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Bewelge commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari apps.apple.com/app/ublock... · Posted by u/Jiahang

frou_dh · 23 days ago

Not sure what to troubleshoot with AdGuard, but from consulting mine that's working well, I'd ensure that both "Safari protection" and "Advanced protection" are enabled in its app, and that all of its Safari extensions in the system Settings app are enabled (and the main one is set to "All Websites: Allow").

Bewelge · 23 days ago

Ah thanks! I only have Safari protection enabled, the advanced one requires me to pay (though I don't remember that from when I installed it a couple of months ago).

Saw someone else in this thread mention the Orion browser - I will give that a try for now. If I'm not satisfied I'll try paying for AdGuard. Thanks for the reply though!

Bewelge commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari apps.apple.com/app/ublock... · Posted by u/Jiahang

frou_dh · 23 days ago

I've been puzzled reading previous discussions about Safari where people acted as if it doesn't have good ad-blocking, just because the brand name extension they're familiar with wasn't available. There has been very good ad-blocking available on Safari for a long time (both macOS and iOS) using for example AdGuard.

Bewelge · 23 days ago

My experience has been that installing AdGuard on my iPhone made no noticeable difference. To be fair, I barely browse on my phone. Basically only news sites and Reddit/HN. But apart from HN I see ads on all of those pages.

So I am just a puzzled by your point of view :) May I ask which App you are using? I would love to be proven wrong and have an ad-free browsing experience in the future.

Bewelge commented on Slack's 57MB 404 page a.slack.com/archives/b/c... · Posted by u/lecarore

lifthrasiir · 2 months ago

It reacts with the visibility state, so no JS seems impossible. [ADDED:] Besides from the obvious mouse interaction, [/ADDED] everything else should be implementable in CSS I believe.

Bewelge · 2 months ago

How would you implement that scrolling background? Particularly the mouse interaction, where it scrolls with a dynamic speed ( depending on how far to the side the mouse it) and even has some smooth damping when you stop scrolling.

And what part uses the visibility state? The grayscale seems to be triggered by focus which I think would be doable with CSS

Bewelge commented on Is the doc bot docs, or not? robinsloan.com/lab/what-a... · Posted by u/tobr

Bewelge · 2 months ago

To be fair, for me at least, that weird chat bot only appears on https://help.shopify.com/ while the technical documentation is on shopify.dev/.

Everytime I land on help.shopify.com I get the feeling it's one of those "Doc pages for sales people". Like it's meant to show "We have great documentation and you can do all these things" but never actually explains how to do anything.

I tried that bot a couple of months ago and it was utterly useless:

question: When using discountRedeemCodeBulkAdd there's a limit to add 100 codes to a discount. Is this a limit on the API or on the discount? So can I add 100 codes to the same discount multiple times?

answer: I wasn't able to find any results for that. Can you tell me a little bit more about what you're looking for?

Telling it more did not help. To me that seemed like the bot didn't even have access to the technical documentation. Finding it hard to believe that any search engine can miss a word like discountRedeemCodeBulkAdd if it actually is in the dataset: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/mutations/...

So it's a bit like asking sales people technical questions.

edit: Okay, I should have tried that before commenting. They seem to have updated it. When I ask the same question now it answers correctly (weirdly in German) :

Die Begrenzung von 100 Codes bei der Verwendung von discountRedeemCodeBulkAdd bezieht sich auf die Anzahl der Codes, die Sie in einem einzelnen API-Aufruf hinzufügen können, nicht auf die Gesamtanzahl der Codes, die einem Rabatt zugeordnet werden können. Ein Rabattcode kann bis zu 20.000.000 eindeutige Rabattcodes enthalten. Daher können Sie mehrfach jeweils 100 Codes zum selben Rabatt hinzufügen, bis Sie das Limit von 20.000.000 Codes erreicht haben. Beachten Sie, dass Drittanbieter-Apps oder benutzerdefinierte Lösungen dieses Limit nicht umgehen oder erhöhen können.

~= It's a limit on the API endpoint, you can add up to 20M to a single discount.

Bewelge commented on Is the doc bot docs, or not? robinsloan.com/lab/what-a... · Posted by u/tobr

bravesoul2 · 2 months ago

Need a real CC to test. Right there makes me lose respect for shopify if true. Even stripe let's you test :)

Bewelge · 2 months ago

Not sure if I'm missing something but the way I'd always test orders is generate some 100% discount. You don't need any payment info then. I only ever needed a CC if I wanted to actually test something relating to payment. And on test stores you can mock a CC

Bewelge commented on Google is winning on every AI front thealgorithmicbridge.com/... · Posted by u/vinhnx

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 · 5 months ago

Is there really a decline in web searches or in Google's usage vs competitors? Seems like one of those greatly exaggerated rumors?

