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

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madires:

--- Quote from: cgroen on June 11, 2020, 11:03:02 am ---How about some diversity among gender changers, what if want to change my DB9 male to something not female/male  :-DD

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Those are called "diverse" (the official German term for anything/anyone neither female nor male).

Syntax Error:
I must admit, I have never been happy with the use of the term master and slave. I suggest somewhere the meaning was lost in translation? Primary and secondary or, host and target or, client and server, no issue with those. Even a layer or node notation fits better with today's bus controller methodologies; such as USB or CAN.

As for male and female connectors? Always just called them plug and socket. Avoids the sniggering idiots :o

So what about a web site whitelist/blacklist though?

+ Bluetooth allows the creation of a Multislave Piconet. Hashtag-BANBLUETOOTH! You read it here first :-X

JPortici:
This again?


--- Quote from: ataradov on June 11, 2020, 07:16:24 am ---Next they will go for male and female connectors :)

Those are just words. There is no need to eliminate them from the language entirely if they were used for bad things in one specific context.

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They are already doing that for connectors.. and frankly it's better for clarity :) one assumes male is plug with male terminal and female a socket/receptacle with female terminal.
Well, here in the automotive world we have all four genders (mostly receptacles with male terminals and plugs with female terminals) and sometimes you even see some crazy hermaphrodite mix

And just to be sure, in the harness drawings we put the photos of the various components so they can not be mixed up

Edit: this is ethically wrong  :-DD

donotdespisethesnake:
I worked on a disk drive project. Historically, bad sectors have been described as being "blacked", and added to the "blacklist".  We were told to stop using that term, and use "blocked" instead. This got really confusing, because disks have blocks as well. In addition, "blocked" is also used in software to describe threads that are suspended.

Technical meetings became a careful dance around trying to work out what people were referring to without using any of the bad words. I don't know if it helped inclusiveness or not, and it made no difference to the behavior of the manager who consistently expressed homophobic, sexist and racist attitudes but got away with it by not using the banned words.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Syntax Error on June 11, 2020, 11:21:14 am ---I must admit, I have never been happy with the use of the term master and slave. I suggest somewhere the meaning was lost in translation? Primary and secondary or, host and target or, client and server, no issue with those.

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Master/slave is used where the master tells the slave what to do, and the slave just does it.

Primary/secondary doesn't work because those terms are used for entities that are nominally equal: the secondary takes over when the primary becomes unavailable.

Host/target doesn't work because typically a host contains something, sometimes the target.

Client/server doesn't work, because the flow of information and control is not one way, plus because of the X-Window system :)

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