I’m just not interested in hearing what bullshit FAANG is up to, I want to talk about linux kernel patches and raspberry pi revisions and maybe hear what people other than grifters are doing with neural networks.
No.
If you don’t want drama, then Torvalds’ work might not be the best project to follow
There are exceptions to every rule LMAO
Linux drama good drama IMO
I do enjoy some crusty C developers arguing with rusty not-C developers every once in a while.
bcachefs 👌
I’ve wanted something like that as well. I’m currently playing around with BlueSky feeds to get streams of science and technology content. Lemmy’s technology communities are often tech drama and or Linux stuff, and miss out on other things that are happening in the industry.
Ah please could you post some recommendations on who to follow on Bluesky?
If you put it into a starter pack, let me know.
If you are looking for a video format, there is the “Research Road” series on the channel “The Roads with Beau”, which is usually a political channel. It is AI narrated, but the people behind the channel are genuine and well informed.
Probably Hackaday. https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Link - [email protected]
Fuck knows why Lemmy doesn’t link to both the same way, seems daft
Hacker News is probably your best bet as long as you don’t go too deep in the comments
Phys.org or maybe nature? They’re mostly just seem to be reposts of journals or Nature articles, but they don’t usually have drama and can often be rather interesting. They aren’t necessarily about technology, just scientific advances which is a nice change from all of the enshitification news that almost any tech hub is blaring.
Hacker news still going strong, you get the drama stories here and there but the focus is on the technology
You’ll probably enjoy Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
A blog post I wrote got shared there a while back, but I did not ask for an invite back then. 2 years later, and I don’t feel legitimate to ask for an invite anymore
Is it still invite only? I’ve been curious. I have Tildes.
Do you know if they have any plan to stop requiring invites? I’ve been interested for many years, but the invite system rubs me the wrong way.
I don’t think so. It’s probably what keeps it small and more personal. There is also the notion of responsibility: if a person I invite causes trouble, it’s potentially on me. Maybe not on the first infraction, but if one invites 20 spammers/cryptobros/venturecapitalists, it’s reasonable to block the inviter too.
I’m not arguing one way or another (that’s not my decision anyway), but I can understand why they do this.
I concur. It’s like HN but with less AI/VC BS.
Little too programming focused though, not much tech news
Every tech community devolves into Musk/Microsoft/Linux drama pretty quickly. It’s pathetic.
That’s because tech peaked a while back. Tech news is basically about the next hustle to keep the funding coming in while producing nothing truly useful.
Technically absolutely did not peak a while back.
Journalism online is just full of a lot of dumb bullshit.Yes, what we have here in this thread is a reaction to the collapse of tech news.
It’s still exponentially growing in all fields with tens of millions of brilliant technical and scientific people. It’s just that the reporting of it has collapsed due to … gasp… technology advancement which upset the economic model which supported reporting and well written articles.
That, and the fact things are advancing so fast nobody a clue what is going on outside their specific interests
“Elon Musk said that he eats babies” is not tech news regardless of whether tech peaked or not.
Technology did not peak. “News” peaked. We are definitely on a downhill slope for news.
Actual Journalism is much more rare than it needs to be.
Yeah, there’s rarely new tech most people care about, just consumer product updates.
I work almost exclusively with early stage companies with major innovation and patents. APIs, InfoSec, etc aren’t sexy enough to make these communities.
They’re sexy to me…
Tech is still producing lots of useful stuff. AI for example can actually be very useful. It’s just not as generalist as the marketers would have us believe. For specific targeted tasks, it can be amazing.
Only if moderators don’t moderate. I don’t know what it is about tech communities, but it always seems to happen with these more than others.
maybe slashdot.org but it’s not a community per see
I use this community for that: [email protected]
The rules seem to be aligned with what you’re looking for.
Plus other communities on that instance depending on what you’re interested in.
Then there are feeds like [email protected] to keep up with content on other sites. There are lots of RSS feed communities through the https://rss.ponder.cat/communities instance
Literally the 2nd post on [email protected] is about mega corporations financials. Many other posts are about legal cases of megacorporations.
It seems to be less about technology, and more about the market and software drama/politics.
At least no musk spam.
It’s not supposed to be since the rules say
Things that don’t fit
- Minor app updates
- Government legislation
- Company news
- Opinion pieces
I’ll report the post and see what the mods do, likely they didn’t see it yet
This seems like an area where there’s demand for a carefully moderated community, even if there is less content over all. That might help with the state of tech news that other comments are mentioning
Warning: those mods are trigger happy and abuse their rights (eg by banning content from Foss projects)
There is only one mod of each of those communities. [email protected] has not removed any content like that from what I can see, and [email protected] has no removed posts at all.
Hacker news is empty for me…?
Might scope out the forums and comments sections at Ars Technica. There’s a wealth of information from a ton of the regulars.
I’m working on finding a focus for [email protected]
Warning: those mods are trigger happy and abuse their rights (eg by banning content from Foss projects)
Are we sure about that? Kinda just looks like it’s a mostly-empty community. (4 posts in the last 15 days, then nothing until 9 months ago)
Also, this comment is getting copypasta’d onto multiple different unrelated suggestions.
It was pasted exactly two times in the two communities where this is an issue.
Yes. I’m sure.
You’re replying to the only mod of that community, and I don’t see actions like that in the mod log.
Yep. Sometimes I think people forget that the modlog is public here.
Show me the “banning content from Foss projects”, @[email protected] :
https://sh.itjust.works/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemovePost&userId=28624
https://sh.itjust.works/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveComment&userId=28624
LWN is good for Linux kernel related content.
