As some of you already know, these pieces of software act as an interface for the big ad-platforms like Youtube, Twitter and Reddit. They remove the ads, trackers and all of the bullshit, and let you see the content. Now YouTube is banning the IPs of the servers that use Invidious, Twitter has cut the public access to their website and thus no way to make Nitter work, and Reddit has limited their API and thus more and more Teddit/Libreddit instances will die.
This is a cat and mouse game, and the cat has huge resources. We cannot host Invidious on our TROM.tf because we cannot afford to change our IP every 2
As some of you already know, these pieces of software act as an interface for the big ad-platforms like Youtube, Twitter and Reddit. They remove the ads, trackers and all of the bullshit, and let you see the content. Now YouTube is banning the IPs of the servers that use Invidious, Twitter has cut the public access to their website and thus no way to make Nitter work, and Reddit has limited their API and thus more and more Teddit/Libreddit instances will die.
This is a cat and mouse game, and the cat has huge resources. We cannot host Invidious on our TROM.tf because we cannot afford to change our IP every 2 weeks. Our Nitter does not work, and Teddit may die soon. Although the developers are working to circumvent these issues and make these instances work again, this is a concerning situation overall.
The solution?
For Youtube: use FreeTube. It runs locally and it is the perfect Youtube trade-free interface. It is a lot less likely for Youtube to shut this one down. Alternatively look more into Peertube. Unfortunately all of the video content is on Youtube....
For Teddit: use the Reddit's RSS to subscribe to subreddits. Alternatively look into Lemmy. But again, most of the content is on Reddit...
For Nitter: Forget about Twitter and move to the fediverse where there are millions of people already.
Facebook, Threads, TikTok, and the like, are ad-platforms that cannot be "fixed" by any interface. Their content is also not worthy of anything.
Be brave and slowly ditch these ad-networks.
We are working on a book about The Internet and there we will detail all of these. Unfortunately the financial support that TROM gets is so low that we may not even create that book or any other book. That too can be changed if people would support this project monthly, like a coffee worth of support - tromsite.com/donate/
Nice. However FB is a marketplace and you cannot hide the promotional posts made by so many. But it is a very nice addon indeed, for those who still want to use FB for whatever reason.
Bavarder is a french word, the definiton of Bavarder is “Parler abondamment de choses sans grande portée” (Talking a lot about things that don’t matter) (Larousse) which can be translated by Chit-Chat (informal conversation about matters that are not important). For non-french speakers, Bavarder can be hard to speak, it’s prounouced as [bavaʀde].
open Home Automation Bus (openHAB) is an open source home automation software written in Java. It is deployed on premises and connects to devices and services from different vendors. As of 2019, close to 300 bindings are available as OSGi modules. Actions, such as switching on lights, are triggered by rules, voice commands, or controls on the openHAB user interface. The openHAB project started in 2010. In 2013, the core functionality became an official project of the Eclipse Foundation under the name Eclipse SmartHome. openHAB is based on Eclipse SmartHome and remains the project for the development of bindings. According to Black Duck Open Hub, it is developed by one of the largest open-source teams in the world. It also has an active user community.
MQTT Explorer is a comprehensive MQTT client that provides a structured overview of your MQTT topics and makes working with devices/services on your broker dead-simple.
TROM II documentary talks about the fediverse quite a bit. We mention Friendica, Mastodon, Peertube and the like. Plus we promote FOSS. The documentary is a stab at today's society, but not a deadly one. It is a positive documentary in the end.
If you care about the fediverse (and may other important things), go watch this documentary and please help us spread it.
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
tgpt is a cross-platform cli (commandline) tool that lets you use ChatGPT 3.5 in Terminal without API KEYS. It communicates with the Backend of Bai chatbot. Its written in Go.
openthinclient is a ThinClient OS with centralized management. With network boot and web-based UI, x86-compatible devices can be quickly and easily provisioned as VDI endpoints.
openthinclient is completely open source and can be tested and used free of charge with a limited number of clients without restrictions. The management server is Java-based and runs under Windows or Linux.
