• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I always hate when my own computer says I need permission. “Permission”? I own your damn ass! It should be more like, “Unable to comply due to security settings” - and even better, tell me where the settings are, and add, “Your Majesty”.

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      10 hours ago

      Insert that intentionally unhinged thing I like to post here, about how we should bring back victorian servant-to-master etiquette but only and exclusively for computers trying to communicate with humans.

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        10 hours ago

        you know on the one hand i like the idea, but on the other i would like my computer to be as unantropomorphized as possible so that i don’t start treating it like it has feelings.

        i’ll take ERR 0x2038A702 UNABLE TO COMPLY; LP0 ON FIRE over oh nyo pwease don't SIGKILL me uwu any day.

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          9 hours ago

          Since it seems language AIs are going to become inescapable (not a fan, but if you can’t beat 'em…), make it a toggle so that users who want to can have error messages with different “personalities”, and those who don’t can just have the machinelike codes.