I work in software. It is not acceptable to have “master” branches anymore, despite source control having zero connection to the slave trade. Again, the language changed.
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It’s like someone yanked the tablecloth from under your dishes and then mocked you for wondering why the tablecloth had to be removed. If you’re Hobbes, you wanted the tablecloths gone and now they are. Zero friction. It’s an easy dunk in a space like Bluesky where no one has a different viewpoint.
apr 13, 2025, 10:24 pm • 9 0 • view
Don't listen to the comments Michael, I think you need to find something stupider to get mad about. I dunno, get mad that they don't call 'em Freedom Fries anymore or some dumb shit like that. It will do wonders for you, I promise.
apr 15, 2025, 7:47 am • 14 0 • view
Everyone thinks you're a tool.
apr 15, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Knows*
apr 15, 2025, 1:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh well. Boo hoo, I guess.
apr 14, 2025, 10:27 pm • 4 0 • view
apr 14, 2025, 10:34 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm so sorry about your head injury.
apr 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 4 0 • view
I’m gonna yank your tablecloth and replace it with this one. Try and stop me.
apr 15, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
This guy is really going to a lot of trouble to explain how important the word "Master" is to him. Wonder why? LOL Imagine these snowflake crybabies having to live as Brown/Black people and simply for our genetics having to prove that you are an American at every turn? Grow a pair Mike.
apr 14, 2025, 11:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Except that the people who made those decisions are the CEO’s and operators of those businesses people worked at. No one forced them to do anything. They thought this was a quick fix so they can’t be sued. Take your beef to them.
apr 15, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
You need help, we change our vocabulary all the time weirdo. Most of us don’t throw temper tantrums about how we can’t say master bedroom anymore.
apr 15, 2025, 3:40 pm • 9 0 • view
They are cooked. They tried to eat and left so many crumbs.
apr 15, 2025, 8:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Man stfu
apr 14, 2025, 11:17 pm • 60 0 • view
Thank you.
apr 14, 2025, 11:43 pm • 7 0 • view
Um, really? It’s more like someone said, I’d prefer if you used the cream napkins rather than the white ones. Calling it yanking the tablecloth is hyperbole. Maybe get a sense of proportion?
apr 14, 2025, 10:42 pm • 7 0 • view
apr 15, 2025, 6:19 am • 0 0 • view
Is it still okay to say Weirdo?
apr 15, 2025, 1:15 am • 4 0 • view
Damn i didnt know the "master" terminology could be anyone's metaphorical tablecloth. I don't personally find such infinitesimal changes in how we refer to things to be such an intense upheaval. You seem to be built very differently, in a way that's a bit worm-like and pitiful
apr 15, 2025, 3:42 pm • 19 0 • view
tablecloth? oh you mean the sheet that you put over yourself before going to your KLAN MEETING?!?!?!
apr 15, 2025, 3:56 pm • 6 0 • view
You sound like someone who has never been forced by the hegemony of workplace expectations to use the word "main" to refer to the original, principle, or reference thing among several related but somewhat hierarchical things.
apr 15, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
fair point but maybe the "hegemony of workplace expectations", where the workers can't democratically decide on things like terminology, is the source of the issue. as opposed to what the author of this thread seems to be implying, which from what i can tell is Wokeness™️
apr 15, 2025, 4:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Well, my sarcasm failed. But you have a good point that the decision of workplace terminology should be negotiable. The OP is talking about GitHub, where originally "master" was the defined term. But the they changed it so your organization could use any term, with "main" being their suggestion
apr 15, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
But if a team of developers is like "hell no, its master" .... they can
apr 15, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol I worked with like six of you and you all fucked off to contractor positions or have bounced company to company since. You are of a weak bloodline
apr 14, 2025, 10:13 pm • 18 1 • view
I can't imagine working in software being too upset about changes in terminology and buzzwords, it's a constant and common hazard of our workplace.
apr 14, 2025, 10:17 pm • 14 0 • view
He can’t use the term AI because George Washington didn’t use it.
apr 14, 2025, 11:59 pm • 3 0 • view
They are literally black bagging legal residents off the street for their speech, but you wanna bitch about your made up repression of using "master." Did they ship you to El Salvador or just tell you, hey maybe use this less charged phrasing.
apr 14, 2025, 10:24 pm • 35 2 • view
Praying for you
apr 15, 2025, 2:11 pm • 3 0 • view
was this difficult for you? a hardship?
