Sollten @wintermeyer (vutuv) und BizzFed auf der Liste der LinkedIn-Alternativen von DI.DAY stehen? Wir finden: ja.

DI.DAY empfiehlt bisher nur Alternativen, die für ein breites Publikum schon gut funktionieren. Die Sorge dahinter ist verständlich: Wer LinkedIn verlässt, soll kein leeres Netzwerk vorfinden. Aber es ist ein Henne-Ei-Problem. Netzwerke wachsen nicht, wenn man erst auf sie verweist, sobald sie groß sind. Irgendwann muss man die Alternativen sichtbar machen, die man wachsen sehen will.

Dabei geht es nicht darum, das eine neue LinkedIn zu küren. Ein offenes, dezentrales Netz lebt gerade davon, dass nicht wieder alle auf einer einzigen Plattform landen. vutuv gibt es seit 10 Jahren, mit echter Community, Open Source und Fediverse-Anbindung. BizzFed ist ebenfalls Open Source (AGPL-3.0), verzichtet auf Tracking und ist über ActivityPub föderiert. Die beiden Netzwerke schließen sich nicht aus, sie ergänzen sich, und dank Föderation können sie sogar miteinander sprechen.

Eine Liste muss nicht entscheiden, wer gewinnt. Sie kann ein Ökosystem aus Alternativen zeigen.

Wenn ihr das ähnlich seht: Schreibt es dem DI.DAY-Team über die Kontaktseite (di.day/de/kontakt). Sachlich, freundlich und öffentlich.

Der Anstoß kam von Stefan Wintermeyer, danke dafür. Auch @Sascha ist Teil dieser Diskussion.

#DIDAY #LinkedInAlternative #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSource

Look, if I were to live in this town, in this tribe, and I speak this language. I grow up here. Is not paradise, but is ok. I know some people, some shops where I buy food from, I have a life routine. Then some people from other tribes come here, they do not speak the local language (the only one I know), they may sell drugs on the streets, make a bit of a mess, are loud and different…I will get bothered! It is normal. Let alone if they come in with all sorts of crazy ideas like religion…it may feel like a nightmare to me. We have to understand this aspect too.

But also the fact that the vast majority of immigrants are going to integrate and are as good or bad as the locals. Only a minority of immigrants go on to commit crimes, especially violent ones. And broadly, the crimes committed by immigrants are a mix of political and media exaggeration, socio-economic pressures, police practices, discrimination, etc..

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#immigration #migrants #trom #tromarticles #world #religion #culture

Ironically when Romania became part of the EU some 20 years ago, many poor Romanians “invaded” the other EU countries to make a living, just like my family did. And with it came a lot of crimes since these Romanians were desperate to make money, and could not easily get good jobs abroad, didn’t know other languages, and so forth, therefore stealing, scamming, and lying were efficient tools to make a quick buck. And so for many years “Romanians” were the “Gypsies” of Europe. You would feel a bit ashamed to say that you are Romanian, since many thought of them as thieves and scammers. Same Romanians discriminating against Gypsies. The irony…

But now that less and less Romanians are engaging in these “acts of making a quick buck” and more and more have “real jobs” and a better life in Europe, the hate and discrimination against Romanians kinda faded away.

Irony again: People from Pakistan and India started to migrate to Romania for a better wage. Considering Romania has some of the lowest, if not the lowest wages in Europe, I am shocked anyone would migrate there for making money. But well, since now the Pakistani and Indians can work for even less than the Romanians, often for food delivery services, there seem to be an anger against these “brown intruders” who take our jobs and do not speak our language or care about our culture. Such an irony.

See how the pressures from our Trade Based society change who we see as the “others”, the bad ones, the dirty, the uneducated?

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#romania #culturecancer #immigration #migrants #trom #tromarticles

Is true that between 1990 and 2010 in the UK there were a lot of sexually abused children and is thought the vast majority of the abusers were indeed of this race called Pakistani Muslim.

From Wikipedia:

A 2013 report by the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee describes a group first making contact with the child in a public place. After the group’s initial contact with the child, offers of treats (takeaway food, cigarettes, drugs) persuade the child to maintain the relationship. Sometimes a boy similar in age presents himself as a “boyfriend”; this person arranges for the child to be raped by other members of the group. Children may end up being raped by dozens of these group members, and may be trafficked to connected groups in other towns.

This sounds like organized child rape and trafficking.

There are ongoing investigations since the case is not that simple. Might be over reporting of these groups of people to the police and under-reporting for other groups. Or vice versa. Might be that many Pakistani Muslims can more easily get jobs in the taxi industry, combine that with the UK night life, and there you go, more chances for this “other race” to encounter vulnerable girls at night. There are many ideas and theories, and you can read about it here.

