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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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Linux Team Approves New Terminology, Bans Terms Like 'Blacklist' and 'Slave'
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @04:37AM (2 children)
Beware the "die trap" message I've seen in response to SIGTERM. I lol every time I see it because I'm just waiting for some cis-gendered liberal luser to freak out about it. I just never remember what program it is that does that, because it's a stupid message that makes me laugh. Some "die" event happened (sigterm?), and it was trapped, maybe, probably, and somebody felt the need to announce this to stderr.
Suggestion for how to deal with that: don't let cis-gendered liberals use computers. Malcolm X said a lot about white liberals that is roughly applicable to cis-gendered ones.
The outrage pours in over some stupid comment say J.K. Rowling made which could have been effectively answered with "so what you're saying is that women turn into men at age 55?" or just ignored. Nobody even attempted to educate her and help her do better (assuming what she said was a slur and I'm not convinced it was--girls tend to have menstrual cycles, but some have dicks). Why not get outraged about the sorry state of women's healthcare instead and promote single payer healthcare? Why not get outraged that the right to abortion is not held in the same regard as the right to free speech and the right to bear weapons?
Well, that might "cost" the 1%ers money (in truth they will merely accumulate it at a slightly slower rate), but outrage "journalism" makes money. There are things worthy of being outraged about. Creating a new class of swear/taboo words is not helpful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @09:29PM (1 child)
Somebody needs a human anatomy class, or some "girl" convinced them that "some have dicks".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @10:32PM
pro-trans propaganda > biology education