In Friendica right now there is a very nasty bug where you can unfollow people and yet you still follow them. You'll see their posts and all that. As far as I understood it was already fixed. Can't wait for the update.
Tio: The wonderful Roma (a very special TROM-friend) is visiting us.
On top of having a great time together and very interesting discussions, we worked on TROMjaro these days a lot. We will release a new ISO soon that brings something we truly needed: packages for our scripts. We have a bunch of scripts for fixes, and for the layout and theme switcher. Now we won't have to ask the current TROMjaro users to do this or that change, everything will be directly pushed by us. We also fixed a few things and such.
We achieved a wonderful synchronization for theming. Basically now the theme, the icon pack, and the font sync across apps: GTK, GTK+Libadwaita, QT, QT5, QT6, flatpaks that accept theming. So awesome!
But the best part is that we can now improve these packages and push updates automatically to all users. Stay tuned for the release! And thank you Roma for being such a good human. A true human being :). #tromlive
We are so close to fully finalize the creation of some very much needed packages for TROMjaro. We finished the packages for the TROMjaro Layout and Theme Switcher, and for our script fixes - tho needs to be tested more. Likely these days we will have a full suite of packages that are so needed for TROMjaro. For normal users it means that you do not have to manually update any of the scripts that we do/update/change. ;) - and for us it means easy and fast changes/updates.
This packaging is thanks to @Roma who is visiting me and on top of having a great time together, we also do these things :). Awesome human! 10/10! :)
We found some alternatives to contabo.com where we host our servers. Contabo is a cunt, to put it simply, forcing us recently to remove perfectly legal links and such. By the end of this year or beginning of the next we should start the move from contabo to another hosting. I'd like not to....but I am forced to. One particular provider seems quite good and a bit cheaper, we could expand our disk-space for trom.tf.
I am concerned with how to move it all when it comes to friendica or matrix....their databases are immense.....but will see when the time comes.
our dedicated server prices in Romania are lower then compareable ones of the mentioned provider ;) If you need something specific feel free to contact us we will give our best to find a solution
How do you handle situations like OP's? Contabo received a complaint about a Nitter (Twitter mirroring service) instance, and forced OP to take it down. @tio @Xantulon @kaalki
Sounds great, however I looked at the prices and are quite high. To give you an example we pay some 32 euros a month currently for a 10 core cpu, 2TB of SSD, 1 GB connection and 64GB of RAM. We need a lot of disckspace since we provide a lot of free services via trom.tf. And we use some 30-40GB of RAM usually.
I'd love to use a hosting provider like you, but unfortunately I cannot afford right now... :(
i was only able to compare the given prices on the website which are already insane low for VPS ; however dedicated server are close to our prices while we include ddos filter etc. In such calculations there is zero margin for abuse handle and thats why they just ban you. Also german law is not in your favour. Hetzner did the same with nitter.
Do you provide any API access to management services? One thing Contabo is doing well is their cli tool for management. Even if there's no tool, having an API to script against is nice.
no API for VPS so far (work in progress, no ETA) , dedicated server are managed by KVM (ILO) however its for now behind a VPN for security reasons but we are working as well on an API ready solution.
The Contabo APIs allow you to provision, restart, etc, servers. They're adding DNS management (a big one, for me), vital for PTR, TXT etc if you're managing an email server. It's those sorts of interactions I'd really rather manage from a cli than a web interface.
ssh for ILO allows restart and remote acess for example to fix network or enter PBE password. DNS is related towards your domain provider (except ptr however you set that only once realy no need for an api) and not your hosting (unless you operate it together) For DNS entry we have an API (cpanel)
Yes if I could afford I would probably try your service. Maybe if you could provide some option to extend the diskspace a bit, and the RAM, for a custom price....
Bummer. I've been mostly happy with Contabo, and love their API-based admin work. The biggest issue I've had is really slow ticket responses to non-urgent tickets, but DMCA-ish takedowns with no conversation is disturbing. @Xantulon
Yeah wait until you really need to talk to them about something like takedowns. They do not care at all. I was really surprised to see this attitude...
