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Drífa the Snynx

@drifa.bsky.social
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Just another cat on the internet. I chew wires, fix things, and spend way too much time thinking about computers, airplanes, old cars, and safety. No, I’m not from Iceland, I just love the name.

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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you don’t need to connect an embedded computer to the internet … don’t. If you think you need to connect it, ask yourself if the benefits really outweigh the security risks and the need for constant security monitoring … and then decide it probably isn’t worth connecting.
Fridges hit by cyberattack in France spoil many tonnes of food
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to be able to see daylight through a head bolt.
Lawnmower head bolt that broke — but not completely
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This isn’t religious rights, it’s religious supremacy. If a supernatural dictator wants yo expose me to diseases or withold medical care from children or give tax money to religious groups that discriminate, he can appear and lay out a compelling argument. Short of that, €£%¥ off with this crap.
The WaPo commenting on the expansion of ‘religious rights’ in the USA as though it wasn’t part of a theocratic takeover that harms loads of people
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I love to see good news for a change
Headline: “Elon Musk loses $21 billion in a morning as SpaceX shares slip”
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I had to see this cursed headline, now you do, too.
Headline: “NJ’s lieutenant governor told PBS, AI said he didn’t commit sexual assault.”
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wait, you can buy medical patients?!?
Sign advertising “42% off medical patients.”
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Das kefer
VW Beetle
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The problem of homoglyphs made the news. I remember this being discussed, what, more than a decade ago? I thought the consensus then was that it was a very bad idea to open up at least the server name part of a URL beyond simple ASCII for this reason. Apparently we did anyway.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Even with just a Red 25 filter, you can see the extended sensitivity of this stuff starting to do nice things. #blackandwhite #filmphotography
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did not have the best lighting for this. But The Mood™ continues. #blackandwhite #filmphotography
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
First roll of Rollei 80s (AGFA Aviphot) #blackandwhite #filmphotography. Cooked it for just under 6 min in 1:25 Rodinal at 23.75º C and got all the range my Epson V850 Pro could handle. This stuff has A Mood™. Not sure how to describe it.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Rollei 80S is new to me, so I shot a test roll and dunked it in 1:25 Rodinal. This is promising, but I’ve got to wait for it to dry.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This kind of reporting is stupid and misleading. It doesn’t matter whether At attack strut was written by a human red team, customised from scripts, or shat out by a BS bot called over and over. What matters is the lack of adequate technical isolation for this kind of experiment.
Headline: “cyberattack by rogue AI swarm stokes fears of out-of-control agents”
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Does it contain real hello kitties? Do they clone them in a vat?
“Hello Kitty” Spam
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The bigot is Catholic and “does not believe that trans people exist.” And she wants the city to use its power to keep trans people from working with her. Religion is not a reason to use state power to make a people cease to exist.
Newspaper clipping with text mention in the post.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Note that the trans recruit seems to have responded to obvious locker room harassment in exactly the milquetoast way that power demands we respond to harassment.
News clipping: the bigot “said that after she asked the recruit was she was doing in the locker room, she didn’t reply and walked to a locker.”
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I guess Norfolk, VA is next on the bigot explosion circuit. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/inti... Notice that the allegation is the subjective interpretation by a bigot who used anti-trans slurs of a look. This is the kind of pretext that has long been used for lynchings in this country.
News clipping: the bigot “claims that in 2024, a <slurs for trans women redacted> stared at her uncomfortably one day while she changed in the locker room”
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
*%€£ you, twitler
Trump says just accept higher fuel costs
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fixed the reset switch and put a slightly less wonky cartridge slot into my 2600. The little circuit board with the wires on is a homemade composite video mod.
