I fucking hate the policing of words by admin dickheads and corporate censorship algorithms online. Policing other people’s language flies in the face of every freedom and right people have fought and died for. Also the internet is the easiest place to ignore people, give people who care the tools to filter their feeds and comments instead of blanket banning everyone, cause it might upset some vocal minority
I wish all phone keyboards had a easy toggle to turn off all “smart autocorrect” features so it types exactly what you entered with no changes when you want to
Disgusting. I always turn it off when I can find the setting, it should not be the default.
Sounds like BS. 100,000 words and phrases? Looks like more commonly written phrases always win over similar, less common ones. You can probably find millions of such less common phrases. It doesn’t mean they are actually listed somewhere in the system.
Did you read the article? It says he found the list
The source article from routers covers this better:
His curiosity piqued, Kauffman said he used a combination of OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code to hunt for a reason why, eventually stumbling on a compendium stored “deep in the bowels” of Apple’s operating system. He said there were different ways to count the number of gray-listed words and phrases and their various permutations, but a conservative estimate would put them at about 100,000
So he’s talking about phrases and permutations in multiple languages. I guess 100k can make sense in that context. They also link to this. It explains how some words are tagged as “sensitive”. It just sounds like they want to make sure the keyboard doesn’t autocorrect to something offensive. I think there are about 100k bigger issues than that.
Who the fuck do these people think they are, deciding what we can and cannot say, what we can and cannot express?
I never really understood the whole “No really, we HAVE to guillotine them all” attitude of the 18th century French until I met tech bros.
Just wait until you read about The Terror! You’ll discover the vast majority of victims were just regular people. The odds are much better that you will be guillotined than an Apple tech bro. That neighbor that you pissed off 8 years ago will see to it.
I think you’re being a little reactionary, it’s more about offending someone by suggesting these things when they WEREN’T what they were actually trying to say. Autocorrecting to insults or swears could get someone in potentially serious trouble. It’s easy to imagine the viral facebook post “My iPhone got me fired!” Or even “iPhone is teaching my kids bad words!”
On 4th of June, 1989, in Tiananmen square, Beijing, nothing particularly interesting happened.
Apple’s autocorrect is the best example of enshittification that exists to date. It was exponentially better 10-15 years ago.
It’s probably good if my phone doesn’t call my mother a cunt while telling her I’m bringing the cocaine by default, but I should be able to toggle that.
just give it to me, and i’ll bring that cunt her blow
I suppose that explains somewhat why the stupid swipe on this fucking phone is so dog shit.
I need a Linux phone. :/
Graphene OS
We all need a good Linux phone we can completely control the software on.
Built in an ethical country.
Whats /e/os up to these days? Anyone have expirence to speak on it? Pitch it to us, channel the late Billy Mays.
It is a fork of LineageOS with Murena bloatware and very late security updates. Lineage (best for wide device support) and Graphene (best for security and actively fixing compatibility with apps) are much better choices.
I’ve used iode for some time, which is similar, and it was great. I’m on GrapheneOS now and it’s also good. De-google Android is doing great for now.
Sigh. Yeah, that really vibe-coded it’s way right off the deep end. Fucking AI.
I kind of had the exact opposite of that in mind when I wrote my comment.
Wdym?
There are reports that the founder of the project Gaël Duval has had a bit on an AI-nyrism:
Refer to: https://feddit.dk/post/26068400/23217982
Was that just the founder or is that official for the project? Because my last stand is that /e/os have taken this stance:
Ah, so he goes with the state of the art. That’s reassuring. Good.
Correctly used AI is a great leverage for small companies.
Shame…
I actually like Apple a lot more than I thought I would. But swipe typing on it is absolute dog shirt.
You can install other keyboards, right?
I have one, it is my daily driver, and I love it!
Sailfish OS has proprietary components and they were working with Russia, so I don’t trust them.
Mine should be sent out soon!
Interesting. To what degree does it allow the software it’s running to be customized? Say, if I wanted to install and run dnscrypt on it or firejail the browser, would I be able to?
You can run whatever you want or write. You get sudo.
Excellent. The price point of 700 Euro is a little spicy, but I certainly like everything else about it.
Cool, will be looking at this come upgrade time
I’m hoping the flipper one can be my new phone!
flipper one
It’s a hella cool little device. Not sure how well it’d work as a phone, but I want one too.
Sim support : check
Microphone : check
Speaker : check
Bluetooth : check
Looks like it has all the hardware covered, just need to install the software. Hopefully software will eventually support the hardware if it doesn’t out of the box. That’s my hope anyway.
Sure. I was more thinking about ergonomics. The, um, user interface isn’t exactly very phone-oriented. But maybe pluggable external HIDs can make up for that.
Unfortunately if you want to use modern phone technologies you’ll never have complete control of the software
While “never” seems a little defeatist to me, it’s not like you’re currently wrong. I strongly suspect there’s more than a few unpleasant surprises lurking deep in Quamcomm’s firmware for example.
