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Struggling to spell ‘male chauvinist pig’? Apple’s grey list means your iPhone won’t help you (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Limits like this should have opt-out. People deserve to call out those pigs freely and with proper spelling!

[–] mHtt@lemmy.ca 4 points 13 hours ago

pigs out here catching strays

[–] tacgnol@thelemmy.club 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] knolord@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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. :)

[–] tacgnol@thelemmy.club 2 points 10 hours ago

I could kiss you right now, thanks!

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 points 10 hours ago

What a bunch of weighed anchors.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Motorola is releasing a phone with graphene OS... That's all I'm saying.

[–] SpikedIguana@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

It's also like $2000

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Ya... I don't know how much of that is the ram shortage or corporate greed.

[–] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

And made by Lenovo.

[–] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Please let Fairphone and Graphene have a kid.

[–] tacgnol@thelemmy.club 2 points 12 hours ago

That would be so amazing

[–] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I do feel like autocorrect has been getting consistently worse over the last 2 years.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Longer than that. I’ve had it shut off for the last 4 years because it actively made things worse and has been ineffective at best. Now it doesn’t underline spelling mistakes probably 70% of the time. Highlighting misspelled words hoping for a quick suggestion help is a gamble if it recognizes the misspelled word at all.

I remember it working fairly decently a decade ago, but it’s been a downhill slide for a long time now.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I turned off autocorrect and have been disabling it when I see it enabled ever since like the 2nd or 3rd time I caught it replacing a readable typo with the wrong word (either that or "autocorrecting" "bad" words spelled correctly).

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I also stopped using autocorrect awhile back and don’t miss it. At all

[–] eepydeeby@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

+1 to this. Tried a bunch of FOSS keyboards and switched to HeliBoard because of it! Wouldn't you know, autocorrect experience improved 😮‍💨

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Microsoft used to have a word flow keyboard I absolutely adored and they killed it. I miss it terribly.

[–] Kite@sh.itjust.works 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

SwiftKey! I loved that keyboard and you're right, they killed it.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago

The OG Swype was the best. Used it until it was too old to be installed on current gen android

Still miss it every day I have to use a phone keyboard. Even swiping this text had me re"type" multiple times that I didn't have to do back in swype days

Using standard gboard, but swiftkey wasn't really better in my experience

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No the curved thing. The corner was the space bar, the keyboard bend around that corner. You could one hand it better than you can two-hand a modern one on big phones. I LOVED it. I am still violently angry it’s gone.

Just talking about it…wait a second. I need to wipe out a family.

[–] leadstark@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Maybe, Microsoft Word Flow?

https://youtu.be/lVZ0jmZ-egM

Which phones had it?

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The full list: https://swipeblocked.com/list

Created by the one who discovered the list, Derik Kauffman

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 9 hours ago

Well that list is clearly incomplete; "camel toe" is there, but "moose knuckle" is not. Wont somebody think of the children.

[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Wow there are a lot of prepositions that one must never come in/on/at/down

[–] sdabbnwz@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Of all the most offensive words and slurs, Apple made sure to also block the phrase "iMessage isn't working"

[–] Toga77@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Corps aren't your friend. Apple is just as shitty as everyone else, they're just better at hiding it.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yes. Offensive words like corn hole, cop shooting, and accept gays.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Corn hole is offensive to those of us who finally escaped the midwest

[–] sdabbnwz@lemmy.ml 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand how "accept gays" even got on that list.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

The king they bowed to has a problem with it

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 7 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

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

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

Hmm, ok. I use Gboard and it doesn't do that.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

But how do you spell "removed"? ( 😆 )

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

hunter2

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