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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[-] sandbox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the master branch in git refers to mastering, the same as the term “remastered”, rather than slavery. I prefer main anyways.

[-] ultramaven@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I mean none of these things need to mean slavery unless you’re so steeped in guilt and shame and anger that everything does

Seriously like I literally never once thought about slavery whenever typing “master” until these fucking people brought it up. Like maybe we can abolish the stock market or something, changing master to main is just masturbating

[-] maniii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

A master-drivetrain and a slaved-drivetrain .... its not about slavery. I dont understand why people have to be so sensitive. We know human slavery is bad. So we dont do it. Same for a lot of instances of Animal slavery which is acceptable for a lot of people, we dont call it that, it is called "farming" or "husbandry".

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btw Im just kidding, I wanna trigger a vegan into a response :-D

[-] ultramaven@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I mean I agree that most of our food-based practices are terrible and I still eat most meat so maybe I’m just a hypocrite.

[-] isaaclw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
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