On 2020-06-19 20:14, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
On the danger of starting a flame war ... thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debianinstead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms:"allowlist" and "rejectlist"instead of (for example on disk drives) "master" and "slave" I like to proposethe terms:"lead" and "lag" which are e.g. used when electrically managing two pumpsworking on the same hydraulic circuit. What do you think?
I think that by making conscious effort to avoid something you give it more prominence. Barbary pirates, Ottoman Empire enslaved over 2 million Europeans but you don't see their descendants so much because they were castrated. It really is not white man bad black man good.
mick -- Key ID 4BFEBB31