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Technological terms are being changed in top technological companies because they're racist

posted 4 years ago by kukuxu (5409)
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"The terms "master" and "slave," used to describe the relationships between two computer hard drives and or between two camera flashes, have come under scrutiny because of their association with America's history of slavery. Similarly, "whitelist" and "blacklist," terms for allowing and denying access to a service, are being revisited because of their potentially racial overtones. "

https://www.cnet.com/news/master-and-slave-tech-terms-face-scrutiny-amid-anti-racism-efforts/

Golang, the language developed years ago by google, has already eliminated any reference to 'master/slave' and 'blacklist' or 'whitelist' in their code.

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/236857/

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72391) 4 years ago

It's all getting very silly, isn't it?

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

They need to remove those terms from The Bible too.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72391) 4 years ago

But The Bible is HISTORY!
You can't erase history

😬

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

Why is it always history? It's time to change it to hertory.

[–] Moonglum9 (10737) 4 years ago

And leave the non-binaries out of course! Typical.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72391) 4 years ago

Or non gender-specific-tory even!

[–] AndyKing1967 (34327) 4 years ago

I vote we change master and slave to giver and receiver. No-one could possibly be offended by that, right? Anyone? No?

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

Next, male and female connectors...

[–] SaneMax (240) 4 years ago

Those male connectors are always raping female connectors.

[–] TalkinPikchorBox (2250) 4 years ago

I was just about to reply this.

[–] SaneMax (240) 4 years ago

I hope that article is a parody.

[–] moviechatterer (13504) 4 years ago

its real , but its not new , i read it years ago

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

The article was published two days ago. And the changes in golang (google's languages) were done June 9, three days ago.

[–] moviechatterer (13504) 4 years ago

i was thinking of this:
https://www.theregister.com/2018/09/13/redis_master_slave/

the idea started a while back in tech i meant to say

[–] SaneMax (240) 4 years ago

HOLY JESUS ON A STICK! That is just stupid.

https://i.imgur.com/ZLpzUDI.jpg

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

really?

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

Next, chess grandmasters...

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20536) 4 years ago

Doesn’t Vader say he’s the master in Star Wars? I guess they are going to have to fix that.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

Surely! Also, kungfu masters and master chefs.

[–] SaneMax (240) 4 years ago

They talk about master and slave terms used in connection with HDDs, but they are used only in the old ATA interface which was replaced by SATA over 10 years ago. They really dug deep for this one.

[–] McQualude (4231) 4 years ago

This is what happens when you ignore problems and pretend a significant portion of the population don't matter, eventually people overreact.

edit/ uh oh, kkk got his feelings hurt.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

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[–] Otter (24464) 4 years ago

""The terms "master" and "slave," used to describe the relationships between two computer hard drives and or between two camera flashes, have come under scrutiny because of their association with America's history of slavery."

I'm fine if they start using the terms "dominant" and "submissive", instead.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

Typical Americans... thinking everything is about them. Yes, master/slave terminology came from master/slave relationship of real world slavery. But real world slavery doesn't means it's always about American's history of slavery. Slavery came long before USA even existed.