I wonder how they communicated GUI colors then.
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DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 11 months ago
It’s not that unlike what companies were doing to appease the woke gods, a friend works at Salesforce and he had to change the name of a class called Blacklist to something else because apparently they’re not allowed to use the word black in any context in the code
Saleh@feddit.org 11 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just call it the zero color wink wink
amon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
#000000?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Some parts of some DEI initiatives were dumb during the BLM protests, therefore we must do digital nazi bookburnings.🤡
0x0@programming.dev 11 months ago
Same with the master branch.
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You what the master terminology comes from? Master and slave. USB devices do this day use this terminology master device and slave device. There’s no reason to be perpetuating the terms sever and client work fine. Main branch also works fine.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Master in branch meant the same as the master of an audio track or video. We haven’t all stopped saying “remaster” or “masterpiece”.
As it turns out, there are software developers from outside the country with people whose grandparents-grandparents were chattel slaves, and they name things without the same baggage. It’s Gulf of America stuff, but for the ‘good guys’.
towerful@programming.dev 11 months ago
I don’t think the argument is worth having.
Only thing I will say is that the audio world has no common meaning for a slave.
Programming does.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Main branch sounds like it’s pro-tree and therefore anti-mushroom! Get him, everyone!!!
amon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Imo the main branch should be called the trunk.
Petter1@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Blocklist is way better than blacklist anyway 😇
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 11 months ago
But, it is unlike that. Companies were changing the name of an existing feature to be more inclusive. Trump is more REMOVING data sets or data fields entirely. It’s not renaming “gender” to “sex” because they believe there is no difference, it’s completely removing climate change information from websites.