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.
Documentary that explores the vital role that mosses played in the earth's evolution and how science is only beginning to unlock the secrets and potential of these amazing plants.
Documentary that explores the vital role that mosses played in the earth’s evolution and how science is only beginning to unlock the secrets and potential of these amazing plants.
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.
That was a video from @toplesstopics and its not even porn, like its just a video of her talking about a photoshoot she did which contained some artistic nudity. I don't understand why people are so afraid of human skin, no one's forcing them to watch.
That being said, if videos from an account is showing up even after banning then that's probably a bug that needs to be reported to #Peertube. Asking the admin of another instance to take the video out is not the way to solve this issue.
jeez. Thanks for not being a puritanical American jerk. Your peertube instance is one of the incredible minority of platforms online, big and small, that allows nonsexual nudity but NOT porn and NOT violence and hatespeech...until that someday-maybe idyllic future where major corps decide it's more profitable to support progressive causes like gender-equal anti-censorship instead of making superstars out of right-wing hatemongers, I will be forever grateful to you for giving me a "safe space" to upload my heinous nonsexual female nipples to!
BTW everyone should become a Patreon donor to help Tio keep the server running! patreon.com/trom/posts
Today I take a first look at TROMJaro, a Manjaro-based, XFCE distro that has a lot of awesome customizations.
👇 PULL IT DOWN FOR THE GOOD STUFF 👇
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Before the TROM II documentary will be released we will do a cleanup for tromsite.com. For example there are a few books that are outdated or not relevant/factual anymore and they will be removed. We will make this all public. Or our quizzes and other tools that are not relevant anymore, will be removed.
We need to keep TROM up to date and relevant. No point in dragging outdated materials/tools.
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.
All of the "shorts" videos from our 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.
Well the stupid typo I always make should have been: "are now extinct!" - corrected. Changes the entire meaning of the sentence....terrible! Thanks for the heads-up.
In a trade-based society it mainly, of not entirely, matters what's the value of a trade. If you can trade it, you have the go ahead. If it is not profitable to trade it or you cannot trade it, then it does not have any value.
We should be able to design a better society where the incentive is to help others, progress, protect, discover, rather than a mindless "trade trade trade".
Harlow is diagnosed with a fatal mitochondrial disease known as Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency (PDCD). Since there are only a few cases of this disorder worldwide, there is no funding for research because "it is not profitable to cure".
Its horrifying to hear that there are 200 to 300 children suffering from this disease and still no one's trying to help find a cure for it just because its not profitable. Its so sad that our world works this way.
Nothing exciting, only the usual Manjaro Stable updates. Grab it from here. Mind you the Mouse Gesture is not working probably…the package is called easystroke. No time to fix it for now, I am very sick.
VideoNeat is up again! The theme was very old and not updated in years so it was not working properly and we were unable to update the whole website for some time now. We finally changed the theme and redesigned the entire website. It looks quite similar to how it was before, but probably a bit more functional now.
Mind you it is not optimized for mobile phones and it won't be for some time. It is not a priority for now. Only after the TROM II documentary is released we can do that. But regardless this website is not meant for such tiny screens anyway. And most mobile phones can't even properly support the Bittorrent network that VN uses.
Also we need some 50 more euros for our campaign to pay for the backups for VN and all other websites. Please help if you can tromsite.com/fundraiser/ we have to pay in less than a week.
hey guys, I spent ten minutes on your site. I have no idea what you are trying to do/say. There's no real mission statement. None of your questions have answers, just a reframe of the questions.
This seems like a parody of a free thinking website before it turns into a conspiracy based site
What are you talking about? Videoneat is an educational website where we list scientific documentaries mostly. VideoNeat is part of the TROM project. The TROM project's main website is tromsite.com.
