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December 29, 2024
Some TROM numbers!
TROM.tf
Social (friendica): we have 1.100 users and this year it was a record of...
November 29, 2024
We’ve been living in the motorhome for the past 2 days. We worked so much these past weeks on the...
October 26, 2024
1.620 Euros, 30 hours of practice, 8 months in the making. Overall a lot of stress, a cult of driving,...
October 6, 2024
I will probably close the gofundme campaign for TROMhome soon. It was likely not a good idea and we are...
September 22, 2024
https://tromhome.com is now live! But what is it about?
This is the motorhome that we want:
I...
September 8, 2024
Two things scare me the most, personally. First is death or health related issues. It is normal, if I...
June 22, 2024
Unfortunately I may not be able to start any new video series for TROM anytime soon, due to the circumstances...
May 29, 2024
This month a bunch of “trom” people visited us and we had such a wonderful time together.
We...
May 4, 2024
This is the coolest thing on Earth! — https://videos.trom.tf/w/oQ9amzYkm8FgT6Jzum9yWA (recorded...
May 1, 2024
Do not forget that the internet, youtube, netflix, cars and supermarkets, lightbulbs and modern medicine,...
April 30, 2024
I finished reading @Sasha ‘s book after reading a rough draft some 2-3 years ago. I wrote a review...
April 4, 2024
This is @Sasha and her most valuable project to date:
A book. But a book is not simply a lot of words...
February 16, 2024
No surprise that Alexei Navalny died….unfortunately the situation in this world is not like a movie,...
February 5, 2024
We have a brand new TROMnews website – https://tromnews.com/By @Tio
The plugin that we’ve...
January 25, 2024
Even I forget that I released a massive documentary some months ago…and that I worked so hard on...
November 26, 2023
In this video Adam Conover argues that people cannot leave Twitter because everyone is there and Mastodon...
November 9, 2023
This November Facebook is rolling out a subscription model for EU. Their options: pay 10 Euros a month...
November 6, 2023
How I can do astrophotography with a very cheap phone. Bonus: a timelapse of timelapses 🙂
November 4, 2023
This is my 20 years journey into the world of the phone. I was here when it started, I was amazed by...
October 20, 2023
After testing so many backup tools, I may have found the best one. So fast, so reliable!
October 19, 2023
I need to divorce myself more from the society/politics/conflicts part of our world. It is insane what...
October 9, 2023
How I moved the massive TROM.tf to Hetzner and what I learned from it.
September 30, 2023
I rarely change my Notes app because I have a lot of notes and I need to use them. I can’t afford...
September 26, 2023
How I moved a lot of websites from Contabo to Webdock using Yunohost.
September 21, 2023
ZDay is over so here's my overall experience of it, and of my travels to Prague. I got to meet really...
September 20, 2023
Transportation.
In Germany they came up with a plan: pay a monthly fee of about 50 Euros and have access...
September 15, 2023
I am quite sure that what prevents me from going into a deep depression is my workaholism. I am always...
July 24, 2023
Just bashing the billionaires and big corporations, is shortsighted.
People think that Musk, Bezos,...
July 22, 2023
Did you ever realize that the most popular browser in the entire world, is made and controlled by an...
July 22, 2023
We need 200 people to support TROM forever. And they only have to give us 2 cups of coffee a month. See...
July 18, 2023
I bought a Dell Inspiron 7620 2-in-1 (mouthful) some 6-7 months ago. Took me many months to choose a...
July 9, 2023
The situation with the trade-free instances like Invidious, Nitter, and Teddit.
As some of you already...
July 2, 2023
6 months to record the interviews 40 hours of interview recordings3.3 terabytes of project files13.000...
June 5, 2023
Why this may be the last TROM Meeting and why it was fun, and tiring, and stressful, and overall wonderful...
April 28, 2023
I donated my old laptop to a dear friend who also helps with the TROM project. I used this laptop for...
April 18, 2023
When I scream about how trade is the origin of most problems, some people think that I am crazy and I...
April 1, 2023
Back in 2015 I wrote a book for TROM about humans and the machines they have created. It is called the...
March 12, 2023
My mother has a Samsung Galaxy J5 that she bought several years ago. The phone is in great condition...
