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What's an allowlist?
by ok123456 6y ago
What's an allowlist?
- Rebelgecko 6y agoAn alternative term for a wh*telist
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- frodo_77 6y agoWhy is the asterisk (*) symbol often used in the middle of words these days? I didn't get the memo when this trend started.
- whatshisface 6y agoThe asterisk is often used to mince profane words, and I guess wh* te and bl* ck are profane now... Or at least that's what the parent comment is implying. (Personally I disagree.)
- anewone 6y agoIt's just a censor.
- klyrs 6y agoPeople have been spelling brainfuck as brainf*ck, or similar, since at least 2001 (the earliest date my lazy-a$s search yielded)
- ThA0x2 6y agoWhitelist. You can spell it out here. Not everyone here is a deranged, neurotic leftist that can't handle the words "whitelist" and "blacklist".
- ThA0x2 6y agoWhitelist. You can spell it out here.
- ywhjaknskkkw 6y agoA poor replacement for the industry standard term whitelist.
- Tagbert 6y agoI think allowlist and denylist are better alternatives to whitelist and blacklist. Allow and Deny are more literally what this is about. White and Black are just old metaphors that aren’t clear they are just familiar. Whitelist and Blacklist don’t really have racists backgrounds but it they are part of a longstanding cultural bias that equates white=good and black=bad. Subverting those biases seems like a good idea.
- rswail 6y agoThere are numerous "industry standard" terms including hot/cold, black/white, allow/deny, positive/negative etc. The generalized concept that white=good,black=bad is something that can easily disappear from all "industry" with more precise terms. In the case of this topic, allow/deny is a much better set of names.
- dragonwriter 6y agoThe opposite of a block list: a lost of things that are allowed.