apr 14, 2025, 10:53 pm • 8 0 • view
For Pete’s sake, we’ve all had to adjust to some new terminology and sometimes it’s awkward or we make a mistake but only the right are choosing to endlessly whine & seek retribution over it.
apr 14, 2025, 10:30 pm • 8 0 • view
apr 15, 2025, 12:53 pm • 10 0 • view
Seriously? Having to type "git pull main" caused you that much trauma? I don't mock you for wondering, but I do mock you for acting victimized over a trivial change in terminology.
apr 14, 2025, 10:51 pm • 10 0 • view
GH desktop absolutely still uses "master"
apr 14, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view
There's a setting for it. You can literally call the default branch whatever you like!
apr 15, 2025, 9:04 am • 1 0 • view
Poor Mike was forced at gunpoint to use main instead of master, poor oppressed guy
apr 15, 2025, 11:52 am • 1 0 • view
Ye olde traditional git master, the established traditions of our forefathers from, uh, 20 years ago
apr 14, 2025, 10:54 pm • 13 0 • view
The damn wokes forced us to stop saying "trunk" because it was too phallic
apr 14, 2025, 11:05 pm • 6 0 • view
"It’s like someone yanked the tablecloth..." Dude, all they did was start calling it a table linen. It's still there, even if you refuse to recognize it by another name.
apr 15, 2025, 12:40 am • 22 1 • view
you are weak
apr 14, 2025, 11:44 pm • 40 0 • view
Plenty of repos still have “master” branches, if your company decided to change their standards, that’s your company. I use “trunk” on mine because it makes more sense to me to have a trunk with branches than a master with branches. But I’m not getting bent out of shape if yours is “master”.
apr 15, 2025, 3:02 pm • 7 0 • view
I’ve only ever heard folks on the right making a big deal out of this. Not one of my leftist friends or peers has ever commented, and half still use “master” because it’s what they’ve used. None of us give a shit. We have better things to do than participate in bullshit culture wars.
apr 15, 2025, 3:02 pm • 7 0 • view
Especially when the point of those bullshit culture wars is to divide the working class while the oligarchs rob the country blind. But by all means, focus on your silly little naming convention obsession. Just take your nose with you. 🔴
apr 15, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
QQ - why does your development practice depend on the presence of a master branch
apr 14, 2025, 10:47 pm • 5 0 • view
"I work in software" + [racist comment] = BINGO!
apr 15, 2025, 12:32 am • 8 0 • view
Switching from master to mainline wasn't an imposition you fascist fuckstain on the industry
apr 15, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
Hey have you shat recently? The shit seems to have backed all the way up and is coming out of your mouth. Try to poop more please
apr 15, 2025, 1:42 am • 7 0 • view
so you've never encountered another person on bluesky, then?
apr 15, 2025, 2:10 am • 5 0 • view
This hypothetical daffodil was just itching for a reason to become a fascist, so there’s not much you could do to placate them even if you didn’t politely ask them not to use “Master Bedroom” in official material.
apr 15, 2025, 3:15 am • 2 0 • view
There are many much healthy outlets for your obvious humiliation fetish.
apr 15, 2025, 1:17 am • 29 1 • view
apr 14, 2025, 10:34 pm • 6 0 • view
Getting a pointer for prevailing style norms isn't yanking out a tablecloth. No one in the entire world is exempt from learning something about language use and cultural style norms. Every single one of us has received guidance to capitalize this, add a comma to that, or change a term over there.
apr 14, 2025, 10:36 pm • 15 0 • view
yeah language changes, like it has through all of history MAIN makes significantly more sense in context than MASTER for branches in a code repo, and in most other uses of the word. So we, THE WHOLE INDUSTRY, shifted to language that makes more sense how were you hurt by this change?
apr 14, 2025, 10:14 pm • 139 2 • view
language is constantly evolving and not over night. Changing master to main? Was a conversation I saw going on for at least ten years. lore.kernel.org/git/CAOAHyQw... 0 of the people on this chain are WOKE CHAMPIONS, they saw a change their community asked for and implemented it
apr 14, 2025, 10:18 pm • 51 0 • view
yanked the tablecloth?? in what way were you effected at all by any of these language changes. none! if you kept saying master bedroom, at MOST, someone might say “hey i don’t like that term, can you use main?” and if that hurt you….. i suggest therapy lol
apr 14, 2025, 10:19 pm • 51 0 • view
Zillow appears to like "owner's suite", which I really disliked when I was looking for somewhere to rent. Conveniently now that I *am* renting I never have to call it that *or* master.
