Just seems like everything is “this company did this to their employees” and less about “this novel messaging protocol offers these measured pros and cons.” Or similar

And yes, I could post things, but I’m referring to what hits the top, 12h.

Can anyone rec communities with less of a biz and politics and wfh vs in-office vibe?

  • netwren@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    11 months ago

    HackerNews(ycomb) is a veritable gold mine but I find the community to be a bit caustic at times.

    There is a HackerNews mirror on Lemmy here that I like but not too many people comment. If I saw more activity I’d probably comment more.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      but I find the community to be a bit caustic at times

      I find the same can be true around here too, though.

      • netwren@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        11 months ago

        I really don’t find that to be true. I see lots of toy implementations, general philosophical discussions, hell even just man pages.

      • cosmic_slate@dmv.socialEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        That’s just not correct.

        17/30 articles are not business related at all (ie “A genetically modified bacterium that outcompetes bacteria causing tooth decay”, “How many hobbits? A demographic analysis of Middle Earth”, “Goodbye, clean code”, “Show HN: Homebrew 16-bit CPU…”)

        2 posts for finding jobs

        1 post about a teardown of the Fairphone and assessing its repairability, which does mention a company but isn’t that much about business

    • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

      Wayyyyy too many libertarians on hacker news who have experienced a lot of personal success in their life and have transformed that success into an utter lack of intellectual maturity or ability to empathize with others less fortunate than them.

      Good info, but wow I have read enough hacker news that I have almost zero interest in talking to tech people in real life at this point, they can be so aggressively naive and are always focused on incredibly narrow visions of the future that as a rule don’t center humans as the most valuable part of society/economy. If aliens came to earth and offered them a new algorithm in exchange for enslaving all of the planet, they would shrug their shoulders and say “We can’t stand in the way of progress, I might as well do it, somebody else will if I don’t!”. It makes me thankful a physicist developed the nuclear bomb not a tech person or I am sure we would all be dead right now.

      Good info though and fun to troll libertarians if you are into that kink.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Repost it here if you find something interesting. I read a little ycomb but it’s a firehose and discussion is typically bad as you said.

      Lemmy needs more reposting from other blogs. Filtering content is useful. Not everything needs to be original.