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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
madires:
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on June 11, 2020, 11:21:14 am ---As for male and female connectors? Always just called them plug and socket. Avoids the sniggering idiots :o
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Over here the common terms for connectors are also plug (Stecker) and socket (Buchse, a built-in female connector). But we also have coupling (Kupplung, female connector at the end of a cable).
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on June 11, 2020, 11:21:14 am ---So what about a web site whitelist/blacklist though?
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The internet and telecommunications terminology is full of masters, slaves, whitelists, blacklists and so on. If you replace those terms with something else you would cause a lot of fun.
madires:
--- Quote from: JPortici on June 11, 2020, 11:31:09 am ---Edit: this is ethically wrong :-DD
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DB13W3 (the version with three coaxial sub-connectors) was used for video interfaces in old workstations like Sun or SGI.
coppice:
--- Quote from: Someone on June 11, 2020, 07:02:23 am ---Eliminating the accurate use of the word only dodges the shameful things that people have done to other people in the past, it still happened.
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What's this "in the past" thing? There are more people in slavery today than at the height of American slavery.
themadhippy:
Neutrik were ahead of the game when they released the transgender plug sockets connector ,NC3FM-C
aandrew:
--- Quote from: Someone on June 11, 2020, 07:02:23 am ---Producer/Consumer was a soft attempt at a "computerised" term but never really caught on in synchronous exchanges.
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No, Producer/Consumer is quite different from master/slave. The former is about data flow, where the latter is about control. The closest analogue I've seen to master/slave is leader/follower. It still implies some kind of control relationship, but IMO is still more open to misinterpretation about what is actually going on.
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