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    (apologies to everyone whose device can't render HTML entities)

  • I concede the point about the word's origin... not that I've seen anyone ever refer to a branch as a "slave", nor do I think that it's appropriate given that the branches are not subservient to the trunk/master/main/etc until one is merged into or rebased onto the other...

    I also wrote a whole-ass speech about the modern world's relation to the Atlantic slave trade and the guilt certain people are trying to inflict on everyone, but I know what the replies will be (we're just redditors by another name after all) and it's ultimately not a soapbox worth dying on. Anyway, my thesis is study history, learn its injustices, and learn how to do better effectively.

  • It's a master the same way that an original recording (the final version before mass reproduction) is called a master; mixing and processing the raw media clips into such a recording is called mastering. It's a convention that has existed long before computers were a thing.

  • It's a master the same way that an original recording (the final version before mass reproduction) is called a master; mixing and processing the raw media clips into such a recording is called mastering. It's a convention that has existed long before computers were a thing.

  • Honestly it's not even about convenience. As far as breaking conventions go, this one has none-to-minimal impact -- existing master branches won't suddenly become invalid. But it's yet another instance of a subset of a subset of a subset of users getting to enforce their sensibilities for superficial reasons, and ultimately with zero effect regarding the cause they claim to represent; cultural and linguistic differences be damned.

    I'd love to be more specific, but I don't want the comments to turn into a warzone.

    And don't pretend like master doesn't mean what it means.

  • It's a retroactive bastardization of the word based on one particular culture's one particular interpretation of it (master being, apparently, a slaveowner) that ignores both the much earlier meanings of master artisan or master craftsman (as opposed to journeyman and apprentice) and masterpiece (through which an artisan is recognised as a master), and the modern meaning of a master copy (like a master record in disc printing).

    This isn't like replacing the "master and slave" terminology with regard to connected devices. That one was warranted because it was often inaccurate and confusing. But forcing the adoption of main instead of master feels like someone got offended on someone else's behalf because a word looked superficially like that other bad word, and apparently we can't have an understanding that goes deeper than what letters it's made up of.

    Amerika ist wunderbar. This is an --initial-branch=master household.

  • I've made that exact comparison before. TLS uses encryption; ransomware also uses encryption; by their logic, serving web content through HTTPS with no way to bypass it is a form of malware. The same goes for injecting their donation banner using an iframe.

  • Technically it fits inside the highest class-A subnet... but I've seen so many people (especially teachers) who think that class-A and /8 subnets are equivalent that I firmly believe that the idea of classful networking should be removed from technical literature altogether.

  • You can use basically any HTTP server to achieve that, like Apache or Nginx. If the directory (specified by the path in the URL) doesn't contain a file that matches the default file in the config (index.html and such), the server will list the directory contents instead.

  • His right wing is also resting by his side (just hidden behind his foot) and the five-fingered arm is growing out of his shoulder. Someone should notify the analog horror community, there's some fertile ground here.

  • chroot was introduced in 1979 for Unix. arch-chroot is a wrapper around chroot that provides additional functionality and a tighter integration between the system and the new root.

  • Oh, you use pacstrap and arch-chroot, do you? Back in my day all we had was cp and install and we liked it that way! Kids these days wouldn't know how to install SLS without their Yays and Pac-men.

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