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Keynote: Embedded Ethics by Patricia Aas

Patricia Aas's EuroBSDCon keynote is about ethics for people who build software, covering how the tech industry got to its current state and what engineers can do about it. It steps back from technical detail to the bigger picture.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters strongly recommend it as a thoughtful talk on tech worker ethics that has not aged.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
EuroBSDCon
Topic
software engineering ethics
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • For engineers reading this who work at a tech company, or well, any company. Watch this keynote talk by Patricia Aas. It's called Embedded Ethics. And it is crystal clear many of you need to watch it. [VIDEO]

    notaplumber on Hacker News · 2019-11
    In Update: UniFi Phone Home/Performance Data Collection

  • On another topic, someone recently posted this youtube video of a Norwegian engineer explaining her views on tech worker ethics, how we've got here and maybe a way to fix it or atleast improve on the current situation. I'd recommend showing it to your commute …

    simpss on Hacker News · 2019-11
    In Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

  • I watched this in 2020 even though it's from EuroBSDCon 2019. I'm talking about Patricia Aas keynote "Embedded Ethics": [VIDEO] Hasn't aged one bit. If anything Patricia is spot on pretty much everything. If you don't have time to spend on this, you may want …

    marios on Hacker News · 2020-12
    In Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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