mats: is there an up to date guide to rolling trb on pogo's little-endian armv5?
pete_dushenski: humourously, this is exactly what the inept local government is currently employing hundreds of mba grad mungaloids to do : "connect assets" and "bridge the social networks" something something
pete_dushenski: in fact, you can tell there aren't many jews in alberta either. peeps be comin to me to broker / source aaaaall their shit atm.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 01:07 mircea_popescu: adlai apparently they ran out of jews in washington.
shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1497189 <<< or the amount of money he went apeshit over when he accidentally refunded a customer too much once.
BingoBoingo: Eh, google doesn't hate them on the generic query "bitcoin news" because both words are in their url.
BingoBoingo: Anyways there's also Ver's thing continuing along on all the Pinoy SEO USG.MIT can afford
mircea_popescu: but better keep movin' an' don't stand still - if the skeeters don't get you the gators will."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how did that go, "a man can live in the evereglades, where a man can hide an' never be found an' have no fear of the bayin' hound
BingoBoingo: Likely. I mean Coindesk will likely continue as the stagnant thing it is, but eventually if they stand still in the swamp long enough malaria will get them.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so basically give it another ~yearish and qntra's gonna be all that's left ?
mircea_popescu: bonus points for the guy loathing self hating
BingoBoingo: A le https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4r5ax7/another_attempt_to_socially_engineer_a_fork/d4yhjnm
mircea_popescu: and speaking of the cancer that is killing, i give you boxxy! http://67.media.tumblr.com/54a213033482261ad155536f76c3e902/tumblr_nthdczE9Hh1upsme5o1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: kinda sad end for the derps that irritated hitler, half a century later.
mircea_popescu: and also a fine comment on the state and aggregate value of the airstrip one economy : all it's good for, is to provide material for a blogger's article, in this manner.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, having the utterly irrelevant condo owner association meeting calling itself "the parliament" face the dilemma of either ignoring its own rule or else discussing whether queen should be flogged for being nigger jewess is exactly what a good blog article is made of.
mircea_popescu: da fuck cares whether queen gets flogged. there's much better looking, younger cunts with juicier tits lined up for the flogger, lizzie's not speshul.
mircea_popescu: the problem here is that asciilifeform lives in a mostly self-created world.
asciilifeform: there was similar petition to fire obummer, here, it went to /dev/null.
asciilifeform: lizards follow rules when they feel like it.
mircea_popescu: put 100k votes on it, watch the fireworks.
mircea_popescu: anyone want the side project of introducing a petition to discuss whether the queen should be flogged naked at the gate of westminster abbey for being a nigger jewess ?
mircea_popescu: "So far more than 3.6 million people have signed up the petition on the parliament.uk website. Any petition with more than 100K votes is considered for debate in parliament, irrespective of its merits either way." << epic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, their life, not yours or mine.
mircea_popescu: it's for the exact reason servers had to be broken in to get the "climate scientists'" data.
mircea_popescu: "The researchers used published fMRI results, and along the way they swipe the fMRI community for their lamentable archiving and data-sharing practices that prevent most of the discipline's body of work being re-analysed." don't wonder why.
asciilifeform: also love the 'bug' ( in actuality, thoroughly rotten conceptual fabric )
mircea_popescu: an accidental byproduct of the lazy minority.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform love that "could". COULD upend, you see. whenever title contains a question mark, the implied question is always to be answered in the negative ; when title contains painful topic to lizard hittler, could can always be replaced by "certainly, but we'll pretend otherwise"
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do you have "a software bug" disable WRITE PROTECTION OMFG
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 20:48 asciilifeform: or we could chip in to buy the fella a balticastle
asciilifeform: 'Reg reader Rob has uncovered evidence that a botnet (i.e. automated computer program rather than human) is stuffing the second referendum ballot. There are 2,371 signatures from The Vatican - a place that only has a population of 1,000,” Rob notes. Also the json data shows 2735 signatures from the Antarctic and 23,694 signatures from North Korea.” A blackhat hacker from Syria claimed responsibility for the “hack” which he cl
asciilifeform: in yet other lulz, from same, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/27/ballot_stuffing_ref_petition
asciilifeform: ^ i'ma guess the number of retracted dissertations, withdrawn tenures, etc. will be the usual
asciilifeform: in other nyooz from same rag, fmri finally burns, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/03/mri_software_bugs_could_upend_years_of_research
asciilifeform: instead of, y'know, the wp leg present on EVERY FLASH ROM EVER MADE
asciilifeform: '...a UEFI bug that can be exploited to disable firmware write-protection... The company says the vulnerable System Management Mode software came from an upstream BIOS vendor – making it likely that other vendors getting BIOS software from the same outlet will also be vulnerable.'
