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Slightly different, but my friend's daughter Isis hasn't been too happy about what's happened since she was born.
The ancient Egyptian god is fuming
*goddess
It's a girl :) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis
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Amazon: Alexa Microsoft: Cortana Apple: Siri Discord: Clyde Google: Google Disclosure, I work at Google.
Cylde is notably the only male assistant. I guess Discord know their customers.
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It's not about the username being taken, it's all about what people appear as in the client; bots and scammers might impersonate Clyde to steal credentials, social engineer, etc, so you cannot be "Clyde_help" nor "Clyde_Official" nor any variation that would make people think the bot/user is speaking on behalf of Discord.
Why not just put a special logo or symbol or something on that profile to mark it as special/official, or have some sort of "user type" displayed that says "human" or "official bot" or "third party bot"? I feel like making it look like a regular username makes it _more_ likely people will be scammed by "other" regular users rather than less likely.
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Well, the verbification of the word google introduces its own difficulties there. The ideal would be for the voice assistant to have some completely unique word, ideally with sound combinations that are very rare in your native language. And if for some reason, that still doesn't work for you, have a way to change it. Or maybe just not have a default, and require users to pick their own keyword.
In English, there’s only one word in the entire language with a ts sound (pizza) that’s not at the end. They probably could have come up with a name utilizing that fact, making wake words super “easy” to recognize and hard to accidentally say.
~ Fatso
~ Pitstop
~ Katsup
~ Yachtsman
~ Scotsmen
~ Batsman
There don't seem to be many, admittedly.
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Strong disagree. The whole "Karen" meme reeks of old-fashioned misogyny wrapped up in 2020s language. "A woman, complaining? How dare she!". I recognise the meme is about entitled women being rude, but that behaviour is hardly isolated to women.
As Scott says in Weak Men Are Superweapons [1], a meme aimed against a specific, easily disliked subgroup is unavoidably an attack on the entire group by association. It is impossible to say "Karen, who is a woman, bad" without implying "women Karens, women bad." Or if there is a way to disentangle them, it certainly won't fit in a meme. [1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweap...
So that comment, by attacking a specific, easily disliked subgroup of memes is undeniably an attack on all of the memes by association. Or am I applying this wrong?
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I feel bad for all the Alexas and the few Siris out there that have had their names hijacked my a couple of the biggest companies on the planet.
Slightly different, but my friend's daughter Isis hasn't been too happy about what's happened since she was born.
On Swissair website there was a time where I couldn't purchase tickets because my name contains the name of a musical instrument. So out there there are people that did worse than that in my personal experience :(
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Written like that Google suddenly looks like geniuses.
At least in the naming, sure. Everything else, not so much. I had to switch my whole house over to Echos because you can't change the wake word on Google Home. Every time I said, say, "Hey Google, turn the bedroom lamp off", the Home in the bedroom would say ok and turn the lamp off, both phones in the room would activate and complain that they didn't have a device named lamp listed, and every other Home in the house…
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Slightly different, but my friend's daughter Isis hasn't been too happy about what's happened since she was born.
My personal conspiracy theory is that "Isis" is a result of the US "convincing" media organizations to use that name for the Islamic State after realising that intercepting communications using the term "is" was an impossible task. Even further, they then tried to impose "Daesh" but it didn't catch up.
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/paris-attacks-...