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

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SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: paulca on June 30, 2020, 06:47:20 pm ---Sounding like I've changed sides.  Would you....

Consider a protocol which referred to roles and relationships such as Pimp, Whore, Trick inappropriate?

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What about male and female plugs and sockets?   Surely such blatant sexism cannot be tolerated.

Mastro Gippo:
Also, this is not what I would expect from engineers. CIPO and COPI are simply retarded. Engineers solve problems (assuming there was a problem to begin with) smartly. There:

MISO = Main In Secondary Out
MOSI = Main Out Secondary In

At this point, it's clear that they only wanted free press, and we're giving it to them. What can we do to publicly tell what the actual community thinks? We thought that THEY (oshwa, hackaday, etc) were the ones who spoke for the community, and we gave them that power when they actually were doing good things. Now we don't have anyone to represent us but ourselves.

bd139:

--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on June 30, 2020, 07:13:32 pm ---That reminds me:  A lot of my programs utilize pools of worker threads.  Do you think they'll ban that, worker, too?

If "master" and "slave" are offensive in a technical context, having a "worker" do menial software tasks must be too, I guess.  :palm:

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Correct. Subordination is the foundation of hierarchy. Hierarchy is the foundation of order and society.

If we erase this we’re, to use a technical term, fucked.

Simon:

--- Quote from: Mastro Gippo on June 30, 2020, 07:23:46 pm ---Also, this is not what I would expect from engineers. CIPO and COPI are simply retarded. Engineers solve problems (assuming there was a problem to begin with) smartly. There:


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Hm, controller and peripheral? sounds like a controlling relationship where the victim is marginalized, how dare they normalize such behavior, clearly the controller is male and the peripheral female.

paulca:

--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on June 30, 2020, 07:13:32 pm ---That reminds me:  A lot of my programs utilize pools of worker threads.  Do you think they'll ban that, worker, too?


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Workers are disposable.  They are spawned to serve a purpose and complete a task serving client, they are then immediately terminated and all resources they had held are released.  Any children they spawned are considered trash and collected along with their resources.

This could literally be a section from a software framework manual.  Or server daemons like Apache.... and don't tell me that apache.org is racist too, now?

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