If you want to know what TROM is about maybe you can read our main book: The Origin of Most Problems - tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-d…
If you find anything conspiratorial I'd be very curious to know what that is.
can you explain Trom in three succinct sentences? While I appreciate your offer to read your 1100?? page manifesto of all of the issues with society perhaps explain why I should care about your thoughts? And then translate that to your Home or About pages is what I'm saying. Trom seems like a conspiracy site because it doesn't seem to ever get to the point.
On the website we have both a short description and a short video introduction. We are also about to release a 5h documentary in a few months time.
Despite that I will summarize what TROM is about, for you:
The society we live in, from China to USA, Europe to Russia, from communism to socialism, capitalism, and so forth, is simply a society of trade. From cryptocurrencies to ads, to money or data collection, pretty much everything in our society is driven and based on trade. A simple practice that made sense hundreds of years ago, but today it drives more destruction than anything else. It makes us all put profit over anything else. And thus, we argue, trade is what drives humans to create most of the problems we see in the world today: climate change, waste, slavery, corruption, data collection, you name it.
That being said, we argue that you simply cannot make this game fair, we should move beyond it. So, what if we start to create trade-free goods and services to push aside the trade-based ones, killing the bad incentives that push humans to create so many pro
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On the website we have both a short description and a short video introduction. We are also about to release a 5h documentary in a few months time.
Despite that I will summarize what TROM is about, for you:
The society we live in, from China to USA, Europe to Russia, from communism to socialism, capitalism, and so forth, is simply a society of trade. From cryptocurrencies to ads, to money or data collection, pretty much everything in our society is driven and based on trade. A simple practice that made sense hundreds of years ago, but today it drives more destruction than anything else. It makes us all put profit over anything else. And thus, we argue, trade is what drives humans to create most of the problems we see in the world today: climate change, waste, slavery, corruption, data collection, you name it.
That being said, we argue that you simply cannot make this game fair, we should move beyond it. So, what if we start to create trade-free goods and services to push aside the trade-based ones, killing the bad incentives that push humans to create so many problems.
You seem super smart, but even your explanations leave questions. From your FAQ tromsite IF I want to know what Trade Free even is I get a question about what email to use?? Can you see the problem here?? I fully support change to the system that isn't and hasn't been working for a long assed time but you can't even clearly get across what you are all about. If your website can't answer a basic question about a basic principle of your organization how will it grow?!
As said we have a video presentation on the homepage plus a pretty detailed book about it. And a new documentary coming. We will improve the FAQ after the documentary is released. There is a lot of work going on now with this new documentary. Working for the past 2-3 years on it. And it is almost done. So things will improve in regards to our FAQ or other parts of the website.
Your intro is broken just FYI. Your "like Monopoly" video still doesn't explain what you are about? Is Trade Free a version of socialism? Until you can say "The world is broken and we need to do 1: 2: 3: to even have a chance" you won't broaden your audienc. Nothing you are advocating for is so complex it cannot be simply stated, and you seem married to complexity for complexities sake. You want to reach a global audience? Make your message simple, like me
You have complex questions and expect for very simplistic answers. I don't think it can work like that. We argue that the most important part is to understand "the problem" not to come up with any solutions. Like the only way to, for example, cure cancer, is to understand what cancer is. We give this example with the germs. Before discovering these microscopic organisms many hundreds of millions of humans died since they had 0 solutions for those infections. The moment they understood where these infections come from (little tiny organisms, germs) they came up with a lot of solutions: vaccines, washing their hands, some pills, boiling the water before consumption, you name it.
So we want to make sure people understand that "trade is the origin of most problems".
For example when you ask "Is Trade Free a version of socialism?" then what do you mean by socialism? What Robert Owen started in the 18hundreds as "socialism"? What some tribes proclaim today to be socialism?
Trade-Free means we should create goods and services that ask nothing in return. Like Wikipedia,
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You have complex questions and expect for very simplistic answers. I don't think it can work like that. We argue that the most important part is to understand "the problem" not to come up with any solutions. Like the only way to, for example, cure cancer, is to understand what cancer is. We give this example with the germs. Before discovering these microscopic organisms many hundreds of millions of humans died since they had 0 solutions for those infections. The moment they understood where these infections come from (little tiny organisms, germs) they came up with a lot of solutions: vaccines, washing their hands, some pills, boiling the water before consumption, you name it.
