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Never come close to the seals https://videos.trom.tf/w/8cqikT49xCZXRVSWEQY1BY

Another important video by @Dima . Support him if you can. His work is really inspiring and positive.

#tromlive #volunteering #volunteers #seals #natura #protectnature



Our Frienica instance got updated to the latest stable and all of our custom themes were updated and we added 2 more: Brown and Grey.


Go to Settings - Display to test them out.

They will be shared with the Friendica's developers if they want to include them in the default Friendica's themes or get some ideas about future changes.

Big thanks to these people who create Friendica for being so awesome and for keeping Friendica so useful and feature-rich!

#friendica #foss #activitipub #fediverse #fedi



Thank you Wilf for becoming the 77th supporter for TROM! https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - little by little we may be able to achieve the goal. #tromlive


The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades, new report finds https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-plastic-industry-knowingly-pushed-recycling-myth-for-decades-new-report-finds

Of course...one must be very skeptical when the companies producing plastic are so keen about "recycling". Of course they like these programs even if they do not work (which is the case today) since it allows them to produce more plastic and make more profits.

Recycling is only relevant when there is not a huge incentive to produce waste in the first place.

#TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism #recycle #recycling #greenwashing





We need help to pay for our backups. This is a yearly funding campaign that we do, so if you can help us please see here https://www.tromsite.com/trom-backup/ - we only need 300 Euros for a full year of 4TB encrypted backups.

This means everything from our videos and documentaries, books, websites, including trom.tf (meaning all of the files that users have uploaded to our services - from Peertube videos to Nextcloud files). Everything!

300 Euros to make sure that we have everything backed-up in a secure place.

Please help if you can and thanks a lot for doing that!

#tromlive #opensource #foss #volunteering #alternative

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Now TROMnews has categories for the news to make it a lot easier to sort through them.

The homepage also got a bit of a rework for the News section:

TROMnews is now far better than it was before. If you'd like to support this work please consider helping us here https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

#tromlive #news #science #environment #climatechange #tech #foss

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After the FOSDEM is before the I Love Free Software Day. The Berlin local group of the FSFE celebrates it this year in a week at Makerspace xHain on 14.2. from 6 p.m..

R2D2 loves Free Software? Lets celebrate (sadly without R2, who celebrated with us at a Maker Fair in 2018)

#FSFE #Berlin #IloveFS #xhain



TROMnews now has a search engine

In time this will become better and more relevant, the more stuff we can collect on the website.

#tromlive



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Damit die Piratenpartei an der Europawahl 2024 teilnehmen kann, benötigt sie, wie allen anderen kleinen Partien auch, insgesamt 4.000 sogenannte Unterstützungsunterschriften.

Wir haben schon einige Unterschriften zusammen, es sind aber bisher nicht die notwendigen 4.000 zusammengekommen.

Deshalb möchten wir euch bitten, uns mit eurer Unterschrift zu unterstützen.

Die Informationen dazu haben wir hier zusammengetragen.

#Piratenpartei
#Enterstützungsunterschriften
#Europawahl



For the first time since 2014 we are able to provide access to our own RSS Feeds for TROMnews, for those who want to keep in touch with what we curate via TROMnews, but want to do so via their RSS readers. See https://tromnews.com/about/

#tromlive



Why TROMnews is important, and why no one uses it


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@TROM @Tio

Now you get 200 feeds that each can pull several items every hour or so. A server may struggle with so much stuff. And so the old plugin disabled many feeds daily, and I had to reactivate them to make them update...one by one, manually.

What I'd like is the ability to showcase from where an item is. Like who posted this or that, as it was before. I can only do that if I buy the pro-bro version...


Reading stuff like this is what makes me wanna learn web development, lol. I'd like to see if we can do things in a better way that doesn't involve going through these annoying bugs/limitations.....

@Tio @TROM
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Yah I wish I knew how to do these. But we have so many websites it would be impossible for 1 person to do all of these and not use 3rd party plugins/scripts.


We have a new supporter for our 200 for TROM campaign! https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - Thank you Darby!

