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Doctors Without Borders—50 Years of Humanitarian Action ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=JA4lG9bfVg…
This is a great example of a trade-free service. No questions asked. Go and help others. If we could replicate this in many areas of our society, and multiply its powers, we may have a chance to move away from the many problems we face today. #tromlive
Doctors Without Borders—50 Years of Humanitarian Action
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was founded 50 years ago on the conviction that everyone has the right to medical care.Invidious
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If we find 10 more @Aaron then we can start new interesting things and spread TROM and its message a lot faster. Then we can find 10 more. And so forth. Much love Aaron! Watch his video videos.trom.tf/w/pyhQaYP7MfV1N… #tromlive
personal update 16 - 12.12.2021 - feeling the "force of trade" and fighting it
Since I'm doing my apprenticeship I'm quite busy and I can feel the influence of trade on my behavior. An example is the monthly paycheck that reinforces and justifies the effort.videos.trom.tf
TROMjaro Beta 2021.12.04 (two flavours)
With this release we are moving closer to getting TROMjaro XFCE out of Beta. And for that reason we are releasing two versions. Let me explain the “them” and the “why”.
TROMjaro Modern.
TROMjaro Modern is similar to our original TROMjaro Gnome. We wanted a left side apps panel, and a top bar for activities. With XFCE we managed to include global menus so the transformation was complete.
Beautiful global menus, very nice and compact UI that allows windows to expand to the top panel.
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However this didn’t work 100% of the time. There were a few inconsistencies:
- Several new apps are using CSD (Client Side Decorations) and that means they do not have a traditional top bar anymore, making it impossible to “expand” into the top bar. And so you end up with two sets of window buttons as such:
This can be very confusing. We reported the issue here, but so far no sing that it will be fixed.
- The top global menus only worked for some 70% of all apps from our tests. The same CSD windows are also bad at exporting the menus so they usually cannot have a global menu. And rarely some apps had a proper top menu but it was not being exported to the top panel. Overall I’d say some 70% of all apps worked with the global menu, some 25% kept their own hamburger menu and did not export any, and the rest had a traditional menu but it was not exported as a global menu. We think this may create confusion. This issue with apps not exporting the menus is debated for years now and it seems there is no fix to this since more and more developers choose to not properly export the menus of their apps. They seem to not care about this, despite the fact that it can be very useful, even for people with disabilities that can use all kinds of software to read through such menus. But well, it is something we cannot do anything about…
- The fact that menus are on the top bar, even when windows are not maximized, can be confusing for some.
- Maybe there are more reasons that I do not remember now.
Overall this Modern layout is as good as such a layout gets on Linux. I use it personally and I love it. It is geared for people who do video/photo editing and need more screen space.
TROMjaro Classic.
TROMjaro Classic is meant to fix the above inconsistencies so we are able to provide a TROMjaro ISO that is a lot more stable and consistent. Mind you, the changes are only design wise and a package less.
Because there is one single panel, and it is located at the bottom like in most Operating Systems, it is more familiar to newcomers. We’ve also removed the global menus so apps look a lot more consistent, regardless if their are CSD or non-CSD.
We’ve also moved the window buttons to the right. They make sense to the left when used in the Modern version.
So why two?
Simply because one is based on our original intent to provide a more unique looking distro (Modern) with global menus, but if users want more consistency they can choose the Classic version. This way we keep an original approach and a more consistent one too, at the same time.
One can create any of those layouts very very easily. And we will add tips about how to do that, very soon, to our Tips category.
Changes:
Here are the changes that we’ve done for this release:
- We obviously changed some stuff for the panels. Mainly we changed this little human menu from the right corner
with the Action Buttons plugin. So right click that little human (can be black now, hence the reason we are changing this) and then remove. The right click on the top panel and add a new item (Action Buttons). Drag it to the same position and make sure you have these selected:
Now to improve the icons situation. Copy these icons to the .local/share/icons/Zafiro/actions/48/ folder. Now refresh the desktop if you can’t see the changes: Ctrl+Alt+Del.
- We replaced the default lock screen app (
light-locker) with XFCE’s default calledxfce4-screensaver. Install it via Add/Remove Software and then open the Screensaver app and do these changes:
You may have to reboot your computer for this new Lock Screen to take effect.
