People are saying that the terminology changes are preformative wokeness but honestly I distinctly remember 😬-ing when I learned about Master/Slave devices on the IDE bus in 1997.

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@tevruden master/slave renaming makes total sense. i wonder about whitelist/blacklist, i do think a little bit is performative. performative is good though in and of itself, as it makes not being silent and speaking out a socially acceptable choice.

@sneak whitelist/blacklist is less disconcerting but I feel allowlist/blocklist is more descriptive anyway because it signals intent

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