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EVs obsession is placing an entire population at risk of genocide

That's a pretty ridiculous headline imo

  • Nickel is used for lots of things
  • "EV obsession" is not a thing unless "ICE obsession" exists, and both sound ridiculous
  • The mining companies are responsible for their own actions, not consumers at large
  • Indonesia is letting this occur and could theoretically step in at any time as far as I can tell
  • Genocides are always on "an entire population" so that phrase is meaningless

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Has a stranger's reply to you on social media ever changed your strongly-held belief(s)?

Yes, but not in a way you might think.

When it comes to the death penalty, I've always been on the "against" side of the fence. But for very heinous crimes, I believed I understood why families of victims would want to pursue that.

On an online forum, I encountered such a family member. They shared the crime in great detail, and how they felt about the assailant. The way they discussed it was very ugly, selfish, and overly punitive. It was clear they no longer viewed the person as a human being. They weren't able to process the trauma. This changed my belief that there are rational arguments for the death penalty from family members.

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Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only

Disputing a CVE is no straightforward task either, as a GitHub security team member explained. It requires a project maintainer to chase the CVE Numbering Authorities (CNA) that had originally issued the CVE.

CNAs have conventionally comprised NIST's NVD and MITRE. Over the past few years, technology companies and security vendors joined the list and are also able to issue CVEs at will.

These seems like an issue worth addressing. If it's too easy to report and too difficult to dispute, I could see the CVE ecosystem be weaponized and turned into a political tool.

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College Students Say Tesla Is Canceling Summer Internships

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Software updates have, more than once, changed my settings for things like autopilot without warning, and I've only discovered it when driving and turning autopilot on.

I feel like this point can't be overstated enough. When I need to go somewhere, I shouldn't need to reorient myself because the car receives software updates all the time. A device that's constantly changing is inherently unreliable, even if technically it's improving over time.