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wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, at my company we switched to allow/block listed last year. Whitelisted and blacklisted are verboten

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of companies seem to be doing this, personally I think trying to make a connection between race and tech is a bit far fetched. Nobody thinks of race when talking about whitelists and blacklists...

In public repos where these changes are merged in to FOSS projects, they get little resistance too - although I could see concern of a potential backlash if anyone questioned the alleged benefit of such a change.

Imagine if this approach was taken with the (now outdated) IDE interface? Instead of "Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, Secondary Slave", there'd maybe be "Primary Primary, Primary Secondary, Secondary Primary, Secondary Secondary" 😵‍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

kill all children

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hasn't Kubernetes already replaced master-slave with master/manager-worker? Seems like there are plenty of alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Manager-worker seems classist and problematic /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The best reasoning I saw for this change was for clarity for non native English speakers. If you're learning the language "allowlist" is definitely more clear in meaning than "whitelist"