alt Hacker NewsTo me “clanker” is a derogatory word that just sounds ugly. I recoil when I hear them use it. Perhaps it my anglo background, and it sounds different/better to German speakers.
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stavros • today at 11:17 AM
Same for me, and I'm Greek. It just sounds like it's intended to offend (even though I know you can't offend machines (yet?)), and it just gives me a negative feeling.
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miroljub • today at 12:43 PM
Did we already reach wokeness level five where we worry about offending a software?
I also strongly dislike when people are trying to forcefully push those kinds of terms onto broader public.
Last one I disliked was "grok", at least this one was killed by existence of Elon's "clanker" in a similar way that "Adolf" stopped being a popular name.