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f-serif··on Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
I live in a country with unlimited water supply.

Can someone explain the data center water usage? Data center don't drink water. It cools down the machine.

What's preventing them getting cool water from a lake and draining to it again to cool down? Where is water going after usage since there is literally zero water consumption?

f-serif··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
PIN to wipe seems suspicious. How about a PIN where it login to a patriotic profile and phone looks like normal android.
f-serif··on Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
It is in there nature. They (specially zig creator) were so jealous about about vlang getting traction and getting $800/month donations, they made it their core mission to attack vlang and spread hate.
f-serif··on Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
I tried to use baseUI and gave up. Forms are a bit different and I can't no longer copy/paste similar form code between projects (unless I migrate everything to baseUI).
f-serif··on Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
Unfortunately, this is the truth.

I want surveillance cameras everywhere except my home (We have American surveillance at home :D ).

I don't mind surveillance + Dystopian Sci-fi movie like automatic action.

6000 childrens were raped in just first 3 months of 2026 in Bangladesh. This is just one example how bad the situation is.

AI traffic cameras proved, how civilized we can be, with proper treatment.

f-serif··on Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
Bangladesh is one of the best example of it.

People usually don't want to follow traffic laws on road. Now that we have AI camera recording and AI fine system, people try their best to follow traffic laws. We are becoming Japan following traffic laws in certain areas.

Police usually were scared to fine million dollars cars (because the car owner might be part of something higher power and they could lose their job). Now they gossip on roadside and let AI do it's job.

To HN people surveillance is scarry. But to us, surveillance is blessings.

f-serif··on Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare
I wish there were CLI preview command when making changes in Cloudflare.

I have few domains on Cloudflare and when making some changes, I wish there were a way to apply the same changes to multiple domains for consistency.

CLI preview for UI action will make it possible.

f-serif··on The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
It's just lazy engineering. They get assigned a task, they must implement it or fix it to keep their job. Proper implantation takes more knowledge, more research and more brain pressure.

AI could play a big rule here. Husky (git hook) but AI. It will score lazy engineering. You lazy implement enough times, you loose your job.

f-serif··on The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
Not AI but perfect example is Cloudflare. They have implemented public suffix list (to check if a domain is valid) 10 different times in 10 different ways. In one place, they have even embedded the list in frontend (pages custom domain). You report issues, they fix that one service, their own stuff isn't even aware that it exists in other places.
f-serif··on Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)
Wow, this is pure gold. I skipped first time thinking it was just random page viewers from past.

This is impressive design, presentation and experience.

Thank you for the experience.

f-serif··on Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2
A bit context if you are confused why Public DNS server blocking websites. 1.1.1.2 is Malware blocking DNS server similar to AdBlock DNS server. It is not 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1

Here is the DDoS context https://gyrovague.com

f-serif··on An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
>10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes

bullshit story always leave something like this.

f-serif··on Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
I don't understand why people uses such stupid font style -_-