Do they apply German laws everywhere? They're a German company, I know, but they also have servers in other places. It sounds like *any* company you host with, if the server is in DE you can't host nitter there.
My point: would a simple solution being to have your Contabo instance moved to another country? @Xantulon
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These days I am spending quality time with @Roma and when I have some time I fix our websites for mobile screens. So far I fixed most of them. Should be done in a few days time with the rest. Recently I fixed:
These days I'll also work with Roma to make a few packages for TROMjaro for our scripts Something I wanted to do for so long. If we do that I will be over the moon happy.
Next week I hope to start the work on TROM II again! #tromlive
Someone who wants to join our Friendica instance asked me if ours is blocked by other instances. Well...see folks!? How can I know!? On the fediverse any admin can block any instance without you and me having a clue if, what and when they do so.
I keep on telling you, this practice is ruining the fediverse as a whole. It is almost like burning down forests becasue you found some weeds.
We need a way to know who blocked what. Not only what my instance blocked, but what instances blocked mine.
However the best practice is not blocking instances at the admin level, EXCEPT when an instance is clearly full of spam-bots. Let the users decide for themselves what they want to block. There are many proposed solutions out there as to how we can deal with unwanted content, such as: disable the global timeline, shorter lifespan for remote items (so you don't really host any remote content), blocklists enforced by admins but that can be overwritten by users, or adblock-like lists that any user can easily apply for themselves.
Be smart, federated people! Think long term, not short term.
Kings and Queens are an insult to humanity. We are all humans. We are all important in our own way. We should work together and see each other as one species. Social classes, queens, bosses, rich people, doctors, celebrities....are all imagination. Human imagination. Some posses some skills (true), and we should focus on that (such as doctors), but it is mostly a sick game of labels in a messed-up society.
I see on my fediverse newsfeed that so many people mention apple and a new iphone release. Is that time of the year (of half a year?), ha!?
Both apple and the people getting sucked into this retardation, are victims of a trade-based society that went berserk. Toasters with touchscreens, that's the society we live in. And humans call them choices and variety. Idiocracy 3.0. Cars with a different paint, chocolates in different shapes. Bless you humans, you are the laughingstock of the universe.
EDIT: If their official presentation ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=FT3ODSg1GF… does not feel like a parody to you, then something is wrong with you.
iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max coming soon.
What lies beyond a traditional smartphone? Let’s find out. This is iPhone 14 Pro.
It starts with the Dynamic Island, an interactive place that bubbles up alerts, notifications, and activities.
There is barely anything "useful" in new releases of phones compared to previous models. Especially if you look at how the vast majority of people use these devices.
Satellite whatever functionality is barely useful for a rare bunch of cases, for a tiny/minuscule amount of people who probably use proper equipment if they are so adventurous, not rely on apple.
I still have my samsung galaxy s7 with that fancy detector for your heartbeat and oxygen levels in your blood. My doctor told me to shove it up my ass because is not useful in any way.
Companies, like any merchant, try to sell new models and add features that are not useful, or very rarely used if ever, just to sell more shit...
