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We Got Us A Bread posted:She's half-japanese, so not only would she never use that (or any other) slur...but the word was "cap." Wait so the algorithm decided it was a different word that shares one consonant and differs in the other consonant and the vowel? Ain’t the future grand? 
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Platystemon posted:and the vowel?  time for a pronunciation derail I guess. (not that mixing up a hard c & a j is exactly a ringing success for the bot.)
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Platystemon posted:Wait so the algorithm decided it was a different word that shares one consonant and differs in the other consonant and the vowel? Yep. It does that ALL THE TIME. It converts speech to text, and then pings you based on what it thinks you said, not what you actually said, and then it can take up to a week to get a person to fix it. There was one creator that did a video on the history of witches, and she got hit for the word "hag." Which is not the "anti-gay" slur the bot thought it was.
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the holy poopacy posted:
My bad. I was thinking of the one that didn’t take a trip through bad Portuguese transliteration.
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Not that anyone should watch it but Jim Sterling did a video kinda related to that (his was more DCMA take downs) and YT is incredibly hosed up towards its creators lol
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Clubhouse launched their Android app today. I'm guessing the timing is related to the downright anemic install rate on iOS. It peaked at 9.5 million download in February, but only squeaked out 900K two months later. I think there are several factors that will cause Clubhouse's demise this time next year: 1. Lack of differentiation: Every other major social platform has already built a knockoff of Clubhouse's spaces (even Reddit) 2. Lack of unique content: Clubhouse is trying to develop exclusive content, but at the end of the day the best they can output is audio AMA threads, which are highly limited in scope (and again, every other platform can easily imitate) 3. An end to the pandemic: I think what made Clubhouse really take off in the first place is people seeing it as a place for business. Major VCs were hosting discussions there, and users were clamoring to either find some inside knowledge to trade on, or hawk their startup ideas. There's been an explosion in MLM crap during COVID, since so many people have been desperate to generate income after getting laid off (and most MLM stuff you can run through your smartphone now). 4. Poor discoverability: After installing the app, it's hard to find content that's appealing. Searching for a topic brings up an endless amount of room ('clubs') that all sound like scams 5. Most fatally, just a plain poo poo core concept: It's basically podcasts but with without scripting. The only perk is the live interaction, where you might get to chime in or ask the speakers a question. However, since the most engaging clubs will have hundreds or thousands of people listening, your chances of getting to interact with the speakers is null. https://gizmodo.com/clubhouse-launches-android-beta-as-downloads-nosedive-1846856771 Euphoriaphone has a new favorite as of 04:39 on May 10, 2021 |
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Silly Burrito posted:Maybe Pi-Hole would work for the AppleTV if you have a spare Pi Zero W? Haven't messed with an ATV in awhile, but we use Smart Youtube (plus our own Pi-Hole) on the Shield and it works perfectly. I need to get a Pi-Hole kit. It's easy enough to block ads per device for the most part, but it'd be nice to just have something that plugs in and kills them all house-wide.
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I don't think a Pi-Hole kills YouTube ads on anything. I think Google loads the ad videos from the same servers as the normal videos and the Pi Hole can't tell the difference.Euphoriaphone posted:Clubhouse is launched their Android app today. I'm guessing the timing is related to the downright anemic install rate. It peaked at 9.5 million download in February, but only squeaked out 900K two months later.
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Euphoriaphone posted:Clubhouse launched their Android app today. I'm guessing the timing is related to the downright anemic install rate on iOS. It peaked at 9.5 million download in February, but only squeaked out 900K two months later. I went to a paid focus group for a tech thing that as far as I could tell was trying to position itself as a premium discord-like service, talking about "best in class audio" something or other and the entire time all I could think was how it was a massive waste of time because tons of free services do exactly what they were trying to push via marketing words.
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There's those missed opportunity stories about how Sears could've gotten up a good internet storefront and beaten Amazon and how Blockbuster could've diversified into discs by mail and then streaming and utterly beaten Netflix in its infancy but goddamn no one talks about how these forums could've continued to be the forefront of internet cultural innovation if it wasn't for the awful moderation and leadership by Lowtax.
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From what I'm reading you have to jailbreak your AppleTV for pihole to work. Which isn't that hard but bleh. I honestly don't mind youtube ads that much but what really annoys me is when I turn my Apple TV on and they start playing an ad if Youtube was the last thing I had on there. Like come the gently caress on I'm not even watching anything yet.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There's those missed opportunity stories about how Sears could've gotten up a good internet storefront and beaten Amazon and how Blockbuster could've diversified into discs by mail and then streaming and utterly beaten Netflix in its infancy but goddamn no one talks about how these forums could've continued to be the forefront of internet cultural innovation if it wasn't for the awful moderation and leadership by Lowtax. “The Last Blcokbuster” documentary came out on Netflix recently. One tidbit that they brought up: when Blockbuster went through their first bankruptcy, the re structured blockbuster got saddles with debt, ala similar to what we saw Toys R Us, Sears, etc. The other big short term killer was they lost all their cash flow over night once late fees were removed. I mean, no doubt said former executives have a reason to use debt for the reason they didn’t make it, but I think now a days we are at least seeing how lovely it is that a few people profit by re structuring companies and saddling them with the debt.