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/04/lenovo_scrambling_to_get_a_fix_for_bios_vuln
asciilifeform: or we could chip in to buy the fella a balticastle
ben_vulpes: yeah i heard that the last vestiges have finally been absorbed by something marginally profitable recently
trinque: ben_vulpes: lost home *first* then office
mircea_popescu: wasn't anyone living close to him btw ? how about you fucking give him a thumb drive and charge it to me, i'll buy you a salad or something next we eat together.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 15:05 gabriel_laddel is currently shopping around for a USB drive that will hold all the masamune sources, as the current one is too small
mircea_popescu 's plan, if this wasn't already transparently obvious, is to convert the ball into unviersal serenissima-to-www convertor, call it serenity or whatever and be done with it.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 16:49 phf: the theme was maid on mac os 9. took some screenshots, photoshoped it to size of kubrick's elements (header, vertically repeated background, footer), s/jpg/png/ in right places
phf: shinohai: if you unpack mp's tarball, unpack wp-content into it, apply the patch, you should end up with a working instance
ben_vulpes: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-secret-startup-saved-healthcare-gov-the-worst-website-in-america/397784/?single_page=true << http://www.govtech.com/civic/IT-Showdown-Tech-Giants-Face-Off-Against-18F.html << today on silly-con valley fanboi newzfeed: "obab saved software!" vs "corporations that actually own procurement in usg begin to unravel 'disruptions' to government software
phf: the theme was maid on mac os 9. took some screenshots, photoshoped it to size of kubrick's elements (header, vertically repeated background, footer), s/jpg/png/ in right places
ben_vulpes: does anyone remember the sound effects?!
asciilifeform: phf: 3133333333333337 macos 9 theme l0l
mircea_popescu: anyway ; the text is certainly ancient.
asciilifeform: i bet there is even chinese version somewhere.
asciilifeform: then yes.
asciilifeform: it is in the l0gz i think
mircea_popescu: very popular in ro. dja recall the hruscov mis en scene ?
asciilifeform: ( i bet mircea_popescu knows the original fr version )
mircea_popescu: apparently a maid that was in the wake got horny as it often happens to young women at old people's funerals, while being vigurously used from behind turned over candlestick
mircea_popescu: the house burned down ?!
mircea_popescu: yes, it caught fire from the house
mircea_popescu: why was the horse running around ?
mircea_popescu: the next day calls, "is everything ok ? " "certainly sir, everything is in order" "so nothing happened ?" "well, sir, your little black dog. he died."
mircea_popescu: very reminescent of both the actual open sore repositories themselves, as well as that "nothing happener, sir" joke.
mircea_popescu: neway, it's like sewing on old, sunbaked rag. the more you patch, the more it breaks.
asciilifeform: but unable to turn it up in the l0gz
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe the solution is to odd.
mircea_popescu: anyone follow along the culture clash in that last article comments section ?
mircea_popescu: they were producing rap album. neeext.
asciilifeform: or the regiment of black dudes standing in a circle, doing ~nothing, for hours
asciilifeform: like that old man who rolled electric wheelchair up, down, up, down, the street, swinging his hat
asciilifeform: but judging by what the locals (of all colours) were doing with their time, i cannot properly apprehend the mental zone they live in, and would need some strong dope to even visit it
mircea_popescu: 40 deaths/100k per year. who the fuck's gonna waste a bullet on you specifically.