Bewelge · 5 months ago

From a personal website, that's been pretty constantly getting 2k hits from Google each week:

Bing 150-200 / week

Yandex ~100 / week

DDG ~50 / week

ChatGPT is now at ~50 hits a week.

So from that data it looks like Google still has their comfortable 80%+ market share. But I think it's interesting if you think about the kind of users that use these products. In my mind, the alternative search engines are used mostly by techies and people that care about their privacy (also often techies), but ChatGPT is used by a much broader slice of the population.

But maybe I'm projecting because my own search behaviour has changed so dramatically with ChatGPT & Claude having replaced a substantial part of my Google searches.

Bewelge commented on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn mattgiustwilliamson.subst... · Posted by u/MattSWilliamson

zwnow · 5 months ago

It's also connected to so much bureaucracy that you almost need to hire someone for that alone, because you wont have as much time for your actual business. Founding a company in Germany is so much unnecessary paperwork its crazy. Single handedly the only reason I will never try it in my home country.

Bewelge · 5 months ago

I agree that the process is unnecessarily complex, but I also think hiring someone for that would be the wise choice in most places anyway.

And even in Germany hiring someone for that would probably amount to paying 500-1000€ for the whole registration of the company instead of doing everything yourself and only paying the 100-200€ notary fees. It's not as bad as you might think.

> I will never try it in my home country.

May I ask, where would you try it? As I understand it, it's not really possible to found in a different European country while you're still living in Germany.

Bewelge commented on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn mattgiustwilliamson.subst... · Posted by u/MattSWilliamson

martin_a · 5 months ago

Not true.

Go to your hometown administration, pay 35 Euro and leave 15 minutes later with a "Gewerbeanmeldung" which enables you to start doing business right away.

Bewelge · 5 months ago

That feels like an exaggeration. I did that last year. They took several months to process the registration itself.

And this was just to freelance as a developer. In my case I was allowed to start while they were processing the registration. But had it been something that would require their permission, I'd have to wait several months before I could start my business, while they wave through a form that basically says "I'll be selling goods".

I'm not one to blindly hate on all bureaucracy. But in this case it feels unnecessarily complex.

Bewelge commented on German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph abstimmung.eu/git/2024... · Posted by u/mxschll

atVelocet · 5 months ago

So then what is the official way to get the latest version? I mean… how does the state itself handle those laws or are you telling me that every German court and government agency buys those books?

Bewelge · 5 months ago

I'm not sure if they still buy the books, but I know from someone who worked as a judge in Germany, that they personally stopped buying the books only ~5-10 years ago, because they saw that the online availability was good enough now.

But my point is that, as far as I know, there is no official version of the final text. The official publications are made in the Bundesgesetzblatt (which had been privatized in the past, but that's another story). The publications might look like this:

1947: We hereby make the following text a law called Grundgesetz "Artikel I: Human dignity is inviolable"

2026: We hereby change the law called Grundgesetz by changing the first article to say "Human or Alien" instead of "Human".

Now there are a lot of entities that will consolidate these changes into a final text. But this consolidation isn't done officially. So, while in this example its easy to see, that in 2026 the law would read "Human and Alien dignity is inviolable", it becomes less clear when these changes are spread over 80 years and are only available as PDFs.

Bewelge commented on German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph abstimmung.eu/git/2024... · Posted by u/mxschll

hulium · 5 months ago

> Turns out all available versions (gesetze-im-internet, dejure.org, buzer.de) had at least a couple of small mistakes.

Can you say more about what these small mistakes were? Would they affect the interpretation of the law?

Bewelge · 5 months ago

In the example I checked the mistakes wouldn't have changed the interpretation. It were mistakes like additional or missing commas, missing spaces or missing articles.

buzer.de actually has a list of things that differ in their consolidation compared to gesetze-im-internet.de: https://www.buzer.de/quality.htm

In that list you can actually find mistakes that would alter the interpretation. But I think this also sounds worse than it is. It's just a funny thought that whatever source you are using, you are essentially trusting one party to not have made any mistakes, consolidating 1000s of pages of pdfs :)