I'd say 2015-2016.

> I know Ed Zitron is a divisive figure

The main counterarguments to his claims are "but Sam/Dario/Satya/Jensen said X" and that we should treat them as gospel.

We're all grownups, why should we care about RAM prices? /s

This is insane. We've built our apps and websites to require ungodly amounts of memory and now AI scrapes away said websites while pricing us out.

Fast apps and websites need to make a comeback.

I wonder if River is a reference to the Firefly character, which was known for being unstable and unpredictable.

KDE 3.5.x really was peak desktop at the time, especially when all the K* apps were working as intended. As a Windows user discovering Slackware 10.2 back 2005, I was really blown away. KDE 4 just didn't feel the same.

One thing in watching the 30 years of KDE talk is the DE-emphasis on apps. The whole thing got to big so it went from SC4 or whaetver into different strains. Modularized, etc. About then serious desktop apps seemed to have died off too

I guess one cares less about DE's when my DE is a front for a terminal and a VM (my browser).

It's sad to see sidelining of KOffice, Konqueror (of course still exists), Amarok and other great apps.

A desktop environemnt is not just a WM + Panel + Decorations.

KDE3.5x has is own... well everything tied together.

Can't directly outlaw VPNs? No problem, we'll have the the few corporations powering the internet block anyone who even thinks about anonymity!

This. What even is the point of blocking scapers if Google consumes your content anyway and serves it as an AI answer?

These are sad times we're living as far as openness of the web goes. People would have less of a scraping problem if their websites didn't ship with 20MB of JS.

> What even is the point of blocking scapers if Google consumes your content anyway and serves it as an AI answer?

Google bot is generally fairly well behaved, but this is not the case for all scrapers and it can cause significant traffic (and expense).

"speed" in Swedish and Norwegian. Probably Danish as well.

ah, makes sense, thank you.

>A fartlek (Swedish for "speed play") is an unstructured, continuous running workout that mixes fast bursts of intense running with slower, recovery jogging.

Alternative search engines are popular with the tech/HN bubble. Other than Bing, they have no palpable market share. Google does not care about said bubble because it mostly overlaps people who would use an adblocker anyway and who are capable of finding their way around other for-profit restrictions (i.e. downloading videos with yt-dlp instead of paying for YT Premium).

DDG has <1% market share, so +28%, while encouraging, means nothing for the monopoly. I use it. I use Brave Search as well. Paid for Kagi for a while.

But getting people to use anything other than Google (or the default Bing for on Windows) is nearly impossible at scale.