Posted on 06/11/2020 11:26:46 AM PDT by Stravinsky
Apple, Google, Microsoft and other Big Tech companies have stepped up their comments on the need for racial justice amid the Black Lives Matter protests that have gripped the US for the past two weeks. Now, a growing group of technologists say the language of the industry itself needs to change in order to fight racism.
The terms "master" and "slave," used to describe the relationships between two computer hard drives and or between two camera flashes, have come under scrutiny because of their association with America's history of slavery. Similarly, "whitelist" and "blacklist," terms for allowing and denying access to a service, are being revisited because of their potentially racial overtones. keeping me up to date with all things CNET.
"I refuse to use 'whitelist'/'blacklist' or 'master'/'slave' terminology for computers. Join me. Words matter," tweeted Leah Culver, co-founder of the Breaker podcast app and a co-author of the widely used OAuth signon technology. More than 16,000 people liked her tweet.
Photographer Theresa Bear expressed a similar sentiment on the PetaPixel photo site, writing that it's time to "make way for our black community" by banishing the use of "master" and "slave" to refer to how flashes are controlled. "Can you imagine being on set with a black human and the photographer yells to the assistant, 'Hey, can you put it on slave mode?'" Bear asked.
Other terms proposed for sunsetting include "white hat" and "black hat," with "ethical" and "unethical" suggested as replacements.
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IDE Hard Drives most affected.
So much for the word “dongle”
Why not wipe out any distinction between “legal” and “illegal”?
That’s going to be a lot of redaction.
Electronics, automotive.
If the commie-dems succeed, all knowledge will die off as they burn everything.
Nothing will work and everyone starves.
Orwell warned us.......................
Lest some Negro accidentally come across the term, have a stroke and die.
Just wait—the AIs will end the use of the word “human”—and then get about the business of ending humans...
/sarcasm on/Add Black Hole and White Hole too./sarcasm on/
I heard that discussion in the 1990s. It’s nothing new. Back then, we changed the slave device to dependent device and the master device to the independent device or base device.
use those terms niggardly for better race relations
Nearly 20 years ago, I was an AV tech, and the most PC of executives, sitting at my desk in the back of an auditorium from where I ran sound and video, took great offense to those labels on my equipment
I was almost going to care but then realized I ran out of givashitts yesterday.
Maybe tomorrow.
Wait untile they hear about male and female connectors. There’s 32 other genders out there, we need to be inclusive.
It’s a lot, it’s a lot. It’s a lot, it’s a lot. It’s a lot, it’s a lot. It’s a lot like life!
They are controlling language, and now behavior (demanding white devils take a knee).
The foreigners inheriting our country must find this laughable, while whites just tune it out/drop out of the public sphere.
MISO sorry for using those terms in my work as an embedded developer.
Guessing that pronouncing daemon as “demon” is not a problem for them though.
Can electricians still use male and female connectors?
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