cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44474394

https://infosec.exchange/users/catsalad/statuses/115004109032954018

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7942362

Since the 90s my parents have been terrified of computer viruses. A couple weeks ago they told me they started using DoorDash so I warned them about the Bean Virus, where you just start getting random cans of beans delivered to your house.

Since then I've been anonymously DoorDashing them cans of beans.

Dad> Picture of dad holding a can of beans

Dad> I think we got the bean virus. This was on the porch this morning.

Poster> Yeah that's the bean virus. Whatever you do don't scan the barcode.

Dad> 👍

Dad> more beans this morning. I called door dash and they have never heard of bean virus

Dad> beans again

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44455475

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44187039

You are only one move away from it happening to you.

Do you think they will enter the Gulf at all?

https://archive.ph/8bNrf

I AM NOT THE DEV

Hi all,

There are plenty of CalDAV servers out there, but surprisingly very few good self-hosted web interfaces to actually access and manage your calendars.

For the past couple of years I've been following a project called Luna, and I think it deserves a bit more visibility here: https://github.com/Opisek/luna

It can pull calendars from multiple sources (CalDAV, Google, iCal links, etc.) and bring them together in a single interface.

For people like me with a constantly changing, busy, and somewhat chaotic schedule, having everything in one place like this is incredibly useful.

The project is still young, but it's progressing steadily, and the developer has been very patient and responsive whenever I've interacted with him.

Just wanted to share it here and show some support.

PS: I think the developer didn’t really expect anyone to promote the project or draw attention to it yet 🙂 Screenshots will probably come in time. It’s still a young project, so a little patience goes a long way.

I work in a software house where everyone uses AI. Some of them can't even write a single line of code, let alone analyze it. I was shocked when I saw their work is CTRL-A, CTRL-V into Claude and CTRL-V into the IDE without a single neuron being activated. They even ask it to summarize and generate a response for 3 lines of text in a Slack message! (Partially because they don't know what they're doing and partially because they're too lazy to think).

Well, everyone talks enthusiastically about AI, some have unrealistic expectations (thinking that it's actually intelligent, when it is not) but what bothers me is that they're indeed faster than me so sometimes I think "why am I even resisting?". Well the answer is that I love to keep my brain active and having the control of what I'm doing. Does anyone else feel kinda similar? Am I in the wrong?

P.S. Also I just want to point out that I've seen with my own eyes the deterioration of cerebral functions in people who heavily rely on AI. I'm not talking about just "forgetting how to code" but I see them losing space awareness (invading personal space, sitting like a liquid on the chair), self awareness (loudly burping, hoarding half-drank bottles of water on the desk), focus and they're easily irritable. It's multiple people behaving like that and they weren't like this before. AI is a drug.

Think of these machines this way, in a battle of artillery which may include direct counterbattery fire or may include other attempts to strike back at opposing artillery such as loitering uavs, russia is playing Worms....

and Ukraine with the RCH 155 is playing Dead Cells

also see

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/germany-trains-over-600-ukrainian-soldiers-for-rch-155-howitzers/

There is only one way immigration deterrence stops people from seeking safety at our borders, and that is to kill them. Those who survived Border Patrol immigration deterrence will now have to survive ICE immigration deterrence. And just as Border Patrol immigration deterrence expected deaths to increase, ICE deaths will increase. The outcomes of immigration deterrence policies are known. Death is acceptable to DHS for those without papers.

If thirty years of deaths caused by immigration deterrence policies is acceptable to our government and it is, then this is not just a concentration camp. These warehouse camps are intentionally designed to be torturous and inhumane which means due process and justice do not exist in these settings.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44597140

As the conflict with Iran expands and intensifies, President Trump’s options — to fight on, or to move toward declaring victory and pulling back — both carry deeply problematic consequences.

March 15, 2026 https://archive.ph/nC5ZA

Despite Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s assertion that Iran’s success in threatening shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was nothing to worry about, that vital waterway remains all but shut down, choking off a big chunk of global trade, especially in oil. By Saturday, Mr. Trump appealed on social media for China, France, Japan, South Korea and Britain to send naval forces to secure the strait, his first public acknowledgment that keeping the vital waterway open could require help and more resources than the United States has in the region now.

By Saturday, plumes of smoke were seen rising from a major oil trading port in the United Arab Emirates after a drone attack. To alleviate price hikes, the United States even suspended sanctions against some Russian oil sales. The U.S. Embassy in Iraq has been attacked twice in recent days.