Point is this cancerous situation between the “british” and “pakistani muslims” in this case, comes from some nuggets of truth. Crime, violence, abuse, discrimination. But of course blaming this group or that group of people is like saying the cause of lung cancer is smoking tobacco, without even once considering the marketing of the Tobacco Industries, their lobbies of governments, their deception and lies, the Trade Society itself or the fact that many poor people smoke as a stress reliever. You have to go deeper, else you do not understand much, so there will be no solution in sight. You blame the Pakistani Muslims today, the Chinese tomorrow, or Jews, or Gypsies, or the “hipsters”, the black and brown, the Mexicans…

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#culture #tromarticles #trom #tromsite #uk #immigrants #migrants #discrimination

The truth is that a lot, if not most culture clashes happen because of our Trade Based Society. People are forced into migrating from one part to another on this semi-round rock. Combine that with the fact that most such humans are specialized workers who know little about the world or have no time to learn, and the mix is as good as putting 100 crying babies in one tiny room. Or 20 snakes, 30 goats, 2 lions, 23 alligators, and 14 otters. Plus 200 rats. Same room. You can even keep the crying babies there for fun.

I came to Catalonia because my parents were so poor they had to leave Romania and come work as slaves almost, in this Catalonian “paradise”. Better paid yes, but also overworked, illegal working contracts, badly treated.

When I came to Catalonia I did not care about their culture, or language. I didn’t even know they speak Catalan and not Spanish. As far as I knew, I came to Spain. I had no idea about Catalonia’s history, or Spain’s history, or anything else. I came here because of socio-economic pressures and was here to try to have a better life for myself and my family.

Do you think my father would give a flying fuck about the Catalan Culture when he was working 6-7 days a week, 12 hours a day? Look how he looked, like a zombie.

And we know countless people in very similar situations who came to Catalonia because of the same poverty reasons. From Europe, South America, Africa…

Is not easy to leave your family in Romania, let alone Africa, and come work in Catalonia in the tourism industry, or in a field somewhere picking up apples. This is hardly a choice…If these people would have had a good life in their tribes, for sure they would have stayed there.

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#culture #catalonia #catalunia #immigration #immigrants #migrants #europe #spain

Philips Hue har visat upp sin nya ljusslinga Philips Hue Liane 360° i samband med teknikmässan IFA 2026. Till skillnad från traditionella ljusslingor sprider Liane 360° ljuset runt hela slingan. Den använder sig också av Philips Hues Omniglow-teknik för att skapa ett jämnt ljus utan synliga enskilda ljuspunkter.

Slingan är tänkt att exempelvis monteras längs väggar och tak eller formas fritt i olika dekorativa installationer. Den är tillgänglig i varianter på tre och fem meter och kan även kapas till önskad längd.

Hue-appen kan sedan användas för att automatisera och skapa personliga ljusscener med den.

Pris för Philips Hue Liane 360° ligger på 4949 kronor för modellen på tre meter och 6099 kronor för den på fem meter. I köpet ingår även fästen för montering.#Lighting #IFA

TROM News is BACK!!!

Here it is news.tromsite.com/

We live in a world of misinformation and AI-slop, so it is harder than ever to know who to trust, what is real, what is exaggerated, what is propaganda or what is a commercial.

Over the past years we gathered a lot of trustworthy news sources around TROM, sources that are often used for our TROM materials or discovered via them. And so we compiled a list of the best, use their RSS feeds, and automatically pull them in one place. We focus on news from Science, Technology, Health, Society and Environment.

We try to make sure this is not a blind and overwhelming list of news, but a varied and relevant one. At times we may delete some sources/news if the news stream becomes too crowded.

Another huge advantage of this project is that it acts as a curated search engine. In time we will gather many thousands of news items therefore expanding the usability of the search engine.

On top of the news we also pull feeds from some interesting Youtube channels that are science/tech oriented.

#news #trade-free #environment #science #tech #technology #health

Irobot har presenterat sin nya robotdammsugare, Roomba Max 875 Combo, i samband med teknikmässan IFA 2026. Enheten beskrivs som företagets mest avancerade modell hittills och kombinerar dammsugning och våtmoppning.

Bland nyheterna syns företagets nya “Sealforce”-teknik som kan skapa en tätare kontakt mot en matta genom att koncentrera luftflödet och sugeffekten. Den angivna sugeffekten för damsugaren ligger på 35 000 pascal, vilket ska ge tre gånger djupare rengöring av mattor jämfört med företagets tidigare modeller.

Moppen har samtidigt uppgraderats med en “Thermamist”-funktion som använder ultraljud och uppvärmd vattengånga för att mjuka upp intorkade fläckar, som enheten sedan kan skrubba bort.