apr 15, 2025, 12:36 am • 2 0 • view
and “not allowed to”??? i can pull up hundreds of public repos right now that have master branches! You can rename your main to master right now with a very easy command! You’re talking about a product change that GitHub made to all of their hosted repos, *because their customers asked for it*
apr 14, 2025, 10:23 pm • 63 0 • view
100% of the time when these guys talk about the grave consequences for crossing the wokerati it's always completely hypothetical because they're always total cowards who never did anything to test their theory- up to and including bringing it up in even one meeting.
apr 14, 2025, 11:41 pm • 33 3 • view
This (hilarious) pile-on is going to be his big example of how the Wokes are the real authoritarian bigots. He’ll dine on this for years.
apr 15, 2025, 1:55 am • 10 0 • view
Sadly, it will be all about "They were mean to me!"
apr 15, 2025, 3:00 am • 3 0 • view
I still see repos with master branches all the time so the idea you're not "allowed"--most people don't care that much but are willing to make the shift because why go to the mat for "master"? Lol
apr 14, 2025, 10:52 pm • 19 0 • view
You know why...
apr 15, 2025, 12:53 am • 4 0 • view
Oh yeah.
apr 15, 2025, 12:55 am • 4 0 • view
Language changes, language has always changed, language will always change. It's unhinged to be this committed to using master/slave. Grow up.
apr 14, 2025, 10:17 pm • 7 0 • view
it's also... NOT EVEN TRUE! i see "master bedroom" all the friggin time!
apr 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 5 0 • view
This is so unserious and silly
apr 15, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
Hey I also work in programming and you sound like a big baby throwing a fit over what is a style guide change for naming a variable. Just because you didn't actually want to argue your stupid point with coworkers does not mean you were 'forced' to do anything
apr 14, 2025, 2:42 pm • 446 4 • view
That’s a bit hostile for an opening reply and it’s tempting to reply to it defensively. I don’t object to renaming repos to main. My point was to illustrate that language changed. Your reply reveals a point I didn’t make, which is that discussing this change invites aggressive pushback.
apr 14, 2025, 2:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Meet me at home depot you little bitch
apr 14, 2025, 10:11 pm • 10 0 • view
"The proof that I'm right is how vehemently everyone claims I'm wrong!" Dietrich Bonhoeffer would be so revolted that you use his image.
apr 14, 2025, 10:48 pm • 8 0 • view
your thread was openly hostile
apr 14, 2025, 10:15 pm • 15 0 • view
Well a bunch of people have shown you how your claim that nobody can say master bedroom anymore is total bullshit and you haven’t changed your views. At least you respond to the hostile replies. So stop being a bozo. You’re completely wrong here
apr 15, 2025, 1:13 am • 7 0 • view
Have you actually experienced the "intense social pressure" or are you just complaining on behalf of some theoretical person who really cared about calling it the master bedroom? bsky.app/profile/mich...
apr 14, 2025, 2:55 pm • 156 2 • view
It's not aggressive pushback on the change, it's aggressive pushback on your claim that there is aggressive pushback on the change. If a branch is named master, the impetus to change it to main is present but small.
apr 14, 2025, 11:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Language ALWAYS changes. It is a constant process. If it didn’t we’d all be speaking the same language.
apr 15, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Bitch
apr 14, 2025, 10:07 pm • 36 1 • view
Adding a second "Bitch" to the conversation. Let's make a bitch chain
apr 15, 2025, 12:02 am • 7 0 • view
Language constantly changes. That’s why a bastard is now just some dude you don’t like, or a SOB is some dude you don’t like, instead of being someone who doesn’t know his father, or someone whose mother is apparently a canine. The word ‘email’ didn’t exist till my lifetime, and I’m only 45.
apr 15, 2025, 11:21 am • 0 0 • view
Here's the thing, not knowing something has changed and still using old terminology isn't a bad thing. It's refusing to change that makes you a bad person.
apr 14, 2025, 10:17 pm • 21 0 • view
Say it again for the snowflakes in the back. Not knowing is fine, happens to everyone! Refusing to change, despite knowing better, is bad.
apr 15, 2025, 1:15 am • 10 0 • view
So the language changed. So what? Language changes all the time. It's not a big deal. Unless, of course, you were really invested in the term "master bedroom".
apr 15, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Did you throw as big of a fit when they decided Pluto was no longer a planet? Are you yelling at the kids who decided the term baddie actually means something good?
apr 14, 2025, 11:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Im actually still pretty upset about Pluto, frankly. That was a sketchy way to have a vote.
