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tgv 6y ago
First: that's just stringing assumptions together. But etymology doesn't matter. If it would, "negro" wouldn't be a word to avoid. Actual use would matter, but the context doesn't seem to warrant that.
- brenschluss 6y ago
  Etymology matters if enough people think it matters. Language has meaning that is social, and if enough people dislike a meaning or see a word a different way, that word will change its meaning. So right now we are watching words change meaning.
  - aQHAKS 6y ago
    > So right now we are watching words change meaning. On the Internet, TV, News and in OSS projects where the main developers report to their new corporate masters, sorry, leaders. Meanwhile said leaders are laughing in their luxury locker rooms about useful idiots and are using the exact same terminologies as before with their old boys networks. Truth is too much for HN. Enjoy your fairy tales, gurus, social constructs, webshit apps and continue to live in a dream world constructed by others.
  - waheoo 6y ago
    One dude? on twitter is enough people to change the meaning of the word? And that has something to do with explaining the long string of assumptions that nobody is willing to address?
    - waheoo 6y ago
      Well, the dev responsible addressed. https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441 https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441 Woops.
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waheoo 6y ago
Ok im clearly still missing something. Git uses master on its own for the master branch. Master has multiple meanings, only one of which is not racist, but insensitive to use. Bitkeeper, an earlier vcs uses the terminology master/slave branches. And that some how transfers to git? Because the kernel used to use bitkeeper? Thats a stretch. And github starts renaming it because? Its virtue signaling instead of doing something worthwhile?
- waheoo 6y ago
  Ooof those downvotes didnt age well. https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441 https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441

tgv 6y ago

First: that's just stringing assumptions together. But etymology doesn't matter. If it would, "negro" wouldn't be a word to avoid. Actual use would matter, but the context doesn't seem to warrant that.

brenschluss 6y ago
Etymology matters if enough people think it matters. Language has meaning that is social, and if enough people dislike a meaning or see a word a different way, that word will change its meaning. So right now we are watching words change meaning.
- aQHAKS 6y ago
  > So right now we are watching words change meaning. On the Internet, TV, News and in OSS projects where the main developers report to their new corporate masters, sorry, leaders. Meanwhile said leaders are laughing in their luxury locker rooms about useful idiots and are using the exact same terminologies as before with their old boys networks. Truth is too much for HN. Enjoy your fairy tales, gurus, social constructs, webshit apps and continue to live in a dream world constructed by others.
- waheoo 6y ago
  One dude? on twitter is enough people to change the meaning of the word? And that has something to do with explaining the long string of assumptions that nobody is willing to address?
  - waheoo 6y ago
    Well, the dev responsible addressed. https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441 https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441 Woops.
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waheoo 6y ago

Ok im clearly still missing something. Git uses master on its own for the master branch. Master has multiple meanings, only one of which is not racist, but insensitive to use. Bitkeeper, an earlier vcs uses the terminology master/slave branches. And that some how transfers to git? Because the kernel used to use bitkeeper? Thats a stretch. And github starts renaming it because? Its virtue signaling instead of doing something worthwhile?

waheoo 6y ago
Ooof those downvotes didnt age well. https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441 https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441