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No, it is not.

by DagAgren 6y ago

No, it is not.

tsimionescu 6y ago
I think it's 99.9% certain that GP was making a joke.
- DagAgren 6y ago
  Yes, and it was a joke in very bad taste that belittles the very real issues people have with this.
  - Ygg2 6y ago
    Very real issues, being it offends some minority, somewhere. Guess what, everything offends some minority somewhere. In essence, I am against the policing of language to police the mind.
    - DagAgren 6y ago
      > Guess what, everything offends some minority somewhere. No. It does not. It most definitely does not. This is a lame excuse, and also a blatant lie.
      - dang 6y ago
        Would you please stop using this site for political and ideological flamewar? It destroys what it's supposed to be for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You've unfortunately been doing it a lot, and we've already had to ask you to stop.
        DagAgren 6y ago
        Why are you asking me, and not the other guy? Why is it me who is supposed to shut up, and not the other guy? That sounds like taking a political stand to me. Or are you going to try to claim that "oh those minorities are such whiners" is apolitical, but "no they are not" is not? You allow lots of inflammatory and political opinions on the site. But you don't allow people to stand up to them or challenge them. That is pure hypocrisy.
Ygg2 6y ago
That's the beauty of identity politics. No matter what you say, you are always going to encroach on someone's identity. Whoever promoted it, was a machiavellian genius. People can't rebel if they keep each other in check.
- lsofzz 6y ago
  > That's the beauty of identity politics. No matter what you say, you are always going to encroach on someone's identity. > Whoever promoted it, was a machiavellian genius. People can't rebel if they keep each other in check. That is exactly what I wanted to say too but you said it better. I'd point out that there are possible hundreds if not thousand other software that use the terminology. It doesn't offend me at all. $> man -k slave grantpt (3) - grant access to the slave pseudoterminal grantpt (3p) - grant access to the slave pseudo-terminal device jack_netsource (1) - Netjack Master client for one slave kdeinit5 (8) - Launcher for applications built with kdeinit support, ... ptmx (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave pts (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave ptsname (3) - get the name of the slave pseudoterminal ptsname (3p) - get name of the slave pseudo-terminal device ptsname_r (3) - get the name of the slave pseudoterminal Tcl_CreateSlave (3) - manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden c... Tcl_GetSlave (3) - manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden c... unlockpt (3) - unlock a pseudoterminal master/slave pair unlockpt (3p) - unlock a pseudo-terminal master/slave pair $> man -k master agentxtrap (1) - send an AgentX NotifyPDU to an AgentX master agent getpt (3) - open the pseudoterminal master (PTM) gnutls_session_ext_master_secret_status (3) - API function gnutls_session_get_master_secret (3) - API function gnutls_session_set_premaster (3) - API function jack_netsource (1) - Netjack Master client for one slave mmafm (1) - creates AFM font metrics for multiple master fonts mmpfb (1) - creates single-master fonts from multiple master fonts ptmx (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave pts (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave pulseaudio-ctl (1) - Control pulseaudio's basic functions such as the maste... RAND_DRBG_get0_master (3ssl) - get access to the global RAND_DRBG instances SSL_get_client_random (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and get/set... SSL_get_extms_support (3ssl) - extended master secret support SSL_get_server_random (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and get/set... SSL_SESSION_get_master_key (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and ge... SSL_SESSION_set1_master_key (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and g... Tcl_GetMaster (3) - manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden c... Tk_GetImageMasterData (3) - define new kind of image unlockpt (3) - unlock a pseudoterminal master/slave pair unlockpt (3p) - unlock a pseudo-terminal master/slave pair WildMidi_MasterVolume (3) - sets the overall audio level of the library. xapian-replicate (1) - Replicate a database from a master server to a local copy

No, it is not.

tsimionescu 6y ago

I think it's 99.9% certain that GP was making a joke.

DagAgren 6y ago
Yes, and it was a joke in very bad taste that belittles the very real issues people have with this.
- Ygg2 6y ago
  Very real issues, being it offends some minority, somewhere. Guess what, everything offends some minority somewhere. In essence, I am against the policing of language to police the mind.
  - DagAgren 6y ago
    > Guess what, everything offends some minority somewhere. No. It does not. It most definitely does not. This is a lame excuse, and also a blatant lie.
    - dang 6y ago
      Would you please stop using this site for political and ideological flamewar? It destroys what it's supposed to be for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You've unfortunately been doing it a lot, and we've already had to ask you to stop.
      - DagAgren 6y ago
        Why are you asking me, and not the other guy? Why is it me who is supposed to shut up, and not the other guy? That sounds like taking a political stand to me. Or are you going to try to claim that "oh those minorities are such whiners" is apolitical, but "no they are not" is not? You allow lots of inflammatory and political opinions on the site. But you don't allow people to stand up to them or challenge them. That is pure hypocrisy.

Ygg2 6y ago

That's the beauty of identity politics. No matter what you say, you are always going to encroach on someone's identity. Whoever promoted it, was a machiavellian genius. People can't rebel if they keep each other in check.

lsofzz 6y ago
> That's the beauty of identity politics. No matter what you say, you are always going to encroach on someone's identity. > Whoever promoted it, was a machiavellian genius. People can't rebel if they keep each other in check. That is exactly what I wanted to say too but you said it better. I'd point out that there are possible hundreds if not thousand other software that use the terminology. It doesn't offend me at all. $> man -k slave grantpt (3) - grant access to the slave pseudoterminal grantpt (3p) - grant access to the slave pseudo-terminal device jack_netsource (1) - Netjack Master client for one slave kdeinit5 (8) - Launcher for applications built with kdeinit support, ... ptmx (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave pts (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave ptsname (3) - get the name of the slave pseudoterminal ptsname (3p) - get name of the slave pseudo-terminal device ptsname_r (3) - get the name of the slave pseudoterminal Tcl_CreateSlave (3) - manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden c... Tcl_GetSlave (3) - manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden c... unlockpt (3) - unlock a pseudoterminal master/slave pair unlockpt (3p) - unlock a pseudo-terminal master/slave pair $> man -k master agentxtrap (1) - send an AgentX NotifyPDU to an AgentX master agent getpt (3) - open the pseudoterminal master (PTM) gnutls_session_ext_master_secret_status (3) - API function gnutls_session_get_master_secret (3) - API function gnutls_session_set_premaster (3) - API function jack_netsource (1) - Netjack Master client for one slave mmafm (1) - creates AFM font metrics for multiple master fonts mmpfb (1) - creates single-master fonts from multiple master fonts ptmx (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave pts (4) - pseudoterminal master and slave pulseaudio-ctl (1) - Control pulseaudio's basic functions such as the maste... RAND_DRBG_get0_master (3ssl) - get access to the global RAND_DRBG instances SSL_get_client_random (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and get/set... SSL_get_extms_support (3ssl) - extended master secret support SSL_get_server_random (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and get/set... SSL_SESSION_get_master_key (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and ge... SSL_SESSION_set1_master_key (3ssl) - get internal TLS/SSL random values and g... Tcl_GetMaster (3) - manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden c... Tk_GetImageMasterData (3) - define new kind of image unlockpt (3) - unlock a pseudoterminal master/slave pair unlockpt (3p) - unlock a pseudo-terminal master/slave pair WildMidi_MasterVolume (3) - sets the overall audio level of the library. xapian-replicate (1) - Replicate a database from a master server to a local copy