Composite mod board in an Atari 2600Atari 2600 main board. These things were *primitive*.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Lethally idiotic grifter
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Word salad, meet word soup
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
More Svema 64 #blackandwhite #film #photography
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
More Svema 64 #blackandwhite #film #photography
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I’m back with the scanned images. Svema 64 had a little more dynamic range than I was expecting. No grain visible in 4800 dpi scan. And I got nice wood effect with an R72 filer and 5 stops compensation. #blackandwhite #film #photography
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Another new (to me) film: Svema 64. #blackandwhite #film #photography Shot this in a Minolta X-700 with a Minolta 58mm f1.2 lens, which helped with such slow film. Dunked it in 1:50 Rodinal. It seems to have a nice transparent base and the negatives look sharp and contrasty. More after scanning.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“How dare the consequences of my pollute-all-you-want policies come back to me,” rails the mad wanna-be mobster. The USA made the world hotter, now it’s breathing the smoke as the world burns.
Headline about the orange dipshit raving about smoke from the fires in Canada
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s crispy.
Disaster of a pair of circuits boards.Maybe sitting in water for years is not good for a circuit board. Who knew?
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
She’s dead, Jim. HID delight control module for a VW. Mounted under the headlights with the unsealed connectors pointed up. Would you believe it filled full of water and died?
Corroded enclosure holding a circuit board with rust on it.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This war is illegal. Impeach him now, @bobbyscott.house.gov
News about Trump’s illegal Iran war
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Heyyyyy, this seems like pretty good news.
Headline: “John Deere agrees to landmark ‘right to repair’ settlement driven by Colorado farmers”FTC: “The settlement requires Deere … to provide farmers and independent repair providers with the same equipment report resources, including applicable software capabilities, that it currently provides to authorised Deere dealers.”
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Have some art of my art. #blackandwhite #ohotograpjy
Mac SE/30 motherboard, absolutely destroyed by capacitor ichorMac SE/30 motherboard, absolutely destroyed by capacitor ichor
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I made … soma kinda art. LOL.
A Macintosh SE/30 logic board in a shadow box. Some capacitors have leaked and the PRAM battery exploded, covering the board with ick and doing extensive damage.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
And some suburban decay. #blackandwhite #film #photography
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
More from the beach. Have a surprise cat napping away the hot day. #blackandwhite #film #photography Missed focus on the feather. Sigh.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It did dice things with an R72 filter. This was on an overcast day. #blackandwhite #film #photography
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It was quite contrasty with that developer; I ended up scanning it with reduced contrast settings for most frames. But doing that gave me some subtle tones, like the sun rays through the dense clouds at the beach. #blackandwhite #film #photography
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The grain is tiny: I could barely see it in a 24000 dpi scan. And the dynamic range looks to be pretty good per my test card. I have some comparison shots on Delta 100 that I’ll develop at some point. Here’s a test card under … improvises indoor lighting.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Always nice to wake up to good news for once
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
And of course he never takes note of who puts money in his pocket and does favors for them. Of course not. That’d be corruption! /s
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
At least it wasn’t the unserious barf: I can’t stand wishy-washy bodily fluids in a professional setting. Seriously, though, it sounds like some folks had a very bad day.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Oh, it goes in *that* hole
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Redneck back scratcher
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ah, A’I’—the shitty product you don’t even have to *buy* or even *use* to get price-gouged by.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I don’t wish harm on the old evil %€*£, but I’ll be the first to offer a heart ‘ding dong’ if he croaks.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It is galling to see the growing boldness of racists being reported on as though it was bell bottom pants coming back into fashion. This should be reported as the five alarm fire it is.
Insipid headline from the Wall Street Journal: “U.S. cities dust off statues they hid away in 2020.”
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Ahh, what a lovely picture of the famously T-tailed, twin-rear-mounted-engine equipped 747.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Have random #blackandwhite #photography I did with a cylindrical cookie tin and the cheapest 5x7 film I could find.
Playground structure with slides so distorted that it looks like a monster perched atop a sphere of grass maybe 50m in diameter.
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Have a roll of Ilford SFX #infrared film from the Ridonculous Beast: my Reality So Subtle 6x17 #pinhole camera. #blackandwhite #photography
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Drífa the Snynx @drifa.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Dunked some color film from #FurTheMore and #Bewhiskered this morning
Colour negatives hanging up to dry
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