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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
GeorgeOfTheJungle:
I've just created a new repo in gitlab and the master branch is still called master. Don't know about GH as I'm staying away since the day M$ bought it. I did the same with Skype and LinkedIn.
They're also in the process of killing Atom in favor of VSC.
bd139:
Yeah they are probably patching it now.
Discovered the word "crybullying" which describes this shit perfectly.
coppice:
--- Quote from: Jeroen3 on June 14, 2020, 01:41:15 pm ---Github and Gitlab gave in. Since apparently you shouldn't name the default branch master anymore.
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The master baiters have won.
When will they be coming for those Masters degrees?
Simon:
--- Quote from: coppice on June 14, 2020, 02:08:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jeroen3 on June 14, 2020, 01:41:15 pm ---Github and Gitlab gave in. Since apparently you shouldn't name the default branch master anymore.
--- End quote ---
The master baiters have won.
When will they be coming for those Masters degrees?
--- End quote ---
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Cerebus:
--- Quote from: coppice on June 14, 2020, 02:08:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jeroen3 on June 14, 2020, 01:41:15 pm ---Github and Gitlab gave in. Since apparently you shouldn't name the default branch master anymore.
--- End quote ---
The master baiters have won.
When will they be coming for those Masters degrees?
--- End quote ---
Well, you could always have a Mistress degree. :)
Some good number of years ago a lass was promoted to being a director at the company I was then working at. She insisted that she was not called a "director" but a "directrix" because the word is Latin derived and to call her by an explicitly male name was linguistically wrong (cf dominator/dominatrix). She also used to rail against the then fashion of renaming "chairman" to "chairperson" - quoth her: "What's wrong with 'chairwoman', you scared of someone with tits having the job little boy?". I didn't like her very much before that particular rant but I warmed to her a lot after it.
On the subject of Master/Mistress, Mistress always used to have a connotation of being in charge - "May I speak to the Mistress of the house?". With "Mistress" taking on a sexual connotation in recent years this usage has rather fallen by the wayside. I find it faintly amusing that that the modern usage, to refer to a (generally covert) female lover, quietly carries the old meaning with it, "we know who's really in charge". :D
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