So we want to make sure people understand that "trade is the origin of most problems".
For example when you ask "Is Trade Free a version of socialism?" then what do you mean by socialism? What Robert Owen started in the 18hundreds as "socialism"? What some tribes proclaim today to be socialism?
Trade-Free means we should create goods and services that ask nothing in return. Like Wikipedia, Doctors Without Borders, Open Source software, and so forth. No ideology behind really, just a "humane and humanitarian" practice.
So we want to make sure people understand that "trade is the origin of most problems".
Verbatim, pulled from your response. This is perfect. I asked you to sum up your views in a way simple to understand. I spent half an hour on your site and another half hour talking to you directly to get this! Why isn't that or some variation more accessible on your site?
To take a step back, Respect for the sheer volume of work you've dedicated to this intellectual exercise.
It's super easy to do and it's something I'm very guilty of, I so often assume the background knowledge I have on a subject is something everyone has and as a result I'll "begin" a conversation at a level that often means I have to take several steps back. I hope this brought some value to your day, do you have a goal for the new documentary being up? And any plans for cliff notes of the manuscript?
The documentary is almost done. It will be posted for free of course, on tromsite.com. I am not sure I understand this question "And any plans for cliff notes of the manuscript?"
sorry for the delay. I'm paraphrasing but your magnum opus Most of the Problem is very weighty, and unless it involves sex most of the population isn't going to read it. Even if it involves sex many won't . My last book was fiction and 450 pages, personally your giant tome and huge imposing documentary seem to reflect the grandiose behaviors of the church keeping the message inaccessible to the common man. Your message is clear when you speak from the heart so do that more!
It looks at a cursory glance to be 15 years and countless hours of time. I've really enjoyed this conversation, I fully agree the system is broken so please don't feel I'm saying anything bad about your site views etc. What I'm doing is showing you my perspective. You've been submerged in this subject matter for so long you assume so much knowledge of visitors. We (I) don't have your entrenched background. If I can't grasp your views quickly imma pass and move on, see?
This is very useful indeed and it helps us make the information more easy to grasp. We will make sure the website will be more straight-forward in regards to what TROM is about. This should be something that we will fix before May when the documentary is scheduled for release.
Trade-Free means we should create goods and services that ask nothing in return. Like Wikipedia, Doctors Without Borders, Open Source software, and so forth. No ideology behind really, just a "humane and humanitarian" practice.
I mean I feel like the site takes up more vertical space now. videoneat.com/category/documen… Look at the screenshot attached, just 2 documentaries are taking up all my screen and I still can't fully read the description of the first one. Would be nice if it were more compact, having to scroll a lot is bad UX.
And of course there's no hurry, you can fix this when you're free from all the TROM II work.
Oh well I suspect your screen has a very small resolution. This is not how it looks on my full hd screen.
I did not test it much for other resolutions but will try to improve it a bit the following months. Am too sick now and also need to focus on TROM II. In the meantime try to zoom out a bit ;)
@tio Wow that's such a big difference between your screenshot and mine, if you look carefully you'll notice that in mine the pictures look almost square instead of being rectangle shaped. I tried zooming out and it worked, so for now I can use this trick.
Also did you get COVID from going to the dentist? wishing you a quick recovery
The usual Manjaro updates PLUS: Added CatFish back. We used this as our main search tool when Thunar did not have any. Now that Thunar has a built-in search feature I thought we need no extra tool.
Here's a cool thing: make an account at files.trom.tf (our trade-free nextcloud instance). You get 5GB of space. If you need more you can ask us and we can expand to 20GB. You get access to a powerful document editor (onlyoffice), Notes, Music and Photos app.
You can manage you files with this, for free.
