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Linux Team Approves New Terminology, Bans Terms Like 'Blacklist' and 'Slave'

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

mrpg writes:

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: 2) by inertnet on Wednesday July 15 2020, @08:58AM (3 children)

    by inertnet (4071) on Wednesday July 15 2020, @08:58AM (#1021777) Journal

    At least one of them is guaranteed to have owned slaves at some point.

    I have researched all of them down to the 15th and 16th century. None of them ever had anything to do with slavery. All of them were simple farmers, farm workers and other average people. Based on my haplogroup it is a possibility that a male ancestor of mine entered Europe as a slave, some 25 thousand years ago.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday July 16 2020, @06:09AM (2 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday July 16 2020, @06:09AM (#1022306) Homepage
    Your unrealistic view on the recording of paternal connections, combined with your unrealistic view on record keeping of any type, gives me no faith in anything else you say. How many nodes are there in the tree you've created, and what level of cosanguinity does it show?
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    • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Monday July 27 2020, @10:22PM (1 child)

      by inertnet (4071) on Monday July 27 2020, @10:22PM (#1027349) Journal

      I only just saw your questions. Actually the Catholic church kept very accurate baptismal, marriage and death records and many of them can be researched online. It's more than 10 years ago and I forgot where I created my family tree. Others have taken over and added more information. I remember finding only one blood related marriage among many, because it mentions a "marriage permission for cosanguinity in the 3rd and 4th degree" in 1727. The oldest confirmed record of a direct ancestor I could find was from 1462.

      Other than that I have a list of people who, like me, participated in a DNA research program. They differ 6 to 15 mutations from me. In context this means that our most recent common ancestor lived roughly 500 years ago for the 6 mutation difference, to very roughly 1250 years ago for the 15 mutation difference. I've never been able to connect any of their family trees to mine though.

      My haplogroup migrated out of Africa around 25k years ago, long after the first waves of human migration. As a result of slavery would be a plausible scenario, but of course nobody will ever know what really happened that long ago.

      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 28 2020, @12:15AM

        by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday July 28 2020, @12:15AM (#1027419) Homepage
        Avoidance of the actual question asked noted.
        What was proferred as a response, however, tells me all I need to know.
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