@prologic (#sqndwra) ugh. That stuff is so pedantic for mine.

(#sqndwra) @eldersnake "pedantic" meaning? 🤔 Currently I just find it irritating at best and insulting at worst. This is what I said in response: > The whole idea of discriminatory language used in software is absurd. The fact society at large has become so super sensitive around the words used to accurately describe things of a technical nature is insane. Take for example MySQL. It has a "master" and a set of "slaves" in most replicated clusters. Does this have any meaning whatsoever to human slavery in general? Absolutely fucking not!

(#sqndwra) > Another example; Git (the tool) and Git repositories (where code is organised, and persisted). In the not-so-distant past Github would happily have "master" branches as the default, to my knowledge this is still the default behaviour in `git` (the tool) itself. But for whatever reason Github (now Microsoft) has decided that using the term "master" is discriminatory?! To whom? How?! This again is insane. The term "master" here is synonymous to "main", "source of truth" and has little to nothing to do with any other concept.

(#sqndwra) I can keep going... But you get the idea...

@prologic (#sqndwra) yeah I'm agreeing with you 😃 Its gotten pretty insane. Not once have I encountered Master and Slave terms in software etc and even thought of slavery. Just made a whole lot of confusion and extra work to change code in projects in the name of virtue signalling IMO.

@eldersnake @prologic (#sqndwra) Same thing with people getting offended!

@prologic @adi (#sqndwra) Yeah, some fuckwits have nothing besides their eternal victimhood.

(#sqndwra) The language police have already won, because we're here talking about it. It all comes down to attention and internet points.

@mckinley (#sqndwra) But as long as we keep talking about it in ways that are constructive without the hype of clickbait, points or money driven motivations I think it’s fixable 😁

@prologic (#sqndwra) Fair enough