För navigering används lidar och kamerabaserad AI. Enligt Irobot kan systemet identifiera och undvika över 300 typer av vanliga förmål. Robotdammsugaren kan också ta sig över trösklar på upp till 3,5 centimeter. I paketet ingår även en ny Autowash-docka som automatiskt tömmer och rengör enheten.

Roomba Max 875 Combo har ett rekommenderas pris på 1199 dollar i USA, motsvarande cirka 11 570 kronor. Vad robotdammsugaren kommer kosta i Sverige är just nu okänt.#RobotVacuumsandCleaning #IFA

LG Electronics har i samband med teknikmässan IFA 2026 presenterat en ny version av sitt smarta hem AI Home. En av de största nyheterna är Thinq Claw, en AI-agent som låter användaren styra hemmets uppkopplade enheter genom en vanliga textchatt.

Thinq Claw bygger på konceptet bakom Openclaw, men har anpassats för AI Home-plattformen. Tanken är att AI-agenten ska förstå både användarens ansvikt och sammanhanget, snarare än att bara reagera på enskilda kommandon.

Som exempel skriver LG att Thinq Claw skulle kunna förbereda köksapparater inför en middag, kontrollera temperatur och lufkvalitet innan användaren kommer hem och förslå aktiviteter utifrån tidigare val. Agenten kan även kopplas till en kalender och ska med tiden lära sig vad användaren gillar och ogillar.

LG har än så länge inte avslöjat när Thinq Claw kommer att bli allmänt tillgänglig för deras användare.#AI #SmartHome #IFA

In 2017 some leaders in Catalonia decided to allow people to vote for independence from Spain. The entire thing ended up in a lot of violence, particularly from the side of the Spanish police who was deployed to basically destroy this voting initiative. I was in Catalonia at that time. I remember it was a lot of violence of that sort.

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Of course people should be able to decide if they want to be independent, and not have their heads smashed by the police for trying to vote for independence, but all that considered, everyone is free to speak Catalan in Catalonia, express their cultural traditions, and so forth. The school is primarily in Catalan. Everything is in Catalan first or Catalan only. No Catalan is treated differently from a Spaniard.

So why do they want independence now?

Money? Politics? The hope that if Catalonia becomes a nation then their living standards will be higher and their culture will be more important? Their language has more chances of being preserved?

A hope for a better life if they become independent maybe?

It is hard to see how this can be the case because being an “independent” tribe is hardly doable today. Your stuff, imports and exports, media, tourism, the trade society itself, will push and pull on your language, society and culture and morph them in the process. Just like it does now. Look at the “island nation UK” who has 0 neighbors basically, is independent, is a bloody island. And yet many there complain about their culture loss, immigration, difficult living conditions, etc.. Being independent, your own tribe, is hardly a shield that can preserve your culture.

But since this Catalonian region went through a lot, it also changed in the process. Is like someone kidnapped a kid from Japan at age 8, takes her to US where she grows up. Then at the age of 40 she is free from the kidnapper. But when she returns to Japan she realizes she is not simply the same 8 year old Japanese girl. And Japan is also a different place. She speaks English and was enculturated into the American tribe.

Is she Japanese still? And what does that mean? Things have changed, and she needs to embrace her new identity.

The Catalan language is quite similar to the Spanish one nowadays because they have merged in many ways. There are so many foreigners here too from the rest of Europe but also South America. Spanish is spoken by more people in Catalonia than Catalan. Catalonia is a different girl, and no one is saying she has to forget the past trauma, but she cannot come back to before the trauma. She needs to embrace her new identity.

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#catalonia #catala #catalans #spain #independence #tromarticles #trom

The Catalans experienced a sort of stage 3-4 Culture Cancer in their past.

Between 1939 and 1975 Catalonia was under the dictatorship of Franco. A terrible idiot ruling over the entire Spain, but who was particularly anti Catalonia and anything that has to do with Catalonia. He was violent and banned the Catalonian language, alongside other languages in Spain. Only the Spanish language was accepted!

No one in Catalonia was allowed to write books in Catalan, even speak Catalan. They were under a complete siege. A total destruction of their culture is what this douchebag wanted.

In one of the Catalonian towns they shouted: “Catalan dogs! You are not worthy of the sun that shines on you.”

Needless to say Franco’s hatred against Catalans was nuclear. Many got killed, most of them oppressed and imprisoned. Fear, anxiety, how the fuck can you live like this?

Luckily after nearly 4 decades of terror that idiot died and with him his powers. Catalonia regained its culture, language, institutions, a regional independence and so on. For several decades they have tried to unglue themselves from this Spaniffication.

As you can see there was a lot of trauma when it comes to the people living in Catalonia.

So maybe this is the reason why some people in Catalonia are so desperate to hold onto their language and culture, and as a result marginalize the outsiders?

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#catalonia #catalan #catala #history #spain #culture #trom #tromaticles