Oh, one more thing that's funny, americans need free access to healthcare, not a way to call emergency when you have no signal. That would cost you some 200k if anyone comes to rescue you haha. I bet most americans would not call even in such situations :))
@Tio Looking at the comment section of that video I don't think you're the only one who thinks like this, and apple have disabled the comment section in their official video so it must be pretty bad there too. I don't think there's anything practical or useful about the new iPhone. It was actually pretty hilarious to see them come up with these imaginary scenarios where it could be useful, a professional film maker shooting an action sequence and using iPhone instead of an actual camera, LMAO 🤣 The only people who use phones to make videos like that are probably small content creators from developing contries who can't afford a camera, but even these people would be using a budget smartphone, not the crazy-expensive iPhone. And I also don't care about the new and improved display, these things make more sense on a TV, not on a tiny mobile screen where I can't even tell the difference. The safety features like car crash detection can be useful, but I'd rather have so
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@Tio Looking at the comment section of that video I don't think you're the only one who thinks like this, and apple have disabled the comment section in their official video so it must be pretty bad there too. I don't think there's anything practical or useful about the new iPhone. It was actually pretty hilarious to see them come up with these imaginary scenarios where it could be useful, a professional film maker shooting an action sequence and using iPhone instead of an actual camera, LMAO 🤣 The only people who use phones to make videos like that are probably small content creators from developing contries who can't afford a camera, but even these people would be using a budget smartphone, not the crazy-expensive iPhone. And I also don't care about the new and improved display, these things make more sense on a TV, not on a tiny mobile screen where I can't even tell the difference. The safety features like car crash detection can be useful, but I'd rather have something like this built into the car itself, or maybe a device we can attach to cars is much better than relying on the mobile phones in our pocket to detect crashes. Then the satellite communication, when's the last time you've been in a place where there was no signal? Its funny how in the promo video they show us 2 people literally lost in the deserts, inventing imaginary scenarios where their product could be useful. I'm pretty sure there are specific devices made for situations like this, if you're adventurous and is worried about getting lost in a desert then I recommend buying one of those, its probably cheaper too 😄
It was pretty cringe to see these people in the promo video trying to make it seem like a revolutionary technology, there's just nothing revolutionary about it, its just like any other smartphone.
Yeah well the people in the comments may say some negative stuff about this, but the truth is most are flocking to buy it....
About that car crash safety feature...I think they just wanted some BANG for their video promo. Is there any research to show that such a system can save people's lives? If that was the case cars would have have this a long time ago. Like what data does it transmit and to where?? That weakly built iphone would disintegrate into a car crash anyway....gimmick!
In TROM II I made a compilation with such stupid things to show how there is no innovation...just eggs with wigs. Same shit, different paint. And they add these gimmick "features" because they need to sell more of their shit so they have to invent useless features...
It's stupid but nowadays most companies are not trying to sell useful hardware. The point is to make you feel cool and smart because you belong to an elite community. That'd be ok if the selection was made on your needs or skills mastering but the reality is that you just need money to offer yourself access to these groups. What matters is how you can show your (sometime fake) richness to others while pretending to not doing it.
A new TROMjaro ISO is out with integration for our trade-free library and videoneat. Access hundreds of trade-free apps and many hundreds of documentaries and courses, as trade-free of course. forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-…
We wanted to do this for quite some time and now we had the time to do it. And works quite well. Check it out! #tromlive
So this month I am focused on the software side of TROM. Towards the end I will get back on TROM II tho. And I will struggle to push my focus more and more away from the software to the content. Not that the software world isn't great, but it was never meant to be taking so much of the TROM space. And we've done a lot in that area, and what we have no is working great and we may even add new stuff.
But I truly need to focus on the content, on what TROM really is about! It is great that we have money to stay away from trading for almost a year or so. Ofc idk what we'll do after and any donations will add up to prolonging this time that we have. But I have now all of the resources I need to finish TROM II. And that's relaxing. #tromlive
I can only eat chicken, eggs, tomatoes, zucchini, potatoes. Mainly. At times I eat pork, then rarely make a pizza with salami and other vegetables, or other 2-3 dishes. That's my daily diet. Basically chicken and eggs. I will become a chicken soon. Even when it comes to sweet things or other digestibles, I only eat 2 or so types of sweets (by that I mean these exact specific sweets), and that's all.
My digestive system is really awful and if I do not take care of it, and eat only those foods and only drink water, I am fucked. Pain, indigestion, feeling sick.
To give you a recent example a few days ago I eat 1, ONE, small eclair. I was craving for it. Felt sick for 3 days. Fuck it.
This is something I struggled with for all of my life and it is something pretty much no one can really understand how it is, unless they themselves are suffering from this unknown condition. I've been to the hospital so many times, did so many tests...there is nothing they can do. I need to avoid pretty much all foods except the few ones I can eat.
