'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts

CNET ^ | June 10, 2020 | Stephen Shankland

[Paladin2]

IDE Hard Drives most affected.

[kaktuskid]

So much for the word “dongle”

[Paladin2]

Why not wipe out any distinction between “legal” and “illegal”?

[wally_bert]

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.

[Red Badger]

Orwell warned us.......................

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Lest some Negro accidentally come across the term, have a stroke and die.

[cgbg]

Just wait—the AIs will end the use of the word “human”—and then get about the business of ending humans...

[C19fan]

/sarcasm on/Add Black Hole and White Hole too./sarcasm on/

[Dutch Boy]

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.

[teeman8r]

use those terms niggardly for better race relations

[RedStateRocker]

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

[shelterguy]

I was almost going to care but then realized I ran out of givashitts yesterday.

Maybe tomorrow.

[BBQToadRibs]

Wait untile they hear about male and female connectors. There’s 32 other genders out there, we need to be inclusive.

[dfwgator]

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!

[kearnyirish2]

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.

[tomkat]

Mass Psychosis

[thesharkboy]

MISO sorry for using those terms in my work as an embedded developer.

[AndyTheBear]

Guessing that pronouncing daemon as “demon” is not a problem for them though.

[cuban leaf]

Can electricians still use male and female connectors?