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Linus Torvalds approved on Friday a new and more inclusive terminology for the Linux kernel code and documentation.
Going forward, Linux developers have been asked to use new terms for the master/slave and blacklist/whitelist terminologies.
The Linux team did not recommend any specific terms but asked developers to choose as appropriate.
The new terms are to be used for new source code written for the Linux kernel and its associated documentation.
The older terms, considered inadequate now, will only be allowed for maintaining older code and documentation, or "when updating code for an existing (as of 2020) hardware or protocol specification that mandates those terms."
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @01:37AM (19 children)
I've renamed my blacklist to motherfucker, my whitelist to pussy, and renamed my slave drive to cocksucker. I need a name for my Kaepernick collection... Any suggestions?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @01:40AM (18 children)
Mediocre?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @01:59AM (17 children)
As a hero he is pretty mediocre I'll grant you that.
Now MLK, that dude was a real hero. Schindler was another hero, putting his life on the line with fucing Nazis to save lives. Rosa Parks, heroine of the best kind. Can't forget Lincoln, the President with the balls to put down racist traitors! Or Doy Gorton who worked so hard for Civil Rights while trying to educate people on the reality of southern US states.
It saddens me that some people hate the idea of mutual respect, but thankfully the average American is learning to drop the outdated divisive hatred.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by HiThere on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:40AM (15 children)
You need to study a bit of history. Lincoln *was* a hero, but his goal was to keep the Union together. Freeing the slaves was not one of his priorities, despite many of the southern folk acting as if it was. When he *did* decide to free the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation) it only applied to those within areas in revolt against the US government.
That his goals weren't the current ones doesn't keep him from being a hero, but he wasn't the particular hero you're trying to make him into. Freeing the slaves was, to him, mainly a tactical maneuver in the winning of the Civil War. Yes, he thought freeing the slaves was the proper action without respect to the war, but as president he wouldn't have lifted one finger to accomplish is if the South hadn't tried to withdraw from the Union.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @04:21AM
I actually have heard that bit, but it was too good of a poke at potential jackasses to pass up. Regardless of his personal motivations the results were what mattered.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bradley13 on Wednesday July 15 2020, @11:44AM (6 children)
Absolutely right, but you won't read that in school textbooks. The Emancipation Proclamation was a tool of war, and explicitly did not apply to slaves in the Union.
Anyway, TFA: why does anyone think "blacklist" and "Whitelist" have anything to do with race? Black and white are colors, specifically in this case the absence or presence of light.
It's not even people with melanin driving this. It's entirely SJWs taking offense on other people's behalf. Pathetic, and more pathetic to give in to it. Give these idiots one concession and they will expect the next.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @01:24PM (1 child)
And these kind of progressions never seem to acknowledge the existence of a greylist. I'm sure whatever they come up with will be a mouthful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:26PM
Greylist and Greenlist are offensive toward alien visitors. :D
I'm not sure about Graylist...
CYA
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @07:23PM
Boy are you wrong, you are probably on the take from the spotlight industrial complex.
https://level.medium.com/the-unintentional-racism-found-in-traffic-signals-b2899c34fefb?gi=sd [medium.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @08:06PM (1 child)
Apart from what's now West Virginia, how many Union states even had slaves? The emancipation proclamation freed a ton of slaves as the Union army advanced.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @04:13AM
Mostly it was the border states [civildiscourse-historyblog.com]: Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland had the vast majority, with West Virginia a distant fourth. Aside from that, there were maybe a couple thousand in Delaware, and a handful in New Jersey and in the various Western territories.
Overall, according to the 1860 census, there were roughly 450,000 slaves in Union states and territories, out of about 4 million in the entire U.S. In other words, the Emancipation Proclamation left roughly 11-12% of the total slaves in the pre-Civil War U.S. enslaved in Union areas because Lincoln couldn't afford to piss off people in the border states and ruin their economies in the middle of the war. And of course, slaves in the South weren't really "freed" by a law that was passed by a "foreign government" to them at the time, so only places where the army liberated slaves were they truly freed (unless they escaped themselves from the South).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @09:25PM
Actually, it was in the textbook, and the teacher made a point of talking about it.
(Score: 2) by quietus on Wednesday July 15 2020, @01:35PM (5 children)
Bold statements require strong proof. Sources please.
(Score: 3, Informative) by HiThere on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:29PM (2 children)
Read the original document. It's in English, and isn't too long. My class read it in High School History/Social Studies.
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(Score: 2) by quietus on Thursday July 16 2020, @04:08PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday July 16 2020, @09:51PM
If I understand correctly what your question is, look for text starting with:
That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by
from:
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/abraham-lincolns-emancipation-proclamation [battlefields.org]
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:15PM
try again
over a billion people still believe the bullshit spoken by a camel fucking pedophile centuries ago with no proof
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday July 15 2020, @04:49PM
FTFY
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @10:21PM
Which is the reason he was a member of the Free Soil Party, before joining the newly formed Republicans? What is this, Whig history?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @05:38PM
If this isn't a troll, you're a brainwashed idiot.