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I don't know anything about Blockbuster, Toys R Us wasn't just saddled with debt, it was saddled with the debt of a leveraged buyout. Bain Capital bought out the company using the company's own assets as collateral.
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Enron probably helped kill Blockbuster. Back in 2000 they inked a deal to provide movies on demand (Enron was trying to resell bandwidth like they did energy). That deal failed and may have made the execs at Blockbuster hesitant to change their business model. After all, they were making record amounts of money just renting VHS tapes and DVD’s. It was around that same time that Netflix tried to sell itself to Blockbuster for 50 million dollars.
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Toys R Us was also horribly mismanaged at nearly every level and squandered lots of opportunities to, if not unfuck their situation, then at least mitigate it during their last few years. I say this as someone who had worked at one of their most successful and profitable locations and just how horribly they handled almost everything.
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Wasn’t another issue that they got their lunch eaten by Walmart?
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Re: music streaming, everyone compares streaming revenue to purchases, but I have to wonder more how it compares to radio royalties. Maybe I'm not like most people, but I see streaming as a replacement for radio and piracy, not for buying albums. If I really like an album or an artist I'm still gonna buy their stuff. (Though I might wait a little longer, admittedly.) I'm thinking people just don't buy as much music in general, and so it seems faulty to look at the numbers in that way. Like "I made this much on Spotify, here's how much I would've made if they bought the album instead, ergo Spotify is robbing me." I'm sure it could be better, but I'm still not convinced those numbers will really add up.FlamingLiberal posted:Wasn’t another issue that they got their lunch eaten by Walmart? Just anecdotally, it surely must have been. As a parent I can't imagine a situation where I would rather go to a store that only sells toys.
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May 10, 2021 15:00
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FlamingLiberal posted:Wasn’t another issue that they got their lunch eaten by Walmart? Yeah, them and Target were a big part of it and became their biggest direct competitors. Phone/work posting, but as those stores started getting remodeled starting around 2007~ to include full supermarket sections, they also remodeled and expanded their toy departments as well, often doubling their size to be almost the size of a small mall toy store. This made them easy one-stop locations, and parents bringing kids along with them could just promise to walk to the other side of the store to let their kids browse or get what they needed, rather than making a separate trip to a Toys R Us like would happen in the past.
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fartknocker posted:Yeah, them and Target were a big part of it and became their biggest direct competitors. Phone/work posting, but as those stores started getting remodeled starting around 2007~ to include full supermarket sections, they also remodeled and expanded their toy departments as well, often doubling their size to be almost the size of a small mall toy store. This made them easy one-stop locations, and parents bringing kids along with them could just promise to walk to the other side of the store to let their kids browse or get what they needed, rather than making a separate trip to a Toys R Us like would happen in the past. Walking into a KB Toys was pretty magical as a kid. The place was just stuffed to the gills with toys, toys towering over you, toys overflowing off the shelves, hell they usually had a little table out in front with some extra toys on it to entice you to come in. And that little toy labyrinth at the entrance of a Toys R Us before you even got to the main part of the store....
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Sir Lemming posted:Re: music streaming, everyone compares streaming revenue to purchases, but I have to wonder more how it compares to radio royalties. Maybe I'm not like most people, but I see streaming as a replacement for radio and piracy, not for buying albums. If I really like an album or an artist I'm still gonna buy their stuff. (Though I might wait a little longer, admittedly.) I'm thinking people just don't buy as much music in general, and so it seems faulty to look at the numbers in that way. Like "I made this much on Spotify, here's how much I would've made if they bought the album instead, ergo Spotify is robbing me." I'm sure it could be better, but I'm still not convinced those numbers will really add up. This may have been a good comparison at one point but I think the rise of subscription stream-on-demand music service has blurred the lines. When you can sign up for $x/month and listen to that one song you like whenever you take away the practical impetus to buy the music yourself, and because you are already paying for the privilege of listening to the music you like there is a nebulous notion that the artists are being compensated so the impetus to buy the music to support artists also gets undermined. Radio was understood to provide compensation to artists but had the practical disadvantage of not letting you listen to music on demand; piracy let you listen to music on demand but could not replace the role of album sales in supporting artists. If you don't understand how awful the streaming model is for artists, stream-on-demand seems to satisfy both roles.
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fartknocker posted:Yeah, them and Target were a big part of it and became their biggest direct competitors. Phone/work posting, but as those stores started getting remodeled starting around 2007~ to include full supermarket sections, they also remodeled and expanded their toy departments as well, often doubling their size to be almost the size of a small mall toy store. This made them easy one-stop locations, and parents bringing kids along with them could just promise to walk to the other side of the store to let their kids browse or get what they needed, rather than making a separate trip to a Toys R Us like would happen in the past. I definitely remember, as a kid, the pure misery of being dragged to the local grocery stores, and at best their toy sections were just a sad little wall of cheap poo poo, Kroger is still that way. Toys R Us was always a special trip, it was just wall to wall every toy you could think of at age 9. I remember going into them in my 20's to buy video games, and they just seemed sad, cheap, and run down in 2007. I don't know if that was just me being older, or if the stores themselves just refused to remodel into a new century.