mircea_popescu: the notions people get from reddit/msm/etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> i was there, even took pet, nobody fired << lmao!
asciilifeform: this reminds me of another 'idea' of mine
asciilifeform: but yes, my observations were of the amateur zoologist's, 'the bears did not bother me' sort.
asciilifeform: i suppose if living there long enough, can catch a bullet, or jailed for bagging a protected species
asciilifeform: the locals have own rhythm of life, mostly ignore martians; cars stop in the middle of streets, boys run out with 'cargo', deliver, run back; etc
gabriel_laddel: but must be willing to put up with having your stuff taken from time to time / "the knockout game"
gabriel_laddel: you can walk around the hood all you want while white
asciilifeform: i was there, even took pet, nobody fired
asciilifeform: ah i wondered if maybe it was the rubble, or the godforsaken remoteness from anything worthwhile
asciilifeform: there are 'obfuscators' for various langs etc. but afaik nothing quite so monstrous.
mircea_popescu: in other nuts, someone should totally write a universal program improver, which takes any legal code, unrolls all for loops and reimplements them as if clauses ; and unrolls all if clauses and reimplements them as for loops.
mircea_popescu: they could have like an itinerant seminar of luby transforms, functional analysis and convexity.
gabriel_laddel: then it wouldn't be charity. magic
mircea_popescu: in fairness, i sometimes do this, except never send pet to live with HER mother. i send her to live with the more sane female cousins of mine, learn the ropes of female sanity.
gabriel_laddel is currently shopping around for a USB drive that will hold all the masamune sources, as the current one is too small
mircea_popescu: why don';t you live in your garden then ?!
mircea_popescu: don't mind me, this convo reminded me of spirited not-yet-lawyeress many years ago. she, similarly, "i don't want your charity!" "fine, take your clothes off then and you'll have earned it."
asciilifeform: this was gone over, in agonizing detail, in the thread with ben_vulpes's software co.
mircea_popescu: shinohai virgins usually do poorly the first time in the dungeon. naive cunt petrifies readily.
asciilifeform: i don't ride bikes, live in cockroach flats, or do any of the 1,001 related young cocklet things
shinohai: After 35 years I'd wager it was as mushy as a virgin's vagina after a night in the mircea_popescu dungeon.
gabriel_laddel: Look, I don't have your personal ledger in front of me, but wouldn't paying ZERO in rent save you a lot, even if you only do it for a year and your pet has to go live with her mother?
mircea_popescu pictures 35yo woman waiting patiently for that damned pasta for the past ~20 years
mircea_popescu: hey, wadda ya want! alf is ~still~ making his original gf from back when he was 15 a pasta dinner. he just had to go to college first, find another woman, and other details.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-08 01:50 mircea_popescu: dawg, just make those cardanos so we can sell em and that's it, let some other unfortunate soul extract himself with bountee.
asciilifeform: why the FUCK would i want to do any such thing.
thestringpuller: but then again most people wouldn't call it a shed.....
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: you can live in the guest house. it's like a shed but with windows, and a kitchen, and a bathroom.
mircea_popescu: ya just meant the count
mircea_popescu: honestly i can't complain. as the saying goes on shittycustomers.com, "it's easy if you know what you're doing".
a111: 0 results for "People generally wish to be rich for all sorts of reasons and mental constructions that scarcely survive the transformative process which becoming rich entails", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=People%20generally%20wish%20to%20be%20rich%20for%20all%20sorts%20of%20reasons%20and%20mental%20constructions%20that%20scarcely%20survive%20the%20transformative%20process%20which%20becoming%20rich%20entails
gabriel_laddel: $s People generally wish to be rich for all sorts of reasons and mental constructions that scarcely survive the transformative process which becoming rich entails
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: if I buy you a shed like the one in timasora, and mod6 installs it on his property, will you please just go live there and save money?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: the original 'hole' comment was about how i lived as ~hermit for long time. not about crappy flats (in which i also once lived, but no longer.)
