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New comment by TechRemarker in "Siri is so bad at everything"

TechRemarker — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:34:11 +0000

While certainly drastically better than before, it still fails at so many of the basics. I use primarily in the car, when need to be hands free. My requests are almost always say, "Directions to Starbucks". Which Starbucks.. and proceeds to list multiple then have to remind it each and every time the one first one... the one closest to me.. the one always go to... etc. So then try to do Directions to Starbucks (Town Name) (that I'm currently in, and still asks did you mean this one or this one, or everyone in a while will say did you mean City (state I'm in), aka the one down the street or did you mean that city but in another state a hundred miles away that you have never gone to. Those types of things always happened with old Siri and persist with new Siri. But now almost always when asking for reminders etc, before it would handle fine, not it says did you mean "what I said), or swapping out word for another someone similar word, etc. The problem before was it had essentially no memory or ability to learn about me. With LLMS thought that would finally change, but it has not ing general. I can say call John. And it will say did you mean John (the one you call every day for the past decade) or do you mean the John, you have never called but is in your contacts from High School? ChatGPT is amazing, and knows me and never makes any of those mistakes but of course is less integrated than Siri can be. Here's for hoping with the new LLM foundation Siri will be able to grow more quickly, but right now, it is the dumbest of the bunch. I get they don't want it to be a full chat bot, and I'm ok with it being more limited, but if it's going to be limited to a certain domain, such as control the home, setting alarms, reminders, directions, it should be absolutely rock solid at that.

New comment by TechRemarker in "What Meta got right with Muse"

TechRemarker — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:37:58 +0000

"clunkiness of ChatGPT is stark. The whole desktop ChatGPT vs Codex switch is dumb. The chat vs work switch is dumb. ChatGPT projects vs Codex local vs Codex cloud projects is mega dumb. I need to make 10 choices each time I want to start or continue a chat. Just give me one chat that orchestrates all of it in the background." This times a 100x. Every step forward seems 2 steps back. The sidebar is jungle, and trying to find chats is tough, trying to remember if its codex or chat, a local one or remote, and that chat ones can't be put in a codex projects and countless other issues that make it a nightmare. While I can they are working on improving the mess to at least presumably get rid of the Chat vs Work toggle, I haven't heard anything that eventually it will just be one, where we can just toggle how it responds it, vs being limited on it can be organized and searched.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

TechRemarker — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:40:42 +0000

Hopefully before they release 4.0 Flash we will finally get Gemini 3.5 Pro.

New comment by TechRemarker in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

TechRemarker — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:23:10 +0000

Started using whatcable.uk app. Been amazing at finally knowing cable speed, but also device max speeds, and everything in between, without having to carry around one of those digital dongles with more limited use.

New comment by TechRemarker in "IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay"

TechRemarker — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:36:08 +0000

You can turn if off in settings > iCloud. Either temporary for a day and auto back on, or permanently until you turn it back on.

New comment by TechRemarker in "T-Mobile outage, no updates from the company"

TechRemarker — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:11:02 +0000

Out on iPhone 26.6 but not on my iOS 27. But not sure if relevant. As of a minute ago just came back up on the other phone.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

TechRemarker — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:04:37 +0000

Yes, a bit of a mess. As the only practical way for most to use is with a password manager. So essentially, all your accounts still have a real password, just you enter that into your password manager app. So if your device is every compromised and someone has your master password then you are screwed.

And of course, passkeys on most all sites don't really improve security since someone can just choose to login with user/pass instead since presumably very few sites allow you to have just passkey.

Also if you use a password manager you may get locked into using that platform. Or ideally using a third party one but then having to pay a subscription, or using an open source option that is not ideal for the average person.

If one uses a passkey as intended and without a password manager and the site truly only supports logging in via your passkey, for all the touted benefits of passkeys, that would be a nightmare if a person loses access to their device, etc.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

TechRemarker — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:55:35 +0000

Tried switching a while back. It's like Safari but with so many little UI improvements that make it so much more enjoyable but while still feeling like something Apple would design. Alas didn't use long as lack to many things such as no native Apple Pay support (have to use iOS or scan a code etc), or 2fa email/sms auto fill, private relay support, doesn't fully support 1Password, and so on. Most all of which because of Apple limitations but still little things that I value more than the better UI. However, far more important than all of that is so many sites didn't work. With Chrome you know a site will work, with Safari you know a lot may not, but with Orion it was an enormous number of sites that continually ran into issues and unlike Safari too many to keep reporting or find work arounds. All the benefits of Safari make it worth the downside of some sites not working properly, but the benefits of Orion over Safari for the massive number that didn't work right was certainly not worth it for me. Which was all unfortunate since the Orion team is doing everything they can essentially on their end. Hopefully they have a large enough niche to stick around and offer even modest competition for the big players.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

TechRemarker — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:55:00 +0000

In Safari (macOS Beta), none of the pictures load. In dev tools shows 403 error for all. If view the image urls directly shows "It appears you don't have permission to access this page.

403 Error. Forbidden." in a stylized font. Content blockers are "not" enabled. Able to replicate in Private window too. In Chrome however, images all load normally, also able to view the image urls directly. Very odd. No VPN and Private Relay is "off". Very unusual, will have to do some more digging assuming this is just affecting me and not others in Safari on latest macOS beta.

