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I'm in a hotel and no one will let me write.

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I’m sick to death of people being precious about #GMO produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.

You wanna talk about #Monsanto charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.

But the science is sound.

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@ajroach42

Hi, thanks for your ideas and insights 🙂

I'm not as well informed as you but I'm interested in mesh networks and more decentralised internet alternatives.

I've been thinking about communicating over the internet without DNS. It would be based on pairs or groups of trusted 'friends' that keep each other updated with their changing IP addresses. Your ID on the network would be a public key and you could connect to non-friends via chains of friends of friends.

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The 2018 Military SF Bundle, curated by bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson, is the latest bundle from Storybundle.

12 great e-books with tales from the high-tech battlefields right here on our home planet to the farthest reaches of the galaxy.

DRM-free and available as both ePub and Mobi!

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My beta reader is the first and only person who asked for a specific novel. Unless otherwise another vote, the next novel will be Kin Killer.

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It will post tomorrow again, but I wanted to show off tonight. :) Mainly because I think what I've written is pretty cool.

d.moonfire.us/blog/2018/06/26-

After a few weeks of work, the current rewrite of Author Intrusion got to a stopping point. This has the barest minimum functionality to detect echo words but it has a long way to go. Depressingly long way, but I need to let it settle a little before I jump back into it.

What started off as a "quick" post ended up being a huge post of where I am with Author Intrusion. I apparently needed a pick me up and a chance to show off.

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#amreading “Apocalypse Nyx” by Kameron Hurley. Gritty SF action-thriller (actually a collection of novellas). Tough women. Guns. Bug-based technology. Recommended if you like those things, or if you like grizzled action-movie protagonists but wish they weren’t all guys.

Flight of the Scions 13: The High Life
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Buzzed with the excitement of having a private dinner with a successful merchant and Falkin, Kanéko returns to her room to find Pahim and his friends had drunken themselves into a stupor.

So the answer was Atom. I pushed up a PR for my efforts.

I failed to get apm-beta working for Windows though. So, tiny, tiny screen.

Bah, not sure what to work on:

1. Improving Atom's spell-check

2. Commission

@ajroach42 It is nice to avoid the DLL Hell that Windows and even Linux has had over the years though. I really like folder-self-contained projects, that is why I'm using NPM and NuGet as my role models for Author Intrusion.

Also, because I used to use Python and Perl with my publishing framework and two years of deployment bitrotted my old novel's publication. :(

That was... frustrating to say the least. I want to be able to freeze a project at a point in time.

@ajroach42 Yeah, I could see that. NPM is great for many things, but I always felt like it needed a good packaging story. With C#, there is the convention of doing an xcopy deploy but with node, many times it requires npm. I think there should be a reasonable effort to have a "all in one" package.

Atom actually does a decent job of that because you don't need to touch the network from the base .exe. You can, but not required.

@ajroach42 Sorry, didn't mean to respond that way.

Thank you for telling me the details of the previous conversation.

@ajroach42 I found npm to be one of the better ecosystems out there, at least in terms of use (though high on fragmentation) and being self-contained verses global (composer, easy_install).

As for it being a pig, yeah, but there aren't a lot of good cross-platform, non-network-connected options out there.

@ajroach42 I'm curious about the node/electron conversation, but couldn't find it.

I am a bit pro Electron though, so :P.

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