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Are there actually any devs out there that are really offended and feel excluded or worse than others because the default git branch is called master? I work i
by av8avenger 6y ago
Are there actually any devs out there that are really offended and feel excluded or worse than others because the default git branch is called master?
I work in a fairly small company, but if i think of all the things we'd have to change in our infrastructure to exclude all of those offending words (like Black- and White-Lists), we'd probably be busy for a couple of weeks.
- gher-shyu3i 6y agoHow is blacklist and whitelist offensive now? It seems that some people have nothing better to do than make trouble for the sake of it.
- ec109685 6y agoIt reinforces black is bad and white is good. Also, deny list and allow list are more precise terms anyway.
- alacombe 6y agoBlack bad and white good will remain until you feel safer in pitch BLACK night than during daylight. It has nothing to do with American socio-cultural societal illness.
- totony 6y ago>Also, deny list and allow list are more precise terms anyway. Are they? Black/whitelist feels way more natural to me. You can also say things like "blacklisted this ip" instead of "adding to the deny list" or something.
- tomjakubowski 6y agoIt's really very easy. "denylisted this IP"
- ec109685 6y agoAdd this ip to the deny list.
- Smaug123 6y agoI prefer "blocklist" and "allowlist" which sound more natural to me, but you could certainly use "denylisted this IP".
- totony 6y agoThat's fair. Although I still think blacklist/whitelist is more natural/easier for most people to understand.
- fdiskl 6y ago"I allowed this ip" "I denied this ip" that these are stored in a particular data structure isn't the important part IMO
- africanboy 6y agoblacklist was never intended to mean black people, but undesired people it doesn't reinforce the idea that black is bad and white is good, it was modelled around the idea that black is bad and white is good. Because for humans black (dark) is bad and white (light) is good. Black cats were considered a symbol of bad luck because they were invisible in the dark, not because they resembled black people.
- pdxandi 6y ago> we’d probably be busy for a couple weeks You would get paid to implement more descriptive systems. Sounds like a good deal to me.