Re: technical terms overhaul
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 08:37:51PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 19 Jun 2020 at 15:14:26 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > If we knew what you were talking about it would help. Link?
>
> If Eike is trying to start a social movement, this is... well, it's
> something. But you'll need much broader exposure and more voices to
> join yours, if you hope to prevail.
>
> Think Twitter, Youtube, Facebook. Not (just) debian-user@lists.debian.org.
>
Microsoft's Github and LinkedIn. Google's Chrome and Android
projects. The UK Cybersecurity Agency. Cisco.
All have already made public announcements.
There's no context where whitelist/blacklist is objectively
better than pass/fail or allow/block or always/never.
Most things described as master/slave aren't actually very well
matched by that metaphor. Source/sink, boss/worker,
dispatcher/receiver may be more accurate.
-dsr-
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