apr 15, 2025, 1:03 am • 1 0 • view
It invalidated Sailor Moon canon, how dare they!
apr 15, 2025, 1:38 am • 1 0 • view
Sir are you okay? This is harrowing.
apr 14, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
The changes you're talking about are trivial, nonbinding, and voluntary. You want to be a victim so damn bad put just can't pull it off.
apr 14, 2025, 10:10 pm • 41 0 • view
Are you gonna cry about it?
apr 14, 2025, 11:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh no, not using "main" branches! OH THE HUE MANATEE
apr 14, 2025, 10:09 pm • 30 0 • view
This u comparing changing the term to “yanking the tablecloth out from under your dishes”?
apr 14, 2025, 11:29 pm • 5 0 • view
there's three places we can hypothesize for you in the discussion: 1. you approve of the change, in which case why frame it like a bad thing for this hypothetical Other who can't handle the change 2. you don't care about the change, in which case why post 3. you don't like the change
apr 14, 2025, 10:14 pm • 34 0 • view
only case 3 plausibly results in this fantastically defensively-composed thread; it's disingenuous, bordering on silly, to pretend otherwise. your pearl-clutching response to pushback from folks who correctly parse your poorly-hidden intent is, exactly, disingenuous bordering on silly.
apr 14, 2025, 10:14 pm • 28 0 • view
this sure seems to happen a lot and comments like these are never what get responded to like that guy who made a thread on why right-wingers feel oppressed and didn't even slightly frame that as not an accurate assessment on their part
apr 15, 2025, 2:21 am • 3 0 • view
hey, so this is how societies establish what is and is not socially acceptable. This is different than law. People you work with established that they find that language distasteful. You can hear them out or you can disagree. Some people might not like your point of view. Welcome to adulthood.
apr 14, 2025, 10:19 pm • 44 0 • view
If you feel like people will dislike you or get upset because of your ideas... I'm sorry I guess? Plenty of people don't like my ideas, but I believe in them and will stand by my principles even if there are social consequences. Pushback is not the same as like... state repression.
apr 14, 2025, 10:23 pm • 30 0 • view
The whole "woke has gone to far" thing strikes me as the result of not having spent much time thinking critically about ones position in the world. People aren't used to having defend their ideas because their ideas are based in accepted hierarchies, so being asked at all feels monumental.
apr 14, 2025, 10:29 pm • 29 2 • view
Right-wingers and authoritarians of privilege have been whining about being asked to treat others with respect for LITERALLY over 20 years now. I remember being in high school hearing complaints about “political correctness run amok”.
apr 14, 2025, 11:45 pm • 20 1 • view
And I remember a quote from someone I’d rather not credit bc they turned out to be unexpectedly awful later on, but this sentiment holds up, about replacing “political correctness” with “treating people with respect” and seeing if the complaint still made any sense.
apr 14, 2025, 11:45 pm • 6 0 • view
Now, they’ve switched from political correctness” to “wokeness”, because they lost the public-opinion battle about “political correctness” and decided to rebrand, but somehow everyone ELSE changing words is the problem, it’s fine when THEY do it!
apr 14, 2025, 11:47 pm • 11 0 • view
And also if they had to think critically about their ideas, they might discover their ideas are wrong, and we can’t have that. Being wrong is death.
apr 15, 2025, 2:11 am • 5 0 • view
motherfucker you haven’t seen hostile yet
apr 14, 2025, 10:30 pm • 8 0 • view
Your thread was really dumb man. I do hope more of you dummies come over here because it's not the friction of Twitter I miss it's the very easy dunk targets.
apr 14, 2025, 10:12 pm • 30 0 • view
Well, I work in software too, and I also think you sound very whiny. My company still has a "master" branch, though we are currently having conversations about replacing "blacklist" & "whitelist" w/ "deny_list" & "allow_list". No forcing. Language has been changing for millennia - get used to it.
apr 14, 2025, 10:43 pm • 22 0 • view
Exactly, I see this every day. Just as with life in general, you can choose whether to be considerate of others or not, and to what degree. And that decision may have consequences (in this case it's usually none at all, but you may occasionally be told that you're being inconsiderate).
apr 16, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
You earned the hostility with your shitty attitude
apr 15, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view
Your original and more sympathetic claim was that there was "intense social pressure" to cause this change. All of your examples, though, are just "change happened", which is a much less sympathetic thing to get worked up about.
