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Sorry, this went over my head. What was that about girls, you said?

• petepete 4y ago
  On my phone (Pixel) if you type 'gitlab' into the Google Keyboard and it suggests 'girls'.
  • dijit 4y ago
    Tangent: Why is autocomplete getting worse on phones? iOS is notably much worse, often replacing completely correct words with other unrelated words. Frustratingly even doing it _again_ when you fix the word.
    • beckingz 4y ago
      I've disabled iOS autocorrect/autocomplete because it's gotten so bad.
      • notjoemama 4y ago
        Thank you! My subconcious has been telling me to do that for ages. I finally just did it and am typing this reply without the hand holding. Feels a bit like taking the training wheels off a bike, but good in the same way too.
      • dijit 4y ago
        I will follow your example, lets see how much it was actually helping me. :)
    • stinos 4y ago
      Feels like a combination of wanting to roll out new 'better' stuff which isn't tested enough, or just not good enough, plus essentially people not really caring and/or thinking that new tech must by definition be better. It's like with orientation detection. You'd think that after a decade this would have been a done thing. On the contrary: it amazes me to no end how many times a day people want to show me something on their phone and then go like 'oh wait..shake phone..nope..shake again..finally got it'. When I ask them why they don't just turn it off or replace it with a hardware or software button they say something about it sometimes working and/or not wanting to lookup where to change the setting. Same with voice control in the past years. This is getting better it seems, slowly, but I can't keep track of the number of times people were getting angry because their words wouldn't come through and the navigation wasn't driving them where they want or their text message were full of bs. Still they persist, seemingly because 'I paid for this new thing so I better try'. Which is utterly nonsensical for an engineering mind.
    • kristopolous 4y ago
      It's a difficult balance to strike. The older systems didn't take frequency into account so they'd suggest really obscure words and the newer systems weigh it too heavily so it overrides your intentions. Problems are harder than they appear
    • dec0dedab0de 4y ago
      iOS is notably much worse My girlfriend is the only person I know with an IPhone, and her spelling got much worse over the last year when she had to get a new phone. Every time I tease her she blames the phone, some of the corrections aren't even words. It's just silly at this point. She also has to watch ads on websites because there is no firefox/ublock origin, I don't know how she tolerates it.
      • heartbreak 4y ago
        Ad blockers on iOS are called “Content Blockers” and can be found in the App Store. I use one called Purify. Notably the Content Blocker implementation is in typical Apple form. The interface with Safari is such that Safari itself is applying a ruleset to the page, and the CB only provides the rules. That means the CB never sees the pages you’re actually browsing.
    • dmitriid 4y ago
      I read somewhere that Apple replaced their own language model for autocomplete with a crowdsourced one (that is, taken from usage from many phones), and the quality immediately went downhill.
• dtgriscom 4y ago
  ... perhaps "girls" => "Gitlab"?