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[[P]](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2009/6/15/94322/6348)**[Kuro5hin Naval Gazing: Why $5 is Bad](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/6/15/94322/6348)**

By GhostOfTiber in Internet

Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 11:04:00 PM EST

Tags: Kuro5hin, Rusty, Naval Gazing, Identity ( all tags)

Kuro5hin works as a discussion and debate forum because it has identity.

Identity in this case means that users have a name, and they have a password, and they have optional information they can fill out about themselves. Usernames leave a visible trail - anyone can click and see what stories someone has posted and what comments they have made.

Unfortunately, Rusty's $5 for new registration has changed some of the fundamentals of K5, and I personally don't feel it's working.

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[[P]](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2009/5/1/0141/74989)**[Slouching at craigslist.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/5/1/0141/74989)**

By GrandWazoo in Internet

Sun May 03, 2009 at 09:39:55 AM EST

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Since the first of the year I have delighted myself trolling Craigslist; primarily of course, in the fertile grounds of the personals. Not knowing much about craigslist at first I started by wasting a whole weekend answering ads just to get an idea of where they are coming from and why.

With the recent news about the evils of MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter and Craigslist (among others) I thought I'd throw my hat in and give my two cents worth (or even less) about how to have a few laughs at best and at worse waste too many hours when I should have been out socializing at my neighborhood bar or out on a date.

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[[P]](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2009/3/12/102254/566)**[The Grass-Mud Horse fights the River Crab in the Ma Le Ge Bi desert](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/102254/566)**

By circletimessquare in Internet

Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 10:56:35 PM EST

Tags: censorship, china, humor ( all tags)

Some Chinese citizens are fighting censorship with subversive humor. To any native Mandarin speaker, the video of the grass-mud horse is at first shocking, then hilarious, and has been viewed over 1.4 million times in 2 months. With disneyfied children's chorus, the video tells of the grass-mud horse's triumph over the invading river crab as it encroaches on its habitat, the Ma Le Ge Bi desert.

There is no such horse, nor such desert.

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[[P]](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2009/3/12/33338/3000)**[Attacked from Within](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000)**

By anaesthetica in Internet

Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 11:17:19 AM EST

Tags: k5 isn't dying, community, society, scaling, internet, forums, group dynamics, moderation, tl;dr ( all tags)Internet

Traditional methods for protecting community from the effects of scale and poor behavior are now manifestly unfeasible. Raising barriers to entry, relying on the assumption that users will maintain only one registered account, and placing faith in the ability of admins and user moderation to reproduce a forum's organic culture are all easily circumvented, gamed, and/or ineffective when faced with the problems of scale. Moreover, they tend to reinforce self-destructive behaviors, by increasing returns to the most persistent rather than the most constructive, reinforcing groupthink, and providing ample targets for trolling and griefing.

This article attempts to fundamentally rethink what constitutes community and society on the web, and what possibilities exist for their maintenance and reconstruction in the face of scale and malicious users. The recommendations reached, after analyzing the weaknesses of the web forums we all know and love, are:

User anonymity should be forced.

Barriers to participation should be as low as possible.

Moderation should not focus on users or on comments in isolation, but on the relational quality of comments.

Passive moderation filters can mitigate problems of scale.

Preservation of community must shift from being based on exclusion to being based on demonstrated constructive interaction.

Forums should discriminate between content types: original content, links, and personal content.

Story promotion and front page position should be driven by conversation, not voting.

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[[P]](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2009/2/5/43412/24669)**[Proposal for Passive Private Browsing](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/2/5/43412/24669)**

By anaesthetica in Internet

Fri Feb 06, 2009 at 09:08:31 PM EST

Tags: mozilla, firefox, awesomebar, browser, privacy, history, porn, adblock, extension ( all tags)

With the advent of Firefox 3's AwesomeBar, a lot of users have been complaining about its functionality of returning items in one's history that you would rather keep those looking over your shoulder from seeing (i.e. porn).

