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Ludicrous.

Master is not problematic, its embedded in all sorts of terms connoting superiority and responsibility. Unless we are outlawing any description off someone being a master of their craft, technique, skill etc. What's the point?

Slave is not an inherently racist term either, essentially its a descriptor of a relative power-position. You could soften it to become master and servant, but thats only a distinction where the subordinate has its own agency, it makes no sense otherwise.

Yes, as a matter of historic fact ethnic and racial groups have been subjugated and enslaved, but as its happened to/and been perpetrated by peoples from all around the globe, reducing it to a blacks enslaved by whites only thing is missing the point.

 

[Virex]

Damn. For us retro PC enthusiasts we will have to throw away all that retro hardware can't have those master / slave drives and components anymore in those PCs

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Chess grandmaster - going first because of white privilege and invading the board to knock over and Conquer all the innocent black pieces

 

[Great Hair]

 

[Jack Videogames]

Chess grandmaster - going first because of white privilege and invading the board to knock over and Conquer all the innocent black pieces

You mean Grandmain, bigot

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Redskins have a racist name. What about red team/blue team? Better change that too.

 

[Starlight Lotice]

What will The Master be called in Doctor Who then?

I vote for "Human Cleanser".

 

[The Scrivener]

In the UK, git means bastard.

"He's a right fucking git."

Problematic innit.

 

[Starlight Lotice]

In the UK, git means bastard.

"He's a right fucking git."

Problematic innit.

Can also mean a moron or an idjit.

 

[losslessFlac]

I agree with this, not on PC terms, but because the relationship between branches is not analogous to master and slave.
In a master-slave or manager-worker relationship, the master/manager controls the slave/worker. This isn't the case in version control so main makes more sense.

Renaming male/female connectors would be dumb, because that analogy is perfect and everyone understands it.

 

[Javthusiast]

 

[lock2k]

They'll trade Master for Yass Queen.

Fuck this shit.

 

[lock2k]

Chess grandmaster - going first because of white privilege and invading the board to knock over and Conquer all the innocent black pieces

Don't give them ideas.

We always have some lunatics reading lol

 

[ArchdukeChocula]

I agree with this, not on PC terms, but because the relationship between branches is not analogous to master and slave.

There is no slave term in git, they failed to mention that. Git master refers to a master copy, not a master over slaves.

 

[donfonzie]

What about the MasterCards in thier pockets?

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

Let's see how the financial people will react when BLM hears about books being 'in the black/red'.

All this shit is just a form of compelling speech.

 

[teezzy]

I've always thought of master and slave like some bdsm thing but then again I'm not some white guilt retard.

Dom drive and sub drive. Same.

 

[nkarafo]

Buy this album before it gets banned. The price is going go up.

 

[Amory]

oh thank god

 

[Birdo]

The Gender Changers will be next.....

 

[Cunth]

Buy this album before it gets banned. The price is going go up.

Already got it on Napster

 

[losslessFlac]

The Gender Changers will be next.....

I just learned there are hermaphroditic connectors so they have a defense.

 

[Mihos]

They need move the tail or won't get the cookies.

Having said that, I always thought that master-slave analogy in programming was dumb, as is male-female for cables... Why not just primary-secondary or out-in? I think it's easier to get what they do.

because secondary can be a backup, not a subservient downstream process. We usually use parent/child anyway.

and in out/means nothing on full duplex cables... which one would be 'in'? Outputs are mostly female... and so are inputs....

 

[VGEsoterica]

Black list and white list to me have the connotations of “good and evil” in a way that has zero to do with race and everything to do with an artistic and almost biblical sense.

but who am I to say? Never thought if it before this thread.

 

[Decontamination Silo]

Is "Zero Day" the next to get changed?

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

This seems like an innocent enough change that folks will get their jimmies rustled about for some bizarre reason.

 

[Herr Edgy]

Black list and white list to me have the connotations of “good and evil” in a way that has zero to do with race and everything to do with an artistic and almost biblical sense.

but who am I to say? Never thought if it before this thread.

You associate white and black with good and evil respectively. I get it. But you don't think that this is just more food for them?

 

[funking giblet]

What about database master -> slave replication? lol.

Most databases are changing this too.

Primary / Secondary (Mongo)
Leader / Follower (RabbitMQ, EventStore)

 

[Croatoan]

So brave!

