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!
brutalist.report hwurls.com
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.com
Both 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 !hardware@lemmy.world, 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.
Thanks for linking that community, there’s some pretty interesting stuff in there
Mastodon, Lemmy, RSS.
Phoronix seems pretty solid, although they’re primarily Linux-centric.
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
Lemmy
You go to tech news sites? Did you time travel from the 2000s? Can you bring me back with you?
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.
hackaday.com mostly.
Everything else is “big tech adds [anti-feature], shoves AI more places no one asked for”.
Ars?
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
Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Never seems to let me down when I am sick of the Technology adjacent news. It does still have that news but at least it isn’t just that.
The community !tech@programming.dev could also use some love
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
