2026-01-15 16:20:38
Top Raiders head coach candidate could build quality staff around him https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/15/top-raiders-head-coach-candidate-could-build-quality-st…
Top Raiders head coach candidate could build quality staff around him https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/15/top-raiders-head-coach-candidate-could-build-quality-st…
Lazytoot: is there an archive of high-quality versions of the various Steve Jobs era Apple keynotes?
🥳 @small-tech/syswide-cas v7.0.2 released
Enables Node.js to use custom Certificate Authorities (CAs) alongside the bundled root CAs.
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/syswide-cas#readme
• Drops legacy Node support
• Is now ESM
• Improved code quality
•…
AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/843883/ai-image-generators-better-worse
twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://network…
Blip is amazing: it's kinda AirDrop that works over the Internet & locally on iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android – Linux pending. Works with folders and data goes directly, no upload.
I've learned about it from MKBHD and I'm already sad how it'll inevitably go bad.
https://blip.net/
My work Outlook keeps crashing today, and I figure it's probably because it's such quality software
Mastodon needs big changes if it wants to grow. BIG CHANGES.
Most of what I personally want are small Quality of Life changes.
One reason apps like Pixelfed and Loops are interesting are because people could find them without caring about Activitypub.
New apps are exciting because it's a great way to experiment with things that maybe Mastodon could learn from and add in the future.
So we tried #nextcloud talk yesterday with friends and it was AMAZING. I first struggled with sound in-out but that was clearly my setup with external speakers and external camera. (really not the typical setup!)
But the 2h video call went totally smooth, good quality, no lag.
If you do videocalls with friends and family.. I can totally recommend nextcloud call - in my case hosted…
For anyone who cares about the environment - be it climate, toxics, endangered species, biodiversity, air quality, water quality- here's a chance to support removing Lee Zeldin, the EPA Administrator who is cheerfully removing all the environmental protections so many have worked so hard to put in place.
Please sign this petition to remove him from office:
For anyone who cares about the environment - be it climate, toxics, endangered species, biodiversity, air quality, water quality- here's a chance to support removing Lee Zeldin, the EPA Administrator who is cheerfully removing all the environmental protections so many have worked so hard to put in place.
Please sign this petition to remove him from office:
🚧 Towards Modeling Road Access Deprivation in Sub-Saharan Africa Based on a New Accessibility Metric and Road Quality
#roads
Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications. Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…
Oh so many a happy hour of kicking Nazi ass on Game Pass back in the olden days. And now I literally own it DRM free on GOG, bringing my trilogy collection to completion 🌈 ❤️ ⚔️
(It's actually a good first-person shooter. Very similar quality, if not better, to Doom 2016.)
-85% Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Digital Deluxe Edition on GOG.com
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: I know what you mean.
ARTIX: I'm sorry, sir.
[Leylan walks towards the exit to the Flight Deck]
LEYLAN: I'm going to my quarters. Anything I should know?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/24 B7B2
Managed to put the new Pi music player together before leaving work today. Got it set up with remote control and a quick test of playback. Next stop: Speaker mounting and figuring out if I should bet on physical security through obscurity by making it not easily visible or using a moderately long RCA cable. What’s a reasonable cable length with decent quality cables?
Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications. Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…
I wish we had more people writing more sophisticated concerns about the harms of AI.
"Slop" criticism is important because I think many of us feel we are being gaslit into believing that generative AI is currently creating quality creative output, while Al (henceforth Alfred) is overwhelmingly creating mediocre quality creative work.
Every past winter, Alfred survives in a more focused and refined form. Eliza was a toy chatbot of the 1960s, but what emerged from that is…
If only this comic wasn't a documentary...
#healthcare
Can a Sam Darnold-led team win a Super Bowl? QB has a chance to prove worth vs. Rams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6891377/2025/12/16/nfl-qb-stock-report-sam-darnold-seahawks-patrick-mahomes-philip-rivers/
Cyclability in London: Associations between the quality of the local cycling environment, cycling participation, and perceptions of the cycling environment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692325004004
📖 Die neue Handreichung "Datenqualität bewerten: Der Ansatz von NFDI4Culture" fasst die Beiträge aus dem diesjährigen Forum "Qualität von Kulturdaten messen – aber wie? Konzepte, Methoden, Potentiale und der Ansatz von NFDI4Culture" zusammen. Der Text richtet sich an Datenanbieter & -produzenten, die Fragen zur Prüfung und Sicherung ihrer Datenqualität haben.
