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Github plans to replace "racially-insensitive" terms
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman said the company is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery. Some of the terms which could be replaced include "master" and "slave" with alternatives such as "main/default/primary" and "secondary" respectively, and "whitelist" with "allow list" and "blacklist" with "deny/exclude list".
Github says it will replace the terms whitelist, blacklist, and master/slave for being racially insensitive
It comes amid the Black Lives Matter protests
https://www.techspot.com/news/85631-github-replace-terms-whitelist-blacklist-masterslave-racially-insensitive.html
GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
The world's biggest site for software developers is abandoning decades-old coding terms to remove references to slavery, such as master and slave.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53050955
Github plans to replace racially insensitive terms like ‘master’ and ‘whitelist’
https://thenextweb.com/dd/2020/06/15/github-plans-to-replace-racially-insensitive-terms-like-master-and-whitelist
GitHub to replace master with main across its services
Language matters – but when you replace a 'blacklist' with a 'blocklist', what do you call a list of blocks?
https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/15/github_replaces_master_with_main
https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references
https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references
See also
Security
South African bank to replace 12m cards after employees stole master key
https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-african-bank-to-replace-12m-cards-after-employees-stole-master-key
It's not a reference to anything except for computing bits and pieces. github should be a negative meme now and be taken the piss out of likewise. I thought it was supposed to be open-source, for anyone who can to go onto and code, fork and contribute, but it's closed and retarded, like the big closed companies.
GitHub, Inc. is a United States-based global company that provides hosting for software development version control using Git. In 2018, it became a subsidiary of Microsoft for US$7.5 billion.[3] It offers the distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git, plus its own features. It provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
Oh, well, there you go.
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman said the company is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery. Some of the terms which could be replaced include "master" and "slave" with alternatives such as "main/default/primary" and "secondary" respectively, and "whitelist" with "allow list" and "blacklist" with "deny/exclude list".
Github says it will replace the terms whitelist, blacklist, and master/slave for being racially insensitive
It comes amid the Black Lives Matter protests
https://www.techspot.com/news/85631-github-replace-terms-whitelist-blacklist-masterslave-racially-insensitive.html
GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
The world's biggest site for software developers is abandoning decades-old coding terms to remove references to slavery, such as master and slave.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53050955
Github plans to replace racially insensitive terms like ‘master’ and ‘whitelist’
https://thenextweb.com/dd/2020/06/15/github-plans-to-replace-racially-insensitive-terms-like-master-and-whitelist
GitHub to replace master with main across its services
Language matters – but when you replace a 'blacklist' with a 'blocklist', what do you call a list of blocks?
https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/15/github_replaces_master_with_main
https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references
https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references
See also
Security
South African bank to replace 12m cards after employees stole master key
https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-african-bank-to-replace-12m-cards-after-employees-stole-master-key
It's not a reference to anything except for computing bits and pieces. github should be a negative meme now and be taken the piss out of likewise. I thought it was supposed to be open-source, for anyone who can to go onto and code, fork and contribute, but it's closed and retarded, like the big closed companies.
GitHub, Inc. is a United States-based global company that provides hosting for software development version control using Git. In 2018, it became a subsidiary of Microsoft for US$7.5 billion.[3] It offers the distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git, plus its own features. It provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
Oh, well, there you go.