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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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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

You could but he has a point. The last time I used master/slave was for IDE drives which was 15+ years ago, and even then only because I happened upon a really old system using IDE drives.

The only thing I see left is "Master" by itself, like master branch. But that makes me think of like a jujitsu master which sounds really cool lol.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that definition of "master" is different than master/slave from what I can tell. Think the master copy of an audio recording. There are plenty of perfectly legit uses of "master," but there's no reason to use master/slave in this day and age. It was stupid to start doing so to begin with.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

There are plenty of perfectly legit uses of “master,”

Like the Digmaster™.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Especially with how we say releases are "cut" from the master branch, it makes a ton of sense.

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