Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wish we’d stop calling them “exploding batteries”. The battery isn’t the explosive, it’s the explosives that were hidden in the device.

  Do you want to stop calling them exploding pagers too? How about other exploding things? And what should en.wikipedia.org/…/2024_Lebanon_pager_explosions be renamed to? Maybe 2024 Lebanon explosions of explosives inside of pagers? 🙄

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• grudan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Title felt misleading.

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• jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  but the article is about exploding batteries, no?

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  • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s like saying exploding cars when you’re really talking about a bomb placed in a car…

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “A bomb going 80 mph on the highway exploded.”

      Doesn’t give the right information.

      And if we’re being pedantic, when a bomb explodes, so does everything around it. Exploding doesn’t require a chemical reaction. It’s the act of tearing apart quickly. So yes, the car exploded.

      That’s in English though. Other languages may be different.

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