We need some 150 more people to donate 5 Euros a month and support our project forever. Some 20 websites, a lot of trade-free materials and services. Support if you can 😀

#tromlive #opensource #trade-free

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The counter on the webpage is only showing 46 donors tho, did you forgot to update it? :blobcatgiggle:
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No. That's how many there are. I said we need some 150 more, instead of saying that we need 154 more 😀


We've updated our TROM Videos too. Now Peertube has more cool features like the storyboard - you can hover with your mouse over the seekbar of a video and see thumbnails. Pretty nice!

We are currently generating the thumbnails for all of our videos (may take a while to finish), but any new video uploaded from now one will have this feature.

You can also add chapters to your videos and more. Awesome job @PeerTube !

From now on we will post a "must watch" documentary from VideoNeat on our Peertube's homepage - https://videos.trom.tf so make sure you check that out and subscribe to our VideoNeat channel - https://videos.trom.tf/c/videoneat/videos

This year we will try to focus on the content for our TROM Videos and bring new creators, plus create new videos ourselves too.

So please, if you can, help us here https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - we only need 160 more people to donate 5 Euros a month to support TROM forever.

#tromlive #peertube #documentaries #documentary

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Updated our TROM Files to Nextcloud 28. Biggish update. We had to remove the following apps tho, since they were not compatible: files_3d, files_markdown, metadata, video_converter, extract. Whenever these are available for Nextcloud 28 we will enable them.

Take advantage of our TROM Files https://files.trom.tf - you get 10GB of storage space and access to better tools than Google's Drive. All trade-free.

#tromlive #foss #opensource



Big thanks to those who support our 200 for TROM donation campaign https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - there are 44 people donating 5 Euros a month and we need 200 in total. We provide a lot of materials and tools - see the donation page. Your support allows us to keep these alive and relevant, and if enough support to continue to produce more.

Remember, among many things, we provide a video platform with unlimited uploads for anyone, a file hosting platform with 10GB of storage, a social network and a chat platform. Also a Linux Operating System. A lot, and for everyone. So please, consider donating 5 Euros a month if you can. It is the only amount we accept.

Thank you!

Donate https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

#opensource #foss #fediverse #help #donation #campaign #free #trade-free #tradefree #trom

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TROMjaro Layout Switcher revamp In this release we are bringing the new TROMjaro Layout Switcher. @Rokosun rewrote the entire application in the Nim programming language with use of owlkettle library for GTK.


Finland Solved Homelessness: Here's How (Spoiler: It's More Than Housing First) - https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=0jt_6PBnCJE

Of course that helping human beings it is a good idea. It is astonishing that we even have to have these conversations. All humans should have access to their basic needs (at leas) as trade-free.

#tromlive #homelesness #help #finland

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Our TROM Call now requires a username and password in order to create a call. This is stated on the main trom.tf website. The password and username are "tromcall" and it will create a unique call session every time. Therefore it can be used by anyone.

Now it should be a lot more reliable than before.

#tromlive



What is the best p2p chat application that does not rely on servers? We plan to change the default qTox app for our TROMjaro. Jami is the best one on the list so far, but if you know any let us know. #tromlive #p2p #opensource #foss #privacy

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We have a new supporter for our 200 for TROM!! Thank you so much. 43 people are currently supporting! If you can support, please do it here https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

We have more plans for the next year that we will discuss in our Saturday's TROMcast Live on the 30st. Stay tuned ;)

#tromlive



TROMcast Live: Plans for the next year

Saturday 30st, 21:00

I (Tio) will do a live for several hours to talk a bit about my plans for TROM for the next year(s). I may allow others to join in but since this is a special TROMcast about some specific updates I want to talk about, it may only be me streaming. I will post the Peertube streaming link on the same day 😀.

#tromlive

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Our Peertube instance https://videos.trom.tf is not for advertising your company and products. Several people tried to take advantage of our instance that accepts science/tech videos in English by uploading promotional videos for their tech-company. No more! All removed!

We will have to focus a lot more on inviting proper creators that are in line with our TROM project. We need to grow our Peertube instance and the Peertube ecosystem in general. This is going to be a long journey, but how else can we move away from the giant companies that own the Internet!?

Help out of you can. Help out this direction!

