Andreas

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Is this like when they made the kilogram some function of the speed of light instead of the weight of a metal ball in a French museum?

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

Yes, it started from this terminology change at Twitter in 2020. They're the reason that version control systems call the primary branch 'main' instead of 'master' by default, because 'master' comes from the master/slave terminology that is used in electronics hardware design.

There's a comment here saying that master/slave in hardware design is being replaced by primary/secondary because of the software trend, which I think is stupid. Master/slave works much better in that context because the master device controls the slave device. Primary/secondary implies that the slave device is a fallback of the master device.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This instance is hosted in Germany, one of the countries with the strictest anti-piracy laws? Seems like a very risky decision (I'm aware that a lot of the good and affordable hosting providers are German).