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posted by martyb on Saturday June 13 2020, @12:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the who's-the-boss? dept.

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.

Related: Allowlist, Not Whitelist. Blocklist, Not Blacklist. Microsoft Lops Off Offensive Words


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Saturday June 13 2020, @12:42AM (7 children)

    by looorg (578) on Saturday June 13 2020, @12:42AM (#1007186)

    I honestly get more and more convinced that these people are completely and utterly crazy. They have no redeeming value in anything they do. They are just pure garbage and should be flushed from the gene pool.

    What is it that they are thinking here? That the White Master device is whipping the poor black slave device to go and pick up bits in the datalake?

    Isn't "dependents" almost as bad? After all he is telling them then that the dependent device is depending on the master telling it what to do. Since it has no free will or ideas of it's own. Someone else is in control of it. All it does is to obey and serve, like ... ohh .. A slave? I guess they could have been called SERVANT but then isn't that also just another word with bad connotation?

    Perhaps calling them something like primary-secondary etc would have then made more sense, at least it would have told us where in the chain things are. That said I am still going to call them MASTER-SLAVE since it's describing a relationship and nothing else.

    Just a thought then -- are male connectors raping the female connectors every time their prongs go into all the holes? I wouldn't be all to surprised, after all -- these people are fucking crazy.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:13AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:13AM (#1007208)

    Wow, triggered much?

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:29AM (#1007216)

      I think he got triggered juuuuust right. I can hear the

      angry fapping from
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:34AM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:34AM (#1007269)

    these people are fucking crazy

    Yes, but then so are a lot of other people - even highly functional ones.

    My coworker who was triggered by the S word eventually became so dissatisfied with her position that she quit and went to work for someplace up north. I doubt her circumstances materially improved - they offered her a nice promotion to try to retain her, but she left anyway. It was a wakeup call for me and my boss: if she deserved that promotion, then I certainly deserved that promotion, so we applied and I actually got it - so thanks for that.

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    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:54AM (2 children)

      by Arik (4543) on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:54AM (#1007289) Journal
      "Yes, but then so are a lot of other people - even highly functional ones."

      It's a real tragedy, when people who are competent in one area enter another and fuck up spectacularly.

      It's a tragedy orders of magnitude greater in scope, when they manage to institute stupid rules based on their own mental malfunction.
      --
      If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @06:36AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @06:36AM (#1007333)

        It's a tragedy orders of magnitude greater in scope, when they manage to institute stupid rules based on their own mental malfunction.

        Welcome to the 21st Century...the century where what passes for western civilisation finally manages to Oozlum as it hands the keys and management of our section of this dirtball asylum to the most defective of its decadent inmates.

        I had the pleasure(?) of working alongside a prime example of a member of this novus ordo fatuorum, yech, i'm glad I'll not be around to see the fucked up society it and it's fellow momsers will create. Bowie almost got it right, he sang '..gotta make way for the homo superior...', that sentiment, I actually would agree with, unfortunately that's what these shits think they are compared to us whereas they're really just prime examples of homo rabidus..

        The only amusing consolation is that they're eventually going to get eaten alive by the Islamic fundies that they're being careful not to offend (who most definitely do not share the delusional views of homo rabidus, but who have their own set of delusional views which are inherently oh-so-inimical to those espoused by our novus ordo fatuorum).

        (insert something pithy here about chickens and roosts.... )

        Oh Well, it's been a fun couple of thousand years...I'm off to listen to 'Dark Ages' by Jethro Tull to cheer myself up.

        • (Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday June 13 2020, @06:43AM

          by Arik (4543) on Saturday June 13 2020, @06:43AM (#1007337) Journal
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEGjLU2egA [Ugly Kid Joe - Everything about you.]
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          If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:28AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:28AM (#1007651) Homepage

    Are you telling us that your hard drive never picked cotton??

    Seriously... what you said.

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    And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.