• silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      22 days ago

      We didn’t actually do stuff like have the military take down pictures of the Elona Gay because it was too gay though; people tried to get their actual job done in a way that’s respectful of minorities.

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          22 days ago

          Nah. Musk and Trump are firing people doing the work, not asking for modest changes to language used. That’s a huge difference

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            22 days ago

            Moreover, the ideas conveyed previously were still conveyed, just not using stigmatizing language. Now, they don’t even want you to convey the idea.

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          Nobody even asked those who you consider minorities if they really want or need the master branches of the code repositories to be renamed to main branches.

          That’s admittedly a bit silly. But what about “master/slave” configurations of servers or app instances? It’s a bit more naked what the analogy is in those cases, and “main/standby” is arguably more informative anyway.