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1   Rin   2020 Jun 15, 2:45pm  

Yes, it's all on a few personal portable hard drives for me.
2   Hircus   2020 Jun 15, 8:28pm  

Even one of my lefty coworkers expressed a bit of confusion over this one.
3   Patrick   2020 Jun 15, 9:13pm  

I'm very happy I closed my github account.
4   Patrick   2020 Jun 15, 9:14pm  

Code-hosting portal GitHub is reportedly working on replacing the programming term “master” with a neutral term such as “main” in an effort to avoid references to slavery. The move is part of a leftist push to change the language of coding by removing terms deemed racist, sexist, and otherwise “offensive.”

ZDNet reports that the code-hosting platform GitHub is planning to replace the term “master” on its service with a more natural term such as “main” in order to avoid any reference to slavery, according to the company’s CEO.

A growing movement in the world of tech is pushing for changes to coding languages in order to avoid terms that may be offensive to developers in the black community. These include remove terms such as “master” and “slave” and replacing them with “main/default/primary” and “secondary.” Terms such as “blacklist” and “whitelist” would also be replaced with “allow list” and “deny/exclude list.”

However, some have noted that some terms such as “blacklist” are not rooted in slavery or the oppression of black people, but actually refers to the practice of using black books in Medieval England to record the name of problematic workers to avoid hiring in the future
5   ThatGuy   2020 Jun 15, 9:24pm  

Patrick says
I'm very happy I closed my github account.


What are you using for version control?
6   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 16, 8:14am  

ThatGuy says

What are you using for version control?


In my 25 years of Programming, I have never once needed to go back to code I created weeks ago.
If I pushed something and it broke, which is rare, I just spend the few minutes to find the simple oversight missed while pushing the update.
I hate working with knee jerkers, have faith in your code, we'll get through this.
"While those around you are melting down and losing their shit over a 501, calling for a revert, the cooler heads are updating the web config. "
The only version control I ever liked and was almost painless, was Tortoise SVN.
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7   SunnyvaleCA   2020 Jun 16, 11:43am  

We had a few virtue signalers in my extended work group, but not as bad as might be expected. I wonder how many of those people have "masters" degrees that they are disavowing?

I wonder what they think of the word "niggardly"? (Probably nothing, as most have only a basic grasp of English.)
8   zzyzzx   2020 Jun 16, 12:14pm  

Tenpoundbass says
ThatGuy says

What are you using for version control?


In my 25 years of Programming, I have never once needed to go back to code I created weeks ago.
If I pushed something and it broke, which is rare, I just spend the few minutes to find the simple oversight missed while pushing the update.
I hate working with knee jerkers, have faith in your code, we'll get through this.
"While those around you are melting down and losing their shit over a 501, calling for a revert, the cooler heads are updating the web config. "
The only version control I ever liked and was almost painless, was Tortoise SVN.
.


To many people source control might be their only form of a backup though...
9   zzyzzx   2020 Jun 16, 1:27pm  

I changed all my master/slave code references to pimp/ho years ago.
10   SunnyvaleCA   2020 Jun 16, 3:39pm  

zzyzzx says
I changed all my master/slave code references to pimp/ho years ago.
I think switching to SATA years ago did away with that whole "problem."
11   Blue   2020 Jun 16, 5:28pm  

RAID,HA, Fail over code used to have these terms commonly back in 90s. Gradually they were replaced with primary, standardby etc. Early 2000s I received a list of words to be replaced from doc writer group at work. I suspect the old repos still have these words. Occasionally I do still hear them in group meetings.
12   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 16, 5:48pm  

#idiocracy
13   Patrick   2020 Jun 16, 5:50pm  

ThatGuy says
Patrick says
I'm very happy I closed my github account.


What are you using for version control?


Plain old git.
14   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 16, 5:53pm  

Patrick says
ThatGuy says
Patrick says
I'm very happy I closed my github account.


What are you using for version control?


Plain old git.


It's racist AF:

15   Booger   2020 Jun 16, 5:54pm  

The taste police will be coming after other words soon enough as well.
16   Patrick   2020 Jun 16, 6:00pm  

Male and female electrical connectors will become... what?
17   Patrick   2020 Jun 16, 6:02pm  

Patrick says
Plain old git.


BTW, if you have a server somewhere that works with ssh, you can very easily push to and pull from that server with git.

Most of github is frosting, not cake. Frosting with a !Code of Conduct! and demands for WOKENESS!

Not worth it. Use bitbucket, or install gitlab, or just use ssh + git.
18   SunnyvaleCA   2020 Jun 17, 1:36am  

FuckCCP89 says
Plain old git.


It's racist AF:
Isn't the whole "git" thing racist? I'm thinking "git goin'" and "git-ty up doggy" type phrases.

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