Firefox 3.1 is set to deliver a private browsing mode to compete with Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Chrome, but this solution suffers from two key problems: private mode requires active user intervention to turn on and off; and, it does not have fine-grained control over the content being blocked.

Fortunately, a model for a better solution exists. Both problems have already been solved in the case of ad blocking. Below, I examine the prior lessons learned from the case of ad blocking, examine the current development of private browsing, and propose a progressive solution to private "porn mode" browsing.

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[[P]](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2008/8/23/161150/550)**[The Death of IPv6](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/8/23/161150/550)**

By mybostinks in Internet

Mon Aug 25, 2008 at 12:51:59 PM EST

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At some point in the near future the Internet will run out of IPv4 address space. This problem has been recognized and addressed since 1992. IPv6 (IPng, IP next generation) was selected as the replacement.

There is one big hurdle however, no one is implementing it. In fact, my bet is that IPv6 will never be implemented, at least not with the current specification of IPv6. I predict IPv6 as it stands now will simply fade away.

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[[P]](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2008/1/1/211742/0546)**[Retrieving Flash Videos from the Internet: The Hard Way](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/1/1/211742/0546)**

By mybostinks in Internet

Wed Jan 02, 2008 at 11:00:16 PM EST

Tags: downloading flash videos, internet, yoMamma ( all tags)Internet

Recently I had lots of time on my hands visiting relatives and in-laws. Most of the time I was able to get an Internet connection. Sometimes I had to leech my connection from unsecured wireless access points. Some of my relatives and friends posted videos on youtube.com but they wanted to save other flash videos on their hard drive or USB drive. At first this can be frustrating if you don't understand what is going on. So I decided to download them the hard way. For the faint-of-heart, you can scroll all the way to the bottom of the article for the easy way to download flash video and audio files.

Why do this the hard way?

First I wanted to understand why it was less than straight forward to do. I understand why proprietary software developers are scared right now. Software is slowly moving to Internet applications. As most of you know, the Internet is wide open, even SSH and SSL to some degree.

With youtube.com, Google video and some of the more popular video sites you can download and install software to automatically grab the video or audio flash file. However, I had a lot of time on my hands and there are many sites where a video downloader does not work for the particular site.

If you find doing it yourself interesting then here's one way to download flash video files. Keep in mind this only works with embedded flash video or audio streams.

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[[P]](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2007/9/10/144658/744)**[Ask Kuro5hin: What Is BitTorrent?](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/9/10/144658/744)**

By Troll Hard in Internet

Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 11:03:39 PM EST

Tags: BitTorrent, File Sharing, Ask K5, bandwidth, sandvining, increase download, Internet ( all tags)Internet

Some people whine about things like BitTorrent apparently is downloading as slow as molasseses in January in Alaska, and whine about it their Kuro5hin diaries.

No one is advocating downloading illegal torrents, but legal ones like Linux ISOs, Michael Crawford FLOSS format songs, etc.

This story can help you make BitTorrent download faster.

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[[P]](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/print/2007/8/29/232031/383)**[The Fight Against Spam](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126085157/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/8/29/232031/383)**

By mybostinks in Internet

Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 12:17:28 PM EST

Tags: UCE, SPAM, Yo Mamma Aint Got NoWata, Kuro5hin is dying, K5 is dying ( all tags)

Spam: Death By A Million Paper Cuts

The organization I work for receives 19-20 UCEs (Unsolicited Commercial Email) per second, 1.7-2 million potential UCEs per day, 11.7 million UCEs per week. I only have 13,000 email users. These users were desperate and email for many was unusable. Me and another co-worker had 3 months to implement a plan to get rid of most of it. I had to document every step we took and I had one shot to accomplish this. At the end of that time it had to work and it had to be noticeable.

I am not an expert on spam. However, I have learned many things about UCEs and what can be done to fight it and how to adjust to UCEs' dynamic nature.

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