👏 Danke an die Autorinnen Celia Krause, Angela Kailus und Melanie Gruß!
➡️
"Permitting Parking in Driveways" is at Monday's SFBOS land use committee.
I plan to comment against this. It seems to allow driveways to be unlimited width and to remain even after garages are converted to ADUs. This is nakedly an inducement to more driving at the expense of green space, stormwater drainage, active transportation, and public transit.
Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
VILA: Dayna. Dayna. [follows the path Dayna has taken. He leaves Orac and the binoculars on the ground in the snow.] Dayna.
[Planet Terminal. Exterior. Avon finds Tarrant lying face down in the snow, unconscious. Avon walks over and nudges Tarrant with his boot. Tarrant stirs.]
https://blake.torpidi…
<Overfiend_> Overfiend's First Law of Package Quality: If the
maintainer likes to spell part or all of his name in
CAPS, the package will suck.
I'm pretty sure there's actual potatoes which can make higher-quality images
Kodak DC50 (0.4MP, 1996), edited in Photoshop
#ShittyCameraChallenge
> Our conclusion is clear: AI is promising for quality assurance and marker training, but for the moment it’s nowhere near ready to take over high stakes marking.
https://ofqual.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/14/using-ai-in-mar…
LGBTQ - Looking Good Bro, Top Quality
@… @… I’m using a Brother HL-L5200dw with Macs, and I’m very happy with the printer itself and the quality.
It’s got a built-in PostScript interpreter; with very cheap printers, the rendering is typical…
@… @… I’m using a Brother HL-L5200dw with Macs, and I’m very happy with the printer itself and the quality.
It’s got a built-in PostScript interpreter; with very cheap printers, the rendering is typical…
📽️ Pirated film quality and ticket costs shape U.S. moviegoers' viewing choices
#movies
I know plenty of you hate recording voiceovers. Why? Because you told me that you sound like a hostage reading a ransom note, and getting high quality audio quality is always a massive struggle without high end gear.
We all know the alternative: Al voices that sound so robotic they could be running Windows 95. But what about the "good" ones? The ones charging you hefty monthly fees (looking at you, ElevenLabs and Synthesia). Pass.
I cracked a powerful, free workflow ins…
"Improving indoor air quality might save your life"
#AirQuality #AirPollution
https://…
Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: That's right it is! [Points to teleport controls.]
VILA: A straightforward pickup job you said. As last words go, they're not likely to be famous.
TARRANT: You should worry.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/52 B7B6
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse
'Accept that quality matters more than velocity.
Make efficiency a promotion criterion. Reward eng…
Do retinal implants provide long-term efficacy, safety and improve quality of life? A systematic review https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25158414251385884 "acuities remain below 20/200, and recipients continue to meet criteria for legal blindness"; field of …
“But if China will not do something then our ecological initiatives make no sense…ohwait”
https://electrek.co/2026/01/08/once-beset-by-pollution-beijings-skies-are-clearer-than-ever-thanks-to-evs/
Chemical traces of 2023 Canadian wildfires detected in Maryland months after smoke subsided https://phys.org/news/2025-12-chemical-canadian-wildfires-maryland-months.html
Trump America accuses Europe of "civilisational erasure".
A clear case of pot and kettle, or worse, of psychological projection.
(* Civilisation: the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste.)
Moody Urbanity - Relations VI 🧬
情绪化城市 - 关系 VI 🧬
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Packers vs. Broncos prediction: Jordan Love and quality of his receiving corps will be the difference
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-vs-broncos-where-to-watch-pick…
I'm so glad I'm writing the solutions in both #nim and Python because I tend to find ways to improve the Python solution with the Nim one and vice versa. Today was one of those days. The biggest thing I learned though is that solving these damned puzzles exhausted will never lead to good things quality-wise.
Solution:
Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: You sent for me?
SERVALAN: You've lost some of your fire, Travis. Whatever happened to your pride?
TRAVIS: My pride, Supreme Commander?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/227 B7B6
RE: https://pdx.social/@VisualStuart/115537033906269990
Man, I remember that video clip as a crummy RealPlayer or AVI file back at the turn of the century. How time flies. Good thing they were able to restore this in better quality using the original tapes…
Quality 'Learing' daycare targeted in Minneapolis 'fraud' video blames designer for typo -- as worker snaps at Post reporter: 'Get the f-k out of here' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/us-news/quality-learing-daycare-targeted-in-minneapolis-fraud-video-blames-designer-for-typo-as-worker-snaps-at-post-reporter-get-the-f-k-out-of-here/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p12#a251230p12
If I didn't need iOS 26 for testing, I’d have waited a few point releases. Fixing years of tech debt is good, but has to frustrate those who updated but might have wanted to wait.
