Patrick O'Doherty
@patrickod.com
Irishman in San Francisco. Amateur photographer, musician, artist and electronics tinkerer. Professional security computer comrade. Security @tailscale.com Only together can we defeat the computers.
Pinned
Patrick O'Doherty
@patrickod.com
· Feb 19
The most crucial intersection of my Irish and American identities is the utter rejection of the cancer that is monarchy. A societal disease that has no place in the world.
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
I am available to debate Minister Patrick O'Donovan directly on his plan for internet regulation, if he would like to defend it.
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I am available to debate Minister Patrick O'Donovan directly on his plan for internet regulation, if he would like to defend it.
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
U.S. prosecutors in Chicago are dropping another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz, "without prejudice."
It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.
The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.
The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social this doesn’t qualify as weirdtok but it’s too delightful not to share. Pure joy at one of life’s most wonderful experiences.
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social this doesn’t qualify as weirdtok but it’s too delightful not to share. Pure joy at one of life’s most wonderful experiences.
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
This is how the Irish government will try and sell mandatory online ID to the public;
"Do you think your privacy is more important than protecting children online? Why don't you want to keep kids safe from online predators?"
As if there is a binary choice, your privacy or child safety.
"Do you think your privacy is more important than protecting children online? Why don't you want to keep kids safe from online predators?"
As if there is a binary choice, your privacy or child safety.
Mr O’Donovan said the Public Services Card “floundered because some interest groups outside of the House, interested more in privacy than other issues, got their way”. Funny way to characterise something which the independent regulator found illegal, imposing a €550,000 fine on the state.
Plan to verify people’s ages on line with Government ID a ‘disproportionate response’
Civil liberty and digital privacy campaigners question legal basis for proposed digital wallets
www.irishtimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is how the Irish government will try and sell mandatory online ID to the public;
"Do you think your privacy is more important than protecting children online? Why don't you want to keep kids safe from online predators?"
As if there is a binary choice, your privacy or child safety.
"Do you think your privacy is more important than protecting children online? Why don't you want to keep kids safe from online predators?"
As if there is a binary choice, your privacy or child safety.
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
Mr O’Donovan said the Public Services Card “floundered because some interest groups outside of the House, interested more in privacy than other issues, got their way”. Funny way to characterise something which the independent regulator found illegal, imposing a €550,000 fine on the state.
Plan to verify people’s ages on line with Government ID a ‘disproportionate response’
Civil liberty and digital privacy campaigners question legal basis for proposed digital wallets
www.irishtimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Mr O’Donovan said the Public Services Card “floundered because some interest groups outside of the House, interested more in privacy than other issues, got their way”. Funny way to characterise something which the independent regulator found illegal, imposing a €550,000 fine on the state.
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
I found this argument unpersuasive at the time, but not *crazy*. Now it DOES seem crazy, as we see many, many federal institutions corrupted top-to-bottom, with the stragglers who exhibit some scintilla of integrity forced out with metronomic regularity.
December 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I found this argument unpersuasive at the time, but not *crazy*. Now it DOES seem crazy, as we see many, many federal institutions corrupted top-to-bottom, with the stragglers who exhibit some scintilla of integrity forced out with metronomic regularity.
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
I was roommates with an English major who ended up being a physician. For a med school recommendation for one of my UNC journalism students I asked him the impact of his English major. “It taught me to listen & to empathize with patients & to understand their needs, including emotional ones.”
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I was roommates with an English major who ended up being a physician. For a med school recommendation for one of my UNC journalism students I asked him the impact of his English major. “It taught me to listen & to empathize with patients & to understand their needs, including emotional ones.”
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
The best endorsement ever (thanks @tailscale.com!)
People (even some non-HN-reading people!) have been enjoying the jailbroken Kindle post.
It is *always* the post you think is too niche, too late, too specific that gets legs.
I thank @annaleen.bsky.social for the perfect quote via KOReader. (Buy their book!)
tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...
It is *always* the post you think is too niche, too late, too specific that gets legs.
I thank @annaleen.bsky.social for the perfect quote via KOReader. (Buy their book!)
tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...
