• wahming@monyet.cc
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    3 months ago

    Can we get the Israel flag to come up when we type ‘genocide’?

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      3 months ago

      Well, the genocide flag does seem to get suggested when typing “Israel”!

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    3 months ago

    Would be nice if software in general would just stop suggesting things altogether and let the user decide what they want to say / do.

    [Types X]

    “Did you mean Y?”

    Did I ducking type “Y”? No. I typed X.

    Granted, this case seems more like the emoji metadata being mislabeled.

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    3 months ago

    It’ll be nice when actual history is respected instead of stories made up by death cultists and corporations.

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        3 months ago

        Frankly at this point nobody should get it. If children can’t learn to play nicely with their things you take them away.

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    3 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    On Tuesday, the company addressed the bug with the latest beta software release of iOS 17.5, just a few days after it said it was working on a fix.

    Apple’s previous update was introduced on March 21, but the recent discovery of the bug upset some users on social media.

    In one April 9 post on X viewed more than 2.3 million times, an iPhone user questioned whether Apple was aware of the error – and whether it was intentional.

    But the user, who said she was Jewish, provided a long list of other cities that don’t surface a flag when entered into the emoji search box.

    In 2017, the US administration of President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing decades of American foreign policy.

    So suggesting a Palestinian flag emoji for the search query “Jerusalem,” particularly when Israel is at war with Hamas, added tensions amid a long-running dispute.


    The original article contains 278 words, the summary contains 152 words. Saved 45%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    3 months ago

    Whoever snuck that in, should be looking for work today. Regardless of your views on politics, injecting them into your work product is problematic at best.

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      3 months ago

      This UI component is heavily informed by ML. It likely suggested that flag because users are frequently combining that word and emoji in sentences.

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        3 months ago

        The Iranian bots have been working overtime lately. That would be logical however. Disappointing it is to see technology manipulated in this way.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      Except Jerusalem was part of Palestine at one point. It makes sense that it happened. If I had to guess, it’s still part of Palestine’s legal internationally recognized borders. I’m nit sure on that last but though because it’s all kinds of weird.

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        And before before the Arab conquest Jerusalem was in the hands of the Jews. It also shouldn’t be lost that Jews have lived there even under the brutal Arab regimes for over 3,000 years…

        The entire point of decolonization is giving the land back to the people who are indigenous to it. Arabs are not indigenous to Judea. They come from the Arabian Peninsula.

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          The entire point of decolonization is giving the land back to the people

          How indigenous are we talking about? 3000 years? 3 million years? Might start filling up my pool and get some fish in there.

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          Yeah, and the people who became Muslims lived there too at the same time (they were jews). Who the hell cares?

          The jews who lived there were mostly Arab by the way. They weren’t the European jews who live there today.

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            So you’re saying that violence should win out. That’s an interesting take. Those people were forced to convert under threat of death, just like happened across the MENA region. That’s an indisputable fact with reams of history in that country backing it up. Both the Arabs and Jews kept great notes.

            Arab Jews don’t exist. That’s literally not a thing. Ask any Sephardic or Mizrahi Jew and you’ll get an earful. There are Jews who refused to convert, they’re not Arabs. The Arabization of the region doesn’t give them claim to the history of the region which is clearly being attacked right now, your comments make that abundantly clear.

            If you believe that violence is an acceptable form of wielding power as you claim above, then you would be hypocritical to take issue with the situation in Gaza today. Violence isn’t the answer IMO, no one wins that way. Seems like people want to ignore that’s how Islam spread though, but the people who live in the sole non Arab state in the region won’t ignore it and are clearly fed up with it. If violence is the chosen path, it’s very evident the Israelis are up for the task.

            Lastly, over 70% of Israelis are either Arab or from the MENA region. Your lies about them being European Jews is just yet another bigoted stereotype. You seem to be hitting all the classics here.

            It’s interesting to watch people like you attempt to spread misinformation like this. Everything you’ve lied about is very clearly captured in the historical record.

            Next you’re gonna claim DNA testing is illegal aren’t you? There’s only so many lies in the handbook LMFAO.

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              so you’re saying violence should win out

              Excellent way to tell everyone you don’t care about having an actual conversation and that you’re too biased to listen to anyone replying with evidence

              Edit: and on the first line! Very efficient strawman

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      Not sure why you think it was intentional. The error could have been around since the 1st iphone and they just discovered it due to current political tensions, for all we know.

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          3 months ago

          I am a software developer. That is absolutely how development works in some places

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        I feel like there’s enough iPhones in Jerusalem that this would have been flagged much earlier. Had it not been a recent introduction…