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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 15 2020, @12:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the ban-hammer dept.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-team-approves-new-terminology-bans-terms-like-blacklist-and-slave/

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 kernel will no longer use terms 'blacklist' and 'slave'


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @08:32AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @08:32AM (#1021774)

    Wait until the debates. I think it's increasingly obvious that Biden is entering the mid to later stages of either Alzheimer's or dementia. He is just seriously not with it in the head at all anymore. Even when reciting scripted speeches he just invariably gets confused at some point. It's because of this reason I suspect that the DNC will take the unprecedented step of trying to prevent there from being any debates. They will likely use COVID as the justification.

    My main concern is that Biden will just work as a figurehead while the establishment pushes us towards war with China and Russia. Trump is a twit but a twit that has actually managed to be the first president in decades that hasn't significantly expanding our international war enterprise. I'll take trade wars over cold wars any day.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @07:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @07:18PM (#1022054)

    It really is very sad. I was the caretaker for an elderly family member with advanced dementia (medially certified) for a number of years and watching Biden speak is painful. I talked with the doctor about signs and tells you could look for for differentiating normal memory loss with age to dementia, and Biden sadly falls squarely on the dementia side. For a while I was convinced this had to do with Biden's long history of stuttering and dealing with it using word replacement to avoid the trigger words, but that is not what we are seeing anymore.

  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday July 16 2020, @04:31AM (2 children)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 16 2020, @04:31AM (#1022284) Journal

    Look, a doorknob would be better than Trump. At least it wouldn't decide to do things out of malice or desire for praise.

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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday July 16 2020, @06:14AM

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday July 16 2020, @06:14AM (#1022311) Homepage
      A doorknob in a sock being used to hit the US citizenry over the head repeatedly would be better than Trump. But also better than Biden.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @07:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @07:21AM (#1022323)

      I do not really agree with this. In my view Trump is using JFK as his model. I suspect he ultimately wouldn't even really mind going out the same way. When he was pushing hard for a return to American excellence in space (including trying to accelerate a moon landing), he was clearly just trying to mimic, in rather overt fashion, the path to historicity that JFK took. But there's also something else very relevant about JFK. After JFK took a bullet to the head is when the military industrial complex started to skyrocket in influence, growth, and overall power. It was none other than General Eisenhower (the president prior to JFK) who said: [wikipedia.org]

      Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.

      Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.

      In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

      I've gradually grown to like Trump because of his seeming effort to push back against the military industrial complex. Doesn't hurt that I also absolutely despise political correctness and its associated evils. But beyond this, the next decade is going to be one of the most important in our history. The reason is that we're at an international inflection point. China is already the wold's largest [wikipedia.org] economic superpower by a rapidly widening margin and soon will be larger than both the US and EU combined. Right behind them now is also India who has a hyper-accelerating economy that is expected to overcome the US within a decade.

      This sort of stuff is likely giving the establishment in DC nightmares because it all effectively spells the end of US dominance... unless. And that "unless" part is what I *really* don't want to see. Biden will be useless as a president because his mental faculties are clearly already on the way out. And he's going to required to pick a VP probably based more on race/gender than on ability. And that VP, who will likely become the president if Biden wins, is likely going to be more interested in identity politics than in actually stopping us from getting into a war from which we may never extricate ourselves, certainly not favorably. Just feels like we may be looking at the beginning of the war with Eastasia. Though of course all such documents of the future will recognize we've always truly been at war with Eastasia.

      If we had a genuine anti-war liberal, especially one who didn't play identity politics so much, I'd vote for them in a heart beat - but given our current scenario, I am thinking I will likely suck it up and give a vote to the orange man.