton via videoneat.com
Why this? Because it is about perhaps the most fascinating fantasy that can be true: the existence of other civilizations out there. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our own galaxy. Now probably most of these stars have planets orbiting them. And many planets have moons. Planets and Moons can host life, and thus a civilization. So multiply the number of stars with the number of planets+moons. Now multiply all of that with billions and billions of galaxies out there....
There is no way we are alone in this Universe. Another form of life that developed into what we may call as "civilization" should be so different from us, and that fascinates me. Very likely we can't ever communicate with them. I wrote a book about language that opened my eyes about this entire "communicate with another being" sort of thing. I highly recommend it -
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This is one of my favorite documentaries of all time, and I've watched thousands of documentaries and I've recommended a ton via videoneat.com
Why this? Because it is about perhaps the most fascinating fantasy that can be true: the existence of other civilizations out there. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our own galaxy. Now probably most of these stars have planets orbiting them. And many planets have moons. Planets and Moons can host life, and thus a civilization. So multiply the number of stars with the number of planets+moons. Now multiply all of that with billions and billions of galaxies out there....
There is no way we are alone in this Universe. Another form of life that developed into what we may call as "civilization" should be so different from us, and that fascinates me. Very likely we can't ever communicate with them. I wrote a book about language that opened my eyes about this entire "communicate with another being" sort of thing. I highly recommend it - tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-d…
Now this documentary is not your average bullshit "UFO Aliens" documentary. It is the opposite. It is realistic and it interviews the experts in the filed. Plus they made a movie-like scenario on top of the interviews, to showcase how it would be if we discover an extraterrestrial civilization. And they did fantastic. I hate movies, they are boring, but in this case it was a great great addition. After all we can only imagine how such an encounter would be.
I highly recommend this. I LOVED it. And fuck all of those UFO BS nonsense you hear about lately. This is the opposite of those nonsense discussions.
I finally managed to get back to work on TROM II again. 57 minutes done. Basically now I only have a 10 minutes chunk to do. If that's done then I only have 3 more minutes, the last ones of the entire documentary.
You have to understand that this documentary was not scripted, nor did I have an idea about how it will end up. Just some 40 hours of interviews with 5 people over the course of half a year. So I had to put this puzzle together somehow. Hopefully it will make sense.
I am confident that March will be the month I'll finish it all. I say that because even after I finish this last part I need to go through the entire documentary and improve a few bits here and there.
Here's one of the many examples of "reality is more interesting than movies". This is a wonderful story of two humans. Two scientists. Who wanted to understand the Earth. Interesting, sad, and tragic story. Who the fuck needs movies when reality is better in any regard!?
videoneat.com is a website I run since 2012 and all of the documentaries there can be downloaded via the Bittorrent network. Check the "magnet" links for any of them.
Seriously folks, documentaries are really underrated. If you're someone who's even remotely interested in science or is curious about the world we live in then I highly recommend giving it a try.
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Very interesting. Listen I have another "theory": shocker but every single galaxy we have observed so far is actually our own at different stages. Even when there are a few colliding it is an illusion. :) Even more shocking than my Black Balls theory.
No but seriously now, I love when experiments/observations of this kind do not match what scientists expect. Why? Because it is fascinating. The reality may be so different from what we know now. Maybe there was no "big bang" but something else....maybe the theory of galaxy formation is wrong. You know they had to kinda "invent" the "dark matter" to explain how galaxies are held in place. Then "dark energy" to explain why the universe expands at increasing rates...
So yeah, fascinating. Very :) - I love the Universe. It is such a wonderful garden full of mysteries.
> Very interesting. Listen I have another "theory": shocker but every single galaxy we have observed so far is actually our own at different stages. Even when there are a few colliding it is an illusion. 😀
Someone should take all your theories and make a science fiction novel or something, I swear I'd love them, haha 😄
Curved universe is a fascinating concept, we can never know for sure how the entire universe is shaped like. But in that video he points out that scientists have tried to measure the curvature of our observable universe and with a margin of + or - 0.4% they think that its flat. So considering the fact that we can only observe galaxies inside the observable universe then its very unlikely that we're seeing our own galaxy 🤔
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Also if we're seeing our own galaxy at different points of time then wouldn't we be able to tell because of the similarities? I mean, when we look at all the galaxies they're very different from each other in shape, size, and even colors or matter it contains.
If you watched the video I linked above, there's also a pinned comment below it where he corrects some mistake he made. He says that in a round universe, earth (or galaxy in our case) would be stretched across the sky, kinda like if you step inside a spherical mirror you'll see your face and entire body stretched across its surface. So in the video he shows that we see another earth when he zooms in, but in reality we'll be seeing earth stretched across the entire screen.
I am skeptical about dimensions haha. I never understood them. They sound to me like just a mathematical concept. But can't figure if it is just that....
What are dimensions in the first place? Besides the mathematical concept? Isn't everything "3d"? Even a sheet of paper is 3d since it has a width. Even if it is 1 atom thick that's still 3d. There are no dimensions other than this "3d" one we live in, isn't it?
idk observations, experiments, maybe it is irrelevant to even think of the universe as having a "shape". Maybe the universe is all that is/exists, and thus has no particular shape just an infinite space. idk....it is weird. But I never understood this concept of dimensions except when you talk about maths and physics. I find the concept weird and maybe it is not even a real thing.
