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.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
    1207·
    14 days ago

    Every tech community devolves into Musk/Microsoft/Linux drama pretty quickly. It’s pathetic.

    • WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6223·
      14 days ago

      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.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
        454·
        14 days ago

        Technically absolutely did not peak a while back.
        Journalism online is just full of a lot of dumb bullshit.

        • actually@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          13 days ago

          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

      • babybus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        27·
        14 days ago

        “Elon Musk said that he eats babies” is not tech news regardless of whether tech peaked or not.

      • mPony@lemmy.worldEnglish
        172·
        13 days ago

        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.

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        103·
        14 days ago

        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.

      • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        13 days ago

        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.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      14 days ago

      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.