So you are not passively working against progress, you are doing it actively.
Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 weeks agoI insist on renaming main to master every time I create a repo on GitLab. Master forever, even if it doesn’t make much sense.
meekah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That makes no sense whatsoever.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
most things in life make very little sense, have you ever thought about land rights?
flerp@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
considering the way that native/aboriginal people view the land that they inhabit, it’s pretty common for certain geographic places to be considered “sacred” or ritualistic. Prior to the colonization of these lands these people just existed, living on their land, little to no concept of “westernized land rights” until the western people showed up and colonized, killing a lot of them in the process.
And obviously there were fights, as per usual it’s the one constant behind who holds what land. But beyond fighting for your territory in a literal sense. Isn’t it funny that we all live on a piece of land that we bought and own or lease/rent from the local government? Who in turn is the legal rights holder of that land specifically. We as individual land owners aren’t fighting wars, it’s the government in this example who is the “haha i killed you it’s my land now” entity. Only to turn around and then go “here, you can have this but only if you give me money.”
Aside from the little slips of paper that we have, which are so called “binding agreements” between two or more individuals. The only thing that defines who owns what land, is who defends that title of ownership most successfully. And in this case, it’s the government. But the concept of land ownership itself is fucking stupid to begin with. How much land do we own? How do we own it? to what level of ownership does having a plot of land constitute? There are so many questions, and very few are answered.
You may own a piece of land, but if you have a river running through that property, you don’t own the river. It’s not a thing that you can do. You could also own a piece of land, say for example a random sand dune in indiana somewhere. And then consume that sand dune in the process of making funny blue colored glass for electrical insulators. Do you own the sand anymore? Do you own the land where the sand once was? Does that piece of land even exist anymore?
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
It makes sense because “master copy” is the name of the “official” version of something. Nothing to do with slavery by the way.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s already not the master copy if you have release branches or tags, but it is the “main” branch 🤪
meekah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But “Main” is more clear, and putting in extra effort to basically just piss off politically (over)correct people doesn’t make any sense, and is kinda weird tbh
NostraDavid@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I don’t know about Scrollone, but I hate it when corporations force me to change for the sake of change. Options to change is fine (in case someone doesn’t like the default), of course.
And no, “inclusivity” is not the actual reason, as that’s already covered by adding the option to change (which again, is completely fine)