“Apple to focus on ‘quality and underlying performance’ with iOS 27 next year: report”
https://
Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
CHALSA: All right, all right, I agree. I accept. [Avon looks about at the others. Boorva nods. Avon gives a sickeningly sweet smile.]
AVON: Then are we all friends here, with one common enemy?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/81 B7B5
My bike came back earlier than expected so it's time to get a new winter virtual trainer subscription. I love(d) FulGaz: high-quality videos, great locales, zero gamification if you want it, good display. Has Rouvy broken that? Any similar alternatives? Otherwise I'm going to default back to them…
Ah yes, behold this relic I crafted ages ago. Is it good? Absolutely not. Do I cherish its beautifully terrible quality? Absolutely yes.
#Anarchism
So, on a lighter note, there might’ve been karaoke at the local pub yesterday and I might’ve have sung a few songs… including (for the first time ever) a song in Turkish (Şımarık by Tarkan) and one of my favourite songs from one of my favorite musicals: Pity the Child from Chess.
Sound quality: typical pub karaoke quality :)
https://vimeo.com…
Flooded disused coalmines could be a significant source of energy and provide cheap heat to thousands of homes, a new report argues.
Mine water geothermal heat (MWGH) systems use the water in flooded coalmines,
which is warmed by natural processes,
to supply low-carbon heat.
Heat exchangers and pumps recover the heat,
which is distributed via district heating networks to homes and buildings,
providing low-cost, long-term, stable energy.
twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://network…
Once again impressed by WiThings. Just bought a new Body Comp scale and it's a lovely new product experience. Their software quality is excellent. Just a great experience.
(And a big raspberry to InBody: did not like their comparable product.)
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
TARRANT: Apparently it means "The City at the Edge of the World".
[Vila is walking down a corridor]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/117 B7B3
Here's a photo that's a bit different from my usual style.
I took it with the tele lens on last weekend's hike. The inversion caused such a great sea of clouds with just some sole islands.
This kind of weather really offers such unique motives. And again: it was worth carrying the zoom lens up there :-D
Enjoy!
#photography
I am not equipped to judge the quality or credibility of this investigation — but its claims sure do deserve attention. !! https://toad.social/@davetroy/115849511230107823
NFL to implement quality-control program for playing surfaces https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6863245/2025/12/04/nfl-quality-control-playing-surfaces-field/
My M1 MacBook Air (16GB/2TB) has begun lagging during normal everyday use in ways that I only associate with Windows systems. Never seen this behavior on the Intel Macs I bought or was fed by work for over a decade. It's disappointing to see software quality continuing to slip, and for Apple to be obviously giving up on a system that's not yet even five years old.
Oh well, I hadn't planned to buy another Mac, anyway. This just reinforces that decision.
Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
AVON: I wasn't going to say anything. [The ship is shaken and they are all thrown to the ground.]
SOOLIN: How much more of this can the ship take?
DAYNA: Look, there must be some way to get Tarrant off that planet.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/287…
Australia's first national report on indoor air quality reveals urgent need for action #Australia
Fun bit of shopping tonight. Getting a system ready to deliver some quality background audio at work. Ordered a Pi 5 with a tall case, a Hi-Fi DAC, the active cooler and so on. Looking forward to putting it all together with the new speakers coming in from Thomann.
Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/08/protege-raises-30m-grow-…
"Flooded UK coalmines could provide low-carbon cheap heat ‘for generations’"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy
So here we go - exempting AI from environmental reviews, just as news has surfaced about unexpected groundwater quality impacts in AMazon data centers (1/2)
EU proposes exempting AI gigafactories from environmental assessments
https://www.
So here we go - exempting AI from environmental reviews, just as news has surfaced about unexpected groundwater quality impacts in AMazon data centers (1/2)
EU proposes exempting AI gigafactories from environmental assessments
https://www.
twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://network…
So, the last two days of ripping/encoding went well, very happy with the new encoder module and the overall results. The `svt-av1-psyex` encoder did awesome work, and there's nothing like seeing a 6.5GB file get reduced down to 190MB without a noticeable loss of quality.
The last show took about 1.5 to 2 hours to encode per episode, thankful that I had more than one encoder running at the same time. Gonna call everything a success.
