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OpenZFS removed offensive terminology from its code
On Wednesday evening, ZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens submitted what should have been a simple, non-controversial pull request to the OpenZFS project: wherever possible without causing technical issues, the patch removed references to "slaves" and replaced them with "dependents."
This patch in question doesn't change the way the code functions—it simply changes variable names in a way that brings them in conformance with Linux upstream device-mapper terminology, in 48 total lines of code (42 removed and 48 added; with one comment block expanded slightly to be more descriptive).
But this being the Internet, unfortunately, outraged naysayers descended on the pull request, and the comments were quickly closed to non-contributors. I first became aware of this as the moderator of the r/zfs subreddit where the overflow spilled once comments on the PR itself were no longer possible.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @12:13AM (18 children)
Now the crazies turned it into reality.
What else in the tech they use offends them?
The possibilities are endless.
(Score: 5, Touché) by PinkyGigglebrain on Saturday June 13 2020, @12:50AM (9 children)
Male/Female connectors probably. What if that HDMI jack on your video card self identifies as male?
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 4, Funny) by stretch611 on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:34AM (2 children)
I'd say that it was time to return the video card as defective.
After all, pretty much every cable out there is male/male and will not connect to a male jack on a video card. (Only a female jack which I sure some people will complain that it isn't a female Janet instead of Jack.)
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:40AM (1 child)
If you bought a video card with an HDMI jack, I hate to tell you, but you got fooled by a "ladyboy" video card. Next time, double check that the card has an HDMI socket before buying it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Saturday June 13 2020, @04:34AM
On the one hand I think it's pretty silly.
But on the other, holy shit look at all these triggered whiny little snowflakes! Trolling appears to go both ways and I've got to admit that it is fun to watch!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by corey on Saturday June 13 2020, @02:55AM (4 children)
In the electronics engineering world, they're known as plug and receptacle. Or jack and socket (less formal).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:51AM (1 child)
> In the electronics engineering world...
Except it was never actually that simple... Remember the D-sub connectors, as were ubiquitous not that long ago? Plugs can have pins or holes to accept pins, as can sockets. Granted, there were some standards, but in those days "standards" were even less standard than they are today, and I have a big box of examples to this effect. There are other examples, but that was a common one.
and jacks don't mate with sockets, they are both synonymous with "receptacle" in your usage.
(Score: 2) by corey on Saturday June 13 2020, @09:50AM
Yeah my usage of jack and socket isn't a good example.
We used some Micro-D connectors a while back at work, where the receptacle I think was a series of solid pins with a plastic surround fill, and the plug's "pins" were actually metallic tubes for the receptacle solid pins to go into. Talk about confusing. Awesome connectors though. $300 each too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @06:06AM (1 child)
Jack is offensive!
I identify as Jill.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @08:30PM
Ok, boomer.
(Score: 3, Touché) by RS3 on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:45AM
We also have hermaphroditic connectors: https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/hermaphroditic-connectors/24517 [digikey.com] and there are other designs. They prefer to be called "gender neutral" or "gender non-binary" but never "androgynous".
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:13AM
Only four years ago, Trump being president of the United States was an episode of the Simpsons.
Reality is stranger (and orders of magnitude worse) than fiction.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:23AM (6 children)
Eh growing up before political correctness was a big deal the master/slave bit on hard drives always seemed a little weird. How about the world changes, adapt or die? Does that fit with your libertarian survival of the fittest meritocracy ideals?
Master/slave isn't even a very good designation for the technical reality.
Just a bunch of angry people who don't like change, same as it ever was.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:31AM (2 children)
Changes are being forced through as fast as possible to take advantage of the current situation. If you don't like the changes, you are against BLM and must be cancelled forever. Welcome to the woke cultural revolution.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @02:07AM (1 child)
Weren't you lot saying that complaints about police brutality against black people was overblown? That the kkk was nothing to worry about? Etc. etc. etc.?
Yeah, your predictions suck, but hey 1A and all feel free to keep whinging your stupidity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @12:01AM
Heh, fusty keeps whinging about "democrat downmods" like the partisan hack he is, and now the rightwing assholes are downmodding in retaliation. Hypocrisy as usual from the biggest losers around.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:31AM
Aren't you too forward for this stage of the plan? I thought your bosses wanted to repeal the Second Amendment first, before starting on reeducation camps.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday June 13 2020, @10:10PM (1 child)
Keep in mind that one may survive better by breaking the rules than by adapting to the rules! Evolution doesn't work like you think it does nor is it libertarian.
Here, I don't know whether OpenZFS really needed to make the change for non-PC as alleged in the story, but look at the comment on the pull request.
It's flamebait and ridiculous. No wonder that there's drama over the whole thing. My take on this is that such obsessions (and the resulting tempests in teacups) can destroy projects (rather than make them more fit in the Darwinian sense).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @04:34PM
wooosh
and if a name change like this destroys a project then it was likely infested with white supremacists and/or idiots, as usual wake me up when there is an actual problem