Yeah actually this is not unusual unfortunately. I do have automated tools that will block these IPs. It is just sad to see this predatory incentive. Especially for projects like ours that are already struggling to keep afloat. I also know that you're around so in case shit hits the fan, I know who to call :D.
Yeah.. There are entire farms of people doing this kind of scam as a daily job. It isn't uncommon that entirely volunteered projects and even famous non-profit organizations suffer from hacking and losing access to their networks or crucial data. Those fuckers just don't care. An opportunity to steal something that can be used for other harms is what has meaning to them. Force of trades has no mercy here as well :disappointed face:
It is very likely that the TROM II trailer that we also posted on youtube and facebook was not "promoted" to the users/followers because we used "bad" words in it, such as "fuck" or "climate change", the latter is (from my knowledge) suppressed because of "conspiracy theories" or being a "controversial" topic. But you never know with these networks.
This can never happen on Peertube. At least not for now, and if it will and some instances could auto-block the distribution of some videos based on such keywords, would be a fuckery.
I don't care anymore. I do the things I find important to do, and use the words I want to use. Am not a prostitute to try and "play by the rules of the game". Better reach a few people in the way I want them to see the content, rather than censor and distort the content in order to reach more people.
I played the TROM II trailer as part of my presentation about TROM.tf at a conference in Romania
Yesterday I played the TROM II trailer and mentioned TROM.tf as part of my presentation about the Rapid deployment of self-hosted cloud platforms for open-source web applications at a conference in Romania.
Today, on the second day of the conference, I presented again TROM.tf and YunoHost. I also had the opportunity to talk about trade-free, the TROM documentaries and the TROM tools during the Q&A about my presentation.
This is a very long but very good video about why these recent AI hype is a craze "The AI Mind Virus" ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=3oS9UG1U2N…
The fear we should fear is not some super-intelligent AI, but what this trade-based society pushes people to do with these tools: more scams, more fake shit, more nonsense content, more hype, selling more shit and so forth.
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I have uploaded the trailer to our old Facebook page too, and our Youtube channel. Just because it is a very rare evet so in case anyone still follow us there. Let me tell you....Facebook is such a clusterfuck. I already knew that but I did not get to interact with it for a long time now. To simply add a video and a description is a mess. A million buttons, a million popups, a million boxes. Promotions and ads everywhere, and all of the crap. If people call that a "social network" they might as well call a Mall a "family home".
Friendica compared to Facebook is haven on earth. A pure social network.
So after I uploaded the trailer on FB and clicked "publish" the post popup disappeared and I was lost. I waited for like 10 minutes and I wanted to post again because I could not find that post....to then see that it was posted after those 10 minutes out of the blue. Took a while and no notification....so terrible.
Youtube is also a mess. An ad-video-platform where the focus is on clicks, views, how to monetize, where to put the ads, how to engage and all of this crap
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I have uploaded the trailer to our old Facebook page too, and our Youtube channel. Just because it is a very rare evet so in case anyone still follow us there. Let me tell you....Facebook is such a clusterfuck. I already knew that but I did not get to interact with it for a long time now. To simply add a video and a description is a mess. A million buttons, a million popups, a million boxes. Promotions and ads everywhere, and all of the crap. If people call that a "social network" they might as well call a Mall a "family home".
Friendica compared to Facebook is haven on earth. A pure social network.
So after I uploaded the trailer on FB and clicked "publish" the post popup disappeared and I was lost. I waited for like 10 minutes and I wanted to post again because I could not find that post....to then see that it was posted after those 10 minutes out of the blue. Took a while and no notification....so terrible.
Youtube is also a mess. An ad-video-platform where the focus is on clicks, views, how to monetize, where to put the ads, how to engage and all of this crap. I added a few subtitles to our trailer and it was like 5-6 clicks to add a single one, compared to 2 clicks on Peertube.
Again, Peertube is haven on earth, or the digital space. A simple and efficient VIDEO PLATFORM.
And that's how we can see how trade has a powerful and bad influence. If a social network or a video platform engages in trades with its users (data trade, attention trade, currency trade) then those platforms will never remain that, they will metamorphose into bazaars. Marketplaces.
