Ethalis@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Ars Technica has always been very upfront about it whenever they cover news related to reddit. It’s certainly not ideal, but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news
Yup, as long as the current staff (by and large) are still at the helm of the Ars orbiting HQ, I’ll continue to go there. I’ve lost too many other good tech news sites in the last decade, I can’t lose another one.
The rest of Conde Nast is hot garbage.
Ars technica is full of shit, too, as soon they’re even slightly off the tech trail. Even while on the tech trail they’re massively untrustworthy as soon as their owners’ interests are involved. I’ve kicked them out of my RSS reader long ago. If they really got something exciting I’ll get to know via slashdot, mastodon or feddit. Still I’m suspicious as I at least one time caught them intentionally spreading false information.
Can you link the false info they spread so others can see it?
I’d also like to see this damning evidence (that I am sceptical will ever be shared)
bahh they are hit and miss sure but also it’s entertaining enough and some of the people getting their star come from the meh work
It’s great on politics too, they post things other outlets won’t.
Don’t trust ars one inch as soon as they’re getting political. They’re highly manipulative.
Bro, shut up, you’re trying to manipulate people right now, shut the fuck up
but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news
This thread imply they are not a very good website for tech news.
Somehow, they actually are a good source for political news. The tech press (them and Wired) have been some of the best at covering the second Trump Admin. Possibly because it’s crawling in tech bros, and the tech press already knows how to deal with them.
Somehow, they actually are a good source for political news.
This thread imply they are not a very good website for tech news and neither political.
And the thread is wrong about one of those. I rarely touch them for tech news.
Yeah, the conde owner bit isn’t news to anyone, just cause this one guy never looked. Are is fine and it will be as long as the current people are there. Until it gets looted and the staff laid off it is fine. Eric Berger navigates a bit of a tightrope because he has high level access to Musk but can’t be too direct about asking anything other than rockets, even though the political part is affecting the space part a lot right now. I do expect that just like Polygon it will eventually be gutted but nothing lasts forever.
They have very blunt takes at the space launch industry, for one.
…unfortunately they’re rife with oppressively disruptive advertising these days; just not worth reading anymore and my battery life agrees…
You’re online without ad blockers?
…yeppers; don’t use a computer…
Did you know you can install adblockers on phone browsers? Because you can, and you should
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Ars Technica is generally excellent in my experience, one of the better tech news websites.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Long live Beth Mole for health news!
sartalon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
She’s awesome. I love Eric Berger’s contributions too.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Eric Berger is an elon-boi tho
Mossheart@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And punny titles!
Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] 3 weeks ago
what are some other good ones?
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
TechDirt for stuff that has more to do with the legal side, rather than technical news
TheRegister for general computer news with a dash of bri’ish sarcasm
NeryK@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Agreed. As long as their corporate overlords do not fuck up Ars, there is no reason to avoid them.
If (when ?) it becomes an AI slop-filled shell of its former self, then it will be past time to go elsewhere.