/g/ - Technology

Of course shills are everywhere and it's becoming much more difficult to get away from them, but this is still a topic worth visiting from time to time. We live in a world where your average user is assaulted with ads disguised as legitimate information pretty much everywhere.

If I'm trying to direct a typical person toward information, is there anywhere to go that isn't bending the knee to the dollar? Misinformation is everywhere, but there have to be sources out there somewhere, right?

>>5526
Unironically imageboards, there's shills but with enough information and enough knowledge on the subject the shills tend to be easy to spot anyway.

>typical person toward information
References are overrated. You trust history yet you can't read sources, and then you can't even compare one to another to make sure who's greek the least, and even then you are sure there's no truth. I prefer schiller's wilhelm tell and greeks to grigulevich and any other historian.
It's more or less same with the now. Who cares?

>>5526
I think it really depends on what information you're trying to find.
If it's technical information always go to the source, with official documentation.
If it's related to hard sciences you should be able to get the original data somehow.
If it's related to soft sciences it's harder, sometime in psychology and sociology there is no clear answer and it's all interpretation, statistics are often not trustable, cause they are collected with stuff like questionnaires and anecdotal evidence.
For simple stuff unironically use wikipedia, it's a non-profit and community based, always read what sources are used to determine if an article it's trustable though.

Arxiv and Pubmed. Most of the stuff is here. Elsevier is paid, but can be bypassed with sci-hub.tw
USENIX and conferences are also good. CCC has great technical talks.
Besides that, as the other anon said, if it is about software just go to the official documentation.

Talks r boring lol

>>5530
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