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Topic	The debate on "offensive" computing terms
PunishedOni 04/13/21 7:47:28 PM #38:	agesboy posted... the word master by itself is not bad, it's when it's paired with slave that it evokes specifically... well... slavery this is how i feel about it too, personally. i really don't want to use master/slave or whitelist/blacklist and im glad people are moving away from them. 'master' in the context of a git master branch never bothered me because the other branches aren't really like 'slaves' at all. but I'm fine moving to main anyway -- master might bother other people and main is a better name anyways --- my mom says people make fun of me because they're jealous <cite>PunishedOni posted [p:952801783] in The debate... [t:79403395]...</cite> <quote>agesboy posted... </cite> <quote>the word master by itself is not bad, it's when it's paired with slave that it evokes specifically... well... slavery</quote>this is how i feel about it too, personally. i really don't want to use master/slave or whitelist/blacklist and im glad people are moving away from them. 'master' in the context of a git master branch never bothered me because the other branches aren't really like 'slaves' at all. but I'm fine moving to main anyway -- master might bother other people and main is a better name anyways --- my mom says people make fun of me because they're jealous</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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