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‘Funeral for a Great Drunken Bird’ by All Them Witches is my new jam.

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‘DII’ by High on Fire is my new jam.

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‘God’ by John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band is my new jam.

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‘666lb. Bongsession’ by Bongzilla is my new jam.

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‘Where Were You’ by Vic Chesnutt is my new jam.

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‘Devastator’ by Pharaoh Overlord is my new jam.

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‘Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain’ by Ween is my new jam.

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Listen to music using YouTube? Think you’ll get better audio quality by increasing the video’s bit-rate? Think again.

Like many of us, you probably use YouTube to stream songs or albums while you work on other things -- after all, it’s extremely convenient.

However, given that YouTube videos can stream at different bitrates, you probably want to make sure you’re getting the best quality for your music -- so one of the first things you do is to make sure you're streaming at the highest bitrate available ... right?

Unfortunately, this amounts to nothing more than a waste of bandwidth. You see, YouTube serves a separate stream for the audio channel, which is set at a consistent bitrate, regardless of the corresponding video bitrate.

Nick Vogt, as published on H3XED, explains:

YouTube streams video and audio separately and the website player combines them on the fly. Due to this, the audio bitrate is not affected by video quality like in the past. The audio you hear during a YouTube video will usually be either 126 kbps AAC in an MP4 container or 155-165 kbps Opus in a WebM container, regardless of whether you're playing 360p, 1080p, or any other resolution. Changing video quality will not impact the audio stream. [emphasis added]

So, bottom line: When you’re using YouTube for the sole purpose of listening to music -- and not watching any of the video content -- don’t bother setting your streaming quality any higher than 360p.

(via YouTube Audio Quality Bitrate Used For 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p : H3XED)

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Short comic explaining very simply the basics of how the Heartbleed Bug works.

(via xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation)

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Listen. NOW. Go!!!!!! #bestshow4life #awfulsome http://thebestshow.net 

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Charles Blow: Walter Scott Is Not on Trial

I find it particularly disturbing the way that we try to find excuses for killings, the way that we seek to deprecate a person when they have been killed rather than insisting that they deserved to remain among the living. For me, there is only one issue in the Walter Scott case: he is dead, and that cannot be undone. And not only was he killed, but he was killed in a most dishonorable way: shot in the back as he fled. So, for me there is only one question: Should the dead man be dead? Is there anything, under American jurisprudence and universal moral law, that justifies the taking of this man’s life? Unfortunately, police officers encounter lawbreakers on a regular basis. Unfortunately, some resist arrest. Some flee. These are simply occupational conditions of being an officer — an admittedly tough job that few of us would sign up to do. But none of those offenses grant a license to gun a man down. It is tragic to somehow try to falsely equate what appear to be bad decisions made by Scott and those made by the officer who killed him. There is no moral equivalency between running and killing, and anyone who argues this obdurate absurdity reveals a deficiency in their own humanity. Death is not the appropriate punishment for disobedience. Being entrusted with power does not shield imprudent use of power. And one of the saddest and most frustrating features of our current debate about police use of force, in communities of color in particular, is the degree to which justice itself has been absorbed into the ideological struggle in this country.

(via Walter Scott Is Not on Trial - NYTimes.com)

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(via Upworthiest)

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Listen/purchase: 20 by Lightning Bolt

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Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly ALBUM REVIEW

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"If you know anyone who still believes in a 'liberal media,' here's 15 things everyone would know if there really were a 'liberal media'."