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: you really gotta read the l0gz
mircea_popescu: Framedragger_ do i misremember the count ?
gabriel_laddel: dija ask mod6 for a virtual tour of the property yet?
thestringpuller: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1496754 << facebook ruined. they use so much PHP they invented HipHop a PHP compiler. Yes, they compile PHP code to C to make it run faster.
asciilifeform: the unix way!11111111111
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cannot easily count the whole lot, ls barfs 'argument list too long'
mircea_popescu: and in other news, the pigs eat well tonight. http://67.media.tumblr.com/026a0d28b07c7bebd6c753af261b3f1e/tumblr_nyjpv7Xjyt1swadgjo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wasn't the Framedragger_ lot ~20mn keys ?
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://github.com/henryboldi/felony ; https://github.com/henryboldi/felony/issues/11
mircea_popescu: it's actually a good deal, there.
asciilifeform: somewhat related, the firms that broker the bmore shit houses all offer... mortgages! yes, on $10,000 house! pay fiddybux/mo forever!1111
mircea_popescu: hence the end of my three emperors story.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, once bailing begins, the details are forever being worked until everyone is dead.
asciilifeform: my understanding is that the details of who precisely will be bailed out, and who - haircut - are being worked.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the whole thing's dead, we're debating which dead cell's at fault in the dead tissue.
mircea_popescu: notrly, taxpayer bails them out!
asciilifeform: it is being made 'illigitimately' their concern.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is not legitimately their concern in capitalismus.
asciilifeform: the folks who carried on the college racket, if the godz gave them half a brain, know that the money ain't coming back
asciilifeform: the muppetteer.
mircea_popescu: reason scamcoins / forum scams always go the same way is, basically, this woman. stupid people are all stupid the same.
asciilifeform: well not the muppet per se
mircea_popescu: the woman is trying to convert bondholders on a lossy entreprise into shareholders, because of course she would.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to bridge this to finance : this is the fundamental difference between shares and bonds. a bond is owed on irrespective of how the business does ; shares only fraction of what the business did.
mircea_popescu: that part, of course, needn't be mentioned, because "who cares more about sanity than '''people themselves''' is the bad thing mkay!"
mircea_popescu: she was more than likely offered life insurance for the kid, declined it to save 25 bux a month or w/e
mircea_popescu: anyway, sane people, which is to say business people, take insurance in such a deal. whether the principal is a dumb kid or a warehouse, you insure against it's destruction specifically so you don'tend up in this "guarantor pays through no fault".
asciilifeform: civilizations that outlive their will to live, undergo this autolysis
mircea_popescu: "let's break things for stupid people". recurring theme of "modern democracy" altogether ; so much so it's obviously at the core of the stupidity involved.
asciilifeform: appears to be a recurring theme in 'hyoooman interest' pieces from the volkischer beobachter
mircea_popescu: but as far as any possibility of working anything is concerned, there's nothing remarkable here. "i made my bed on highway, got run over".
asciilifeform: then makes sense.
mircea_popescu: that's what a guarantoor does : "give x this much, and if he won't pay, i will". it's an ancient institution, the piece of shakespeare i butchered revolves around it.
asciilifeform: betcha the cow had nfi
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not remarkable, woman cosigned on a loan. this is the point of cosignature.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, re teh state of the bitcoin - lettuce not allow all the countless things we're doing distract. even if the summer of forks was defeated politically, so we blessfully didn't have to fight the battle on the technological field, mod6 still needs all the help he can get.
asciilifeform: '...after her son’s unsolved murder... “Please accept our condolences on your loss,” a letter from that agency, the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority, said. “After careful consideration of the information you provided, the authority has determined that your request does not meet the threshold for loan forgiveness. Monthly bill statements will continue to be sent to you.”'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform brontosaurus gotta graze. can has hay ? no ? can has grass ? no ? then can has hay ? no ? then can has grass ? no ? how about lettuce ? fern ? hay ? grass ? lettuce ?
mircea_popescu: nicely mirroring the situation a year+ ago, when i couldn't find any owners to borrow from for the life of me.
asciilifeform: lel the linked nyt article is actually a massive ad for 'chainalysis', umpteenth attempt at taintatron
mircea_popescu: it's "going down" in the hopes of capturing the occasional dizzy derp. not going too well.