March 6, 2023
School can be seen as an abusive and inefficient system that has little to nothing to do with “education”.
Children...
February 8, 2023
Yesterday I went to the dentist. I didn’t have to go for the past 4 or so years so that’s...
January 31, 2023
It’s been almost a year since the war started. Here are my condensed thoughts.
1. It is only Russia’s...
January 23, 2023
@Aaron and @Alexio made me aware of this chatbot called ChatGPT and I said to give it a try. I was so...
January 14, 2023
In 2011 after I released the TROM documentary someone who was helping me proofread parts of it suggested...
January 13, 2023
This is it:I needed a new laptop to get rid of my old one that was not portable. I made 3 posts already...
January 10, 2023
We Live In The Age of The Bullshitter is an interesting and truthful article about the biggest bullshitters...
December 23, 2022
I got a refund for the Slimbook Executive 16 that I sent back. Although they refused to pay for the transport...
December 14, 2022
I was trapped into a mystery for the past few weeks. You see, I like what Slimbook and Tuxedo provide...
December 13, 2022
I made a blog post a few days ago when I received my Slimbook Essential 16 and basically I was not happy...
December 9, 2022
Quick background: I want to buy a laptop that is really well built, easy to upgrade and repair, and portable....
November 20, 2022
Oh look “leaders” are still meeting to talk about climate change – https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/11/1130832...
November 6, 2022
On the front page of the BBC website I see an article about Mastodon:
That is great, but also not so.
It...
October 30, 2022
3 days ago I was writing about a laptop I bought for 100 Euros that impressed me. How well it was design...
October 29, 2022
My plan for the next year.
Release TROM II, have a wonderful TROM meeting in May, save as much money...
October 26, 2022
A relative of ours who does not have much money, had an old computer. Then she had no more. It went kaboom....
October 10, 2022
In short, I need and want to finish the TROM II documentary before our TROM Meeting in May next year....
October 9, 2022
If you feed your brain with culture, then culture is your operating system. But culture is a human invention....
October 7, 2022
You know I made a post some months ago being quite concerned about WW3, and I really try to keep my tits...
August 17, 2022
You know what feature would make sense to have online for mind-sanity? A toggle that disables all comments...
August 14, 2022
So the TZM frontpage still talks about a future event in 2021…
I saw them a little active on Twitter...
August 10, 2022
When Snowden showed us the NSA leak,When Putin’s exposed by Navalny the “prick”,When...
August 6, 2022
If you call a software “free” then you should not trade for it. It means, it is given to...
July 14, 2022
Around 2005-2007 I was swimming in the online world. I had my own blog, and I was following other blogs...
July 9, 2022
Ok it is time to reboot the TROM II documentary work! Let's do it!
July 5, 2022
Now I am in pain. A lot of. Right side of my throat hurts like a hundred big needles got stuck there....
June 26, 2022
Are drones gonna replace fireworks? Probably. But is it that good?
June 12, 2022
Apparently today was my birthday. I have become 34 years old. Sounds old to me, but also uninteresting.The...
June 2, 2022
This is the list of the apps I use the most on my Linux machine.
1. Firefox.
I have multiple windows,...
June 1, 2022
I and Sasha. I am 1.8 meter tall, she is a meter and a half. She is quite short, but I really like that....
June 1, 2022
I just tested it and posting from Friendica to my WordPress blog seems to work now. This is amazing and...
April 30, 2022
I am very active on the fediverse but when it comes to more important posts I will still use my blog...
March 28, 2022
I started in 2005 or so with a website. In Romanian. My blog. My own place where I could write my thoughts....
December 21, 2021
Today I am closing down musikwave.com. I started this website a few years ago just so that I could listen...
November 17, 2021
Shut'up. I know, 'am no physicist. And no scientist for that matter. That's fine. I just had an idea...
August 8, 2021
I've been debating in my head, and discussing with others, about moderating videos.trom.tf. Here are...
June 6, 2021
A few people accused me of doing this, and I think they are as far from the truth as we are from the...
April 12, 2021
How I got so disappointed because of my brain. Who are you, brain?
December 14, 2020
For the past several months I have fluctuated between excitement to do this or that, and total lack of...
