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Daniel Cuthbert

@dcuthbert.bsky.social

Ageing hacker, long time documentary photographer. Black Hat Review board. Now sitting on numerous government cyber security boards so I guess that means I’ve grown up right?

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GitHub - cloudflare/moltworker: Run OpenClaw, (formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot) on Cloudflare Workers Run OpenClaw, (formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot) on Cloudflare Workers - cloudflare/moltworker

github.com/cloudflare/m...

well played @cloudflare.social well played

03.02.2026 19:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yes Daniel!!!!

01.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Amazing, do you have any pictures of it?

01.02.2026 11:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Glad you are enjoying them. If there’s an appetite, I have plenty more quirky cameras to tell the story about.

01.02.2026 11:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hahah hours of fun those were

01.02.2026 09:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It was a good idea, and you could see how they were experimenting with so many different formats at the time. Next up will be a 110 review too ;)

01.02.2026 09:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

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

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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.

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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.

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Kodak launched Disc Film in 1982 to save the "point-and-shoot" market. Each disc was 65mm in diameter and held 15 exposures

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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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

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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.

01.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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.

25.01.2026 08:22 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A Conversation with Jason Lee & Tim Carpenter | Democratic Vistas
YouTube video by Bryan Birks A Conversation with Jason Lee & Tim Carpenter | Democratic Vistas

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?...

25.01.2026 08:22 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
I built a light that can see radio waves
YouTube video by Rootkid I built a light that can see radio waves

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

23.01.2026 21:22 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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AI slop security reports submitted to curl AI slop security reports submitted to curl. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Ffsake sorry. Computing is hard

gist.github.com/bagder/07f75...

23.01.2026 10:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

23.01.2026 10:11 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Ollee Watch Ollee Watch is a smartwatch modification for classic digital watches, primarily the Casio F91W and A158W. We aim to provide a low maintenance smartwatch experience, minimize the noise of the modern wo...

Very tasty!! If you ever fancy hacking a Casio, this might be up your street

www.olleewatch.com

12.01.2026 21:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

F91w is an amazing watch still as is the calculator. Get one

12.01.2026 20:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah, overall, the vibe is actually very cool. Great little idea, my mind is racing about what electronics and components they’ll be using, just a sweet little project.

12.01.2026 20:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s pretty intriguing, isn’t it?

12.01.2026 20:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I like watches
I like photography
I like light meters
I like electronics
I like

Hmmmm, oh hello

www.increment-labs.com

12.01.2026 20:25 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
UNIX v4 program found cleaning out an office at the University of Utah
YouTube video by KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City UNIX v4 program found cleaning out an office at the University of Utah

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!

09.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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