apr 14, 2025, 10:41 pm • 11 0 • view
"sorry to get up my hind legs but you boys were crackin' foxy" - Humphrey Bogart, the Maltese Falcon, delivering a line considered incredibly cool and tough and clever and modern. language changes. 'master' was a great word to get rid of. nobody is out to get you
apr 14, 2025, 10:11 pm • 24 0 • view
Shut the fuck up bitch
apr 14, 2025, 10:10 pm • 82 0 • view
Well said, Luke.
apr 14, 2025, 11:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Do you only cry online? Or do you cry at work, too?
apr 14, 2025, 10:13 pm • 14 0 • view
Buh-ro
apr 14, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Grow up and get real problems, ya freak
apr 14, 2025, 11:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Prove it loser
apr 15, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
The Hobbes reference is impressive though 😂 if you ignore that you sound like you’re mad at table linens.
apr 15, 2025, 1:33 am • 1 0 • view
It's not a Hobbes reference, he's directly responding to Michael Hobbes. I was confused about that too at first. I think bluesky could be a lot better at showing hidden context than it is right now.
apr 15, 2025, 9:15 am • 0 0 • view
Oh thx 🙏
apr 15, 2025, 2:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Men are broken.
apr 14, 2025, 11:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Extremely funny series of skeets, thanks.
apr 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 4 0 • view
First they came for the "master files", and I said nothing because seriously who gives a shit?
apr 14, 2025, 11:37 pm • 1 0 • view
In summary, "I feel uncomfortable when I am around people who aren't part of my cult."
apr 15, 2025, 1:03 am • 7 0 • view
You’re right. It’s a discussion that can’t be had on Bsky because it’s some made up culture war bullshit, and this isn’t where insecure bell-ends come to cry about their fictional grievances.
apr 15, 2025, 1:58 pm • 13 0 • view
"I made something up, said it was really bad, and ur fault. And u won't even debate me on the topic!"
apr 15, 2025, 2:15 pm • 13 0 • view
Pretty much their entire ethos.
apr 15, 2025, 2:20 pm • 4 0 • view
Do these hallucinations hurt much or is it you're so far right, e v e r y thing else is left?
apr 15, 2025, 1:47 pm • 2 0 • view
And this is hard for you why?
apr 15, 2025, 1:22 am • 10 0 • view
Dang but here you are having a different viewpoint on bluesky. Wild.
apr 15, 2025, 3:05 am • 13 0 • view
I never had a twitter. Did not know how close the two ends of the horseshoe - hard left and hard right - really are. 5 minutes ago I saw a 'progressive' utterly dismiss a journalist's opinion because he was a "white male". Wtf?
apr 14, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I am begging you to go to twitter You will find your ppl
apr 15, 2025, 1:32 am • 3 0 • view
Don't beg, that's weird.
apr 15, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
Dont kink shame
apr 15, 2025, 12:09 pm • 1 0 • view
His main point, I think, is that you can't bring up anything controversial without getting dozens of bawlbabies bitching in your comments, not being constructive. Yesterday on a diff post someone mentioned Shapiro's pro-Israel stance. Someone was like 'So you think he should be burned alive?!?!' 🙄
apr 14, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s easy to talk shit and lie, apparently.
apr 15, 2025, 1:46 am • 9 0 • view
This dude be all like:
apr 15, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I dunno man most of us don’t find it that hard to not be big douches about everything all the time.
apr 15, 2025, 4:09 am • 15 0 • view
Bro, I did a master/child load at work TODAY, what the fuck are you going on about?
apr 15, 2025, 3:30 am • 10 0 • view
It's weird as fuck and I cringe every time someone says it. I wish it was gone the way you're saying, and you're throwing a big dumb fit over the idea that it's gone? Why?
apr 15, 2025, 6:39 am • 1 0 • view
JFC, man. Keep it together.
apr 14, 2025, 10:10 pm • 40 0 • view
If someone yanked a tablecloth from under my dishes and then mocked me for asking why it was done, I’d be annoyed possibly. I wouldn’t be so angry that I simmered with enough resentment to bring down my country for it. This much anger over a language change, or pronouns, is hiding a deeper issue.
apr 15, 2025, 3:37 am • 3 0 • view
maybe you should get out of the industry honestly, please do
apr 15, 2025, 3:21 am • 11 0 • view
do you ever, like, leave your house and have normal problems
apr 15, 2025, 6:28 am • 136 0 • view
Gotta admit, I saw the 69 likes here and said “Nice” aloud.
apr 15, 2025, 9:46 am • 7 0 • view
You keep referring to "master," but it's another word you're really talking about.
