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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, @01:59AM (9 children)
by erasing history and culture.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:06AM (8 children)
No history is being erased, and if you confuse tech terms with culture then you've got bigger problems. Besides, not all cultural aspects are valuable or do you think we should go back to the human slavery days?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:55AM (3 children)
History is being erased and this linguistic crusade is just one expression of that erasure that is also burning statues. The culture perpetrating that erasure of historical [breitbart.com] identity [msn.com] do not cease to abolitionists [cnn.com] nor reason [washingtonexaminer.com]. It will not stop at "Master" and "slave".
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:55AM (2 children)
I prefer statues being attacked to people being attacked.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @04:44AM
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @08:39AM
As a peer comment emphasized, once a group of people have become sufficiently radicalized to start destroying things in the name of their self righteous cause, any distinction between thing and person tends to be rapidly erased.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:19AM (1 child)
Technology is an important part of our culture.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:57AM
Technology is an important part of our culture, but the nomenclature used isn't. What's important is a few relationships that can be moved to other terms without loss. There *are* works where the words used are important, but technical documentation isn't that kind of work of art.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @11:28AM
Exactly. So why are we equating tech terms with cultural history again?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday July 15 2020, @05:37PM
BZZT, subliminal newspeak inculcation detected.
CULTURE is not a bunch of notions infused from the superior academics, no matter how hard they try to make you swallow it.
Culture is how your grandpa removed his hat to greet a lady. Culture is the way you call a list of allowed stuff. Culture is a TCP/IP joke. Culture is the jokes about negroes. Since I am not entitled to use negroes niggers and stuff, correct the last statement with Culture is the jokes about italiani mafiosi. I am Italian and laugh at them.
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