Great, now I just read an article about no printers and am so enraged
Comment on I wish there were more articles about tech not tech biz
qx128@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Check out Ars Technica. I’ve always enjoyed the fact that the are more technical than average news sources. For example, when they report on a software security vulnerability, they’ll actually go into the command line and try it for themselves. Pretty good reporters which more than basic tech knowledge, if you ask me…
AA5B@lemmy.world 6 months ago
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And they’re on the Fediverse! @arstechnica@mastodon.social
drasticpotatoes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I liked them until they started posting clickbait.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Some of their headlines can be shitty, but I find that most of their articles are great once you dive into them. Except for their Wired cross publication stories, those mostly suck.
Eric Burger’s space articles are fantastic. Well minus a recent article of his where he hand waved away Elon being a shitheel. On a technical level they’re great.
Icaria@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ars’ quality dropped badly about 10 years ago, around the same time New Scientist went to shit. A lot of their articles are now uncritical regurgitations of press releases. Even the one guy they had doing really detailed investigative pieces on the videogame industry up and left probably 5 years ago.
Also they never followed through on their promise to give us an everything-but-apple RSS feed.
cosmic_slate@dmv.social 6 months ago
They just aren’t good anymore. And haven’t been for a while.
A number of posts are sensationalized to the point of almost being incorrect. For example, their Okta post about the breach update affecting everyone was portrayed as if it were a third, completely unrelated breach. While Okta’s security practices were shown to be terrible this year, writing misleading articles makes it hard to follow news.
They’ve leaned hard into the “Twitter news gets us clicks” problem, they’ve leaned hard into that for clicks.
For years they’ve made it a point to have some kind of Tesla-bashing (or least Tesla related) article every few days — even 5 years ago Tim Lee basically said it was to drive traffic to the site.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 6 months ago
Eric Berger is a SpaceX fanboy. He is knowledgeable about rockets though.