How to put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle (and why you should)
Jailbreaking a Kindle makes it able to do much more. Adding Tailscale takes the Kindle even further.
tailscale.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The best endorsement ever (thanks @tailscale.com!)
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
The CFAA has continually been wielded as a cudgel by employers against departing employees. It warms my heart to see an appeals court push back against that.
December 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The CFAA has continually been wielded as a cudgel by employers against departing employees. It warms my heart to see an appeals court push back against that.
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
The idea of someone in the Milwaukee suburbs getting mad at, say, a trans kid in Colorado would be unthinkable 75 years ago, unlikely but comprehensible twenty years ago, and commonplace today.
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The idea of someone in the Milwaukee suburbs getting mad at, say, a trans kid in Colorado would be unthinkable 75 years ago, unlikely but comprehensible twenty years ago, and commonplace today.
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
Farmers: Where’s MY bailout?!
Dementia president: Here you go!
Farmers, later: Where’s MY bailout?!
Dementia president: Here you go!
Dementia president: Here you go!
Farmers, later: Where’s MY bailout?!
Dementia president: Here you go!
December 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Farmers: Where’s MY bailout?!
Dementia president: Here you go!
Farmers, later: Where’s MY bailout?!
Dementia president: Here you go!
Dementia president: Here you go!
Farmers, later: Where’s MY bailout?!
Dementia president: Here you go!
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
My latest game developer interview is live at Digital Foundry today, and this was a fun one. Sektori is a heckuva game, and Kimmo is a kind, humble person to talk to.
Today on Digital Foundry, interviewing Kimmo Lahtinen on the brilliant Sektori, his storied history at Housemarque and the move to indie development: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/int...
Interview: Sektori's sole dev on Housemarque past, tuning Unity to 60fps
From Pascal to N-Gage, and from Resogun to solo success.
www.digitalfoundry.net
December 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
My latest game developer interview is live at Digital Foundry today, and this was a fun one. Sektori is a heckuva game, and Kimmo is a kind, humble person to talk to.
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
Hi! Now six months into the Switch 2 generation, I'm looking to speak to developers – from indie to AAA – about whether or not they have dev kits for the console and what developing (or not) is like for it.
Can be anonymous, if wanted! RTs appreciated🙂
Can be anonymous, if wanted! RTs appreciated🙂
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hi! Now six months into the Switch 2 generation, I'm looking to speak to developers – from indie to AAA – about whether or not they have dev kits for the console and what developing (or not) is like for it.
Can be anonymous, if wanted! RTs appreciated🙂
Can be anonymous, if wanted! RTs appreciated🙂
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ.
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
December 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ.
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
Euro Country by CMAT is the intersection of the very essence of a bop with lyrics that go so hard. The bridge in particular flattened me when I heard it first. Can't wait to see her perform in SF next April!
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Euro Country by CMAT is the intersection of the very essence of a bop with lyrics that go so hard. The bridge in particular flattened me when I heard it first. Can't wait to see her perform in SF next April!
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
"At the beginning of Reconstruction, Conness alienated some of his California constituents by advocating strongly for Chinese immigration and civil rights. [...] He strongly believed in justice for all immigrants."
today I learned about John Conness and his legacy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Co...
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"At the beginning of Reconstruction, Conness alienated some of his California constituents by advocating strongly for Chinese immigration and civil rights. [...] He strongly believed in justice for all immigrants."
Reposted by Patrick O'Doherty
I really really hate how normalized life-with-no-privacy has become. Corporations, governments, random internet creeps... everyone has access to every single moment of your existence now and it's ridiculous.
“Landlords may say ‘smart home’ devices are a tenant convenience. But the reality is, these AI-enabled systems can track patterns of tenant behavior, identify when people are home, and provide landlords with personal information that could be used to push out tenants perceived as too costly.”
ACLU Sues San Francisco Landlords over AI-Powered Surveillance in Tenants' Homes | ACLU of Northern CA
www.aclunc.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I really really hate how normalized life-with-no-privacy has become. Corporations, governments, random internet creeps... everyone has access to every single moment of your existence now and it's ridiculous.
today I learned about John Conness and his legacy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Co...
December 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
today I learned about John Conness and his legacy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Co...