Our new documentary "A Message to the Aliens" was entirely made with @Kdenlive - 4 parts, 5 hours. I think that proves that Kdenlive is a professional video editor that can be used for huge projects.
This documentary is what really made me understand how powerful #Kdenlive can be, the developers have done a really impressive work and they deserve all the credit for it 🙏
Today we worked all day to move our TROM.tf server to a new IP address because Youtube blocked our IP. Why? Maybe because we are raping and murdering baby animals. Or because we want to burn down rainforests. No! It was because we were hosting Invidious at ytb.trom.tf. Invidious is a trade-free interface for Youtube that basically allows you to watch the Youtube videos without the cancerous ads or trackers or all of the trade-related crap that Youtube vomits all over their website.
Because our IP was banned other services were affected such as Peertube and its feature of importing videos from Youtube, or our RSS Bridge.
Anyway, now everything works but we have removed Invidious. The developers behind Invidious are working on a workaround but we may not bring Invidious back. We will create an article tomorrow about the recent situation with Youtube, Reddit and Twitter who are getting more and more aggressive with their platforms, not wanting anyone from outside to access their content.
And we will showcase you a lot of amazing alternatives and solutions. Stay tuned!
It seems that because Google banned our server IP (our invidious instance was a threat for them it seems) now you cannot import videos from Youtube to our Peertube. Endless issues. And for what!? For allowing people to watch Youtube videos without the crap hat Youtube adds on top of them.
Anyway, we need to seek for a solution. This is not a disaster by any means, but it is another warning sign of what these big companies are doing. All they want is to play the game of trade, because they are winning at it. So Youtube pretends to be a video platform, and thus we say: Cool, we installed this Youtube interface to allow people to watch the videos from your video platform, without all of the bloat. But Youtube is like "Whaaaat!? Nah! We NEED people to watch our ads, and we need to collect their data and make them give us their currencies!".
Because, you guessed it, Youtube is not a video platform. Videos are just a way to serve you ads. Youtube is an AD PLATFORM.
Oh yeah, that and the news about reddit is making their API access paid with subscription, causing a clusterfuck to some very good alternative clients, including those useful for administrating the subreddits, make it even more clear that every nice and good service will eventually be fucked up by the accelerated urge of profit. You may start your service as "I wannabe ethic and care", but your end is kinda predetermined in this trade-based society..
100%. Probably our Teddit instance will also get fucked....luckily the devs behind Invidious and Teddit are working to bypass these stupidities. Problem is Youtube totally owns the video space....So in a way or another we kinda depend on it for now....
Youtube and Reddit has a lot of good content on it, would be very sad if we lose access to that. The biggest problem is that most of the content on the internet is centralized on a few servers where these big tech companies hold them as hostage for controlling how people get to access that info (forcefully make us use their apps, create an account on their website, etc).
MapComplete is a website where one can see and contribute to thematic maps. It show features within one topic (for example: public bicycle pumps). If a bicycle pump is selected, one sees more information about it and can answer some questions to help the community. If a bicycle pump is missing on the map, one can easily add this.
There are plenty of maps available, each centered around a different topic (for example: playgrounds, public toilets, shops, public bookcases, waste containers and a map linking to the wikipedia article of the person/item a street is named after).
All data comes from (and is added to) OpenStreetMap, so improving via MapComplete will also improve OsmAnd, Organic Maps and thousands of other applications.
Node-RED is a flow-based development tool for visual programming developed originally by IBM for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services as part of the Internet of Things.
Node-RED provides a web browser-based flow editor, which can be used to create JavaScript functions. Elements of applications can be saved or shared for re-use. The runtime is built on Node.js. The flows created in Node-RED are stored using JSON. Since version 0.14, MQTT nodes can make properly configured TLS connections.
Our Invidious instance ytb.trom.tf currently does not work to play any video. It is a known issue and basically it is Google trying hard to block these services that act as an interface for youtube, removing all of the crap (ads, trackers, bloatness). You can track the discussion here github.com/iv-org/invidious/is…
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