November 2, 2020
Move to Friendica. Forget about Faccebook, Twitter and the like.
October 1, 2020
How to give up these trade-based ad-networks and make use of the wonderful Fediverse.
April 21, 2020
This is about my past 2 years experience with these people, but to be honest it is an experience with...
February 27, 2020
This is me, Sasha, and the mayor of a small Romanian town. He, through the power of himself, declared...
September 21, 2019
I feel a bit sick and I am peeing blood. Quite a lot of it. I also canceled TROM-Cast for today. So I...
September 13, 2019
Long time since I wrote a blog post, and I’ll explain you why in another big one when I have the...
July 13, 2019
So these days we had a TROM-Cast, like we usually do, but this time we discuss about our new trade-free.org...
April 2, 2019
HEY! Mind you, this is posted in “rants”. I allow myself to let my brain vomit when it comes to rants....
February 27, 2019
So today I learned something that really bothered me and I am sure many people think it is stupid to...
January 22, 2019
When I was in highschool I LOVED movies. Loved them! So much so that I would watch at least 2-3 a day,...
January 20, 2019
I started VN a few years ago because I wanted to reference good documentaries for articles or in general...
January 17, 2019
Aaron came to visit me and we spent an entire month having really deep and interesting discussions about...
October 28, 2018
So, Facebook is this monster that is so big no one can fuck with. They have 0 competitors and a “privacy...
September 29, 2018
Ubuntu is an operating system that relies on Canonical (the company) to survive and evolve and this is...
January 16, 2018
My quest of using only FOSS (free and open source software) continues. One of the things I could not...
January 3, 2018
I am originally from Romania but I live in Spain most of the time – for the past 3-4 years I haven’t...
October 15, 2017
As you may know Google deleted my entire TROM Google account in May this year without a warning. Everything...
July 13, 2017
The idea goes like this: some companies want to make the Internet like cable TV – if you want to...
July 7, 2017
A month and a half ago, half of VideoNeat went offline. I knew this will happen one day and I was prepared...
June 7, 2017
Someone sent me this question last night via TROM FAQ: “What can we do, individually, to better distinguish...
May 20, 2017
Since I found out about Jacque and TVP I knew in the back of my head that this day will come. I will...
May 18, 2017
Last night I finished rendering the next TROM Series episode, 1h 16min long episode. Today I wanted to...
May 16, 2017
Honestly, I think we are fucked. 😀
I just think the world is dumber and dumber, to the point of idiocracy,...
May 14, 2017
NEW WEBSITE:
My old website was based on a very old template that made the website unstable and unsecured....
March 11, 2017
This dissection will be brief but important. Since I made TROM (started in 2010 and finished in 2011)...
December 15, 2016
Short story short: I published the documentary “The Raw Ones” from VideoNeat to Facebook...
November 12, 2016
This article represents my own interpretation of the following ‘situations’. Keep that in mind. But not...
May 13, 2016
Lately I could not do much work for any of the projects I manage (TVPMagazine or Videoneat) and lots...
January 5, 2016
I’ve seen a couple of such solutions online but all were mostly about a fixed kind of microscope...
November 19, 2015
This may become a series since there are around 40000 things that amaze me. But here’s what it is for...
June 12, 2015
MusikWave – http://www.musikwave.com/
I don’t listen to music that often (I prefer listening...
June 3, 2015
Here’s something interesting: if we were able to decode dreams and play them in a movie-like format,...
April 5, 2015
Social Pressure: The Force Behind Societies
This girl falls pretty hard at a ballet concert and hits...
January 2, 2015
Some people have asked me many times over the past 4 years how I could create TROM documentary alone,...
October 22, 2014
VideoNeat is a project that I started to gather all of the wonderful scientific video-materials that...
August 26, 2014
Today I’ve been hit by a car on the crosswalk. The car was a police car (first irony) and everything...
August 24, 2014
The most unfair game you will ever play:
Think of this world, the monetary system, as a Monopoly game.
Alex...
May 2, 2014
I am volunteering for The Venus Project for the past few years but I never felt myself as a TVP Supporter...
May 2, 2014
This may become a series since there are around 40000 things that amaze me. But here’s what it is for...