• @deathdisco
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    -14 years ago

    Really? I don’t. Some protocols use the term slave because it performs in a master-slave relationship. It has nothing to do with race. Server-client is fine too though, but choosing words out of context because of race is a dangerous and slippery slope to to go down. MS is just virtue signaling.

      • @deathdisco
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        -34 years ago

        This feels like justification-backflipping, and to be honest, nobody really cares what the term actually is or whether it fits semantically. The discussion that people are having is whether we should be renaming unrelated things in the name of racial hysteria. I am 100% behind the black lives matter movement, and other minority groups struggles, but these kind of things actually damage it by coming off as irrational.

        Lets just put things in perspective: Microsoft, the same company that has an ongoing relationship with ICE and was one of the first to sell out to the NSA under pressure to sell our privacy out, is now pretending to care about people.

        Remember to stay on topic. I couldn’t care if it branches were originally named chicken and egg or something crazy either and that really was not the point I was making.

      • @deathdisco
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        -24 years ago

        We can’t outlaw negative words, the connotations of that are insane. You use words to describe things. Non-sentient software might act in a slave-like manner, and if the word fits, use it. If it doesn’t, don’t. Thankfully platforms are starting to become decentralised and not at the authority of any one person, so relatively free speech and anonymity will eventually be upheld regardless of the law and what people on social media think.

    • @Rumblestiltskin
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      -54 years ago

      I think you are just virtue signalling your beliefs in free speech. Virtue signaling is what all humans do with most of their conversation.

      • @deathdisco
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        44 years ago

        I honestly don’t mean to sound trollish here, but, not it’s not. Virtue signalling has a fairly clear definition and I don’t believe we live in a land where every word is spoken purely for the sake of seeming like a good person.

        • @Rumblestiltskin
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          24 years ago

          I don’t think you are trolling. There is a definition of virtue signalling in current social media that seems to only mean when the left is signalling their virtues, but virtue signalling is a pretty straight forward phrase that can mean any sort of signalling of virtues. I think you are also using it as if people are being insincere about why they are wanting the change. Just because you believe that changing the word ‘master’ in software development will not change anything does not mean that those who want the change do not believe it will have an effect.