- We remove the terminal transparency simply because it was fully transparent on some systems after the OS was installed, But you can make it transparent manually via the terminal’s preferences.
- We fixed a bug with the Archive Manager. Go to
/.local/share/applications/and remove a desktop file that hasFileRollerin the name. - On desktop the mouse pointer will disappear when there is no movement. This can be confusing. We did this for touchscreen devices that are only used without a mouse. To remove this annoyance go to
.config/autostart/and remove the fileUnclutter.desktop. Reboot your system. - We have removed the Whisker menu from our panels and replaced it with AppFinder. We wanted 1 single app finder/menu, not two. Simply right click the APPS button and remove. Then add a new item (a launcher) for AppFinder. As such:
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It is easy. If you want to use a similar icon search for view-list-icons in the icons.
Oh and the wallpaper you see is probably going to be the default TROMjaro wallpaper. If you want it, grab it from here.
That’s all I guess! Grab the ISOs from here.
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Why Trade Condenses Wealth - Interview with Bruce M. Boghosian ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=Us_BI3mZXE…
Interesting interview by Colin. #tromlive
29. The Money Game and Beyond - Systems to Organize Societies - Part 2 videos.trom.tf/w/qNccx6827vJpN…
29. The Money Game and Beyond - Systems to Organize Societies - Part 2
In todays world there are a lot of people with distorted values, like caring more about profit than about other people or the environment - why is that?, We will learn how some people realized that human behavior is shaped by the environment and what…videos.trom.tf
COVID Concerns
If you don't read this post on Friendica (why!?) then make sure you read it in full here. So you see the images, links, and all that.
This is a chart with COVID vaccines vs mortality due to COVID per million people. Left side is how much of the population is fully vaccinated. Right side the mortality rate.
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It is quite clear that the more people are vaccinated, the less are dying of COVID. Now there is a new variant of concern - read the WHO statement about it news.un.org/en/story/2021/11/1…
Of course, it comes from Africa where the vaccination rate is very low. What are the tribes of the world thinking? This was very predictable. Delta came from India from the same reasons, and now Omicron is thought to be even more dangerous. If we have global problems but we only act locally, this is going to always happen.
When people doubt the institutions and companies, and in many cases for good reasons, then trust is eroded. The trade game that we play creates this situation, since companies and governments seek profits that are induced by the game of trade itself, so they cut corners, lie, are corrupted, and overall care more about profiting than they do about humans and the planet.
So the trust is eroded, and people are skeptical about the vaccines, and thus the vaccination rate will be lower even when there are vaccines available. This is why, even the new variant, is discovered mostly among unvaccinated people (source). Also the mortality rate that is seen in the world, due to COVID, is mostly among those who are not vaccinated. Therefore, even where the vaccine is available, people's mistrust in this society, couple with the bullshit of social (ad) platforms like facebook, twitter, youtube and the like that spread any nonsense that gets clicks, creates a disastrous situation.
SECOND.
Poor tribes do not get access to vaccines, so they become a breeding ground for new mutations of the virus. The vaccines should be open source and free for all. There are 0 excuses for this!
The moral of the story is that we are a global society that has global problems, from crime to climate change, from pandemics to starvation or waste and pollution. And yet humans act as if the imaginary borders they built, are going to protect them from such global threats.
Unless we wake up, and also give up to this primitive idea of trade that creates so many barriers, nothing will ever ever change.
Such a situation would be so different in a sane society:
- most people would have at least their basic needs met as trade-free, so they will have time to be more informed, relaxed, and cooperative in case of such an emergency
- more people could focus on solving the issue (doctors, researchers, citizen scientists)
- once a solution is found, will be distributed to those in most need, not in most rich tribes, thus preventing deaths and future mutations of such a virus
We act like retarded children. But this behavior comes from the environment that we are exposed to. Never forger that.
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Fedilab is currently trying to rewrite some of their code to improve UI and stuff - toot.fedilab.app/@apps/1073283…
I'll just ping @apps here so maybe they would look into fixing these issues. Fedilab is actually the only app I could find on fdroid that explicitly said it supports friendica. But the friendica support on it is pretty bad right now, and there's definitely room for improvement.