Now you can easily sync your files using the Nextcloud Desktop app or even integrate your TROM FIles into your file manager in TROMjaro, in seconds. See this.
Thus, a free and open source way to manage your files, your photos, your documents, your videos, your music. And to integrate it with your desktop.
We provide all of these as trade-free, in a reactionary move to this bullshit trade-based society that pushes us all to be cunts. We want to be the opposite. And that's just 1 o
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Here's a cool thing: make an account at files.trom.tf (our trade-free nextcloud instance). You get 5GB of space. If you need more you can ask us and we can expand to 20GB. You get access to a powerful document editor (onlyoffice), Notes, Music and Photos app.
You can manage you files with this, for free.
Now you can easily sync your files using the Nextcloud Desktop app or even integrate your TROM FIles into your file manager in TROMjaro, in seconds. See this.
Thus, a free and open source way to manage your files, your photos, your documents, your videos, your music. And to integrate it with your desktop.
We provide all of these as trade-free, in a reactionary move to this bullshit trade-based society that pushes us all to be cunts. We want to be the opposite. And that's just 1 out of the many such services that we provide via TROM.tf.
And by the way, please help if you can here tromsite.com/fundraiser/ so that we don't ever become cunts.
The usual Manjaro Stable updates plus: Added support for fingerprint readers. To set it up follow this guide. Added support for WebDAV. See this for more info. Removed the autostart of Emote when the system first boots up. And that’s all.
Big thanks to @Roma again for donating 100€ for our backups donation campaign. Since he did it directly we changed the goal from 250 to 150 Euros. Please if anyone can, help us out to pay for the backups. We have 3 more weeks to raise the funds. This amount covers a full year of backups.
We Live In The Age of The Bullshitter is an interesting and truthful article about the biggest bullshitters of our time. Musk, Peterson, Steven Pinker, Trump, Dr. Oz and the like.
The author rightly points out how these people do not know much about the world, but their confidence coupled with the clickbaity world we live in and their celebrity status, makes them superstar-influencers.
Elon Musk is the richest man on planet Earth. He is also a complete bullshitter. He makes false claims about the cars he makes. He constantly promises that he is going to accomplish things that he never, in fact, accomplishes. In March 2020, he made the confident COVID-19 prediction that “based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of Ap
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We Live In The Age of The Bullshitter is an interesting and truthful article about the biggest bullshitters of our time. Musk, Peterson, Steven Pinker, Trump, Dr. Oz and the like.
The author rightly points out how these people do not know much about the world, but their confidence coupled with the clickbaity world we live in and their celebrity status, makes them superstar-influencers.
Elon Musk is the richest man on planet Earth. He is also a complete bullshitter. He makes false claims about the cars he makes. He constantly promises that he is going to accomplish things that he never, in fact, accomplishes. In March 2020, he made the confident COVID-19 prediction that “based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April.” After convincing cities around the country that his “Boring Company” was going to build tunnels that would alleviate traffic congestion for low, low prices, Musk’s company simply went silent after municipal governments asked it to follow through on its commitments.
They talk about a recently famous guy named Sam Bankman-Fried who "had committed himself to the “Effective Altruism” movement, which aims to achieve maximal moral goodness through benevolent acts and philanthropy". He was a crypto-rich-man. Basically the same Musk but instead of playing the money game he was playing the cryptocurrency game. He got caught stealing and lying. He was living like a rich man. You know, all of that. There are many naive minds out there thinking that you can create honest businesses, you can trade fairly and do good through trading. This is almost never the case as these examples, and millions of others, prove.
Jordan Peterson sells books and makes money out of being so "radical" and yet unscientific. Pinker does the same. But real scientists are the ones you never heard of, the ones that do the work and not sell books and become viral online. To trust these figures is as naive as trusting Dr. Oz.
