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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
daqq:
I just had an epiphany! Red light generally means something bad! Code red, Red fault/error diodes, Red alert... That's clearly racist against redheads and Native Americans. The solution, all visual indications must henceforth be of the same color.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: nuclearcat on July 06, 2020, 08:58:28 am ---And hi again https://www.zdnet.com/article/mysql-drops-master-slave-and-blacklist-whitelist-terminology/
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From that link:
--- Quote ---According to the company, Twitter's engineers plan to remove nine insensitive terms, including whitelist, blacklist, master/slave, grandfathered, various gendered pronouns, and terms like man hours, sanity check, and dummy value. Each will be replaced with the following new terms, Twitter said.
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Told you it never ends. Hope everyone enjoys the future they are creating.
bd139:
Indeed. Ushering in an age of newspeak.
Misguided good intentions can do more harm than anything.
Edit: oh and fuck “y’all” as a replacement for anything. Idiocracy here we come.
tom66:
Wait, DUMMY value now? Children suck on dummies. Are we saying they now suck on placeholders?
tggzzz:
"Grandfathered" != "legacy", in many walks of life.
Example: people that were driving cars in 1935 (when the driving test was introduced) never had to take the test; they had "grandfather rights". Indeed my grandfather never did take a test, despite driving into the 1980s when he was in his 80s. There are other examples in aviation.
As for "y'all" or "folks", no. Just no.
Having said that, I think "allow list" is better than "white list"; the meaning is explicit rather than having to be inferred.
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