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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think its weird to even use such a term in a different context to begin with. Its also generally pretty inaccurate. Many such primary/secondary or parent/child relationships in tech exist either for redundancy or for determining priority/sort order, which isn't what a master/slave relationship would do in a slavery scenerio. About the closest equivalent is a manager/worker relationship, which again is more accurate to say manager/worker because it is not a hostile relationship between the worker nodes and the manager node.

So in short:

  1. Master/slave is inaccurate. Inaccurate terminology leads to confusion, and confusion leads to inefficiency and time waste.
  2. Changing from Master/slave to something else is a relatively easy change to make
  3. If there's even a chance that it leads to a more inclusive working environment that's even better!
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

because it is not a hostile relationship between the worker nodes and the manager node.

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