 

[Barnabot]

cancel mudafucker samuel l jackson 'cause he was a mudafucking racist jedi. we must topple his jedi statue here in narnia.


next time i'll challenge the woke retards to change this.

 

[Lord Thunderbear]

Most databases are changing this too.

Primary / Secondary (Mongo)
Leader / Follower (RabbitMQ, EventStore)

So we're changing standardized terms with a bunch of different, non-standardized ones, without any technical reason involved and having to change everything that used the old terminology, be it tutorial, code, packagings, whatever. Just because of feelings.
In any other situation, anyone doing such a thing would be rightly deemed a fool. In the current climate, it is praised instead...

 

[brap]

Trying to get rid of master/slave would be a 50 year project and cost millions of dollars. There's too many concrete implementations and associated resources that use the terms for VCS, databases, storage, communication protocols, and a bunch of other stuff. Github needs some way to feel woke though, since "women in stem" and "abolish boys clubs" initiatives aren't getting the same updoots they used to.

Seems like a small price to pay so PoC's don't get scared away from coding by being reminded of the millions of years of oppression they faced...

 

[godhandiscen]

One of the features in the product I own has the word “blacklist” all over the UI and codebase. To push this change, I estimate it will cost us the time of 1 full stack engineer for 3 days, plus the time of 2 customer support engineers for 1 month to write new materials and handle costumer training. Also, we’ll have to bring in marketing to communicate the change.

We are not doing it soon IMHO, but I bet we will soon be shamed into having to do it. Fuck you Sanctimonious Valley!

 

[Coolwhhip]

Soyhub.

 

[godhandiscen]

Soyhub.

Since they got bought by MS, yeah.

 

[Celcius]

As a professional software developer myself, I support this. I always did wonder why they called it this and used the master/slave names... even with PC hardware with a master hard drive and slave.

 

[ArchdukeChocula]

Seems like a small price to pay so PoC's don't get scared away from coding by being reminded of the millions of years of oppression they faced...

What's that? I couldn't hear you over this course on how to oppress minorities.

 

[Belmonte]

Skeletor was a good dude after all.

He-Man and his friends made the entire universe their slaves! They were the Masters of the Universe.

 

[Sakura Doritos]

Seems like a small price to pay so PoC's don't get scared away from coding by being reminded of the millions of years of oppression they faced...

Miiiiiiiilions

 

[iconmaster]

What about the MasterCards in thier pockets?

Oh no

 

[daveonezero]

Removing words or ideas like this only makes real slaves and masters harder to identify.

it doesn’t help anything. It’s just a censoring virtues signal.

 

[Halo is Back]

Im just waiting for chess to announce red and blue pieces

 

[PhoenixTank]

I've legit never seen a git branch, out in the wild, called slave.

Git

git-scm.com

Not in the manual. "Mirror" gets used a lot in that kind of way, though. This ends up being a really weird leap of logic that "master" is somehow used in the slave/master context rather than the reality of it being akin to an audio master or "reference".

Nobody is going to make this change the default in Git itself.

 

[nush]

 

[GHG]

If I was a black person I'd be super pissed about all these white folk doing stupid shit like this instead of things that would actually improve society.

This is just a bunch of first worlders with too much time on their hands posing for the virtue camera.

"Look at us! We're contributing!"

I'm absolutely pissed off about this.

Nobody, not one single black person who has ever used github thought about master branches in this way. Not once when I've run a master branch command have I ever thought "slavery". Seriously, wtf, I have far more important things to think and worry about, especially when I'm coding.

This is a bunch of lunatic white people making matters worse, trivial things like this only set us back even more.

 

[Yoda]

What about all those people with "Masters" degrees? I suspect they're all closet KKK members who want to resurrect the confederacy.

 

[ZehDon]

Im just waiting for chess to announce red and blue pieces

Red was used to describe Native Americans, Blue is used to describe mental health feelings. You'll have to do better than that.

 

[Halo is Back]

Red was used to describe Native Americans, Blue is used to describe mental health feelings. You'll have to do better than that.

What?

 

[ZehDon]

What?

I just joking at your comment - the people who have a problem with Slave/Master IT terminology would find a reason to complain about Red and Blue pieces, too. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

 

[Rockman]

Man...I mean holy shit. The majority of the people out there have really lost their minds. At first it was amusing. Now it feels like a never ending joke. Nothing is sacred anymore. What's the next cool thing to be offended by? At this point it seems anything fair game....

Serenity now!