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
Yeah that’s pretty fucking bad. Fucking hate how the corpos have been censoring via autocorrect. And in particular how mundane of shit gets censored. Talking about questioning your sexuality‽ Talking about harmless drugs‽ Insulting Australia‽ We shouldn’t be “protected” from “accidentally” saying such things.
The full list: https://swipeblocked.com/list
Created by the one who discovered the list, Derik Kauffman
Of all the most offensive words and slurs, Apple made sure to also block the phrase “iMessage isn’t working”
Yes. Offensive words like corn hole, cop shooting, and accept gays.
Corn hole is offensive to those of us who finally escaped the midwest
I don’t understand how “accept gays” even got on that list.
The king they bowed to has a problem with it
Corps aren’t your friend. Apple is just as shitty as everyone else, they’re just better at hiding it.
what the fuck
I know I’m naive about some things, but this is just… the fuck. changing the word before the most recently swiped word, because together it forms a blocked phrase? that’s just fucked up.
I’m ashamed to say that I truly never thought about the keyboard no longer being safe from interference.
like okay I get that it won’t suggest harmful phrases, sure, maybe I can accept that. but to retroactively edit your inputs… that’s just fucked up.
It’s consistently done that using names with unusual spellings since nearly day 1 - I fought tooth and nail with autocorrect on my iPhone 3GS and finally turned the damned thing off.
NGL, it slowed me down a whole bunch, but also forced me to take my word game up, which I kinda like, actually.
I’ve not used auto-correct for years, I feel it’s the way to go if one wants to avoid this whole word edit fiasco.
Well that list is clearly incomplete; “camel toe” is there, but “moose knuckle” is not. Wont somebody think of the children.
Wow there are a lot of prepositions that one must never come in/on/at/down
Apple also won’t let you use their object extraction tool to make stickers or remove backgrounds if there is any sort of nudity in the picture.
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
That’s already how it normally works if you just press buttons. This is for swipe-typing, which has to be “smart” because you swipe across many buttons and it has to figure out what you meant.
Even when you type one character at a time most keyboards including apples try to autocorrect what you type, especially if you use more than one language or use uncommon slang
Hmm, ok. I use Gboard and it doesn’t do that.
Limits like this should have opt-out. People deserver to call out those pigs freely and with proper spelling!
pigs out here catching strays
Motorola is releasing a phone with graphene OS… That’s all I’m saying.
Please let Fairphone and Graphene have a kid.
That would be so amazing
For Android, there’s the Heliboard keyboard which is open-source and really good, doesn’t compare with other FOSS keyboards I’ve used. My only gripe is that it doesn’t do multilingual suggestions, you have to keep switching the keyboard language to get the correct suggestions.
Heliboard does now support multi-language suggestions, I should know, I use Heliboard myself. Maybe it is a new update, dunno?
Under “Languages & Layouts” and your preferred layout tap left and then you should see “Multilingual typing”, where you can select your other languages. :)
I could kiss you right now, thanks!
What a bunch of weighed anchors.
I used to use swiftkey keyboard (Microsoft product, I know it was sinful), but it would automatically capitalize god, christianity, and christmas no matter how many times I corrected (or un-corrected?) it. I also found its vocabulary to be lacking past a certain point.
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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.
Disgusting. I always turn it off when I can find the setting, it should not be the default.
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.
The hardware too.
Whats /e/os up to these days? Anyone have expirence to speak on it? Pitch it to us, channel the late Billy Mays.
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…
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.
I actually like Apple a lot more than I thought I would. But swipe typing on it is absolute dog shirt.
Built in an ethical country.
I have one, it is my daily driver, and I love it!
I like the SHIFT ones. I think it’s possible to install Linux on them, and they’re fairly open hardware. Fairphones too.
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.
Check out your local marketplace. Many people bought it at discount during first batch and now selling for around 550€ because they figured they need Android or iOS
Thanks for the tip!
Sailfish OS has proprietary components and they were working with Russia, so I don’t trust them.
The only proprietary part is the UI, Harbour. The rest is open source.
They licensed the OS at one time to a russian company and broke it off when the hostilities began. Since then they have no ties to Russia at all.
Cool, will be looking at this come upgrade time
Mine should be sent out soon!
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).
