It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.
I’m not sure we even need that terminology at this point… I knew it from hard drives but I’m either 1) dealing with way more than two drives, or 2) using Linux which I don’t even think of as a master/slave so much as a fuck-you-mount-me-or-not-I-don’t-care partitions.
I’m not really sure where else it’s used, especially since everything else seems to just be primary/secondary. But I’m no CS major so IDK.
I prefer to use Main/Sub terminology. It also works without needing to change any acronyms.
Eh it’s just words and they are more common than just computers every time I work on my cars I sometimes might have to bleed the slave cylinder or fill the master cylinder when doing brake work
Cars are just full of “problematic” words… Leaking tranny fluid, retarded ignition…
With PCBs it’s mother/daughter
I’ll keep using master/slave. Political correctness bullshit be damned.
I think manger / worker is a pretty easy one. It gets hard though because both of these terms are already used for class names everywhere.
My user name on all my PC’s(non root) is literally Master, my PC’s are all Slave, slave1, slave2. I will fight to keep them that way. I am also extremely anti slavery for sentient creatures. Words matter in the context of their intent. Dumbing down of the language by forcing alternate uses of a word to mean something other than its obvious intended use is evidence of dilusional minds. Pure and simple, they don’t deserve a seat at the table.
*delusional
No. Di-lusional, opposite of mono-lusional.
Spelling is bulshit.
*bullshit
It’s not their fault, they’ve all got the mispeling vyrus.
Weird hill to die on. Language changes. Some people think it’s how new ideas are not only shared but how they’re formed. You might be interested in Latin.
I will fight to keep them that way.
No one gives a shit what you call your PCs. They’re not rounding up a posse to come and forcefully rename them. Just take a breath.
And while you’re unbarricading the door the rest of the world will be moving on.
Funny how people get heated over things that don’t matter. OK, it has been one way for a long time. But had it been Parent/Child the same amount of time, would it be any different?
As long as you know the meanings of what is used, it doesn’t matter what they are. If someone would rather not use master/slave, let them. No one is stopping you from making a choice to keep using it. You also might have to interact with consequences for that choice, but that’s what you get for working with other people. 🫠
even better, top/bottom
Okay but what if I’m in a server room full of switches.
y’all I understand there are larger issues in the world but please let’s not pretend that POC working in tech feel awesome about typing master/slave in the terminal, it’s outdated and should be changed.
Main/secondary
Prime/secondary/tertiary etc
Penis / Onahole
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What do we want?
For police who commit crimes to have accountability!
What do we get?
We’re going to yell at people who use the ‘outdated’ ‘master/slave’ terminology!
Because we can’t have both? Changing words to be more inclusive is simple. Uprooting entrenched power systems takes a just a teensy bit more effort. Come on, you can see why your argument is spurious, right?
Police accountability is just the tip of the iceberg, though. A huge issue is the fact that a lot of minority history isn’t taught properly in US schools, and important events that define race relations are completely ignored. Using the term “master” to describe Git branches, for example, is just another way of staying ignorant and insensitive to those events.
I can understand that there are some edge cases where master/slave should still be correct as it is accurate, but for every other case, it’s still better to use a term that is culturally aware and technically relevant, even if it’s a small difference that’s part of a larger cultural shift.
just another way of staying ignorant and insensitive to those events.
I don’t really see how that follows. Would you mind elaborating?
I vote for “OF-Model/Simp”.
