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

• sandbox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the master branch in git refers to mastering, the same as the term “remastered”

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  • ultramaven@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean none of these things need to mean slavery unless you’re so steeped in guilt and shame and anger that everything does

    Seriously like I literally never once thought about slavery whenever typing “master” until these fucking people brought it up. Like maybe we can abolish the stock market or something, changing master to main is just masturbating

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s really a trivial change and if there’s any possibility it contributes to a hostile industry, why not? I’m not going to tell other how they feel, nor is there any real downside.

      If it helps get me a more diverse candidate pool I can hire from, even better

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    • maniii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A master-drivetrain and a slaved-drivetrain … its not about slavery. I dont understand why people have to be so sensitive. We know human slavery is bad. So we dont do it. Same for a lot of instances of Animal slavery which is acceptable for a lot of people, we dont call it that, it is called “farming” or “husbandry”.

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      btw Im just kidding, I wanna trigger a vegan into a response :-D

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      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So rename master-slave to husband-cattle? You’ll trigger more than vegans

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      • ultramaven@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean I agree that most of our food-based practices are terrible and I still eat most meat so maybe I’m just a hypocrite.

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    • isaaclw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We can do both. I see what you mean in so far as “washing” like pretending that we fixed something when we really didnt, but I dont see it as a big deal, I mean, like I said elsewhere, I’ll try to switch.

      Its sometimes little things in your vocab that cause you to stop and realize how ingrained certain aspects of our culture is.

      But yeah, its not a solution. Theres a lot of things like it that you just do because its easy and you can.

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