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Folks, it appears Kuro5hin is dead:
The site was founded by Rusty Foster in December 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot.[10] Kuro5hin's membership once numbered in the tens of thousands,[11] but its popularity declined significantly from its peak in the early 2000s.[13] On May 1st, 2016, the site was closed down permanently.
I didn't visit it. It seemed then like the bunker where the tinfoil hat brigade hung out. In the Slashdot days it served as the guardrail for conventional wisdom. But now that the tinfoil hat brigade has been entirely vindicated, and Kuro5hin is dead, it makes me a little sad. What are your favorite memories of Kuro5hin, and will we see its like again?
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(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday May 03 2016, @09:49AM
Nothing... get off my lawn and go back to sleep, kiddie.
Read yourself a bed story about Kuroshin [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Tuesday May 03 2016, @09:53AM
"Kiddie".?! I've been in IT for over 20 years, I am not a kiddie.! :)
Maybe I have never heard of it, because I don't go in for all this social bollocks (present site excluded)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 03 2016, @10:03AM
And in 20 years of IT, you didn't learn that doing as all the others do is not necessarily the wisest thing, mmm?
Case at point: you could start RTFA-ing from time to time for a change, S/N may be constrained by copyright laws from copy/pasting the entire FA for your convenience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @10:23AM
20 years of IT
[gentle chiding: ON]
Surely you know by now that you don't know everything...and how to look stuff up you may not know.
[gentle chiding: OFF]
...unless you're a windows guy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @10:29AM
Even a Windows person should know how to follow a hyperlink.
(Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Tuesday May 03 2016, @02:11PM
If the hyperlink is not posting on Twitter, then how should I follow him? ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @01:59PM
Those first twenty years go by so fast, don't they Sonny? Come back and tell us what the second twenty were like, in a few years. Right now, get off the lawn. That's a good boy - DON'T FORGET TO WRITE - your mother, not me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @06:48PM
Those first twenty years go by so fast, don't they Sonny? Come back and tell us what the second twenty were like, in a few years. Right now, get off the lawn. That's a good boy - DON'T FORGET TO WRITE - your mother, not me.
PREACH ON BROTHA!
About halfway through the second twenty. It's an uncomfortable combination of confident and versatile mastery and crushing apathy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 04 2016, @07:06AM
And yet here you are, on a Slashdot wannabe site - facebook for nerds!