Notices by mcscx (mcscx@quitter.se), page 95
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Deutsche Welle (inoffiziell) (deutschewelle@squeet.me)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2018 10:54:54 EST 
Deutsche Welle (inoffiziell)
Die Christsozialen haben sich bei ihrer Klausur wieder mächtig ins Zeug gelegt. Weniger Holzhammer wäre besser, meint Kay-Alexander Scholz und empfiehlt der CSU, ihre Medienstrategie zu überdenken. http://www.dw.com/de/kommentar-falsche-antworten-auf-die-afd/a-42047193?maca=de-rss-de-all-1119-xml-atom #CSU #AfD #Seeon #AlexanderDobrindt #ManfredWeber -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 21:52:57 EST 
Mike Gerwitz
Just got word that I'll be speaking again at this year's #LibrePlanet! I was going to attend regardless, but I'm very excited to be able to continue to build off of last year's talk.
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.
My previous talks can be found here:
https://mikegerwitz.com/talks
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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. -
lake mongol (eal@social.sakamoto.gq)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 04:32:26 EST 
lake mongol
Fun fact: Linus Torvalds’s dad is running for president in Finland this year. -
pinkprius (pinkprius@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2018 15:26:03 EST 
pinkprius
This makes me so angry.
#Homelessness & #refugees a the result of how society is set up, not a fault of affected folks.
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mcscx (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 19:08:08 EST 
mcscx
@vfrmedia I have some reel-to-reel tape recorders sitting somewhere… tube & transistor. Too bad the rubber belts always go bad @cypnk -
mcscx (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 19:04:50 EST
mcscx
@vfrmedia interesting – in Germany tube radios had long disappeared & were concidered prehistoric at least in 1975. @cypnk -
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 18:45:40 EST 
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
@mcscx @cypnk I also remember the smell from working on electronics in high school, we often reused a lot of 1970s era surplus components and circuit boards, I think British Telecom donated a lot of them as where I lived we had an unusually advanced (for UK) electronic telephone exchange which was upgraded several times, as a lot of audio from #ColdWar #radiomonitoring and #surveillance went through the region due to the #BBC #Caversham Monitoring service being down the road!
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mcscx (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 18:50:12 EST
mcscx
@vfrmedia interesting:in 1978 a 20 yr old phone or tube radio was antique! Now my 1982 Sinclair Spectrum is 36 yrs old! unbelievable… @cypnk -
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 18:32:49 EST
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
@mcscx Unfortunately my chemistry isn't very good (I'm slightly better at electronics) so I am also probably getting the names of the plastics mixed up.
There was also some stuff called Paxolin (possibly known as Pertinax in other North European countries) which was paper bulked up with similar phenol formaldehyde resin used for a lot of ciircuit boards Its use was discouraged at some point in 1970s(?) and now EU banned/restricted as the dust from that stuff is suspected to give you cancer!
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mcscx (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 18:40:35 EST
mcscx
@vfrmedia ha! I looked up exactly the word #Pertinax some minutes ago but only found Roman things… so yes, that may be the thing. -
mcscx (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 18:37:50 EST
mcscx
@vfrmedia I got the W48 phone from my grandfather as a play-thing in ~1978 when it was 15-30 yrs old… not really old actually @cypnk -
mcscx (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 18:24:51 EST
mcscx
@vfrmedia you may be right although the bakelite case doesnt have a specific smell to me but the interior.Either circuit board or insulation -
mcscx (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 18:10:25 EST
mcscx
@vfrmedia not tubes and heat… I'm imagining the smell of the Siemens W48 http://qttr.at/21b9 telephone, inside. I loved it as a boy. @cypnk -
mcscx (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 17:56:33 EST
mcscx
@cypnk looking at the photo I can almost "smell the smell"… The brown circuit board material of that age (often) had a specific smell
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