One of the problems is that for-profit media has a very bad set of incentives. For instance, every time Elon Musk makes some confident prediction about how he is going to implant chips in human brains or build a Mars colony or tunnel under Miami or whatever, tech websites are faced with a choice. They can print a story with the headline “MUSK SAYS BRAIN CHIPS COMING IN SIX MONTHS” or they can ignore Musk’s bluster until he offers proof that he has actually invented one of the things he keeps promising to invent. To ignore Musk is to sacrifice the precious clicks that a new Musk prediction will inevitably garner. Thus a for-profit tech journalism website faces a conflict between its financial self-interest and its integrity. In a time when it’s tough for media outlets to survive, it’s hard to turn down the clicks.
The author tries the waters but does not go for a swim. This is unfortunate because the cause of these issues is in plain sight: our trade based society.
Here's how it works as an example:
Musk is a trader and does everything he can to maximize his advantage being pushed by this competitive environment of trade. When he buys and sells, and he is also entangled with investors and clients from all sides, he (the man) cannot be unbiased. Thus, he is biased. He will exaggerate the claims about his businesses, lie, deceive, and all of that, to keep himself afloat and to swim in that sea of trades. The people who follow Musk in his quest, from employees to his Twitter followers, are either forced to follow what he says and do like he does (his employees who have no other choice since they have to trade to survive), or the busy idiots who trade in other ways, keeping themselves busy all the time, not able to digest any information very well or much at all. So they can follow the HE, the man, whatever he says.
So far we have the rich man (the celebrity) and the idiots (the consumed ones). All created by the same trade-based society that keeps us busy and idiots, specialized on one thing (most of the time useless and mindless), and wants us to compete all the time and get better traders.
Lastly we have the media. Guess what media wants? Same as Elon Musk or his fanboys: more for themselves. More clicks means more views, means more attention trading, means you can transform that into a currency and then stuff. The media is rich and wants to get richer, so it is very well incentivized to publish whatever crap sells. And thus they sell these bullshitters to the consuming idiots. Simple.
The rich-celebrity + the consumer idiots + the for-profit-media = a dumb down society.
Voila. Mystery solved!
All of us are victims of the same system of trade. And as long as we live in the same system, nothing will change.
Did you know that we provide a trade-free Nextcloud instance at files.trom.tf via our trom.tf/ project? We give 5GB for free to anyone and can raise up to 20GB to anyone who needs more. Just let us know. Everything, trade-free, out of our kindness. We provide it with OnlyOffice + the Photos app. Server side encryption and all that.
It would be great if we could also get some financial support to pay for our yearly backups for all of our trade-free services. We have a campaign here tromsite.com/fundraiser/ and we need to raise some 250 Euros. It is going very slow and that's a bit sad considering that at least hundreds of people use these services on a daily basis.
If you use them please consider helping us. We do not engage into any BS trade thing. We treat everyone as equal, do not sell anything, do not collect your data or insert ads into your face.
Hopefully we can raise the amount and this time not by large donations by the same handful of people who keep on supporting TROM, but by small donations from those who use these services so we can make this more sustainable. #tromlive
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in reply to TROM • • •That was a video from @toplesstopics and its not even porn, like its just a video of her talking about a photoshoot she did which contained some artistic nudity. I don't understand why people are so afraid of human skin, no one's forcing them to watch.
That being said, if videos from an account is showing up even after banning then that's probably a bug that needs to be reported to #Peertube. Asking the admin of another instance to take the video out is not the way to solve this issue.
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in reply to TROM • • •jeez. Thanks for not being a puritanical American jerk. Your peertube instance is one of the incredible minority of platforms online, big and small, that allows nonsexual nudity but NOT porn and NOT violence and hatespeech...until that someday-maybe idyllic future where major corps decide it's more profitable to support progressive causes like gender-equal anti-censorship instead of making superstars out of right-wing hatemongers, I will be forever grateful to you for giving me a "safe space" to upload my heinous nonsexual female nipples to!
BTW everyone should become a Patreon donor to help Tio keep the server running! patreon.com/trom/posts
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