NetworkManager 1.50 Released - Now Ensures Offensive Terms Don't Appear In Settings

[abiswas]

Someone please teach these people the concept of "context". Just because someone's name is "Dick" or "Dickinson" or "Dickson", that doesn't mean their names are offensive!

[panikal]

that is BOTH racist and binarynormative

And not wrong.

[Vistaus]

Looks like they forgot a few. Heck, even "Manager" contains the word "man". They should rename the entire application!!!

[Zbigniew]

This change is hurting BDSM community you RedHat bigots. Where is my BDSM leather and LaTeX month? What next? They will close LaTeX project because it may be BDSM related?

[gabber]

Outdated? Nope.
I proudly use master/slave whenever it MAKES SENSE. And thanks to the thoughtpolice I get to do it with a smirk.

[Salamandar]

Nice to see the forum exploding, because NetworkManager does not write master or slave as key in their key value pair files anymore. If you take a look at the actual patch its just checking for like 4 different strings and will not write them into the file. Its not like an engineering team spend weeks figuring it out. Me personally I really don't care.
This also happens in the kernel from time to time. If they find some equivalent terms yeah go for it. In the kernel the dsa_master and dsa_slave were renamed to dsa_conduit and dsa_user, which for me as non native speaker did take some time getting used to.

Most of these language oriented changes actually clarify meaning. Like DSA_conduit is clearer than master. Same in SPI, dev/periph is clearer than master/slave.

[cynic]

Imagine and build a better world in which language evolves to correct the inherent bigotries and biases over centuries of incorrect and destructive thought patterns so ingrained people don't even notice them in said language until they're directed at oneself and people like oneself... then one reads Phoronix's forums and realizes just how very very long we have to go.

thank you for correcting us all and save the world.

[Errinwright]

Wokepocalypse. The LadyBird browser CoC was godsent in this new theater of cultural warfare.

[Errinwright]

Well, as you can see in this thread a lot of snowflakes are panicking because certain deprecated word aren't written to a config file... in a piece of software that some of them loudly proclaim that they aren't even using to begin with.

Pointing out stupidity and cultural regression isn't considered panicking to the right-hand side of the bell curve.

[totoz]

Those terms are not offensive.