mircea_popescu: 50-50 odds it's even the physical buterin, the guy with the misshapen skull, actually writing the item.
asciilifeform: buterin: 'Remove the signature from a transaction (ie. set the field to the empty string) before computing its hash for the purposes of future transactions consuming that UTXO [alternatively, I like the idea of adding new OP_CHECKSIG-like opcodes that do this so that this new transaction type can be made backward-compatible]'
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 12:45 mircea_popescu: but anyway, asciilifeform 's prediction proceeding right on schedule. the "indepedndent" usg tool and "ethereum developer" finds time to discuss bitcoin as that "innovative project" burns to the ground. because truly it wasn't all about trying to fuck up bitcoin all along. nothing of the sort, ethereum was a serious effort by serious people with their own heads and etc.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu now that i think about it, there was another reboot other than the scheduled one. and it was outlined in the l0gz. so not quite 3m.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: the young ones, i guess. but in principle, the definition of a whore is exactly that : woman that's fine naked.
mircea_popescu: in other cvasi-lulz, ro whore, ex wife & baby's momma of ro footballer, discussing their split-up : "you can't make a whore into a housewife ; nor an athlete into a respectable man"
mircea_popescu: but anyway, asciilifeform 's prediction proceeding right on schedule. the "indepedndent" usg tool and "ethereum developer" finds time to discuss bitcoin as that "innovative project" burns to the ground. because truly it wasn't all about trying to fuck up bitcoin all along. nothing of the sort, ethereum was a serious effort by serious people with their own heads and etc.
shinohai: reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4r43ps/chinas_major_influence_over_bitcoin/d4yjy7t <<< Butterin "I can't fix Ethereum but this is how I would fix segwit"
mircea_popescu: (best import phf's basic theme so you can see shit works)
mircea_popescu: lulziest about this block thing is the derpy miners arguing against their interest on the basis of social media gargle.
shinohai: BingoBoingo: I probably get 4-5 nasty DM's a day on twitter calling me the same thing xD
mircea_popescu: once you get that you genesis it as a V tree, and then patching can begin.
mircea_popescu: step 0 would be to apply phf's patches and get it up. step 1 would be to get everything (not the theme, everything else) into one single file, and have it still work.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-03#1496215 << incidentally shinohai i dunno if you're looking to go into the coding side of things, but if so this may be just the thing for you ?
mircea_popescu: yet again there was a right thing to do (network of blogs) and a fucktardedly wrong thing to do (www-"forum") and the shithead community chose to do the wrong one. for obvious social reasons, it's way the fuck harder to write a blog than to "participate" in a "consensus".
mircea_popescu: that requires users and sessions, neither of which is php capable to handle at all. but notice that blogs DO NOT require users, nor do they need sessions. nor, for that matter, cookies.
mircea_popescu: its crowning achievement is, no doubt, the blog. this is what php exists to do, blog software. not, ironically, "forum" (ie, web-replacement bbs) software, which is what it's mostly used to do.
mircea_popescu: receive in that total, meaning that out of 100k they rarely actually published as many as 1k comments. the rest's just spam.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 02:07 mircea_popescu: phf there's two main points of the split between mp-wp and automattic-wp. one is that i shot the akismet idiocy in the head (mp-wp antispam system works way the fuck better, and doesn't you know, run arbitrary code from the automattic equivalent of disqus, shambling abominable horror of untold proportions).
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1496653 << one major advantage of this, by the way, is that mp-wp comment count (references for eg in places like http://trilema.com/2016/why-is-that/#comment-117921 < ) is actually accurate, minus the 15k or so sample spam pieces there's >100k human comments on trilema ; akismet-based popular blogs, that on occasion reach six figures like trilema, also count every single spam piece they ever
a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 02:19 mircea_popescu: lol thestringpuller been a busy little blogger lately has he
thestringpuller: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-03#1495490 << I'm trying to blog everyday. It's hard, I'm not a writer by trade, although people keep cheering me on, so for the readers out there thanks for that.