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I can only eat chicken, eggs, tomatoes, zucchini, potatoes. Mainly. At times I eat pork, then rarely make a pizza with salami and other vegetables, or other 2-3 dishes. That's my daily diet. Basically chicken and eggs. I will become a chicken soon. Even when it comes to sweet things or other digestibles, I only eat 2 or so types of sweets (by that I mean these exact specific sweets), and that's all.
My digestive system is really awful and if I do not take care of it, and eat only those foods and only drink water, I am fucked. Pain, indigestion, feeling sick.
To give you a recent example a few days ago I eat 1, ONE, small eclair. I was craving for it. Felt sick for 3 days. Fuck it.
This is something I struggled with for all of my life and it is something pretty much no one can really understand how it is, unless they themselves are suffering from this unknown condition. I've been to the hospital so many times, did so many tests...there is nothing they can do. I need to avoid pretty much all foods except the few ones I can eat.
Will have to go again to the doctor and see if they can give me some pills to try. But yeah....if you can eat most foods and don't feel sick, then you have superhero powers from my perspective. I wish I could do that.
It is interesting to know what exactly happens in my body that it makes me feel so much pain when I eat some foods. Quite interesting. Anyway, most of the time I am fine, but at times I get a bit angry and sick of this. And I vent. :)
Ok I am convinced now, there are tons of peertube accounts made by bots, for the sole purpose of posting comments on random videos with scammy links. I need to go and clean our instance but is damn hard....because i cant look at their comments...so probably I will send an email asking suspicious accounts to contact back and explain why they have an account with our instance....it is damn difficult....
Yes but am looking at ways to find the spam-bots that are registered with my instance so I can nuke them rather than just delete their comments and block them from our instance.
I do not want to give a feeling like I am bashing all distros via this channel, but some are not very good in terms of usability. This one in particular was a disaster...however I am not bashing them just pointing out what they can improve. Watch and judge.
Fedora Silverblue is a big failure based on my usability tests. So bad that I wonder if I did not make any mistake and this distro is not even meant for desktop use. I hope I did not.
So I checked our tromjaro.com/apps/ library of trade-free apps to see if I need to replace any of the screenshots now that we greatly improved how we manage the theming on TROMjaro. Yes I have to replace the screenshots for some of them, which I'll do these days.
But you know what? Out of 650 or so apps, perhaps 50 or so cannot be themed or be fully themed. Max. And that's together with some flatpaks and appimages. So like I was suspecting, we can theme probably some 95% of all apps out there. Which is fantastic.
Keep in mind that our library consists of curated apps from the Gnome library, KDE one, flathub, appimagehub, the AUR wiki of apps, and so on. So it is a random sample size of so many kinds.
So yeah I am super happy! But I am also concerned that Gnome and those it influences, will try to break theming even further in the future. We shall see....
Thanks to the brilliant @Rokosun we now have a script that checks all of our apps from tromjaro.com/apps library (our trade free selection) and alerts us when it finds broken packages or those that need to be moved from AUR to repos and such. Brilliant work! This guy is not only brilliant but such a great human. I am so happy he found TROM and me. He is the most active now when it comes to TROM. Helps a lot. Also the other wonderful one, @Alexio who is always helping!! Wonderful beings. #tromlive
There is this massive myth on a global scale, almost like a huge conspiracy, that humans are predisposed to being like this or like that. Predisposed to becoming depressed, ADHD is an illness, sexual orientation is inborn, violence can be detected in one's brain, and so forth.
This notion that humans have a certain biology and their behavior is based on that.
False.
From sexuality to mental disorders, violence or anything else. There are no genes, no chemicals, nothing biological that can predict any such behaviors. None.
We should start to abolish this mentality. This approach is succulently pushed by companies who sell the "miracle" drugs, and everyone is hypnotized by the cattle-society practice: treat humans like they are on a conveyor belt. Feel angry, sad, and all that? Well probably you have a "disease". Take this pill! Bye!
Anyway. Here is a recent publication by Joanna Moncrieff that debunks the myth of the "chemical imbalance" of depression. And here a more general overview of how depression cannot be linked to any bio-chemical marker.
