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

--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 21, 2020, 02:25:14 am ---Adafruit are replacing Master/Slave and other terms in all their documentation:
https://www.adafruit.com/blacklivesmatter

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Another jumpjack that can't break away

And why does Adafruit need a certificate valid until end of June 2025 that is "woman owned"? 
https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/17/adafruit-is-a-certified-minority-and-woman-owned-business-enterprise-m-wbe/
Is her mirror broken? What happens July 1st  2025?
Wasn't it "woman owned last year too ?
So many questions....


PlainName:

--- Quote ---Adafruit are replacing Master/Slave and other terms in all their documentation:
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Got to say that in their case the alternative 'microcontroller out, sensor in' does make sense and is more descriptive. Of course, it's bollocks for the protocol proper, but since Adafruit generally make micro-controlled stuff this would no doubt save an entry in their FAQ.
magic:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on June 20, 2020, 07:55:35 pm ---It seems to me the far right and the far left share the same trait of having their "eyes wide shut".  People somewhere in the middle, trying to make things work, are rarely the problem.

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You can show a horse water but you cannot force him to drink.

This is what the commies didn't understand and the USSR is no more. It is also what the Western liberals don't understand and we can guess what's coming - same trivialization and intimidation tactics against half of the population, and a slowly but surely growing rot and decline. Everything that you are trying to make work will not work and should have never been attempted to make work. That's my message in one sentence if you wish.

One day you will realize that because of people like me you will never have good things and you will become a radical SJW yourself. Or you will give up like I did. Or you will be posting like one former member here "I'm glad that I'm old enough to die soon anyway, so what do I care, I have done my due for social progress". Or you will be like Chomsky - old wise sage watching the world burn because nobody listens to him nor ever will.

Liberalism as we know it is based on wishful thinking for things that failed to materialize. It's depleted and has no future. Americans could have realized 10 years ago that it's bunk when they were crying that the Internet will democratize communications and give voice to marginalized people, completely oblivious that they have spent their whole lives marginalizing racists :palm:

I still cannot believe how dumb people like Jack Dorsey were and they deserve every single vote that had been cast for You Know Who a few years later. Silicon Valley is in massive damage control ever since, trying to somehow restore the old system of liberal "gatekeeping" without violating their supposedly liberal (almost anarchist) principles.


I have spent years arguing with SV liberals that they should slow down, long before the whole trainwreck of mid-2010s happened. I'm done. I will watch their world burn.

My only concern at this point is to contain America and keep it from metastasizing.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: John B on June 20, 2020, 08:43:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: Simon on June 20, 2020, 08:31:07 pm ---Yea Australia uses such a system and they tried to get it in the UK but the right wing party lied hard enough about how it would not work and be too expensive and generally confused people enough that they won and there was no change.

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We're still stuck flip-flopping between Liberal and Labour parties, although there are major alternatives for representation in the house and senate.
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Yes, we have independents in the senate, although sadly only one at present, but it has been more. And some smaller parties too.
My electorate has no independent candidates, so I'm forced to pick a party, I hate that and have even thought about running as an independent myself so I can vote for myself  ;D
Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 21, 2020, 06:55:10 am ---have even thought about running as an independent myself so I can vote for myself  ;D
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I'd hate for someone like me getting real political power; they'd be a straight up dick-tator.  :-[
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