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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by mcny on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:57AM (#23516711)
You’ll have to think and decide for yourself whether this is idiocy. I, for one, do not. The master/slave thing is stupid. The master branch in git is idiotic. Whitelist and blacklist, I can do without.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by andromeduck on Sunday June 14, 2020 @08:56AM (#23517340)
Yeah I think the master for git comes from mastering/master-image/master-tape which comes from the master = main/leading definition which doesn't necessarily imply a connection to master/slave. The black/white list seems to be more out of a day/light/dawn = good/pure/safe and night/dark/dusk = bad/corrupt/dangerous theme common to many cultures.

Either way though, can't really go wrong with more descriptive/functional names.

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