Hacker News: Padriac

New comment by Padriac in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

Padriac — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:58:03 +0000

Makes sense and this is how we do it in Australia.

New comment by Padriac in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

Padriac — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:22:05 +0000

Maybe where things are different where you live.

New comment by Padriac in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

Padriac — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:44:21 +0000

Sounds like something worth reporting as it is an offence in Australia at least. The police would certainly investigate such an allegation and charges could be laid if there was sufficient evidence and a conviction was possible.

New comment by Padriac in "The Joy of Numbered Streets"

Padriac — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:18:01 +0000

We don't do this numbered street thing very much in Australia and manage to get around ok.

New comment by Padriac in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

Padriac — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:52:26 +0000

That's the deception plan.

New comment by Padriac in "The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph"

Padriac — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:41:35 +0000

The mix of imperial and metric units in this article was confusing.

New comment by Padriac in "ASCII Clouds"

Padriac — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:11:23 +0000

I don't understand.

New comment by Padriac in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

Padriac — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:36:30 +0000

I have the Ford Ranger with the 2 litre biturbo diesel engine in Australia. It is so good it's hard to conceive that a better vehicle could be possible.

New comment by Padriac in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

Padriac — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:05:11 +0000

There are 5 road bridges and 1 railway bridge in the vicinity of Narva.

New comment by Padriac in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

Padriac — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:57:58 +0000

This is good news. Punish the wrongdoers so we can live in a peaceful safe society.

New comment by Padriac in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

Padriac — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 05:42:48 +0000

If you don't die of heart disease you will die from something else.

New comment by Padriac in "Australia Mandates Encryption Backdoors"

Padriac — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:44:09 +0000

Australian Government information at the Secret level never touches the Internet.

Show HN: Failed Firewall Update Disaster

Padriac — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 08:55:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-20/premier-slams-optus-over-triple-0-outage-linked-to-deaths/105797404

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45311628

Points: 1

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New comment by Padriac in "The 1090 Megahertz Riddle: A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals"

Padriac — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:18:44 +0000

An excellent resource.

New comment by Padriac in "Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs"

Padriac — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 06:08:26 +0000

RAID is great but without monitoring and alerting you can still have a problem. Better still is the automatic creation of incident records and escalation.

New comment by Padriac in "Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google"

Padriac — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:25:46 +0000

It's perfectly legal for under 18 year old Queenslanders to consume alcohol.

New comment by Padriac in "A new PNG spec"

Padriac — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:23:54 +0000

I thought this was about Papua New Guinea.

New comment by Padriac in "FreeBSD Kernel Modules Pkg(8) Repositories"

Padriac — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:54:03 +0000

Anything FreeBSD related gets my attention. My most favoured operating system.

New comment by Padriac in "Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague"

Padriac — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:15:39 +0000

Completely appropriate.

New comment by Padriac in "Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on shorelines"

Padriac — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:10:53 +0000

After the ban on plastic shopping bags in Australia I bought a box of 3000 of them online for rubbish bin liners. I use 2 or 3 a week.