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Re:Angular v14 is now available by Joeri on Thursday June 02, 2022 @04:37PM (#31600200)
In technology master was always paired with slave, so yes, the word master in technology does indeed imply the meaning of slave owner.

I do agree that getting that bent out of shape about the semantics of the names of inanimate objects like git branches is a bit weird, but then I am also talking from a position of privilege and have no lived experience of being treated differently because of my ancestry. The way I figure: if some people care that much that it is called “main” and not “master”, and I don’t really care either way, why not let them have that one?

Re:Angular v14 is now available by dmitriid on Thursday June 02, 2022 @04:41PM (#31600241)
> if some people care that much that it is called “main” and not “master”, and I don’t really care either way, why not let them have that one

Because (besides being an extremely stupid change for the most tenuous of reasons) this imposes a one-sided US-centric view of the world.