5h4ck

@5h4ck.bsky.social

Sith Lord extraordinaire, automobile enthusiast, junior infosec monkey, d&d dice roller and eternal metalhead.

Come play poker for digital rights at DEF CON this Friday. The @eff.org Benefit Poker Tournament is Aug 7, noon, Horseshoe Poker Room, Vegas. Total novices are especially welcome; the room is safe, respectful, and the dealers teach. Bring one curious friend. eff.org/poker

Betting on Your Digital Rights: EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON 34

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Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 6d ago

Hacker Summer Camp is almost here... and with it comes the Fifth Annual EFF Benefit Poker Tournament @defcon.bsky.social hosted by security expert @tarah.org. Join us on August 7 at the Horseshoe Poker Room and take home new prizes, including bug bounty pins! eff.org/poker

Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires. "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker

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me: got anything useful for me today brain: no me: that's fine. what do you have brain: homestar runner would play the SHIT out of sonic racing crossworlds me: sonic wacing cwosswolds brain: sonic wacing cwosswolds

The USPS IS NOT LOSING MONEY. THE USPS IS SPENDING TAX DOLLARS ALLOCATED TO IT BY THE BUDGET. THE USPS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO ZERO OUT ITS BALANCE SHEET IT IS NOT A BUSINESS IT DOES NOT HAVE SHAREHOLDERS. IF THE USPS IS OUTSPENDING ITS BUDGET IT SHOULD BE ALLOCATED MORE BUDGET.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory! This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲 Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below. From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400 📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn #Archaeology

The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells!  There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. 

The front  inscription reads:
PICTOS VICTOS
HOSTIS DELETA
LVDITE SECVRI

Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’.

Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads:

‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’.

Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

WOW WOW WOW Mayor Mamdani names Stanley Richards as the new head of Dept of Corrections. Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails. Richards is currently the president/CEO of the Fortune Society, a leading nonprofit that assists incarcerated/ formerly incarcerated

Border Patrol has shot two people in Oregon close to Portland. The shooting occurred near East Burnside and 141st Avenue. The two who were shot allegedly drove to this location for further help and are now en route or at hospital. Their condition is unknown.

Blocked off complex with caution tape and cop cars

ICE must be abolished. The work of our time is to tear down the system that built it and remake it into one that embraces and designs systems that include all people from all places. This work will be done, because the alternative is unbearable.