“my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server.”

FUD. I and many others on HN run our own email servers with essentially no delivery problems.

Really? How did you manage to get past the Outlook blocks? Those were always the problematic ones for me.

After setting up dkim, dmarc, etc. I've had no problems in the past decade except for one person using aol. I told him that his email was broken and if he wanted to receive my email he needed to fix it. I don’t count such things as deliverabilty problems, but as receivability problems on the other end.

I’ve never sent any kind of bulk email and I suppose my host has a good IP. Everything I do depends critically on email deliverability, often to addresses I’ve never sent to before, so if I had a problem I would certainly know about it.

“I miss what HN was before Ai and LLMs started dominating everything!”

This might be your solution:

https://hn-ai.org/

I was thinking couldn't you just filter the AI stuff out. It normally seems to be less than 20% of items.

https://hn-ai.org/ features a quality index showing how much had to be filtered out.

Thanks for making that website. I used examples from it in the first day of my statistics course ("by the end of this course you won't make these kinds of mistakes").

Glad to hear it! The use in stats courses is the main reason I keep it alive.

And the one I use and love: DWM.

(which I use on top of Pop!_OS, oddly enough).

I use Android, but this is me, too. I keep it until the battery goes bad or until it breaks.

In my last two phones I had to replace the battery 2 and 4 years in. One because it swelled, the other because it couldn't hold charge. Both cases I got a few extra years of usage from the phone. I'm in the EU, and I support this sort of regulation.

Posting this kind of slop should be a banning offense. Also: https://hn-ai.org/

One should not neglect the power of the /etc/hosts file. I use one from https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/. I don’t bother with browser extensions; I never see ads.

I use uBlock Origin because beside blocking ads, it also blocks tracking.

I use dwm. There is no bitrot.

There's still bitrot on the X.org side even if your DM is maintained

Only on systemd/logind systems. Bitrot doesn't just happen, it caused by your dependencies considering your usecases obsolete.

Oh, so only on systems running the standard stack that 90% of Linux systems run then. Nope, no bitrot here.

Always the same lies...

I see no contradiction? Bitrot is caused by some other project moving. Of course the niche projects will suffer less from it if they incorporate less innovations.

Edit: You really do like calling other people liars and fascists?

We have a liar problem, and it turns out a fascist problem, when it comes to the X vs. Wayland kerfuffle, which shouldn't even be a thing.

Your level of antagonism is unwarranted.

> All of the X11 based WMs are slowly bit-rotting.

was the statement I was replying to. In 10 years of using dwm I've not been aware of any bitrot that affects me. Certainly nome in the WM itself.

I know what you mean, but there is bitrot. I'm currently trying dwm. Zero out of the three patches I downloaded from the website applied successfully. I'd call that bitrot.

Not sure how much I like "hand-write your own code from snippets" as a way to configure software.

One advantage of the patches not working is that manually applying a patch (usually quite simple) brings you some familiarity with the code. In my case this let me make my own modifications that were not available as patches. Altering window manager code is fun!

And while you have a good point, I don’t think this is what most people have in mind when they use the term “bitrot” (but I could be wrong). I say this because dwm as supplied continues to work perfectly without modification. The patches are enhancements contributed by third parties (as far as I know) and, as you’ve discovered, are not maintained.

(Also, once you have a working, patched dwm, it should continue to work forever, even if the patches that you used may no apply automatically to future versions of the base dwm.)

I think you're right, but for different reasons: http://progressive.org/op-eds/let-cut-our-losses-on-fusion-e...

Quite so; there is a stable fusion reactor 93 million miles away (the closest good, safe distance), of whose output we could be harvesting much more than we are.