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GitHub to replace "master" with alternative term to avoid slavery references

Tesseract

Banned
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!
only getting started, buckle up
 

Durask

Member
So, when you are cancelled by the woke then instead of being blacklisted you are deniedlisted or excludelisted or denied/excludelisted?
 

GAMETA

Banned
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Vildiil

Member
These morons had to take a month or two off from wokeness cause of a real issue and now they are just fucking ODing on woke bullshit, of all the shit to go after this is one of their targets 🤣.
 

IntentionalPun

Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
What about database master -> slave replication? lol.
Microsoft products use primary/secondary and have for years; but since MySql uses master/slave still they keep the references around but with a note at the top of documentation that it is against their style / language guide.

 

M1chl

Currently Gif and Meme Champion
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...
This is extra funny, because how much indians are currently active in dev communities...

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.
Well and do you thing it was based on real life events? Based on what I know it was Slave and Slave owners. Maybe is just language...but yeah if this terms would be translated literally to my language it would sounds pretty ridiculous, but languages does not work the same. I think it was always been Main and Secondary here.
 
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