Thank fuck that we now have our own social network and video platform, and they all connect with the greater fediverse. I LOVE that I can post our documentary on Peertube and not fear any Youtube BS rules. SO awesome!
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires. Climate change? Who cares!
A one-marble world, floating in a giant soup of stars and planets, clustered in donut-shaped galaxies.
What are these humans living for?
In a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary, we try to explore their world, to understand what makes them human, what makes them enslave their kind, destroy their habitat, and be unaware of their place in this universe. But also what makes them so special.
Through the lives of 5 humans, we look at the culture that creates them, their struggles growing up on this planet, and where they are headed toward.
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires. Climate change? Who cares!
A one-marble world, floating in a giant soup of stars and planets, clustered in donut-shaped galaxies.
What are these humans living for?
In a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary, we try to explore their world, to understand what makes them human, what makes them enslave their kind, destroy their habitat, and be unaware of their place in this universe. But also what makes them so special.
Through the lives of 5 humans, we look at the culture that creates them, their struggles growing up on this planet, and where they are headed toward.
I think I could do a very relevant review of Kdenlive after I publish the documentary. I worked with Kdenlive for the past 2-3 years to make a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary. I learned a lot and probably I can have a relevant opinion about it overall :D. It was interesting to make a documentary with a FOSS video editor, and I am very proud to have used it overall :D.
It was a beautifully hectic day for the past hours. Bunch of people jumped to help with making subs for the TROM II trailer. We already have it in Romanian, Russian, German and Portuguese. Tomorrow we will probably have it in Catalan and Spanish, plus perhaps French too. Awesome! Wonderful people. Oh, and they all loved the trailer so much I am again quite surprised. Anyway, the goal is to make the trailer available tomorrow. #tromstuff
The trailer for TROM II is done. We are now working on making a few subtitles for it. Maybe we will release tomorrow! A huge thanks to everyone who is helping with the subtitle making, and if you want to help please use our Matrix chat https://matrix.to/#/#translation:matrix.trom.tf #tromlive
Did you know that Kdenlive has a mindblowing text-to-speech feature now? I tested it for our trailer. 99% accuracy. I am amazed! This gives me a lot of confidence that we can do the transcriptions with timestamps and all that for the entire documentary, quite fast. Just WOW!
Here's where these so called AI systems are helpful, not the nonsense hype around them. #tromstuff
So today I made a poster for TROM II that I may release tomorrow or at the same time that I release the trailer. This week for sure. I've also worked on tromsite.com to get the release pages ready :P. Not public yet but did a lot of work today. 5 nonstop hours on my laptop, battery mode, and still 20% more battery left. Not bad at all considering that I pushed the CPU a little bit here and there.
Anyway we will try to release the trailer with several subtitles so maybe it will take us a few more days to do it. #tromstuff
I have finished the bloody color correction for TROM II. Again. And you bet this is it. I can't handle it any longer. It is good. I'll make a big post about this "behind the scenes" work for TROM II, after I release it in June. The trailer is almost done too. Next week I will send the documentary to those who come for the TROM Meeting and to a few close friends. I will also release the trailer this next week.
After that the focus will be to first make a transcription of the entire monster, to then have others translate it into several languages before the release. Ideally at the beginning of June we will release it on our Peertube with a Spanish, Romanian, and Russian subtitles. Maybe more. Maybe French and German too. Let's see.
Too bad that the moron filmed vertically. I will never get used to this retardation of filming vertically, especially for these situations. Vertical videos + the "shorts/tiktok" style = idiocracy. :D
A bit of any is fine, but anything more than a bit is just the narrowing of the human brain, literally :D. need to recommend again this documentary imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ :)
I see you're still not giving up on the vertical war, haha 😁 Also I should see that idiocracy movie sometime, just cause its referenced everywhere now, lol 😆
Today I felt inspired to work on the documentary trailer and I think I found a perfect combination. It gives me goosebumps and I watched it 40 times already haha. Only the backbone is made but that was the important part. I just got inspired and things worked great.... There is a particular song that many may not know, it is a few decades old, that kinda describes the society/world we live in. And that song, as you'll see is quite a powerful part of this documentary.
