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

--- Quote from: wilfred on June 23, 2020, 12:11:30 pm ---But I think COON cheese will get away without change since it was named after the inventor.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-23/nestle-red-skins-chicos-allens-lollies-rebrand-overtones/12384986
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I think they are only 10 blue checkmark retweets away from caving.
EEVblog:

--- 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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If you are interested in how entrenched the terms are in the industry, take Adafruit's site as but one example:
https://www.adafruit.com/?q=slave

No less than 14 pages (140 actual web pages) full of products, tutorials and demos etc that use the word slave. And 52 pages (520 actual web pages) for the word master.

And even if you removed the words master and slave from every one of those 600+ pages, you'd still have MISO and MOSI embedded in documentation and source code and PCB silkscreens etc.
GeorgeOfTheJungle:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 23, 2020, 10:33:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: SkyMaster on June 23, 2020, 06:50:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on June 23, 2020, 07:56:32 am ---Are we going to ban the term "coloured wire" in case it offends people who remember pre-civil-rights times when black people were called similar terms?

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Black, yellow, white and brown wires need to be banned, because choosing one particular colour over the others would be a demonstration of racism  ;)
 :)

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Be an ally and use rainbow cable exclusively for all projects.



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In the 70's that's the ribbon cable that was all over the place, used ~ every where.
John B:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 23, 2020, 10:37:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: wilfred on June 23, 2020, 12:11:30 pm ---But I think COON cheese will get away without change since it was named after the inventor.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-23/nestle-red-skins-chicos-allens-lollies-rebrand-overtones/12384986
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I think they are only 10 blue checkmark retweets away from caving.

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Does Coon Cheese even have a twitter account? I couldn't find anything, and people weren't tagging an obvious account.

If they don't, it's probably the sanest move for a company. Twitter just seems like a madhouse where people try to constantly outdo each other for the hottest and most inflammatory takes. I think the typical phenomenon of companies caving to mobs is because of twitter concentrating raw crazy in one area, and then companies listening to that.

Worth noting: obviously people were pointing out to this comedian that instigated the whole twatstorm, that the cheese is named after the cheesemaker. Here is his response:


--- Quote ---Josh Thomas @JoshThomas87
Replying to @mrpford
What’s the big deal about changing it? Honestly? Who does that hurt?
11:25 AM · Jun 14, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
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My, doesn't that gaslighting sound familiar? Here, just change this little thing, just one thing, why are you resisting, it's not like I have a laundry list of things after this one....
magic:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 23, 2020, 10:57:13 pm ---And even if you removed the words master and slave from every one of those 600+ pages, you'd still have MISO and MOSI embedded in documentation and source code and PCB silkscreens etc.

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There is literally nothing socially injust about microcontroller in sensor out :-//
Join the revolution, comrade!

That's why this change is needed. Technical terms should reflect technical reality, not be references to abhorrent practices of white people.
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