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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
Simon:
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--- Quote from: madires on July 04, 2020, 10:13:11 am ---Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms like 'master,' 'slave': https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-engineers-replace-racially-loaded-tech-terms-like-master-slave/
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Finally, racism has been solved.
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I looked at Twitter's own twitter account the other day, and holy activism Batman! :o
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Good god, I got to the reason being "rekick" and just stopped reading, so reboot, bootstrap, is there something wrong with these too? what about bootloader?
Gyro:
Did you guys just mention "holy" and "God"? :scared: :D
Simon:
holy shit, holy crap, holy how - come get me suckers :-DD :scared:
bd139:
No one has invoked Godwin yet so we’re good I think.
Simon:
who's that?
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