All the 3GPP tracking standards they don’t want you turning off
3GPP
That too, although I had in mind something that wasn’t publicly available (if obscure) knowledge.
iOS supports third-party keyboards, if you’re willing to try a keyboard from the App Store.
I know Google has a plethora of their own issues, but at least Gboard lets me say whatever the fuck I want, and it’s easy as hell to change the settings (there’s literally a shortcut on the keyboard that takes you to its settings).
Fairphone has the best support for flashing onto. I have a Purism Librem 5 because I like the hardware kill switches, but requires tinkering to optimize performance, and even then, the hardware is still a decade old.
Is the keyboard on iOS getting worse every year or am I in the early stages of some horrific degenerative disease?
They trimmed a huge amount of terminology and an abundance of everyday words, and made it check grammar and punctuation despite the fact that it is objectively terrible at both. It is a fair bit worse now than 10 years ago.
The keyboard and speech to text are getting notably worse and have been for years. I’ve been somewhat of an Apple defender over the years, but you are not imagining it. I’ve used androids and iPhones to compare them for accessibility purposes and the iPhone used to be significantly better. I keep my tech for as long as possible, but I’ve on more than one occasion thought about jumping ship just because the worsening text capabilities sometimes makes my phone unusable for basic communication purposes.
Is yours ancient like mine? I thought the same but went into a shop and specifically tried the keyboard of a demo 17 and it worked as well as I recall it used to. Either that or we have the same disease. 50-50 at this point.
Is a 16 consdered ancient? I def know people who reup every year or two but that seems crazy wasteful.
My 11 still works fine after a battery change.
Damn well that dashes my hopes then. I’ll meet you in the retirement home early I guess. I’m running an XR in a perhaps bordering on excessive attempt to counter said yearly reup culture.
Apple autocorrect and suggestions are pure shit. Especially on the touch swipe keyboard; it will just straight up make up words
I think it got even worse when they went to “AI” (Aborted Intelligence) in 2024, and they just have too much hubris to fix it
I feel like this should be regulated. We should not let private interests arbitrarily mold our speech just because that speech is being mediated by platforms that they create.
Edit: For the record, I’m not making a free speech absolutist argument.
Double plus good point.
Yeah, the first amendment doesn’t apply to private companies, but we really, really need a digital bill of rights
Mold our speech, tell us what we can or can’t watch on the internet, and teach the general public to self-censor.
I hate this modern day bullshit. Just let me watch the pron I want, say the shit I want, when I want.
Self censoring by mis-spelling the word porn is quite the touch of irony in a comment like this on a platform like this
I was typing fast give me a fucking break. Childlike responses like that are why we’re in the shit we are now.
Your word thinking is double plus bad
I mean, I get slurs and stuff but drugs, sex, chauvinist? Like the one scenario it makes sense is to avoid Karens suing because a kid mashes the keyboard on the device they handed off raising their kids to, and ends up on an inappropriate website or something. Freeze peach barely even enters into it. Edit: I’ve worded this poorly I mean it seems like something more overt than a free speech issue. Like something that started as liability shielding that blew out. Ah well.
Even if it’s a kid using your phone, they still aren’t trying to type “ducking”.
Tech billionaires/CEOs are all weird control onsessed perverts and sickos trying to modify users beliefs rather than making good technology that serves users.
What kind of sick fucks spend their time on this 1984 bullshit. The fuckwits.
They’re trying to outlaw/make it as hard as possible to access porn and it’s fucking ridiculous.
It shouldn’t be like that, but go into the dictionary and autocorrect whatever it tries to change it from, or make an abbreviation etc. I forced mine to stop saying “duck” instead of the fuck word.
the fuck word.
Oh? And which word is that, exactly? hehehe
It’s kind of funny. Some years back when I used to use Gboard I had to opposite problem
I wanted to text a friend to meet at the Golden Nugget Casino.
It has a bigger parking lot and a buffet.
Gboard would try to change those words to racial slurs. Had to go into the dictionary override settings and specifically delete certain words so it would never suggest them
You know Gboard uses all your typing history to make suggestions, right?
(just teasing you)
In case you didn’t read, this is for swiping. If you type the example listed “United Ireland” that is okay. Try swiping that same thing and you are autocorrected to United Iceland.
I don’t know anyone that swipes.
Hi, me, I do a lot of swipe input. On Android, though.
I guess I’m weird but I can’t imaging not swiping. How did it not win out as the default input method?
Not weird. I think it must be a specific age group that tap-types faster than they swipe.
Yeah, I don’t have patience to type if it’s not a real keyboard. Swiping is what I’ve done for years on my Android phones.
I swipe. Everyone I know swipes. When I used an iPhone, swipe was the sole reason I installed Gboard. I think you might have to be of a very specific age to be able to tap-type as fast as you can swipe.
But also, I injure my thumb (dry skin, it cracks) often enough that I can’t use that for my primary input method. Not being ancient yet, I can’t imagine tap-typing with just my forefinger.