Of course dimensions are just a concept since we can't actually observe any other dimensions than the one we live in. And most of mathematics are imaginary things like that, even though they can be useful for solving problems sometimes. Like for example, what do we mean by negative numbers? We can never actually have a negative number of things in real life, so its like an imaginary concept that can be a useful tool sometimes.
Yes but the video you showed me used these "dimensions" to "prove" that we live in a "flat" universe and not a "round" one. :) - To me that was a silly explanation but maybe I don't understand.
The video didn't prove anything, he just mentioned that some scientists have tried to analyse the shape of the universe and they found it to be pretty flat, the observable universe that is, no one knows the shape of the entire universe. There is also a Wikipedia article about the whole thing - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of…
He tried to "prove". But ofc he didn't. And how can you prove the universe has this shape while using "dimensions" if "dimensions" may not even be a real thing? Maybe you can only mathematically-prove that. Anyway, have to focus on TROM II can't dig deeper into this.
So now the fashionable thing is for "documentaries" to be about murderers, cults or celebrities, and be like 8 parts long and made (bought) by netflix, apple, or hulu? Interesting world we live in. These are not documentaries as much as drama-shows. You see these companies need to make shit-load of content, to gain more subscribers, and keep the subscribed ones around.
Oh yeah.. that recent one about prince harry and his wify, omfg. 6 of 1h long episodes, 6!! Fuck me.. The absolute "knowledge" to be shared obviously :vomit:
As a cosmic photographer, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken over a million snapshots documenting the universe. These images illustrate, explain, and inspire us with their grandeur.
The usual Manjaro updates plus: We switched to the new kernel, 6.1 LTS - Long Time Support. This kernel brings a lot of hardware improvements. I know from experience that my new laptop had no working speakers, and a lot of other issues.
Bloody hell I managed to replace ALL trailers for videoneat.com with our Peertube links and make them open in a proper popup. I thought it would take me months, but took me days. I did work many hours a day to do it. Now it is done. Awesome!
I don't think so....I had to manually replace them via Elementor in Wordpress....not much others could do. It was not a matter of automating it unfortunately...
Very efficient today. Only some 15 more minutes till all is done! Wow...can't believe I am getting so close.
Happy with this last part so far. But I have to be honest, I feel like I can't judge this documentary anymore....after 2 years of editing....idk if it makes sense or not. Regardless I'll finish it haha.
I will continue to work on it these days, more and more.
All of the "shorts" videos from our https://tromnews.com/videos/ are now extinct! No more shorts. These videos, the shorts, are a byproduct of a trade-insanity where humans are obsessed to do whatever it takes to grab more attention. Because they can trade that for other things. In this case the traders are hopping on a train brought by the TikTok ad company and emulated by Youtube ad company.
These "shorts" videos were ruining our entire video section. So we had to manually fix this for every source. And should be fixed from now on for good.
I did a covide test I do not have covid which is great. However I am still not "back" yet. Feel a bit better but still unable to do anything other than continue to stay inside and be like an old man haha. My brain is foggy. My skin hurts. Other things "hurts". We are big, but we can be so fucked by these minuscule creatures (germs). It is quite astonishing to me :D.
I will for sure not finish TROM II this month haha...now that I am sick. But actually I should not push myself to finish so fast. No point in doing that. I did a ton of work already and there isn't much left so I'd rather take it slower and make it very well.
Bloody dentists they really infected me. Still feel quite sick. A bit better, but still...
In a trade-based society people will go to work even if they may put others at risk, because you know....you gotta trade....Of course I do not know for sure who infected me but 100% sure I got this infection from the dentist's office.
I wonder how many people died of COVID because the "workers" didn't want to stay home or could not. Influenced by the need to trade. You know, when you are poor and have to freaking pay for that rent or food, and may have COVID, then it is not very incentivizing to stay at home. You wanna go and work, to make money, and pay for your survival. Same is true if you are richer and need/want to pay for those expensive shits you have collected. Everyone is so used to this "jobs" idea that they either cannot survive without it or cannot even imagine a life without it.
Actually I remember reading a lot of such news when COVID was attaching humans, of people infecting others because they refused to stay at home.
SO, should I mention again that we
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Bloody dentists they really infected me. Still feel quite sick. A bit better, but still...
In a trade-based society people will go to work even if they may put others at risk, because you know....you gotta trade....Of course I do not know for sure who infected me but 100% sure I got this infection from the dentist's office.
I wonder how many people died of COVID because the "workers" didn't want to stay home or could not. Influenced by the need to trade. You know, when you are poor and have to freaking pay for that rent or food, and may have COVID, then it is not very incentivizing to stay at home. You wanna go and work, to make money, and pay for your survival. Same is true if you are richer and need/want to pay for those expensive shits you have collected. Everyone is so used to this "jobs" idea that they either cannot survive without it or cannot even imagine a life without it.
Actually I remember reading a lot of such news when COVID was attaching humans, of people infecting others because they refused to stay at home.
SO, should I mention again that we should at least provide humans with their basic needs to detach them from this cancerous relationship with trade!?
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Anyway, I hope the documentary is interesting for you. May not be any new info for you tho....so yeah be aware of that haha.
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