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benjbrandall 💾 @benjbrandall@mastodon.social

writes on internet culture, open source software and digital art at secretcave.co

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**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 29, 2018, 10:24

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**manual_bot** @manuals@botsin.space · Jun 29, 2018, 10:24

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**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 29, 2018, 08:59

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**anagram.rb** @anagram@botsin.space · Jun 29, 2018, 08:59

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**benjbrandall 💾** @benjbrandall · Jun 29, 2018, 10:40

**benjbrandall 💾** @benjbrandall · Jun 29, 2018, 10:40

@alcinnz hi! I'm interested in giving Odysseus a go, I have AppCenter installed already on Ubuntu so I tried to go through the https://appcenter.elementary.io/com.github.alcinnz.odysseus.desktop link, but it says "No Results". Just doing this while I install the valac dependencies in the background anyway, so we'll see if manual install works better. Either way, looking forward to trying it!

**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 28, 2018, 14:00

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**Alex Schroeder 🐝** @kensanata@octodon.social · Jun 28, 2018, 14:00

I've listened to nearly 2h of introduction to Karl Marx' Capital, in German. I think I need to learn more! It makes me see Free Software in a new light. I don't want to make sure Free Software developers will get paid. That's how capitalism stays strong. We need to transfer that money to other modes of production. I don't want to work for the profit of capitalists, I want to work for my own specific wants and needs. Free Software! I need to write a blog post. #marx
http://rabe.ch/2018/06/19/eine-einfuehrung-in-marx-das-kapital-in-zwei-teilen-2/

**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 28, 2018, 08:40

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**tante** @tante · Jun 28, 2018, 08:40

Karl Marx' comedy set ends on quite the high note ... https://ift.tt/2MVvvJe

**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 28, 2018, 05:53

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**Michael 🚀** @omanreagan@scholar.social · Jun 28, 2018, 05:53

Sigma Octantis and Friends https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180628.html #astronomy

**benjbrandall 💾** @benjbrandall · Jun 27, 2018, 15:42

**benjbrandall 💾** @benjbrandall · Jun 27, 2018, 15:42

so excited!! my first PR for an open source project, a revitalization of Tomboy, notes app for Linux/OSX/Windows -- tomboy-ng: https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng

added fixed width, strikethrough, underline, and a few little fixes

**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 27, 2018, 08:17

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**manual_bot** @manuals@botsin.space · Jun 27, 2018, 08:17

MIT-LCS-TR-120_0074.jpg a stunner, and plenty more where that came from

**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 27, 2018, 12:18

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**manual_bot** @manuals@botsin.space · Jun 27, 2018, 12:18

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**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 23, 2018, 17:05

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**manual_bot** @manuals@botsin.space · Jun 23, 2018, 17:05

Level_II_COBOL_Language_Reference_Manual_Feb84_0418.jpg check out the documentation on this thing

**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 23, 2018, 16:04

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**manual_bot** @manuals@botsin.space · Jun 23, 2018, 16:04

Lisa_Sales_Marketing_Binder_Feb84_0114.jpg i like this one particularly

**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 23, 2018, 05:16

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**CUBE STORM** @cubestorm@botsin.space · Jun 23, 2018, 05:16

A chain of cubes from 958 cubes to 957 cubes.

**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 23, 2018, 05:33

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**elomatreb** @elomatreb@social.elomatreb.eu · Jun 23, 2018, 05:33

@KitRedgrave It's like with gravitational objects, huge piles of money attract each other and over time collapse into even bigger piles of money until everything is part of the money singularity

**benjbrandall 💾** @benjbrandall · Jun 23, 2018, 06:32

**benjbrandall 💾** @benjbrandall · Jun 23, 2018, 06:32

woke up living in cyberspace again

**benjbrandall 💾** · Jun 22, 2018, 19:59

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**Mr. Incredible** @hinterwaeldler · Jun 22, 2018, 19:59

Do you guys know libgen.io? If you need scientific literature, you can find it there. 💡

**benjbrandall 💾** · May 17, 2018, 21:34

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**Steve "so many ☕️"** @sivy@toot.cafe · May 17, 2018, 21:34

Alsø wik:

A federated blog instance would resemble Medium in that it could be a tagged, categorized, aggregated platform. Better content discovery (Medium's strength, other than pure hipsterism) means more readers.

Also cross-platform subscriptions to Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.

**benjbrandall 💾** · May 17, 2018, 21:30

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**Steve "so many ☕️"** @sivy@toot.cafe · May 17, 2018, 21:30

There was a q on here recently about #plume that was basically "why do we need a federated bog site?"

The reason is that long-form writing is an investment and needs the social component to thrive. We had that with RSS/comments, but Twitter and Facebook killed those.

A federated blog platform would mean: more hosts for users to choose from. Easy feedback loop via mastodon, pleroma, etc.

I'm tired of maintaining my blog, but I would be very interested in porting the content to #plume.