Anyway. Making some progress with the color correcting too and now I am more hopeful that i may finish the color correcting in a week and by mid May there will probably be a trailer released.
Let's see. But damn I am happy that I could put together something for the trailer, even if it is far from being done. We need a good and relevant trailer for this massive documentary. If most people would like this documentary even 20% as much as @Sasha @Georgi @Aaron and @Dima liked it, it would be a success.
I am completely losing my mind over the "color correcting" bullshit for TROM II. 5 people, recorded over some 6 months period. For each we recorded 2-3 days, for me a few weeks probably. Each recording was some 3 hours long. We had to pause every 20 minutes because the camera was overheating.
Now the idea was to have everyone filmed on a dark background. We had a dark piece of material behind us, but a small room, and powerful lights. That created a non-dark background. At times it looked grey, at times blueish, at times brownish....
Combine all that with so many interruptions while filming over a period of months, and of course you realize that you can't have the lights placed in the same way. So you end up with some interviews being super exposed, some having different shadows, etc.. Georgi had a very white tshirt which made the lights reflect back a lot making her face washed out; I had a dark-blue shirt which made it so difficult to try and make the background pitch dark....
Also, people change colors while recording...Sasha for example has bright red cheeks
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I am completely losing my mind over the "color correcting" bullshit for TROM II. 5 people, recorded over some 6 months period. For each we recorded 2-3 days, for me a few weeks probably. Each recording was some 3 hours long. We had to pause every 20 minutes because the camera was overheating.
Now the idea was to have everyone filmed on a dark background. We had a dark piece of material behind us, but a small room, and powerful lights. That created a non-dark background. At times it looked grey, at times blueish, at times brownish....
Combine all that with so many interruptions while filming over a period of months, and of course you realize that you can't have the lights placed in the same way. So you end up with some interviews being super exposed, some having different shadows, etc.. Georgi had a very white tshirt which made the lights reflect back a lot making her face washed out; I had a dark-blue shirt which made it so difficult to try and make the background pitch dark....
Also, people change colors while recording...Sasha for example has bright red cheeks at times :) - it is a feature of her own genes. haha. So at times she is normal looking, at times very red in one cheek. And so on....
And my task was to make them all look like it is ONE recording since I often switch between recordings in the same scene.....
And I did it but I made us all kinda darkish and Sasha's cheek overexposed :)).
Now combine this with the fact that originally I did the color correcting on my old laptop that had an LCD screen, and later on, I did it on the new laptop that has an OLED screen and I realized that some things looked very different. I had to redo this so many times. Also when I do color correcting at daytime vs night things look different....
I am going INSANE. And for what? The message matters....
Oh and add to it that Kdenlive is buggy when it comes to this so pretty often when I color correct it ruins the entire documentary and I need to move the clips (tens at times) from one track to another...it really fucks the entire documentary.
And I have to do this for a 5h documentary.
This is not healthy. I will give it 2-3 more days to see if I can do something, if not I'll probably give up and leave it as it is. I am telling you this is something no one notices unless you start to talk about it, then you start to notice some things. And if you want to "correct" that, then you fall into this black hole where there is no end in sight in terms of what and how you can improve.
Damn that sounds frustrating. Do you think it would've been better if you used a green screen or something? As a viewer I don't care much about what the background is, just that the people in foreground are clearly visible. And if you think people won't notice it unless someone points it out then that's probably true, minor details like colors go under the radar while watching a 5 hour documentary, so unless something's really bad and sticks out to the viewer you shouldn't worry about it :)
idk if using a green screen would have been better....but overall it is fine, even how it is now. I just have to accept that I can't make it "perfect" and that Kdenlive has a nasty bug that should be the reason not to continue this for more than a few days :D.
And yeah am telling you for sure that you wont pay attention to these things at all. Even I forgot completely when we were watching it last time with Sasha.
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