Daniel Cuthbert

18 June

Not without a damn fight

28 May

At this point, I feel im on a mission to save old cameras looking sad Oh hello my new German friend

17 Apr

Orange. We don’t have enough colour in the world today and whoooah boy does my Seiko 6106-7107 have that and is a legendary piece. She’s just turned 56 (march 1970) and the rotating internal bezel wins it for me. I have a problem with vintage Seiko

14 Apr

I’m truly loving seeing so many in the car scene embracing AI to help them mod/tweak/hack and improve their modern and classic cars. From playing with esp32’s to learning CAD/PCB designs and how to interact with older ECUs. Now creativity is the name of the game with no hardware/tech gatekeeping

reuters.comAllstate must face privacy lawsuit over cellphone tracking of driversAllstate must ‌face a privacy lawsuit accusing the home and auto insurer of illegally tracking drivers through their cellphones without consent, using their data to raise premiums or deny coverage, an...

4 Apr

From the “no shit, didn’t see this coming” department: District Judge Jeremy Daniel in Chicago said drivers in the proposed class action ⁠can try to prove that Allstate violated the Federal Wiretap Act by monitoring their travel www.reuters.com/legal/govern....

kickstarter.comThe Last Picture Shop - Feature DocumentaryA legendary London projectionist’s quest to find Quentin Tarantino and ask for his help to save the UK’s last film shop

28 Mar

If you’ve ever been in east London (Lower Clapton rd innit) and like film, you’ve probably gone past Ümits shop Well, this documentary just has me gushing. Get him and Tarantino to meet Amazing www.kickstarter.com/projects/tlp...

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

26 Mar

oil prices are about to make polyester a noble fiber

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Jeff Moss

@thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy

2 Mar

RIP FX - You are a legend

1 Mar

You know when you wife is a keeper when she sends you love notes like

21 Feb

I’ve reached that stage in my life where I’m now doing camera repairs for turn of the century digital cameras and slightly older

github.comGitHub - cloudflare/moltworker: Run OpenClaw, (formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot) on Cloudflare WorkersRun OpenClaw, (formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot) on Cloudflare Workers - cloudflare/moltworker

3 Feb

github.com/cloudflare/m... well played @cloudflare.social well played

Shall We Play A Game... Of Selfies? Those who know me, know that my obsession with War Games is something else, but I also have a slight issue with older cameras and tech from the same period.

It did sell and in the first few years, sold over 8 million disc cameras. People loved the "gadget" feel. However, that negative size was the killer: a standard 4x6 print was a 15x enlargement and yes, people did print their images back then

By 1988, production of most disc cameras ceased. Kodak officially stopped making the film in 1999. Great looking camera with futuristic tech and ideas, let down by poor film.

Shall We Play A Game... Of Selfies? Those who know me, know that my obsession with War Games is something else, but I also have a slight issue with older cameras and tech from the same period.

The precision was so high that Minolta’s aspheric glass technology actually paved the way for the rapid spread of CD Players. If it weren't for the tech developed for these odd little cameras, your 1984 portable Sony Discman might never have worked.

However, they also introduced technological obsolescence in a way by soldering the lithium batteries directly to the main board. No user-serviceable parts inside. Today, most Disc-7s are "bricked" unless you open them up and replace them with a modern 6v option

Shall We Play A Game... Of Selfies? Those who know me, know that my obsession with War Games is something else, but I also have a slight issue with older cameras and tech from the same period.

Now back to the Disc-7, which again was out of this world. The Disc-7 featured an all-glass 4-element lens, including a mass-produced aspheric glass element. A huge achievement for the early 1980s

To get this level of accuracy, a machining tool that used NASA’s machining technology for aircraft components was introduced to fabricate a mold.

Shall We Play A Game... Of Selfies? Those who know me, know that my obsession with War Games is something else, but I also have a slight issue with older cameras and tech from the same period.

These negatives were tiny, a minuscule 8x10mm. For comparison, 35mm film is 24x36mm! Because of this, Kodak needed to develop T-Grain (Tabular Grain) film specifically for this format to keep image quality sharp.

But, it had a cool safety feature in that unlike 35mm rolls, if you accidentally opened the back of the camera, you only ruined the one frame currently exposed to the window, not the whole disc.

Shall We Play A Game... Of Selfies? Those who know me, know that my obsession with War Games is something else, but I also have a slight issue with older cameras and tech from the same period.

it’s a time capsule of 1980s "gadget-ism" that predicted the future of social media while being trapped in one of the most doomed film formats ever created Disc Film

Kodak launched Disc Film in 1982 to save the "point-and-shoot" market. Each disc was 65mm in diameter and held 15 exposures

Shall We Play A Game... Of Selfies? Those who know me, know that my obsession with War Games is something else, but I also have a slight issue with older cameras and tech from the same period.

1983 was the year Matthew Broderick nearly sparked World War III in WarGames. While he was busy hacking into WOPR, Minolta was launching a piece of hardware that looked like it belonged on a NORAD control panel: The Disc-7

But its real trick? It was the world's first dedicated selfie machine. It came with a telescopic "arm" or handle that doubled as a tripod/grip, making it the first dedicated "selfie" kit in history thanks to its circular convex mirror on the front

youtu.beA Conversation with Jason Lee & Tim Carpenter | Democratic VistasYouTube video by Bryan Birks

25 Jan

Sunday mornings with a good coffee and a brilliant discussion with Jason Lee, who’s not only a 90s skate legend and actor but also now a phenomenal photographer youtu.be/I2bkzgrC9Ac?...

