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Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?

mlg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You could but he has a point. The last time I used master/slave was for IDE drives which was 15+ years ago, and even then only because I happened upon a really old system using IDE drives.

The only thing I see left is “Master” by itself, like master branch. But that makes me think of like a jujitsu master which sounds really cool lol.

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pingveno@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, that definition of “master” is different than master/slave from what I can tell. Think the master copy of an audio recording. There are plenty of perfectly legit uses of “master,” but there’s no reason to use master/slave in this day and age. It was stupid to start doing so to begin with.

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- dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  There are plenty of perfectly legit uses of “master,”
  
  Like the Digmaster™.
  
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- HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Especially with how we say releases are “cut” from the master branch, it makes a ton of sense.
  
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