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That smuglord in a recent thread that said "programming.dev doesn't allow politics" certainly allows programming.dev's nonpolitical politics to ooze anywhere I can see a programming.dev user address of origin.
"I don't have time to discuss politics, I'm too busy getting the master and slave drives to work together."
"That's just technology. Technology is nonpolitical."
"Anyway, let me tell you about my next project: the Torment Nexus."
"If you don't like the Torment Nexus, just don't draw the ire of Immortal Cyberlord Bezos. Simple!"
I never got the complaints about that. It's not inherently bad to have one thing exert complete control over another thing.. the problem is when you start doing it to people
I don't think I've seen anyone with a problem with the computing concept itself, they have a problem with the unnecessarily unpleasant and offensive nomenclature. There's lots of ways to express a leader/follower dynamic that's intuitively understandable. Hell, call them Dom/Sub drives if you want to.
There's just no good reason to invoke historical attrocity that's still ongoing to describe a concept like this.
Ok fair point and that is a really funny idea. But afaict dom/sub dynamics aren't complete control and it would be pretty dangerous if they were