Friendica is so underrated right now, and part of the reason is that it don't have a good mobile app
Fedilab Apps (@apps@toot.fedilab.app)
Attached: 1 image We are working on a new fedilab version. The whole code is being refractored. App will work offline, so you can go through the past toots in your home timeline even when you don't have internet.Fedilab
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Yes, we have an issue where fixes will be brought to the new app.
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Friendica is speaking the Mastodon API soon (#520) · Issues · Thomas / Fedilab
Currently Fedilab automatically detects the type of the system. With Friendica it will use the Twitter style API. In the current development branch we are starting to implement...GitLab
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The 200 Euros a year campaign to back all of our stuff to the cloud. Help here if you can tromsite.com/donations/trombkp…
The story:
We have around 7TB of this data. Some 40 websites – like tromsite.com, trom.tf with some 20 services (video hosting, social network, file sharing, etc.); tromjaro.com and the ISOs, all of our videos that we made, books, and so on. On top of this there is the next TROM II documentary we work on, that’s around 2TB in size (we filmed in 4k and have over 20h of recorded footage).
We have a ton of files and one shoe box where they are backed-up. Locally at the place I (Tio) live. On cheap Hard Drives.
But if the house burns down then we lose not only our backups, but most of our files. And we won’t be able to recover them, ever.
Our budget is very low, so we decided to make this campaign to pay for 1 year of cloud backup storage to make sure that all of our files are in a different location, not only locally.
If we get the funds, we will sleep very relaxed at night knowing that our files are in at least 2 different locations. Safe.
200 Euros to backup everything without extensive file versioning, and also no VideoNeat.com and its wonderful materials.
300 Euros to backup everything, plus extensive file versioning, plus VideoNeat.com and its wonderful materials.
I did try that via Syncthing. But now I do not have "another building" available. The only solution is to ask a friend to store some 8TB of data for me, which is a lot. We need very good speeds, I have to encrypt all data so whatever it reaches my friend's computer is encrypted so even he cannot access it. We need 20h uptime. It is too complicated and I did try.
Chewing the same gum
All of these official meetings to address climate change have no meaning, unless they look at what makes human beings consume that much and pollute so much. Unless they understand that it is the structure of our society (trade) that creates these bad behaviors, which in turn create such problems, nothing has any chance of getting better.
With all of these talks and chewing the same gum, no one looks at the human animal in a scientific way, and no one looks at our society from a scientific way. They are trapped in keeping the same religion of trade (economy) alive by any means.
Here's how you have some real chances to change these problems. Ready?
1. Understand the problem. Trade pushes people to chase...trades. And that's pretty much it. As simple and as dumb as that. Makes us all robotic merchants and consumers. So it is not the rich people's fault, not companies, not governments, not individuals. It is the environment. You can't simply punish anyone, you have to change this environment.
2. Now that you know what the problem is, tackle it. Trade is the problem, so lets move away from it. We have more stuff and food on this planet that it has become a problem we call waste. Lets start by giving trade-free access to all humans, for at least their basic needs as a first aid. This way you will decouple humans from this robotic state of trading, of being merchants and consumers. Humans will then have more free time to volunteer and create more trade-free goods and services.
This all has real chances to phase out the damaging practices that we see today, since no one will be incentivized to (for example) use coal over renewable energies, to lie about what they offer, to produce bad quality products and so forth. Because we won't try to save the "economy" in such a scenario, but to save us and the environment, and create a better life for ourselves.
In short, if you want to fix climate change alongside the billions of problems we see in the world today, a sane start is to move away from this trade-based society and one way you can do that is to first provide the needs of all humans as trade-free. Technology exist, stuff exist for the job. DO IT!
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52 minutes done for TROM II:
Well there might be slight improvements but the bulk of it is done. Notice in the photo how massive the work is, and on the other side how well TROMjaro XFCE copes with it. Maximized window + global menus + HUD, makes it so much better and easier to edit videos.
Kdenlive had a few major bugs but using the Appimage seems to be fine, considering TROM II is such a massive project.
Maybe we will finish the first part in a month or so. That will be a total of some 1h 20 minutes. Then we have to work a lot more for the next parts that are even more important. It will take many months to finish the documentary, maybe more than a year who knows.
