ReHacked vol. 334: The Pleasure of Patterns in Art, Reddit will block the Internet Archive and more
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Reddit will block the Internet Archive | The Verge #ai #internet #copyrights
The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.
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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology #longread #book #cyberpunk
- This is a free online edition of Bruce Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades.
- Coverted to webpage by Rudy Rucker, posted September 2022, and updated November 2023.
- Each story is Copyright (C) 2022 to its original authors, and all rights are reserved. The book is not public domain, nor is it Creative Commons.
- Printing History: Arbor House edition / December 1986. Ace edition / July 1988
The Pleasure of Patterns in Art | The MIT Press Reader #art #design #longread
Made at the high point of Kline, de Kooning, and Pollock, Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans” was a poke in the eye of abstract expressionism. Not only was it blatantly mimetic, but it was being blatantly mimetic with a mundane commercial product found in every supermarket and corner grocery store in America. When people think of repetition in painting, they probably think first of these iconic soup cans.
But not all repetition is as in-your-face or as disruptive as “Campbell’s Soup Cans.” One painting from the Impressionist period is particularly pertinent. I am thinking of “Paris Street; Rainy Day” by Gustave Caillebotte. Currently housed in the Art Institute of Chicago, it was originally exhibited at the Third Impressionist Exhibition in Paris in 1877. It is probably Caillebotte’s best-known work.
“No” is an option | Seth's Blog #quotes
“Maybe” is the problem.
If you’re serious, say, “yes.”
Docker Hub still hosts dozens of Linux images with the XZ backdoor #security
The XZ-Utils backdoor, first discovered in March 2024, is still present in at least 35 Linux images on Docker Hub, potentially putting users, organizations, and their data at risk.
Docker Hub is the official public container image registry operated by Docker, allowing developers and organizations to upload or download prebuilt images and share them with the community.
Many CI/CD pipelines, developers, and production systems pull images directly from Docker Hub as base layers for their own containers, and if those images are compromised, the new build inherits the flaw or malicious code.
Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription #copyrights
You're used to paying for access to Netflix, Amazon Prime or Disney+ every month but now Volkswagen is getting in on the act. It's asking owners of the ID.3 hatch to pay extra if they wish their car to deliver the full performance it’s capable of.
Yes, you read that correctly: while the Volkswagen ID.3 Pro and Pro S are listed on the configurator as producing 201bhp, buyers must pay a subscription fee to reach the car's full potential of 228bhp.
This subscription currently stands at £16.50 per month. That’s almost three times the price of a ‘Standard with Ads’ Netflix subscription – following a one-month free trial – or a total of £165 per year. Owners can also choose to select a lifetime subscription for the grand total of £649, with this being attached to the car rather than the individual, meaning the upgrade will remain if the vehicle is sold on.
Pluralistic: “Privacy preserving age verification” is bullshit #privacy
Big Tech's highly resourced bullshit machine convinces some politicians that technical expertise is not to be trusted, and gives other, more cynical politicians cover for ignoring experts by saying, "Oh you people are always telling us that this or that is impossible."
This website is for humans - localghost #internet
The filing claims that Perplexity accessed 119,467 articles on Yomiuri’s site between February and June of this year, based on an analysis of its company server logs. Yomiuri alleges the scraping has been used by Perplexity to reproduce the newspaper’s copyrighted articles in responses to user queries without authorization.
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