Where do you get your source of tech news that aren't the same BS about Apple, Facebook, Nintendo, Google, phones?
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Whenever I go to a tech news site, it's mostly the same topics about the latest phone, the latest watch, or Nintendo/Playstation/Xbox. Or doom-and-gloom about privacy laws.
Don't get me wrong. I like to stay on top of things, sure.
But sometimes I want to read about, I don't know, advancements in eInk paper, DIY gadgets, transmitting data using non-conventional media (e.g. FM radio), odd games (e.g. that you can play with one hand, with your phone), coding fun things in some esoteric language, or good news like schools benefiting from tech donations.
Not necessarily those topics, but do you see how none of them are about Apple, Google, Amazon, AWS, iPhones, Android, Elon Musk (shudders), Pokemon, stocks, or Comcast screwing us all?
What websites do you visit for that kind of content? Thanks!
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I just use RSS feeds for everything that interests me.
some of them are hackernews, serveTheHome and opensource.com, but there are plenty more. RSS is so underated imo. -
They cover mainstream topics, but they have a lot of in-depth enterprise tech news and they have their own voice and humour.
www.linuxgizmos.com
www.cnx-software.comBoth these sites covers SBCs (not only Raspberry Pi), microcontrollers and random DIY stuff
Some mainstream coverage, but also a lot of random news about open source, niche and historical operating systems and computers
DIY hardware news and projects
Lots of tech news on non-western countries, mainstream topics are covered as well, but often with a different perspective
Self-promotion: I am a mod at [email protected], while coverage includes a lot of mainstream tech hardware topics, there is content on more nitty gritty semiconductor topics, battery tech and unique hardware devices (some retro coverage too). The sidebar includes more specialized tech communities on Lemmy that might be of interest to you.
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Mastodon, Lemmy, RSS.
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hackaday.com mostly.
Everything else is "big tech adds [anti-feature], shoves AI more places no one asked for".
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Thanks for linking that community, there's some pretty interesting stuff in there
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Sounds like you're after hackaday and similar specialist blogs
General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don't bring in the ad money comparatively
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The community [email protected] could also use some love
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hackernews its like reddit but the user submitted links are tech and research of hardware heavy. A good portion of my RSS feed is from blogs that posts were submitted to there.
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sometimes I want to read about, I don’t know, advancements in eInk paper, DIY gadgets, transmitting data using non-conventional media (e.g. FM radio), odd games (e.g. that you can play with one hand, with your phone), coding fun things in some esoteric language, or good news like schools benefiting from tech donations
I don't think there is a one place for all of those at once. But I think some part of your interests might be covered by https://spectrum.ieee.org/ it also provides RSS feed
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Mostly RSS feeds of either the upstream projects directly (e.g. Rust Blog about Rust news, OpenSSL releases about OpenSSL,...), blogs by people I have noticed write interesting things (e.g. Cory Doctorow) or collections of news like This Week in Rust.
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Mastodon, lobsters, Lemmy, talking with coworkers and friends, occasional research papers from the field I studied, and I have a few sites I rotate for national or international news but those aren't really tech specific
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Phoronix seems pretty solid, although they're primarily Linux-centric.
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I consider The Register to be the gold standard in tech journalism. When asked how I keep up with evolving tech, I told the interview panel that any tech news they see on mainstream media was likely broken by The Register 3 days previous, with original sources and quotes from top corporate officers.
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Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Never seems to let me down when I am sick of the Technology adjacent news
