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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts

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Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on July 22, 2020, 12:26:26 am ---The world is getting stupid, beyond stupid, simply ignorant and unintelligent.

Who wants to go in and buy part share in an island somewhere? The intelligent and those who can contribute meaningfully to a society need only apply. ;-)

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Private islands are pretty dicey. For the record, Ed Kloonk didn't kill himself.

maginnovision:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 22, 2020, 12:20:32 am ---
--- Quote from: Simon on July 21, 2020, 03:53:21 pm ---A work colleague got me to do a questionnaire that I think was on the Guardian website. He was amazed when I scored just left of the middle, it was some 4 quadrant thing with different figures of political past for each.
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That sounds like the political compass test I'm talking about.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/

I don't know how accurate it is, but it seems to have become the defacto standard.

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I can't honestly agree with a poll when it doesn't have an I don't care option. That said I scored 2.38/-2.56.

John B:
In regards to this article:

https://cdm.link/2020/06/lets-dump-master-slave-terms/

The body of the article is essentially not worth acknowledging, but the end of the article references a tweet from the creator of Reaper saying that the June 15th release version of reaper would remove references to master/slave.

Well, it's July now, and he didn't do exactly that. There is now a "black lives matter" reference in the about/credits, which is rather out of place to see in the program, but it's in the same vein as someone dedicating the program to god. It's just a personal statement by the author.

One menu that I can find has changed to "lead/follow" terminology, but the word master is still present everywhere in the program. Perhaps he realised that promising to remove the word master from a DAW was a very, very stupid thing to promise. He's essentially made a giant rod for his own back.

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: John B on July 22, 2020, 12:40:11 am ---In regards to this article:

https://cdm.link/2020/06/lets-dump-master-slave-terms/

The body of the article is essentially not worth acknowledging, but the end of the article references a tweet from the creator of Reaper saying that the June 15th release version of reaper would remove references to master/slave.

Well, it's July now, and he didn't do exactly that. There is now a "black lives matter" reference in the about/credits, which is rather out of place to see in the program, but it's in the same vein as someone dedicating the program to god. It's just a personal statement by the author.

One menu that I can find has changed to "lead/follow" terminology, but the word master is still present everywhere in the program. Perhaps he realised that promising to remove the word master from a DAW was a very, very stupid thing to promise. He's essentially made a giant rod for his own back.

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Oh, wow I hadn't thought about that. Alsa/PulseAudio. Now there will be even more ways for sound to be broken on Linux.

John B:
To be specific, here is the exact response:


--- Quote ---The next release (today!) will have Lead/Follow for groups, other terms renamed
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So, technically he promised one menu. But if you are operating under the assumption that master is somehow a racially loaded term, why would you only change things in one menu? If you are operating under consistent principles, they all have to go.

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