Notices by Jeff Grigg (jeffgrigg@mastodon.social), page 2

@bontchev @rbairwell @GossiTheDog

"According to information obtained by LBCI, initial reports suggest the pager server was compromised, leading to the installation of a script that caused an overload. This likely resulted in the overheating of the lithium battery, which then exploded."

https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/lebanon-news/796406/understanding-the-pager-and-how-it-can-explode/en

@bontchev @rbairwell @GossiTheDog

The batteries used in phones and laptops can be overloaded. They may catch on fire and possibly explode. This can be done by software, on the cheaper relatively modern devices.

Doesn't surprise me at all that Israel might have done this.

@Leuenberg @bontchev @rbairwell @GossiTheDog

These are the most precise figures that I see:

"At least nine people, including a girl, have been killed and 2,750 wounded in simultaneous explosions of pagers used by Hezbollah members across Lebanon."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/17/israels-war-on-gaza-live-38-killed-as-israel-risks-becoming-pariah

@Leuenberg @bontchev @rbairwell @GossiTheDog

It appears that it was mostly injuries:

"People were seen lying on the pavement with wounds on their hands or near their pants pockets, where the devices were."

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4884318-pager-attack-lebanon-syria-hezbollah/

[I saw another report that some people threw the phones when they got hot, shortly before they exploded, avoiding injury.

@inthehands @cammerman

I Am A Believer!

"There Is No Such Thing as 'Too Much Garlic'!!!"

I'll eat the cloves, streight!

🧄

@notwhatwethink

Thing is, ...

He's got people backing him who are not nearly as stupid.

That's The Scary Part!!! 😱

@forceofhabit @derrydavis @QueenValhalla @joshbressers @GossiTheDog

I've long trusted Kaspersky. They do great work.

Yes, there's a legitimate concern that the Russian government *could* possibly influence or coerce them. But that does not seem to have happened. (At least, not yet.)

@VeroniqueB99

@tokyo_0 @matthewskelton

That may be. And the motivation for the discrimination may not even be as intellectual as objectively observing the performance and ability differences.

Here's a similar idea, from a slightly different angle:

https://mastodon.social/@tdpauw/112457737631632376

@MicroSFF

"And what exactly is *that*?!?" asked the alien, eying the strange device in the human's hand:

@georgetakei

My phone knows that I don't mean "ducking."

🖤

@georgetakei

The Extreme Right lives in a fantasy world, that's full of artificial terrors -- things they just make up, to upset themselves.

My parents often told a story of carrying me, as a very young child, into porn movies. And in one, I perked up and paid a lot of attention every time the prostitute's little dog barked.

Yep; that's right: As a very young child in an adult porn theatre, my fixation was on the little doggie that barked, from time to time. ❤️

@Gargron @bigzaphod

"AI Generated Memes Are The New Thing!!!"

@Gargron

Great Flying Cats!!! ^-^

@prefetcher

I worked in an internal language at EDS R&D that expanded from the two-valued Boolean space way beyond adding null. It had values, and definitions and actions for, ...

We haven't asked for (or gathered or collected) this data *yet*.

We don't know (and we have tried to find out).

Uninitialized / Not Set. (different from null)

.

(And several others that don't come to mind, right at the moment.)

@georgetakei

Well, they're not wrong!

@phiofx @codinghorror

Most people need to walk more. My parents would never walk to the local 7-Eleven; they always drove. It's 3/10ths of a mile, walking, one way. 🙄

We need more busses and trains. Public transport.

And safer bicycling.

And distributed rental bicycles and scooters.

...

(And rental cars, when needed. Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_Now )

@MattFerrel @PacificNic @bryan_edward

Source article:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/23/marshall-islands-rogue-wave-video/72323059007/

@Gargron

Looking for independent input, I find that this site
https://www.techradar.com/best/browser
says

1. Mozilla Firefox
(But: somewhat Slow & Memory Hog)

2. Microsoft Edge
(But: Fight for Default, Does Not Work on Older Computers)

3. Opera
(But: Not Fastest)

4. Google Chrome
(But: Resource Hungry)

5. Vivaldi
(But: Excessively Customizable, to the point of Distraction?)

@Gargron

That's the Best and Most Important shot!!! ❤️

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