Update works in latest Safari Tech Preview, so assuming some cache/cookie/etc issue even though again affects Private mode.

New comment by TechRemarker in "ChatGPT Work"

TechRemarker — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:33:29 +0000

Seems the old ChatGPT is still on computer but renamed ChatGPT Classic (no longer downloadable), so clearly being deprecated. But just don't understand how the whole CHATGPT Chat History Chat feature is essentially gone other than seeing at the past 3 or 4 in a tiny popup window. Glad everyone is as confused as I am, so hopefully an announcement from ChatGPT clarifying all this.

New comment by TechRemarker in "ChatGPT Work"

TechRemarker — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:30:53 +0000

Been excited for Codex to fully merge into ChatGPT, like it already has on iOS and how Claude Code merged into Claude a while back. Assumed there would simply be an update for ChatGPT that added Codex like on iOS. But instead a new "ChatGPT for Work" app. Which is fine. Downloaded and it replaces the standard ChatGPT app, again fine an as expected, but when I open it I just see Codex essentially. In top left, when changing from Code to ChatGPT still not seeing all of my ChatGPT aka years of Chat History. Other than one a box that says recent chats that only lets you see the latest 3 or 4 chats and opens them up in a small window. Am I missing something?

New comment by TechRemarker in "Apple is going to raise device prices, but when?"

TechRemarker — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:55:27 +0000

Can't imagine increases to existing products. Would seem almost certain it would be for new product/refreshes and they may simply continue to remove the entry level configs in the meantime. That is all still significant for Apple for whom pricing is part of the brand. Been waiting for a maxed out new MBP coming later this year/early next, which already is about 7K, so with the prices increases, scared to think what the 8GB SSD and max ram will come in at.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Apple's AI Can Now Change Your Passwords. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"

TechRemarker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:24:00 +0000

Yes, also immediately thought of all the endless ways this could go wrong and end with someone losing access to their account, which depending on their account could be trivial or life altering, especially if their loss ends up being someone else's gain. Apple takes baby steps so I'm sure this will be limited in nature and most likely will get delayed until fully tested, but I'd definitely avoid testing during betas (with any real accounts that is).

New comment by TechRemarker in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

TechRemarker — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:36:55 +0000

I switched to Anthropic briefly to try out Code, it was great (having never tried such a product) and better than their chat bot which found prettier and nicer to talk to but far more often wrong.

Then shortly after Codex was released which made that more accessible and instantly preferred that compared to Code since much more generous allotments for $20 plan. Claude constantly kept hitting. And Code actually had a more robust UI and was more accurate when doing the same project side by side vs Claude Code.

But imagine many haven't tried Codex recently since all we hear about is Claude Code. So while they may have momentum, at least for me with no stake in the game, Codex finding far better, but I suppose that could all change again on a whim.

Carrot Weather App Gets Weather Channel Source

TechRemarker — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/carrot-weather-alerts-radar/id961390574?eventid=6759457893

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151141

Points: 1

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New comment by TechRemarker in "Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?"

TechRemarker — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:53:19 +0000

Ahh. Wok up to a follow up email an address already marked as spam so couldn't figure out what was going on.

New comment by TechRemarker in "[dead]"

TechRemarker — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:14:12 +0000

How is this not flagged and removed based on the completely false title?

New comment by TechRemarker in "Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card"

TechRemarker — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:24:57 +0000

"Of course their relationship with Apple could be different, but I doubt it'll be anything like the Goldman one" I can nearly guarantee this is completely wrong. It will be just like Goldman. That's literally the point of getting the card, is do everything through Apple and Goldman is just the backbone and support (through Apple's UI). Apple's contract with Goldman was until 2030, they wouldn't let Goldman out of it unless they were able to find a new partner with same or better experience and terms. They could have choose Synchrony, etc if Chase didn't agree. And clearly Chase was willing to concede to Apple since they don't even offer high yield savings, but agreed to for Apple since thats part of their existing offerings. Right now Apple decides the Promos for Apple Card, and at most maybe Chase will have a little more involvement in those but probably not. So in realty the only real world change is probably better customer support than Sachs, and Chase may not offer higher risks customers credit or as much like Goldman did and finally they may not offer the very low APR's that Apple card is known for, for it's best customers.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card"

TechRemarker — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:15:02 +0000

Have to disagree there. While the iOS wallet apple is all apple and thats what you will use for checking your statements and making payments which is great. But anytime I have to actually interact with for support that is 100% with Goldman. When you do you support through the iMessage chat feature it's all Goldman on the other end, not Apple at all. And I've had to deal with them far too many times, and each time was absolutely terrible. Because of Goldman but also because of the platform Apple gives them for support, since you send a message have to wait for a text response. So feels like a chat but unlike a chat responses can take a while more like email, but then if they respond and you dont respond very fast then it closes it out and your response triggers a how can we help and you start all over, which is unlike email. So it's the worst of Chat and the worst of Email. Hopefully that is revamped with the new relationship. And if you have to call you get Sachs not Apple. Chase isn't great but expect much better than Sachs.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Most websites don't need cookie consent banners"

TechRemarker — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:43:25 +0000

“You DO need consent for: Third-party tracking cookies like Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel“ Since most websites use GA then yes most need the banners. You could say most sites don’t need GA but that’s a different argument.