Re:The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
by bjourne on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @08:17AM
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I think the amount of whines proved the inclusivity people right. Fwiw, in git the main branch doesn't dominate the other branches and it is not an expert so it is not a master. It is main in the same way the main street in a city is main.
Re:The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
by llbbdd on Thursday September 04, 2025 @02:13AM
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Ah okay, I remember this. I'm not sure the they were proved right that conclusively - from my neck of the woods it seemed like it invented issues where there weren't any previously. And maybe that was the point - I wasn't involved. But where I was, the terminology wasn't controversial until it was, and that seemed to be a choice (maybe by Github to follow social convention).
Re:The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
by 1718627440 on Thursday September 04, 2025 @10:30AM
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Even if the term master where about that, I don't get, what's the problem. Having slaves is wrong, because these are human beings. Having other things like machines as slaves is not immoral. We also treat animals way worse then slaves and these are animate objects. And nobody objects to robot, which is just the word slave in czech.
The relation between a human and a computer is very much that of a master and a slave. I provide the resources, you do what I say, including self-destruction.
In this case, out of dozens of ways the word is used (others being like ‘masters degree’ or ones that pretty closely match Git’s usage like ‘master recording’ in music), one possible one is ‘slavemaster’, so some started to assert we have to protect people from possibly making the association.