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IT Nerd of 30yrs and avid hobbiest of genealogy, geology and science in general.

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Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible
  • Enshitificication of Reddit continues!

    The beatings will continue until community morale increases... and of course: profits.

  • Workstation Rehaul (Advice Needed)
  • Try Synergy!

    https://symless.com/synergy

    This software allows you to use one keyboard and one mouse across multiple Windows, Mac and Linux systems with ease. I am in IT and use it between three desktops and laptops with different operating systems.

    I bought Synergy when it was a kickstarter and I believe you can download and try it for free before you buy.

    Worth a try, sincerely.

    edit: Reddit has a few reviews on it just in case you want to ensure it's a real thing and it's not malware from an Internet stranger:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/MouseReview/comments/11vu5k7/does_anyone_here_have_experience_with_symless/

  • Trump adviser green-lights 'states that want to set up full menstrual surveillance departments'
  • So long as they can also set up a semen surveillance department to prosecute men for leaving their jizz between couch cushions and fleshlights.

  • Wtf does this exist?
  • There's tournaments to kill them annually in at least 5 states I know of: Utah, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota and Kansas.

    So this is far more humane than farmers, ranchers and hunters: shooting them, suffocating them with smoke bombs, poisoning them, blowing them up different ways or by other means.

    I've seen some of it done. It's gross.

  • Time's gone mad on my laptop? Turned off internet time, set it manually, it changed it back to "mad time."
  • Possibilities:

    • Laptop bios time is way off from the OS causing it to revert with every reboot
    • Laptop mobo/bios battery (not li-on laptop battery) going bad, causing time drift on the realtime clock (rtc) from which the OS gets time from
    • Laptop not getting proper time from internet, causing ntp drift

    Suggestions:

  • She was accused of murder after losing her pregnancy. SC woman now tells her story
  • See? If Trump is elected, women won't "Be thinking about abortion"

    Now we know why: because they'll be in jail!

  • California accuses ExxonMobil of lying about plastics being recyclable
  • This one is a bit better:

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-plastics-lawsuit-exxon/

    "The attorney general's office pointed to industry documents from the 1970s calling plastics recycling "infeasible" and casting doubt that recycling plastic could ever be economically viable, according to the April announcement."

    "Bonta specifically named Exxon's advanced recycling program as being misleading Monday. "92% of plastics in advanced recycling become transportation fuel — only a very small amount is recycled," he said. "Exxon can only recycle about 1% of its own plastic.""

  • Why an Alaska island is using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist
  • Interesting fact: Attu, "rat island" became infested during WW2 due to Japanese and American ships making landfall on the island and fighting for it.

  • $10,000 BYD Seagull EV Outsold All Other Cars In China Last Month
  • AKA the fraud cycle. Absolutely no way they're getting >6 miles/kwh

    Downhill... with gale winds going with the EV... while running in economy mode.

  • Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode
  • So wait, you come storming in trolling fake bs fake. Then I come back with citations that I sincerely forgot, you then respond with zero evidence to the contrary to "educate me" and go out of your way to just shut down, cross your arms and pout?

    Yeah. really, sincerely, you have zero ethics.

  • Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode
  • Surprised you responded, I'll respond back later when I get home so I can share the level of detail it is I am talking about.

  • Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode
  • Thank you for reminding me, edited in the citations. Back to work.

  • Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode
  • Oh please educate me troll. I am waiting.

  • Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode
  • The newer gapollo ALA25v6 by Apollo is in Farsi and I am having trouble translating from pdf, but I found an older one for the ala25v4 in English here:

    https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1198103/Gold-Apollo-Al-A25.html?page=23&term=voltage&selected=1#manual

  • Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode
  • Here's your detailed tech possible explanation with citations:

    Pagers known used in the attack were Apollo Gold AP-700, AP-900 and AP-924, which all use the same ALA25 programmable logic chip.

    If you google the Gold Apollo AL-A25 Programming Manual and look for battery gauge inputs, you can see it is possible to program the voltage ranges.

    By setting the battery gauge level-high to an invalid selection that is also greater than the low level it creates a bridge between the anode and cathode, resulting in thermal runaway which will in fact cause the battery to overload and explode due to the increased temperatures.

    We've done this using similar batteries on battery backed write cache controllers sitting in a nema-3 enclosure just to see what the tolerances are.

    Edit Citations:

    https://www.mitsubishicritical.com/resources/blog/thermal-runaway/

    https://www.apollopagers.com/support/al-a25-gold-pc-programming-manual/

    https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1198103/Gold-Apollo-Al-A25.html?page=23&term=voltage&selected=1#manual

    Programmable chip responsible:

    GAPOLLO AL-A25_6 RA5794.1 chip = AP-900 and AR-924 models

  • Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode
  • Yeah, news still coming in, hard to make sense of it all. I am now seeing models in the attack as being: Apollo Gold AP-700, AP-900 and AR-924.

    Ap-900 Battery electrical specs: 10-30VDC or 8-18VAC Input 3-40VDC/25VAC Standby <10mA Active <100mA Tolerance -10'C ~ +50'C

    Ah. So the G_Apollo AL-A25 logic chip used in these models is programmable and unlocked by default lol.

    Programmable chip responsible:

    GAPOLLO AL-A25_6 RA5794.1 chip = AP-900 and AR-924 models

  • Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode
  • Reading a bit more into it, seems all of them were Motorola Apollo Gold pagers (I stand corrected), so they had to have exploited the li-on charging pins to either create a loop causing thermal runaway, or spam different voltage discharging signals via their payload. Regardless, it's a truly impressive exploit.