Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 weeks agowe should get rid of killing processes, and especially killing child processes. Because those are arguably worse.
As a parent I have zero qualms about the term “killing child processes” also there’s far more actions involved in parent/child relationships in tech than just killing processes.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
i suppose that’s true, but i think that’s unfair as the term master/slave itself wouldn’t constitute more than the literal power dynamic between A and B as is the intended point of the terminology. It’s not meant to be broadly applicable in a generic sense. Though if we were to argue that it would be equally as easy to argue that architecture designs constitute far more than a master/slave style, such that it would remove the significance of the term in a similar manner.