Some very important quotes from this group of proper scientists that have the dignity and courage to remain scientists:
I have shown that family, twin, adoption, and molecular genetic studies have failed to provide scientifically valid evidence that genes play a role in causing depression. Combined with the recent findings by Moncrieff and colleagues that serotonin is not associated with depression, the idea of MD as a medical condition is in serious trouble.
To understand the true causes of depression, we must focus on family (including abuse and trauma), social, and political environments, including racial, gender, class, and other types of oppression/discrimination. We must address people’s increasing social isolation and disconnection from each other, lack of meaning and purpose, consumerism, and fears of present or future calamities such as pandemics, climate change, and nuclear war. The idea of depression as a medical/genetic condition must be reevaluated, and non-medical prevention and intervention strategies should be promoted.
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“suffering as being rooted in individual rather than social causes, leading individuals to think that it is them rather than the economic and social system in which they live that is at fault and in need of reform.
It is this trade-based society that makes humans sad, depressed, angry, demotivated and so forth. FIX SOCIETY!
American's have been lied to about so much. And everybody lies to us. Now we find that we never could trust the pharmaceutical companies. Thank God for computers. Had it not been for them we never would have recognized that the USA is as good an example of a third world country as any other.
I installed TROMjaro on my mother's laptop. A very cheap, some 200 Euros laptop with quad core AMD cpu and gpu + 4GB of RAM. I found a laptop at the garbage bin a few months ago and managed to save some stuff from it, including 4GB of RAM. So I added 8GB of RAM on her laptop in total.
Anyway.
I wanted to say that everything worked PERFECTLY. I was impressed. Installation, setup, the new chaotic aur...everything. So that's fantastic! That's how I want TROMjaro to be. WORK! And be easy to use. Have access to pretty much all Linux apps from the software center, have auto system backups, even the files backup app that we use I could connect to a Borg server so fast...wow.
All in all, TROMjaro worked great on her laptop. Everything simply works.
And by the way if you have a fan-based laptop, clean it! This laptop was slow like a snail and after I cleaned it (wow the fan was full of dust) works 5 times faster. Feels like a new computer.
Basically we fixed the theming in Linux, at least for now, and at least for most of the apps out there: QT, QT5, QT6, GTK, GTK + Libadwaita, and Flatpaks (some).
Pretty much all distributions that I personally tested, and I tested a lot of them, fail to properly apply a system theme for most applications. Actually I know no one that does a great job.
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Tio
in reply to Ruaidhrigh Featherstonehaugh • •This is their justification social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4…
idk how that would be....we need to try...
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in reply to FlokiNET • •Sounds great, however I looked at the prices and are quite high. To give you an example we pay some 32 euros a month currently for a 10 core cpu, 2TB of SSD, 1 GB connection and 64GB of RAM. We need a lot of disckspace since we provide a lot of free services via trom.tf. And we use some 30-40GB of RAM usually.
I'd love to use a hosting provider like you, but unfortunately I cannot afford right now... :(
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in reply to FlokiNET • • •Sounds good to me; cost isn't the *only* factor.
Do you provide any API access to management services? One thing Contabo is doing well is their cli tool for management. Even if there's no tool, having an API to script against is nice.
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in reply to FlokiNET • • •The Contabo APIs allow you to provision, restart, etc, servers. They're adding DNS management (a big one, for me), vital for PTR, TXT etc if you're managing an email server. It's those sorts of interactions I'd really rather manage from a cli than a web interface.
Does the ssh solution help me here?
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in reply to Ruaidhrigh Featherstonehaugh • • •DNS is related towards your domain provider (except ptr however you set that only once realy no need for an api) and not your hosting (unless you operate it together)
For DNS entry we have an API (cpanel)
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in reply to Tio • • •Do they apply German laws everywhere? They're a German company, I know, but they also have servers in other places. It sounds like *any* company you host with, if the server is in DE you can't host nitter there.
My point: would a simple solution being to have your Contabo instance moved to another country?
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in reply to Ruaidhrigh Featherstonehaugh • •No, I asked. They said same rules apply....
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