25 Jan

The last few years has been brutal personally trying to balance research, kids, football and the desire to go and create photographs and longer bodies of work. Here’s hoping this year I smash that photographers block hard.

youtu.beI built a light that can see radio wavesYouTube video by Rootkid

23 Jan

Honestly I love rootkit. Building a light that can see hidden radio waves youtu.be/moBCOEiqiPs?... Great piece on the idea, design and actual implementation

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23 Jan

A glimpse of the future of bug reports from our fav swede, Daniel of cURL gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581… These should be studied at universities teaching CS

12 Jan

I like watches I like photography I like light meters I like electronics I like Hmmmm, oh hello www.increment-labs.com

youtu.beUNIX v4 program found cleaning out an office at the University of UtahYouTube video by KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City

9 Jan

UNIX nerds rejoice, Uni of Utah managed to find version 4 of UNIX youtu.be/m-3RJaKcw_4?... Why is this cool? Well this is the 1st version written in C. Had a letter from Ken Thompson too, we thought version 5 was the oldest surviving copy Oh and it’s 2mb in size!

youtu.be39C3 - iPod Nano Reverse EngineeringYouTube video by hug0

6 Jan

Great lightning talk at CCC on reverse engineering an iPod nano on a shoestring budget. Delayering PCBs using sandpaper and patience. Oh and decapping the SoC too, coz why not? youtu.be/FKHL1yyOKJc?...

youtu.beBought a Broken CNC Lathe They Don’t Want Me to FixYouTube video by Watch Wes Work

4 Jan

If you are a hardware nerd like me who fancies a good Sunday rabbit hole with a 25-year old CNC machine and dodgy circuit boards… Well my friend, look no further youtu.be/BuQZeiAugp4?... And no, it is totally a lie that I’m currently looking on Facebook marketplace for CNC’s. Nope totes wrong

youtu.beThe Great Cassette Comeback is Weirder Than You Think (Mixtape Ep 1)YouTube video by Digging The Greats

2 Jan

So so glad Digging the Greats is touching on the comeback of physical music and media: youtu.be/o9pclYwRQag?...

youtu.beHow AP photographers capture infrared technology used in surveillanceYouTube video by Associated Press

27 Dec 2025

Anyone who’s tried to capture FaceID and the scanning that happens on your iPhone, will resonate with this video Great to see Associated Press do this piece on capturing surveillance tech youtu.be/D1tyEUq2u-E?...

apnews.comPHOTO ESSAY: Invisible infrared surveillance technology and those caught in its digital cageWhen you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light - invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of you...

27 Dec 2025

The longer essay can be found here: apnews.com/photo-essay/... I can see this turning into a great long documentary series

10 Dec 2025

All tech is political and we are involved if you like it or not The Dark Tangent

youtu.beCrypto Queen | Dismantling a £5 Billion Bitcoin EmpireYouTube video by Metropolitan Police

7 Dec 2025

Crypto, queens and taking notes on a massive criminal conspiracy. Smashing Zhimin Qian’s 5 Billion empire Good insights into money laundering at this scale youtu.be/EymtOOJmRpo?...

darkreading.comNew Raptor Framework Uses Agentic AI to Create PatchesResearchers used prompts and large language models to develop an open source AI framework capable of generating both vulnerability exploits and patches.

4 Dec 2025

@darkreading.bsky.social and Arielle Waldman on what we’ve spent the last few months on: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...

30 Nov 2025

When you get a once in a lifetime opportunity, drive the movie cars of your childhood

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David Buchanan

@retr0.id

25 Nov 2025

movie: we can't trace their payload, it's behind two layers of base64! computer knowers: *groan* reality:

12 Nov 2025

Looking at how twitter has utterly screwed up the forced U2F migration, tells me they have no engineers left who know what the hell they are doing. Such a huge abortion of note

youtu.beI Got Some Highly Secret Secure Military Telephones!YouTube video by Ringway Manchester

17 Oct 2025

You know it’s gonna be a proper nerd Friday night when Ringway Manchester has a video on MoD NATO secure Myra blue (NATO secret voice & data) and Myra red (UK secret voice & data) With PTT too and that classic dymo taped “secret” label so you know it’s secure right? youtu.be/zRNxysDCRrM?...

@ollieatnowhere.bsky.social

14 Oct 2025

Where does one begin…

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Ollie Whitehouse

14 Oct 2025

Our annual review is out covering technical highlights such as - Engineering resilience against critical loss - Passkeys - The future of digital identity - Post quantum crypt transition - Our Initiate r&d program with industry - Radical transparency in technology .. and more

NCSC UK@ncsc.gov.uk

It’s time to act Today we’ve published our 2025 Annual Review, revealing that cyber threats facing the UK are accelerating rapidly. We must take action.

8 Oct 2025

It’s not often I’m lost for words, but…

6 Oct 2025

Yes, it has never been easier to make a web scraper and yes most websites still cannot handle this, but as the thirst for more data continues, this lawsuit is going to be one to watch I’ve seen so many posts saying “make a scraper, you can earn so much cash..” in recent times and whooah boy

signal.orgSignal Protocol and Post-Quantum RatchetsWe are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR). This new ratchet enhances the Signal Protocol’s...

3 Oct 2025

Great news for Signal Protocol signal.org/blog/spqr/

ft.comUK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud dataOrder issued in September comes after Trump administration said London had backed down in fight over encryption

2 Oct 2025

Geopolitics aside, the technical mess that implementing geographical backdoors that dont weaken the overall system, gives me the shivers www.ft.com/content/d101... To be a fly on the wall when the advisors try and explain how this would work. So there’s Alice and bob and then Peter, in the corner