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New comment by ffritz in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

ffritz — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:09:23 +0000

The payer couldn't care less about how much the store pays for the transaction. He or she just wants to tap with their phone, and the default here are Visa/MC cards. In addition to the transaction price not being an argument for the payer, Wero also afaik does not have as much consumer protection as (certainly some) credit cards offer. I also bet the average person doesn't understand or care about the whole political dispute either. Again, they just want to pay easily and safely.

I don't think Wero can "win" this from just the merchants side. It's got to be better for the customer's side.

New comment by ffritz in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

ffritz — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:08:37 +0000

Their pricing shows me “starts at 399€/month”, that’s insane. CF Pro is 25$/month.

New comment by ffritz in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

ffritz — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:05:39 +0000

A full integration with Cloudflare means it is their SSL certificate that’s presented to the visitor of your website, and all traffic is passed through them. They do read everything.

Thus it’s pointless to host in the EU if everything first has to go through a US company.

New comment by ffritz in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

ffritz — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:20:23 +0000

Did you use Cloudflare for it’s WAF too or just CDN? Last I checked Bunny is not a replacement for the CF WAF.

New comment by ffritz in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

ffritz — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:19:38 +0000

But Bunny Shield is not a Cloudflare WAF replacement afaik. Not even close.

New comment by ffritz in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

ffritz — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:17:43 +0000

I feel this and as a German company, we have our stuff hosted in the EU. But where it becomes pointless to have the host in the EU, is when Cloudflare is a requirement. Since we expose ourselfs through their certificate, we might as well host with a US company. And I’m not aware of a EU Cloudflare competitor with similar WAF offering.

New comment by ffritz in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

ffritz — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:53:52 +0000

That’s me too! I still have not figured out how to also make it enjoyable.

New comment by ffritz in "Chernobyl wildlife forty years on"

ffritz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:29:58 +0000

Same goes for his other book Challenger.

New comment by ffritz in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

ffritz — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:42:20 +0000

What if it’s used with a different harness, e.g. Opencode?

New comment by ffritz in "Deutschlandticket for regional bus and rail services to be offered for €49/month"

ffritz — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 12:06:51 +0000

This is correct and to show what that means: Frankfurt to Berlin with a fast ICE: 4 hours, no changes. With regional trains only: 10-14 hours, 3-6 changes.

With a car this trip is 5 hours. No one in their right mind would ever do such a trip with regionals only, it is extremely painful. In addition, the chance that one of the connections will be missed is extremely high.

New comment by ffritz in "Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS"

ffritz — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:55:30 +0000

Let’s see if they still do want your $100 by requiring it for their Push Notifications API.

New comment by ffritz in "Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan"

ffritz — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:49:25 +0000

100% agree. I also do a swim 2-3 days a week and then sauna. It multiplies the mentioned effects greatly. I don’t think I could feel any better than I do after swim + sauna.

New comment by ffritz in "Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan"

ffritz — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:56:01 +0000

Yes that’s about right, no phone or anything, I just close my eyes. Sometimes I fall asleep.

It is very possible, that this is simply what it takes to sent my mind into a mental break.

I have tried Headspace and all that stuff and I see the benefits, it is just much easier to send your mind into relax mode after above mentioned schedule.

New comment by ffritz in "Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan"

ffritz — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 21:57:30 +0000

There also is a steam room adjacent to the sauna and from time to time I use it as well, but I feel like the heat does not penetrate as “deep”. What’s nicer is how the steam soothes the airways in comparison to a Finnish sauna.

New comment by ffritz in "Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan"

ffritz — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 19:12:36 +0000

It’s a regular gym that also has a sauna. Around 40€ per month will get you a gym with sauna in most cities in Germany I would say.

New comment by ffritz in "Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan"

ffritz — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 19:03:31 +0000

I have been going to the sauna of the nearby gym everyday for about 2 years now, rarely skipping it.

It is honestly hard to express how much I love the effects of it and how much I attribute to it. I can not live without it anymore.

If I wake up after a bad nights sleep and feel extremely groggy, sauna fixes it.

If I am overworked to the point where my head is pulsating, sauna fixes it, and I get another 2 hours of extremely focussed work done afterwards.

Bad mood, a cold, sore muscles, even certain types of headache, a sauna can fix.

I should mention that a sauna for me includes a cold shower immediately after leaving it, as cold as the shower will go. This is the key, the shock will make all the difference. Then you lay down, at least 10 minutes.

I do 2 rounds most days, it’s about 80C, I manage between 12-15 minutes in the first sitting, then 8-10 in the second.

I can not recommend it enough, it has changed my life.

New comment by ffritz in "The Twitter whistleblower story is worse than you think"

ffritz — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:00:23 +0000

You are in essence looking for GDPR. It calls for huge fines in case of violations and thus should ideally enforce strong security standards.

New comment by ffritz in "How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (2014)"

ffritz — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:04:48 +0000

That sounds very normal, at least it’s the same for me.

Sometimes I spent a considerable amount of time brainstorming an idea or concept over and over during alone times, and then at some point it won’t return to my thoughts again, but something new replaces it. Sort of like I am “done” with that thought and my brain wants to move on.

I don’t know why that happens, but I guess I get stimulation simply from that iterative thought process. Thus your garbage collector comparison seems accurate to me.

Secretly though, I do hope to get that business idea at some point via that process. Not sure if that’s ever going to happen, but that’s okay too.

New comment by ffritz in "Chrome 100"

ffritz — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:30:09 +0000

Anyone noticed, how Google Meet screen sharing on macOS is broken on a daily basis? I then always check for an update and then after a restart of chrome, it works again. Next day, it has some weird issue again.

But boy is it annoying. I wonder if it is an Apple Silicon only issue.

New comment by ffritz in "Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?"

ffritz — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 13:44:56 +0000

There is an uninstaller for the cloud client available. It does what it says actually.