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

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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

this is actually a terminology that i would be interested on seeing the historical context for actually. My assumption has always been light based “whitelist referring to a well lit room, where as blacklist refers to a completely dark room” making things easy/hard to find as a a result.

It could also literally just be a coincidence and it simply sounded better for the allow list to be whitelisted, and the deny list to be blacklisted, humans have weird connections to words like that.

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