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Pretty much. Most of the big, full size stores had their last major remodel/renovation around 2000-2001 and unless they got merged with a Babies R Us or added a section for that merchandise, didn’t see a major change in layout until they closed in 2018.
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Sir Lemming posted:Just anecdotally, it surely must have been. As a parent I can't imagine a situation where I would rather go to a store that only sells toys. As a parent, I actually really enjoyed going to Toys'r'Us. Even if they were larger, target/WalMart/etc you sections are still relatively limited, which meant that I had way more ability to figure out something that would work as a birthday present. And, unlike Amazon, if I hosed up and forgot to get something, or my kids didn't want to decide until the last minute, I could get it right then and there. It was also nice that I could let them pick a small (read: cheap) toy themselves, since it would let them have agency and also give me a chance to figure out other interests of theirs.
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Did any of you have a local Toys R Us that added an arcade? Around 1998/1999 the one in my hometown added a section of ticket redemption games. Instead of redeeming prizes you would insert the tickets into a machine for money vouchers to use at the store. So in other words, you were trading cash for "Geoffrey Dollars" at a horrible exchange rate. I want to say they were removed by 2001.
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Toys R Us was the first time I bought a video game on release date (and it's the first time I remember finding out a game was delayed when I tried to buy it at EB). They didn't even have it on display yet when my dad took us to buy it haha It's a shame they didn't die naturally and got destroyed by vampire capitalism.
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I was a little amazed that Baby’s R Us went under. I guess everyone started shopping online for that stuff. Or perhaps that was another industry murdered by Millennials intent on only having fur babies. Up until 2007 we were pouring money into our local Baby’s R Us. The curse of having children with sensitive asses that couldn’t handle Costco brand diapers.
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fartknocker posted:Yeah, them and Target were a big part of it and became their biggest direct competitors. Up in Canada we managed to kill Target and keep Toys R Us
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Did any of you have a local Toys R Us that added an arcade? holy gently caress, that sounds cool I bought my Basic D&D red box set at Toys R Us (before I discovered the badass local game store that's still flourishing)
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I thought the Babies R Us did well enough to help TRU stay afloat, but that it was mainly Bain doing what they can to really gently caress things up. Also on the topic of streaming: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/arts/music/streaming-music-payments.html quote:When the pandemic hit last year, the British singer-songwriter Nadine Shah saw her income dry up in an instant. The concert bookings that sustained her vanished and, at age 34, she moved back in with her parents on the northeast coast of England.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I was a little amazed that Baby’s R Us went under. I guess everyone started shopping online for that stuff. Or perhaps that was another industry murdered by Millennials intent on only having fur babies. Buy Buy Baby is the only dedicated baby store I can think of right now, and it is very annoying. I would've killed for a Baby's R Us a couple years ago, just to have another option. Target/Walmart sell a lot of the same stuff, but the specialty stores are just nicer because they have a bigger selection of everything, and especially for the pricey stuff that you really want to try out before buying.
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Buy Buy Baby is owned by Bed Bath & Beyond and also sucks, although they used to accept the coupons from the latter so that was good for some people. They’re basically where Toys R Us was in 2015~ in terms of stupid corporate decisions and mismanagement, just without the Bain Capital element and having not-totally terrible store level managers. I went from 2+ years at Toys R Us to 4+ years at Bed Bath & Beyond before I escaped physical retail 
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fartknocker posted:I went from 2+ years at Toys R Us to 4+ years at Bed Bath & Beyond before I escaped physical retail Do you sell ghosts now?
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I need to bitch about these peloton commercials for a second. Who the gently caress is walking on hardwood floors with clip on bike shoes??? NO ONE! 
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https://twitter.com/_breeeeen_/status/1392890221994332169
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People usually leave basecamp in May. 
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Zero One posted:I can't imagine that Discovery+ is doing too well. Looks like I was correct and Discovery+ needs to merge with HBO Max to survive. https://twitter.com/cnbc/status/1393989437802139658?s=21
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Zero One posted:Looks like I was correct and Discovery+ needs to merge with HBO Max to survive. Aren't most of these going to live or die by the first 2 years? If they don't get that massive subscriber base after their initial launch and free trial they must hemorrhage money. Even Netflix is in a desperate race to gain profitably by burning cash on original shows instead of paying billions in short term licensing deals.
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FlamingLiberal posted:There was absolutely not enough content on Discovery+ to justify it being it’s own service I was hoping that sort of backlash would have happened with CBS when they put Star Trek behind a paywall. More and more it seems like their channel is nothing but an advertisement for their premium service. Want to keep watching your series? Time to pay up! https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1393396856374194177
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Zero One posted:Looks like I was correct and Discovery+ needs to merge with HBO Max to survive. Are we sure that’s because Discovery+ is doing poorly and not just AT&T reverting to its natural state of failure? The article I read on this earlier specifically mentioned HBOMax’s underwhelming performance. Discovery+ on the other hand doubled it’s subscriber base this last quarter.
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