#tromlive

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TROM part 3, Humans, now fully subtitled into Spanish thanks to Rafa, Vicky and Cesar! - https://videos.trom.tf/w/59Da9g1PnyJnFkvR3yRMWC

The previous 2 are also subtitled into Spanish. There is only 1 more part left and we will have it all in Spanish. You can watch the documentary here https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/

#tromlive

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Our websites do not currently work. Trying to fix them. Probably our RAM is not enough. Will see....they may be down for many hours.... #tromlive


Sea Turtle Rescuers Illegally Evicted - https://videos.trom.tf/w/iVedLTb1FPhTUb1nr1bTFx

@Dima does a fantastic job at highlighting the good people that still live in this backwards trade society and why they are struggling to do the good things that they do. Imagine doing good things like saving turtles, and not only that you are not helped in this society, but face many roadblocks.

Dima keep on doing your important work! Your videos are much needed for everyone to understand the struggle the volunteers have to face, but also to understand that people are motivated to do good things. We just have to enable that by helping them.

If people had access to at least their basic needs as trade-free, we would see a lot of change happening.

Support Dima on Patreon if you can - https://www.patreon.com/BeBraveToAct

#tromlive

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Thank you to everyone who is supporting our TROM project via donations. Currently we have 36 people supporting our 200 for TROM cause https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - basically we need 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month to support TROM forever. Distributing the toll we put on everyone to make the project sustainable.

You support some 20 websites and a lot of digital materials, plus future projects. See the main website https://www.tromsite.com and the tools that we have.

It would be amazing to achieve this goal and it is not an unrealistic one. Thousands of people use our tools and websites.

Again a big thank you to everyone!

#tromlive

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Our TROMjaro trade-free apps library now displays an excerpt for all of the apps in the library for the APPS main page:

This has been requested for years now and we finally did it. It is indeed super useful to know what these apps are about from the main page, without having to open them.

Enjoy over 650 trade-free apps https://www.tromjaro.com/apps/ #tromlive

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We have removed Paypal from our donation options for our 200 for TROM campaign https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ because it was not working properly and because Paypal was not supporting recurring donations without a card anyway, therefore you were still forced to use a card for creating a donation. Therefore we are now relying one Stripe for the donations, which works perfectly fine. Anyone who has a credit card can donate to our ongoing campaign.

Those who are still donating through Paypal can still donate, so no worries about that. But if you can switch to Stripe it would be more reliable. Simple log in to https://www.tromsite.com/access and under the Donor Dashboard change the payment option. In case you need help contact us via https://www.tromsite.com/contact/

And a lot of thank-yous to those who support TROM via our campaign. We are still in need of a lot more support so if you can, please consider a donation.

#tromlive



We have scheduled one new trade-free app a day for https://www.tromjaro.com/apps/ for the next 42 days. A lot of great apps. Keep an eye on it 😀. You can follow here too https://www.tromjaro.com/follow/

#tromlive



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> Aitana, an exuberant 25-year-old pink-haired woman from Barcelona, receives weekly private messages from celebrities asking her out. But this model is not real, she was created by her designers using AI.

The fact that people were asking her out means that they didn't disclose she was an AI generated image, so it's possible people started following her thinking she's a real person.

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This is not an isolated case. I do not remember the exact documentary on VN about this, but should be there 😀. People follow these "AI models" even when they are told they are AI Models. Maybe the people you mention were not aware these were Ai Models.


Thank you Adam for becoming a supporter for our 200 for TROM campaign - https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - there are currently 38 people supporting us. We need 200 in total. It is just 5 Euros a month to support TROM forever basically. So please, if you can, help us.

You are supporting many projects: from a lot of trade-free content to many trade-free services like social networks, video platforms, and operating system and more.

#tromlive



Did you know that you could install a Trade Free Operating System for your phone?

GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/ OS and more are already available for hundreds of devices. For a quick list see our Trade-Free Directory.

Or read an in-depth look at the world of smartphones - https://www.tiotrom.com/2023/11/the-smartphone-world-and-how-i-cope-with-it/ - how they evolved into a pile of garbage and how we can clean all of that crap from our phones.

#tromlive



Thank you so much to everyone who is supporting TROM financially every single month!

We provide a lot of trade-free content and services, and we will provide more. Right now we are still far behind what we need to run this project in a sustainable way, but via our 200 for TROM campaign (see http://tromsite.com/donate) we hope that in time, with little steps, we will achieve that.

Thank you to all of you! #tromlive