The title of this year's talk is The Ethics Void. Here's a rough abstract:
Medicine, legal, finance, journalism, scientific research—each of these fields and many others have widely adopted codes of ethics governing the lives of their professionals. Some of these codes may even be enshrined in law. And this is for good reason: these are fields that have enormous consequences.
Software and technology pervade not only through these fields, but through virtually every aspect of our lives. Yet, when compared to other fields, our community leaders and educators have produced an ethics void. Last year, I introduced numerous topics concerning #privacy, #security, and #freedom that raise serious ethical concerns. Join me this year as we consider some of those examples and others in an attempt to derive a code of ethics that compares to each of these other fields, and to consider how leaders and educators should approach ethics within education and guidance.
For this talk, I want to solicit the community at various points. I know what _I_ want to talk about, but what are some of the most important ethical issues to _you_? Unfortunately there's far too much to fit into a 40m talk! Also feel free to e-mail me at mtg@gnu.org.
People switching away from malicious operating systems, towards user friendly / freedom respecting ones such as Linux OS's, often ask "the rites of passage in Linux?".
One delightful view for this passage:
"Killing the urge to distro-hop and meaningfully use a system to do the work you really need. The basic rite of passage is when you realize that they are just tools to achieve your goals. When you try to improve these tools, the level increases by one."
@solariiknight #women#freedom#sex when it comes to women... alsmost all men in india, seems to take out their brain/mind + rationality out their head and damp in a inorganic rich ditch..., and replace the space with a bunch of rotten sausages
when it comes to arrange in india, almost... both men women are objectified (with varying degrees), either with ignorance or sincere ignorance along with dowry.... #bsmarriage#objectification#bscinemas
In defense of Central Board of film certification, who recently refused to award certification for the film 'lipstick under my burkha' https://social.systemreboot.net/url/43451 Quote: "Despite rumors to the contrary, Indians know that women don't masturbate. There are no women who want to have sex just for the sake of sex. No women who want to pick up men, have sex and say thank you, goodbye. (Men do this but women don't.) Everything that women wear each day of their lives is to either please men or provoke them. Women don't have a body independent of how it exists in the minds of men. Every aspect of a woman's life exists for consumption by men. Coming to the board's beef with women using abuses/expletives, I can't believe that experienced filmmakers can be this naive." ;) !India #women #freedom #sex