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New comment by mieses in "The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites"

mieses — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:41:08 +0000

The stock egg photo was deep. It made me thing of eggs. I like eggs. I often make eggs into scrambled eggs and sometimes as sunny side up, not to mention soft boiled, which are probably the best. I assume Peter Thiel is bad guy who does not like eggs?

New comment by mieses in "Woman who had sex with identical twins told it is 'not possible' to identify dad"

mieses — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:50:35 +0000

you bring an interesting perspective

New comment by mieses in "Woman who had sex with identical twins told it is 'not possible' to identify dad"

mieses — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:43:45 +0000

no there isn't but i appreciate your amusing stupidity. this is a good example of the state of exception that most people with common sense intuitively understand.

New comment by mieses in "Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96"

mieses — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:01:07 +0000

Interesting that you frame it in such a symmetric way. Habermas is thoroughly identified with the left and his influence on the right is at best indirect and contested.

While he sometimes identifies similar problems, he definitely does not arrive at similar solutions.

New comment by mieses in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

mieses — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:22:25 +0000

sounds simple until you try to use it

New comment by mieses in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

mieses — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:29:28 +0000

simple lists? 50 examples and still gaping holes in the logic and no consistent implementation of lists across any 2 editors.

https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#loose

New comment by mieses in "TeX Live 2026 is available for download now"

mieses — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:25:38 +0000

reminds me of when LyX became trendy with a small group of optimists.

New comment by mieses in "We Will Not Be Divided"

mieses — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:15:07 +0000

"hostile to business".. Employees of a business playing moral philosophers, priests or policy influencers miss the entire point of business.

The employees themselves can definitely gtfo to Finland for the reason that they have an unrealistic perception of business and the world. The business itself has no obligation to pay attention to magical thinking.

New comment by mieses in "What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? (2023)"

mieses — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:21:34 +0000

δίσκος

New comment by mieses in "ICE expands power of agents to arrest people without warrants"

mieses — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:24:50 +0000

he's a steamroller. and he said they would "do it by the book" or something along those lines. "dial it back" is probably coming from media.

New comment by mieses in "ICE expands power of agents to arrest people without warrants"

mieses — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:04:04 +0000

except when Obama’s DOJ (successfully) sued Arizona to stop it from enforcing the border.

New comment by mieses in "The Jolla Phone Proved We've Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along"

mieses — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:29:30 +0000

why flagged? is this site politically to the right of the theverge.com?

most of the comments are dodging the point of the article and looking for unrelated strawmen to attack. ok, maybe the site has cookies. who cares? the issue is the phone not the marketing site. so that is a weak point.

overall the idea sounds good. but is Jolla open source? Can we compile it and run it on the phone?

New comment by mieses in "Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document"

mieses — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:51:16 +0000

hackers gonna hack

New comment by mieses in "Jan Łukasiewicz"

mieses — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:27:16 +0000

And Popeye is based on a Polish sailor.

New comment by mieses in "[dead]"

mieses — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 02:49:11 +0000

the politics is becoming as confusing as Gnome itself

New comment by mieses in "The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963)"

mieses — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:27:20 +0000

AI will wreck your capitalized "Education System" and that is good. We'll be fine.

New comment by mieses in "Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server"

mieses — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:10:06 +0000

The use case is `ssh shortname` or `ssh shortname.lan` to a laptop on the same local network regardless whether the wired or wireless interface of the laptop is active.

An overlay like Tailscale MagicDNS might solve this but is complex.

Assigning the same name to 2 IP's (round robin DNS) will mean having to retry the ssh connection if the IP of the inactive interface is returned.

Failover bonding (mode 1) of the wireless and wired interfaces with MAC address spoofing so that the bonded interface maintains a consistent MAC address is reportedly not always supported by WiFi hardware and standards. Bonding may require manual reconfiguration when the laptop moves from the local network where "shortname" is used to an arbitrary WiFi network like airport or coffee shop.

Are there any solutions that satisfy single IP and reliable WiFi at the same time?

Linux used to be able to move the same IP between 2 interfaces depending on which was active. But it looks like advancements in Linux networking have killed this simple solution.

New comment by mieses in "Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server"

mieses — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:30:21 +0000

dnsmasq is great. The best part is that you can assign the same IP to multiple interfaces on the same device (to multiple MAC addresses) which drives network purists crazy and is no longer supported by systemd-networkd (because they are puritans). Separated DHCP/DNS can not do this. I will look into kea and whether they can do this.

New comment by mieses in "How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs"

mieses — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:14:33 +0000

I wrote to a French pen pal and they didn't reply. Now I have issues with French people and prefer local LLM's.

New comment by mieses in "Gnome is better macOS than macOS"

mieses — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:08:49 +0000

It's a great desktop if you don't need to print anything or use an extension for more than a year or so before API changes break the extension. Gnome works "out of the box" as long as you don't try to do anything that's not in the box. That whole expression needs to be changed to "it works in the box".