I suspect “MTV” rhyming with “FCC” and “let me be” and “me be me” was worth more than technical correctness.

The FCC did try to “shut Eminem down.” There was an incident where a radio station played a sanitized version of his song “The Real Slim Shady” and the FCC still fined the radio station claiming even the “clean” version was still too indecent for broadcast.

The whole thing had nothing to do with “MTV”, but yeah.

“Federal Communications Commission”. It’s a U.S. agency. Originally established to make sure radio broadcasters play nice with the “commons” that is the radio frequency spectrum. They’re the ones who maintain the rules about who is allowed to broadcast on what wavelength and such. Radio and TV stations have to register with the FCC. WIFI wavelengths are under the FCC’s jurisdiction. That sort of thing.

But they decided that their jurisdiction also extends to deciding what’s too “obscene” to be allowed to be broadcast over the air waves. Cable TV is out of scope because the signal travels over wires rather than over radio waves, and so in the U.S. the rules for cable are much more lenient.

But yeah. Any content made for TV that would go over radio waves (even if it also goes over cables) basically has to follow FCC’s rules for morality. And they’re pretty strict. Such shows can’t say “shit” or “cock” or “pussy” whatever. (Though the FCC is kind enough to make exceptions for if you’re unambiguously referring to a rooster when you say “cock” etc.) And they can’t show anyone flipping the bird without blurring the offending hand.

Lots of artists and content make reference to how strict the FCC is. For instance, I think this is a song from Family Guy about that (but YouTube says it’s “inappropriate for some users” and I have to log in to confirm my age, but fuck that.) I think the FCC is even a running joke on Family Guy. Also, Eminem’s song “Without Me” also says “the FCC won’t let me be, won’t let me be me so let me see. They try to shut me down on MTV…”. (Though when it comes to Eminem, they may have a point. Lol.)

If you look closely enough at the FCC, you’ll see it’s just three mormons in a trenchcoat.

Oh look. They did another fascism.

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Too bad, but at least it didn’t go as poorly as it could have.

We can hope that moving forward, they’ll be strict about reviewing code and won’t let lots of hallucinations and such end up ruining the distro entirely.

And for that matter, that they realize their mistake quickly and change their policy to entirely ban slop.

Jesus. It’d be funny if it weren’t so tragic for the poor damned souls who can’t escape.

They’re trying to brainwash your kids to worship Satan.

(/s)

Best: ecstatcy. Worst: stupor.

Seriously though, you mean U.S. State?

Before the ICE problems, I’d have said Minnesota was probably best, but I suspect it’s probably still the best state now after having a chance to return to some degree of normalcy. Kind folk.

Worst: Mississippi is the state that most consistently scores very low on just about every axis you’d want to measure a state by. It has a reputation for being a terrible place to live.

My experience is that the performance of videos depends a lot on how much of the screen the video takes up. More so than on the quality setting (480p, 720p, 1080p). Usually when I want to watch a video, I limit it to about 1/4 of the area of my 1920x1080 screen. But YouTube is pretty watchable. I don’t think even when you select something like 720p@60fps or whatever that it ever actually gets up to 60fps, and sometimes the parts that don’t compress as well drop a few frames (strobing in particular does that), but it’s really not bad if you’re ok with not doing full-screen.

Also, it depends where the video is hosted. If the JS is really light on the page, it’s way more performant. If the JS is really heavy, I sometimes have to wait tens of seconds for it to render the first frame.

But also, this Raspberry Pi is mostly my Lemmy box. Not my main box.

My experience is that it has more to do with what’s loaded in the tab than how many tabs are open. One tab can cause everything to run at like 1fps if it’s bloated. (“Graphic design is my passion” kind of pages with tons of animations, usually.) But 100 Lemmy-UI tabs is no problem at all.

Only 29.

Well, 30 now that I opened this thread in a new tab.

But yeah. That’s on the low side compared to usual for me.

(Firefox on a Raspberry Pi 4.)

Trump just can’t stop himself from getting into fights he can’t win, can he.

If you have to ask the question, just take the secret to your grave. You should only risk the blowback on yourself if you know how properly to mitigate the risk of “doing the right thing”.

And maybe it’s fine. Like, if you found a vulnerability in a piece of FOSS software, most projects have an official path for disclosure of such things. Just look on their website and follow the instructions there. But if anyone asked me this question specifically about a vulnerability in some FOSS software, a) I’d say they don’t have the knowledge to make an informed decision whether it’s safe for them to do so and b) I’d question whether they’d actually found what they thought they’d found.

At least until the AI bubble bursts and they pivot to something worse. :(

The only “creepy” thing about it is that viewing who upvoted/downvoted what isn’t a feature that’s just built into Lemmy (and Lemmy-UI). I can’t imagine why the authors of Lemmy would want to have a class system with some (instance admins) being able to see vote information and others (everyone else) being unable.

You say “we all know our votes here are public record”, but that’s not really true. Even Lemvotes doesn’t work for at least half of the posts I’ve tried it on. It’d be more accurate to say “we all know our votes here aren’t secret”.

Just ban LLMs already.

And if it doesn’t, they’ll just implement it anyway even if Missourians vote against it. (Wouldn’t be the first time they’ve done that with one bill or another.)

1. Sell tomatoes.
2. Use money to buy pasta sauce.
3. …
4. Profit!

Fair. Definitely don’t blame you. I only participate because it’s fun to poke the bear and have fun at Madthumbs’ expense sometimes. Like the Buttcoin community (or rather “communities” - there are at least 4 on Lemmy) does with cryptobros. And Artificial Ignorance does with generative AI.

Ah! Ok. That makes sense and seems plausible. The Linuxsucks Sucks community is a little over a month old and hasn’t had all that many folks participate.