New Research Finds Soy Meat Analogues Comparable to Chicken in Protein Quality and Eco-Friendliness https://vegconomist.com/protein/new-research-finds-soy-meat-analogues-comparable-chicken-protein-quality-eco-friendliness/
💪 Does the US have enough graphite to meet growing energy demand? Yes, but costs, quality are concerns
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-graphite-energy-demand-quality.html
'Accept that quality matters more than velocity.
Measure actual resource usage, not features shipped.
Make efficiency a promotion criterion. Reward engineers who reduce resource usage. Penalize those who increase it without a corresponding value.
Stop hiding behind abstractions.
Teach fundamental engineering principles again.'
From: @…
"Air quality near airports and ports needs to improve fast, EU environment agency says"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #AirQuality
Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
CALLY: We should keep on moving, they could be right behind us.
BLAKE: Yes, without weapons we don't stand a chance. Look, you keep going. I'm going to stay here and try and bring the roof down - block them off.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/347 …
Minidisc or cassette might be cooler, but honestly CDs are probably the easiest “retro” format to get into.
Used players are still relatively easy to come by and you can get a drive for your computer to burn audio CDs very easily; and there’s plenty of dirt cheap used CDs. (This CD Walkman is from Goodwill!)
Audio quality is top-notch, too.
Final tests in and the quality is outstanding. Going from the stock `svt-av1` encoder to the `svt-av1-psyex` encoder is already a nice bump in quality, and the encodes are faster using `av1an` due to using every ounce of the CPU. The `lsmash` speedup is nice as well as the stock method for chunking took a bit longer post-detection.
Also, can't say enough about the Ryzen 9 HX 370: did a great job with the encodes and only burned through ~24W during the encodes along with the Think…
#sigh
Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d
#sigh
Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d
Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
BLAKE: Come on, come on.
VILA: They won't fire. The fail-safes keep cutting in.
BLAKE: Override them.
CALLY: Twenty seconds.
VILA: The whole system is locked into negative.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/105 B7B5
twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://network…
Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
BLAKE: Oh, most of it wasn't on Earth, Tarrant. Not what happened to me. [Arlen enters, Blake turns, Tarrant kicks the gun out of Blake's hand, shoves him into Arlen, and bolts out of the room, strongarming Deva on the way.]
ARLEN: Do you want him killed?!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/…
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
JENNA: Why indeed?
[Whispers something to Raiker]
[Raiker slaps her across the face]
RAIKER: You'll come round! I can be VERY persuasive!
[Avon takes a note from his top pocket]
[Jenna walks back to Vila, Avon & Nova]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/78
Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
BLAKE: Zen, identify the hostiles.
CALLY: Forty-two seconds.
BLAKE: Zen! [Zen burbles]
AVON: The information must be bypassing the translator systems.
CALLY: Thirty-five seconds.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/97 B7B3
Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
VILA: A limiter?
GAN: Something that stops him from helping us too much. Or maybe it's someone who stops him.
VILA: Gan, if you're trying to scare me, you're succeeding.
[Exterior. Liberator approaches the alien craft.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/91
Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
CALLY: But the elections were rigged.
TYCE: It was still failure.
BLAKE: [To Cally] That's something you should understand.
TYCE: I thought I could help him.
BLAKE: He must come with us, by force if necessary.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/225
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: Everything that was said or done by everybody... including me... will be in my report.
[Raiker doesn't look so confident]
[Switch to prison compartment]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/444 B7B3
Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
SULA: I'm not deaf, Hob.
HOB: Just not listening, is that it? I'm not fighting my own men to protect Servalan. Or to protect anyone else, for that matter. D'you understand me, Sula?
SULA: Perfectly.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/394
Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
TRAVIS: Ohh?
SERVALAN: Oh, so far I have resisted that pressure. But now, I need your reassurance that my confidence has not been misplaced.
TRAVIS: I think Project Avalon will silence the critics.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/174 B7B4
Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
BLAKE: Hold off long enough to make a deal.
AVON: You're going to have to be quick, Blake. Those pursuit ships are coming this way.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/467 B7B5
Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
TARRANT: Yes, down. Starboard roll, Zen. Maximum thrust now. Fire, Dayna, fire!
[Liberator destroys the last pursuit ship]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/325 B7B3
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
RO: Let her go.
KOMMISSAR: She's no good to you, Ro. None at all. You must be rid of her. She should not have been brought back to the palace.
RO: You are, I think, mistaken, Kommissar. She means us no harm.