Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy
TommySoda@lemmy.world 1 day agoIf you could explain how you got to that conclusion I would love to know. Not trying to be rude, just interested in where it’s coming from.
Not OP, but I see where he’s coming from. Clippy is still the symbol of a corporation instead of basic human rights like:
Something like this would be better. I just grabbed it, I don’t think it’s affiliated with something else:
Rossman advocates all the things you mentioned, even as far going to washington to advocate them. Which is more than most of us have ever done, or will ever do. He acknowledges Clippy was bad, but its a reminder of then to now. What we as consumers dont like and what its become. Its a symbol we all know, that microsoft doesent even use anymore, so i dont think its a problem using it as a reminder and symbol of solidarity.
I don’t disagree with you and I think his intentions are good, it’s just that there are other symbols that he could have used. Especially now that a lot of people don’t even know what clippy is and it’s a corporate symbol.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Clippy (actual name Clippit), was an avatar for the Office Assistant User Interface introduced in Office 97. It read the contents of your documents and would pop up and give you advice, and was basically an attempt at an intelligent agent, but 30 years ago.
It wasn’t nearly as sophisticated and invasive as the current bullshit, but that’s largely because the tech to be as sophisticated and invasive as the current bullshit didn’t exist in 1997.
vivi@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
He also says in the video that clippy didn’t read your letter. It did–that’s how it could detect that you were writing one.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 1 day ago
Exactly. That was captured in one of Clippy’s most famous lines.
“I see you’re trying to write a letter. Can I help?”
“I see you’re trying to write a résumé. Can I help?”
This of course got parodied a million times:
“I see you’re trying to write a radical manifesto. Can I help?”
“I see you’re trying to write a suicide note. Can I help?”