mircea_popescu: " revealed to much lulz that many miners were using a simplified form of verification when they were selecting blocks to build off of which lead to splits when it turned out "soft" forks aren't so soft." << " revealed that many miners were using simplified (and dysfunctional) chain verification, to abundant lols and chain splits. Turns out "soft" forks aren't all that soft!" ?
mircea_popescu: and i think i was a lot more verbose back then, too.
asciilifeform: pretty sure i got all the engl
asciilifeform: definitely not all the ro, yet.
asciilifeform: wordpress is loathesome.
asciilifeform: but so does the whole shebang.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 02:18 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1496656 << your old site also has captcha for comments ; which has prevented me from commenting there for these many years.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 02:17 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-03#1496637 << exactly the sort of theme "cleverness"
BingoBoingo: 100% upvoted! https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4r5ax7/another_attempt_to_socially_engineer_a_fork/
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i got a thing from the realtor with bigger, thicker house, in what looks like perfect condition, for ~half the price of the ruin. picture in what kind of kandahar it must be
mircea_popescu: too much failed in one paragraph tho. "their beloved if irrelevant" ?
asciilifeform: blew most of today on these atrocities.
BingoBoingo: ^ USG loves their 1980's branding tricks
mircea_popescu: and in other boobs, http://66.media.tumblr.com/f6ffd92ab7b75d2e2b325e7482edc21d/tumblr_nrx0wpcYNT1txs21yo3_500.gif
mircea_popescu: phf same comments.php in my theme ; but in general wherever the theme outputs comments
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how you imagine making a monkey out of the reader's acceptable or anything.
phf: mircea_popescu: which file was the above lifted from?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 02:08 asciilifeform: fwiw my old site uses the ancient evils.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1496656 << your old site also has captcha for comments ; which has prevented me from commenting there for these many years.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 23:58 asciilifeform: the 1 is clickable
mircea_popescu: at the rate we're going, #trilema is going to end up in google for php queries huh.
mircea_popescu: phf o it parses the whole thing check this crazy out
asciilifeform: fwiw my old site uses the ancient evils.
mircea_popescu: because gravatar thing is utter bullshit also. but i'm not terribly convinced this scheme's so great either.
mircea_popescu: the other is that instead of calling gravatar, it just puts out avatar.png from commenter's webpage.
mircea_popescu: phf there's two main points of the split between mp-wp and automattic-wp. one is that i shot the akismet idiocy in the head (mp-wp antispam system works way the fuck better, and doesn't you know, run arbitrary code from the automattic equivalent of disqus, shambling abominable horror of untold proportions).
asciilifeform: lel the domain suddenly stopped resolving.
asciilifeform: with pig-ugly theme.
phf: in fact i could send it to spam, and then approve and it appears where it's supposed to be
asciilifeform: motherfuckers.
asciilifeform: the 'spam' is not
asciilifeform: the 1 is clickable
asciilifeform: the spam counter shows '1'
phf: mircea_popescu: what's the point of wp-includes/js/.htaccess?
mircea_popescu: you can prolly fiddle with the knobs to make this work more to your liking, but in my experience it's ~perfect.
mircea_popescu: you rarely have to approve the same person twice.
mircea_popescu: but yes, dubious comments get queued, so you can approve them or not. once you approve some, the dubiousness evaluator gets better.
mircea_popescu: well no, the spam one didn't get queued.
mircea_popescu: there;'s no "displayed" though. there's All | Pending (4) | Approved | Spam (15,875)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how does the comments ending in displayed AND at the same time in 'pending' have anything to do with my theme ?
asciilifeform: my other thing also works
mircea_popescu: shut up gentoo boy! unlike that pos, this actually works for a decade once settled down. and the settling down is a few hours not a few weeks.
mircea_popescu: well, it is evidently the broken one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno ; seems to me like a theme issue. this isn't phf's theme, actually, is it ?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: no other comments on page.
asciilifeform: on the oly post
asciilifeform: but if you click, they appear.
mircea_popescu: then hm. i only see my test comment myslef
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all comments other than spam show up in 'pending' in mine.
mircea_popescu: so there.