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egorfine • today at 4:48 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> now that we shifted to

We didn't. Some did, but not all of us.


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LoganDark • today at 5:57 PM

I never really followed the cancel culture around certain computing terms. I still use the master branch in my personal repositories.

I wonder if it happened for anything other than master/slave, whitelist/blacklist? Nothing else seems to come to mind.

Imagine if people said airplanes need to stop saying retard because that's offensive! For the record, it means to pull the engines back down to idle before touchdown.

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