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I dumped Apple’s word list

https://helgesver.re/articles/macos-vulgar-word-flags
86•speckx•44m ago

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Retr0id•20m ago
I'd appreciate if someone could dump the iOS "adult websites" list (which are blocked by default in the UK unless you submit government ID etc.)
ilumanty•9m ago
Wait, are you saying iOS UK Edition blocks adult websites on the OS level?
Retr0id•8m ago
Yup! Any webkit web view, and iOS doesn't allow any non-webkit web views (in this jurisdiction at least)
flanz_10•7m ago
It's not a list, it's a series of ML classifications. Basically, you've got "child mode" locked on. The solution is to not use a UK apple id.
Retr0id•7m ago
An ML classifier running against the DNS name? Really?
swid•18m ago
This is interesting… does anyone have data in theirs? It also feels like something they could have put on an intern and it didn’t really gain any traction. Each app would need to “tell” the OS who the receiver is, and the article indicates there is no API to do that. Maybe it just knows, but how could that be?
_false•17m ago
if autocorrect is disabled this will be empty
hmokiguess•10m ago
ah that explains it
verytrivial•16m ago
I have a MacBook that was meant to replace my aging Windows and Linux laptops. This article is a microcosm of why I have just stopped using it. An endless stream of mollycoddling, obfuscation and "It's for your own good, child" trash. I can't even bring myself to sell it because I'm ashamed of it.
lrvick•13m ago
Install Linux on it and carve a big X over the apple logo
awesome_dude•10m ago
I have Asahi on my mac book mini - it turns a nice piece of hardware into a wonderful computer to use :)
watwut•10m ago
But ... the point of that vulgar words list is to STOP autocorrecting them when it detects intentional use.
mahboi•8m ago
Also you can disable autocorrect. I don't even have this list.
ajjenkins•15m ago
Why would “trump” be considered an offensive term? My understanding of the database is to prevent you from accidentally typing offensive or words being autocorrected to something offensive. Like if I misspell “helper” I don’t want that to be autocorrected to “hitler”.

It’s surprising to me that “trump” would get the same classification. Given that he’s the current president of the US, I’m sure people intentionally type his name all the time. I don’t want my keyboard to steer me away from writing out “trump”. And typos autocorrecting to Trump don’t seem like a big deal either. Would anyone be offended by the text “don’t forget to bring your Trump to band practice”?

monster_truck•13m ago
They're really passionate about Euchre (in a negative way) over in Cupertino
ixtli•12m ago
just read the article and trump (unless its the word for fart as in the uk) is marked as sensitive.
n2d4•5m ago
Trump is marked as sensitive, not offensive; along with words like "God", "Jews", and "gun"
edf13•3m ago
Here in the UK it means fart
anonymous908213•15m ago
Somebody please kill Claude I'm so fucking tired of reading this grating writing. Technology was a mistake
hugodan•8m ago
If you find something funnier than Oedipus, I want to hear about it.
CalChris•15m ago
Right on Trump and wrong on Putin.
ixtli•12m ago
Incredible that 'conservatards' is in there but not 'libtard'. I thought the right was always being censored!
CodeWriter23•11m ago
It's the exception that proves the rule
warkdarrior•11m ago
The author must have bought MAGA edition of the MBP. The AOC edition has 'libtard' in it, surely.
MBCook•5m ago
That is odd. Hadn’t occurred to me.
nonethewiser•8m ago
Apple's built-in dictionary flags on my Mac: 26.2, which is newer than the article's 15.6. Apple has changed several things since:

  ┌───────────────┬────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │               │ Article (15.6) │             My Mac   (26.2)              │
  ├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Total entries │ 199,019        │ 199,940                                  │
  ├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Vulgar        │ 1,050          │ 850                                      │
  ├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Offensive     │ 663            │ 727                                      │
  ├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Sensitive     │ 2,558          │ 2,748                                    │
  ├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Oedipus       │ vulgar         │ sensitive (sex topic)                    │
  ├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ cooties       │ vulgar         │ clean                                    │
  ├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Biden         │ clean          │ now tagged politics topic, still no tier │
  └───────────────┴────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────┘

  These are unchanged:
  - Trump is still sensitive with the politics topic. The lowercase card-game word "trump" is still
    clean.
  - Obama, Putin, Vance and Harris have no tier. Musk still isn't in the dictionary.
  - Tom and Mick are still offensive, and pee, poo, niggle, underling, blacklist and Isis are still
    sensitive.
  - idiot is still sensitive, and now also has the catch-all "sensitive context" topic.

  Words in the capitalized sensitive list that the article doesn't mention include Saddam, Grindr,
  Oedipus/Oedipal, TERF and Viagra. Trump is still the only living politician among them.
rdtsc•4m ago

    Putin clean
    Stalin clean
Somehow Mao is there. But Pol Pot isn't. I would have guessed they'd go by the number of victims. But I guess "Uncle Joe" is clean and uncontroversial, so someone was pretty confused there about history. But yeah, this has that "Cupertino interns typed this list" feel to it.
baggachipz•3m ago
> Every other real person on that list is dead, and nearly all of them are Nazi officials, dictators or terrorists. Then there's Trump

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