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1. Pry Mincer (praxeology@post.lurk.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 10:19:30 UTC Pry Mincer

   Does anyone know if it's possible to change the name of Alexa, Siri or Google robot speaker to a totally custom name?

   Then you could say "Hey Oligarch!" when you want to beg the machine to play music or whatnot.

   •     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦 (n8@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 10:19:29 UTC     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦

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     @praxeology I feel like I've heard it is for some of them, but I don't remember which. The whole name thing is really a secret way to assign a "wake word". So maybe there are ways to set alternate/additional wake words if someone in your house is really named Alexa, etc.

     Anyway, what I dimly recall seeing was naming it "HAL", for obvious reasons.

   • Pry Mincer (praxeology@post.lurk.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 10:19:29 UTC Pry Mincer

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     •     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦

     @n8 I looked up the wake-words for Alexa and apparently the product-dev teams recognized the potential for ironic, poetic criticism via alternative names and limited the alternatives to a set of a dozen PR-friendly options. So while it's technically possible, it seems you won't hear "hey shithead", "hey greedy" or "earth destroyer".

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   • John 🧄 (jboy@post.lurk.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 15:42:15 UTC John 🧄

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     • slwr

     @entreprecariat @praxeology (my memory for random shit like this is way too good, because apparently that episode aired 9 years ago https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google/episodes/224)

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   • John 🧄 (jboy@post.lurk.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 15:42:16 UTC John 🧄

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     • slwr

     @entreprecariat @praxeology It's not customizable, but I remember people on the execrable Twit podcast discussing alternative phrases, including "OK Jarvis" (a Transformers reference, I believe)

   • slwr (entreprecariat@post.lurk.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 15:42:22 UTC slwr

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     @praxeology a friend of mine complained of having to utter the word "google" many times a day to work the thing, so we checked and it's unfortunately not possible :(

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 15:44:05 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @jboy > "OK Jarvis" (a Transformers reference, I believe)
     
     Iron Man reference, it's his AI butler, named after his dad's human butler (revealed in passing in Endgame).
     
     @entreprecariat @praxeology