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With master gone, it's time to get rid of the man-pages, which were invented to mansplain commands by bearded men in the 70s.
by jcarrano 11mo ago
With master gone, it's time to get rid of the man-pages, which were invented to mansplain commands by bearded men in the 70s.
- ndsipa_pomu 11mo agoI eagerly await that change. However, "man" originally means "people" as in "mankind", or "human". It's only recently (c 1400) that it replaced "wer" ("wif" being the feminine noun) as meaning males (or mid 20th century for becoming an exclamation).
- 1718627440 11mo agoIn addition, this is entirely pointless, because man is short for manual, which comes from manus, the hand, because it is something, that you should keep at hand.