Ah! Started reading that a few years ago and it got lost in the shuffle. Can't remember the ship-vs-crew aspect, but then i can't remember much. Maybe I didn't get that far. Will have to start over with it again one of these days.
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Spiral Wars by Joel Sheppard.
I was just looking over some reader reviews of the first book in this series, and I noticed this: "Really nice story setting, oddly enough the background story reminded me of C.J. Cherryh's Chanur novels, which is a good thing." So maybe that is a recommendation after all?
How about ship versus crew! Probably not! But was just thinking about this, and a few examples came to mind:
- Destination: Void by Frank Herbert,
- The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
Been using free tier Feedly for many years now. It's "good enough". Before that I used Akgregator, which did a pretty decent job for a local app.
Other odd RSS adventures: I played with self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS for a while, and it is actually pretty awesome. It's automatic filtering and tagging capabilities were amazing. But I got tired of maintaining it. I toyed with NetVibes ages ago -- it is a "dashboard" oriented web site, with RSS support. It worked pretty well actually, but the UI is ... unusual. It used to be free. Maybe still is. I don't know. I found myself using the cleaner and simpler "good enough" Feedly more.
It should be pretty easy to move your RSS feed collection between apps/services as most of them support OPML format import/export. So just go ahead and try stuff and see what you like. (Just check first that it supports OPML import/export.)
You might be interested in this somewhat similar recent thread: lemmy.ml/post/7624818
The free version of MasterPDF (as available via AUR) is fully functional, but it will add watermark if you modify any PDF page contents (and maybe other conditions).
MasterPDF Editor is quite good. In the past I found the windows keygen works with linux version. You have to block it from accessing internet though, or it will phone home to verify. This was a while ago I used it, so my info may be slightly out of date. Here's one way to block it from having internet access, start with this command: bwrap --bind / / --unshare-net masterpdfeditor5
That's great that these MPs want to educate themselves. They could learn a lot. By "compel" I'm sure they mean something like "inspire" these people to come and share their experience and research with them in a respectful philosophical exchange. And by "defend" they are probably thinking of the clever Socratic traditions of inquiry.
Interesting perspective. Maybe you could find some good articles with more nuance to post?
It works in the current Firefox for Android beta version.