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Cake day: July 4th, 2023
  • That sounds a lot like walking a tightrope there buddy. You need someone who’ll catch you if you fall.

    I was only ever addicted to nicotine, haven’t smoked in 10 years, but I know it in my gut that if I pick up a single cigarette I’ll be right back to 1 pack a day in less than a week.

    Everyone’s different and some people can walk that fine line without crossing it, but the safest is to just stop, my friend.

  • TV ads are acceptable, they are strictly limited to -24 LUFS. Streaming media like YouTube enforces -14 LUFS.

    That’s 10 decibels, it’s twice as loud.

    And that’s just the hard cutoff.
    While YouTube will bring down the volume automatically (say, if you upload something with -9 LUFS, it will bring it down to -14), it doesn’t scale up.
    So maybe a conscious creator is uploading at -24, then BOOM ad at -14 and your ears start to bleed.

    This law aims to fix that, by forcing the ads to be at the same volume of the content that’s playing, instead of just being able to blast at full volume.