January 3, 2021 MDG

News, information + resources

Sunday Jan 3 2021

Perfect media server A wiki format information repository detailing all you need to know to build a free, open and modular media server that will last for many, many years.

Liverpool Biennial launched the programme for the 11th Edition happening in spring 2021, running from 20 March – 6 June, with previews held on 18 and 19 March.

Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2021   [WSJ] New ways to work, exercise, see the doctor, watch movies and sanitize every surface in sight will continue to proliferate. So will monthly subscription fees

FAQ: Security Advisory Solar Winds This is what the documentation for warfare looks like in 2021

Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.

Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation(newyorker.com) The filmmaker left an art world he found too white; years later, he made a triumphant return with “Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death.”

NeuralMagicEye: Learning to See and Understand the Scene Behind an Autostereogram An autostereogram is a single-image stereogram, designed to create the visual illusion of a 3D scene from a 2D image. More info  redd.it/korh47