TROM Videos (other) – tromsite.com/videos/#other
Whatever does not fit into the other categories, will be posted here. TROM Documentary excerpts, other live-streams that are not part of TROM-Cast, or videos we make about interesting things, are all going to be part of the “Others”.
TROM-CAST – tromsite.com/videos/#cast
Our (almost) weekly video podcast where we discuss one main subject each week + answer questions from people and discuss the most interesting TROM Curated News of the week. The interesting part is that we allow anyone to participate in our cast via Jitsi Meet (a trade-free application), plus anyone can suggest topics for the next casts. So, embark into hours of live-streams about topics like automation, science, religion, trade, behavior, and what not.
We have a new cool tool thanks to @Alexio ! status.trom.tf/
This page shows in almost real time the status of all of our websites. And it is hosted and managed by Alexio so that if our servers are down, this page won't be affected.
Big thanks to Alexio for this!
Such a page is important especially for trom.tf services, so that you can see what services are more reliable. And for us to keep track of what websites may not work properly, so that we can fix them. #tromimg
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TROM Snippets – tromsite.com/videos/#snippets
These videos are short snippets from our TROM materials, or newly created snippets based on external sources. The “negative” snippets are black, and the “positive” ones are white ;).
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Romania and COVID, a case of mistrust perhaps.
Romania and COVID, a case of mistrust perhaps.
Romania has a small population, at some 20 or so million humans. Some 30% are fully vaccinated against COVID 19. Today they reported 574 deaths. 528 of them were unvaccinated. 46 vaccinated but 43 of them were already very sick with other diseases. (source)
At this moment Romania has the second mortality rate in the world. (source)
Romania was one of the first tribes to start the vaccination campaign, and has more than enough vaccines for all of its population. Also, the vaccines are free for everyone.
Romania is also one of the most corrupted tribes in Europe, despite being one of the most religious tribes in Europe.
All of this may tell us two important facts:
1. Religion clearly doesn't make you a better or a smarter human.
2. Despite having access to free solutions (like a free vaccine), and a lot of information (data) to showcase that vaccines are safe, the mistrust in companies and governments is going to trump over there.
We cannot simply create a better society by enforcing rules and laws, and force people to do this or that. We cannot rely on laws the same way we cannot rely on religion to make a population more trustworthy and honest. And we can't simply explain to people how safe vaccines are (for example) when we know very well that companies and governments lie all the time.
Romanians are not less educated than Spaniards. At least we cannot say that when it comes to how vaccines work and how safe they are. And yet in Spain the vaccination rate is at about 80% and deaths at about 20 per day, with a population 2-3 times the one of Romania. In other words we can clearly see that the death rate is in direct relation to vaccines administration. "Fake news" works the best with a population of people who mistrust official sources of information such as governments.
It is a sad truth, but comes from a fucked up society. It is easy to accuse these people and call them primitive and uneducated, but very likely their hesitancy comes from mistrust not miseducation. #tromimg
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Trade-Free Directory – trade-free.org/directory/
These goods and services are submitted and reviewed by people like you. We cannot guarantee that all of what you see here is trade-free, since at times it is very difficult to review them all and do so properly. This is why we need your help! Submit and Review! Let’s create a wonderful directory of trade-free stuff!
Here it is our interview with Cory Doctorow videos.trom.tf/w/2vBxVQTa4hfC9… #tromlive
71. Interview with Cory Doctorow
In this TROM-Cast we will discuss The Internet. What is the Internet and what does it do to our lives? Is it just merely a reflection of our trade-based society, but this time we trade more with our data and attention rather than our currencies?, We …videos.trom.tf
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Don't forget today, we have a great TROM-Cast with Cory Doctorow:
We are going to dissect The Internet. You can watch it live here where we also have a live chat now: tromsite.com/live/
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On 14th at 21:00 Madrid time we will have a very interesting live:
In this TROM-Cast we will discuss The Internet. What is the Internet and what does it do to our lives? Is it just merely a reflection of our trade-based society, but this time we trade more with our data and attention rather than our currencies?
We are thrilled to have Cory Doctorow. From his Wikipedia page: Cory is a "blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics."
