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OpenZFS removed offensive terminology from its code
On Wednesday evening, ZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens submitted what should have been a simple, non-controversial pull request to the OpenZFS project: wherever possible without causing technical issues, the patch removed references to "slaves" and replaced them with "dependents."
This patch in question doesn't change the way the code functions—it simply changes variable names in a way that brings them in conformance with Linux upstream device-mapper terminology, in 48 total lines of code (42 removed and 48 added; with one comment block expanded slightly to be more descriptive).
But this being the Internet, unfortunately, outraged naysayers descended on the pull request, and the comments were quickly closed to non-contributors. I first became aware of this as the moderator of the r/zfs subreddit where the overflow spilled once comments on the PR itself were no longer possible.
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(Score: 5, Touché) by PinkyGigglebrain on Saturday June 13 2020, @12:50AM (9 children)
Male/Female connectors probably. What if that HDMI jack on your video card self identifies as male?
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 4, Funny) by stretch611 on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:34AM (2 children)
I'd say that it was time to return the video card as defective.
After all, pretty much every cable out there is male/male and will not connect to a male jack on a video card. (Only a female jack which I sure some people will complain that it isn't a female Janet instead of Jack.)
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @01:40AM (1 child)
If you bought a video card with an HDMI jack, I hate to tell you, but you got fooled by a "ladyboy" video card. Next time, double check that the card has an HDMI socket before buying it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Saturday June 13 2020, @04:34AM
On the one hand I think it's pretty silly.
But on the other, holy shit look at all these triggered whiny little snowflakes! Trolling appears to go both ways and I've got to admit that it is fun to watch!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by corey on Saturday June 13 2020, @02:55AM (4 children)
In the electronics engineering world, they're known as plug and receptacle. Or jack and socket (less formal).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:51AM (1 child)
> In the electronics engineering world...
Except it was never actually that simple... Remember the D-sub connectors, as were ubiquitous not that long ago? Plugs can have pins or holes to accept pins, as can sockets. Granted, there were some standards, but in those days "standards" were even less standard than they are today, and I have a big box of examples to this effect. There are other examples, but that was a common one.
and jacks don't mate with sockets, they are both synonymous with "receptacle" in your usage.
(Score: 2) by corey on Saturday June 13 2020, @09:50AM
Yeah my usage of jack and socket isn't a good example.
We used some Micro-D connectors a while back at work, where the receptacle I think was a series of solid pins with a plastic surround fill, and the plug's "pins" were actually metallic tubes for the receptacle solid pins to go into. Talk about confusing. Awesome connectors though. $300 each too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @06:06AM (1 child)
Jack is offensive!
I identify as Jill.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @08:30PM
Ok, boomer.
(Score: 3, Touché) by RS3 on Saturday June 13 2020, @03:45AM
We also have hermaphroditic connectors: https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/hermaphroditic-connectors/24517 [digikey.com] and there are other designs. They prefer to be called "gender neutral" or "gender non-binary" but never "androgynous".