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Visit his websites at craphound.com/ and pluralistic.net/
The live will be available here tromsite.com/live/ - and now we have a livechat!
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A new tromcast - 70. TROMjaro XFCE! link.trom.tf/0pf1dfX5 #tromlive
70. TROMjaro XFCE!
Let's talk about TROMjaro XFCE!, Release notes here https://www.tromjaro.com/tromjaro-xfce-beta/videos.trom.tf
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Look at these ones, so much "biodiversity". Females, males, different colors....
All corrupted aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/4/p…
We don't need more women in politics, or people of different "races", as if there is more than one human race. We need no politics at all. We need to understand what creates bad behaviors and try to prevent that. And it is quite simple: treat people like you treat dogs in more developed countries. Take care of them. Make sure they are fed, have enough free time, access to at least their basic needs. All trade-free. And then they will become better humans and we can change our society for the better. #tromimg
This is what Lidl, perhaps the biggest supermarket chain in Europe, gives to their customers for free, for their kids:
A plastic model of a plastic bottle and a plastic packaged chicken. But hey, they do not sell plastic bags anymore because that's bad for the environment. They have "eco" paper bags. This is, friends, the exact reason we are fucked. As long as we trade this for that, then we will replace a poop with a turd, and call it a stick, and move on. There is no sustainable business. There is no getting out of this mess with renewable energies. There is no "lets apply logic and reason". There is no "lets seek for political will".
We have to get our heads out of our trade-based asses and look at what this society is made of. Maybe we will realize that underneath all of these fancy words, laws, customs and traditions, beneath all of the social stratification, ideas of ownership, multiple currencies, beneath all that it is a simple society of trade that emerged some 10 or so thousands of years ago, and we drag that into the present almost like dragging a dead and decaying pet, that smells bad and spreads diseases.
We have to leave this dead society behind. Trade is unnecessary. But it all starts with getting the fuck out this message to the masses. We try and try and try....but you have to also try. And if we see no result then at least we tried and we are not the zombie-ones that look at the Lidl retarded and boring plastic toys and this society overall, and have no reaction. Their lives are sucked into the void of it all. Don't be a zombie!
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Now the interview Joey did with Tio, about the idea of trade-free, is available as trade-free at tromsite.com/videos/#other or directly at videos.trom.tf/w/jRegX83cVsPQs…
You do not have to trade your attention in order to listen to it.
Thank you Joey, again, for the interview! #tromlive
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On 14th of October we are happy to have Cory Doctorow on TROMcast. We will discuss the online trades: data, attention, views, likes, and so forth. And the monopolies and consequences that revolve around it all.
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What Is Trade Free? Interview with Tio from Tromsite.com
link.trom.tf/WqE-S
Unfortunately you have to trade your attention (ads) to listen to it (a bit ironical), but hey it is great that we can get to talk about these ideas with new minds. Thank you Joey for the invitation and for the good questions.
This is his website joeystotallytech.com
What Is Trade Free? Interview with Tio from Tromsite.com
Trade Free software! What is it? What is the trade free movement? We’ll discuss this with Tio from trom.tf, tromsite.com, and trade-free.org! We’ll be discussing the political and socioeconomic issuesSpreaker
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We are releasing TROMjaro XFCE Aplha 2 for testing, if anyone is interested.
We did a bunch of improvements for workspaces, global menus + maximized windows, backups, the default apps and how they work, sessions and more. If you think MacOS or Windows are cool, check out TROMjaro XFCE hehe :). And it is trade-free!
See our updates here tromjaro.com/tromjaro-xfce-alp…
You can grab the ISO from there. #tromlive
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We are releasing a new and different TROMJaro and we need people to test it. We want to give up Gnome and move to XFCE. Read more about it here tromjaro.com/tromjaro-xfce-alp… where you can also find the test ISO.
Basically it looks similar to the TROMjaro Gnome, but should be much faster, well built, has global menus, HUD, and more awesome stuff. Please give it a try and tell us what you think! #tromlive
TROMjaro XFCE Alpha
A new TROMjaro experiment: the XFCE. Faster, global menus, HUD, and more. Try it! … Continue readingTROMjaro XFCE AlphaTROM-Jaro
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