apr 15, 2025, 2:49 am • 4 0 • view
apr 15, 2025, 2:26 am • 2 0 • view
This is an implementation/HR problem. If you had a a few black realtors make a video saying “Every time I have to say this, it fucks me up a little, and I wish we could use some other language,” wouldn’t everyone have said, yeah, sure, we get it, no problem?
apr 14, 2025, 10:32 pm • 3 0 • view
We went from Mater to Main branches and I and it didn’t affect me at all because it doesn’t really change anything it’s still d2m. Maybe you should try focusing on anything else of any consequence whatsoever.
apr 14, 2025, 10:36 pm • 10 0 • view
Poor poor you. I can’t even imagine what this must be like for you.
apr 15, 2025, 8:48 am • 1 0 • view
apr 15, 2025, 6:42 pm • 79 2 • view
Ooh I like this one.
apr 15, 2025, 7:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Its interesting that the answers actually prove some of your points. I mean, I think a few arguments are wrong. some can easily be disproven. but instead of questioning you and interacting somewhat respectfully, theres name-calling and other stuff. Thats really not helping to bridge the divide.
apr 15, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
On the bright side, it gives you something to cry about.
apr 14, 2025, 10:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Language evolves. Adapt or die, dummy.
apr 15, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
Do you sit down on your davenport to rest before your box social?
apr 14, 2025, 10:36 pm • 7 0 • view
be honest, you're mocked for all kinds of stuff
apr 15, 2025, 1:54 am • 4 0 • view
"the mean leftists made me stop using a word 🥺🥺🥺" get a hobby dude
apr 15, 2025, 12:45 am • 15 0 • view
Wow what a silly analogy
apr 14, 2025, 10:16 pm • 3 0 • view
You can just, like, not care.
apr 14, 2025, 11:10 pm • 2 0 • view
So this whole temper tantrum is because you can’t say master bedroom?
apr 14, 2025, 11:19 pm • 36 0 • view
I wouldn’t have occurred to me in a million years to make that correlation. The ‘master plan”, “Master Chef”, 10,000 hrs to “master” a skill… Like seriously stop looking for reasons to offended.
apr 15, 2025, 2:15 am • 1 0 • view
This is literally the first Ive heard of this. But the difference between me and you and Mr. Temper tantrum is that when someone with more awareness than I have tells me something is offensive, I don’t freak out about it. Stop being an asshole
apr 15, 2025, 4:57 am • 1 0 • view
No no no. Because society isn't forcing other people to say master bedroom TO HIM. 🤣
apr 14, 2025, 11:24 pm • 37 1 • view
...are the dishes still in the exact same place in this metaphor?
apr 14, 2025, 10:49 pm • 221 0 • view
I hope so because the analogy would at least be magic instead of being whut
apr 14, 2025, 11:15 pm • 8 0 • view
I just picked a random city in Alabama on Zillow and found several houses with “master suites” or “master bedrooms”, so I’m guessing the dishes are still in the same place and so is the tablecloth.
apr 15, 2025, 12:22 am • 196 2 • view
I just looked at the top trending GitHub repos and about half of them had "master" as their top branch so I think it's safe to say the cutlery hasn't been moved and none of the drinks spilled, either.
apr 15, 2025, 1:41 pm • 6 0 • view
Lol
apr 15, 2025, 12:23 am • 36 0 • view
he had me until dishes
apr 15, 2025, 1:03 am • 1 0 • view
apr 14, 2025, 11:13 pm • 26 0 • view
You are a widdle baby
apr 14, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1,406 1 • view
Stop, he’s already upsetty spaghetti!
apr 14, 2025, 10:58 pm • 22 0 • view
Lmfao, thank you. I was about to craft up the reply, but you dunked it home.
apr 14, 2025, 10:40 pm • 10 0 • view
He's a loser little titty-baby.
apr 15, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
an a lying widdle baby at that. cry harder dude.
apr 14, 2025, 10:19 pm • 432 0 • view
So what's the solution, exactly? Language changes. It always changes, that's what it does. Sometimes it even changes on purpose. And he's correct, if you read his thread, in that these specific language changes have almost always produced stronger social pressures going the other direction.
apr 14, 2025, 10:10 pm • 17 0 • view
Also, a lot of extremely wealthy pundits have gotten a lot of views by complaining about the "woke mob" coming for your pronouns or whatever even though it's a problem they mostly made up and aren't impacted by anyway.
apr 14, 2025, 10:11 pm • 15 0 • view
First they came for the tablecloths, and I said nothing because I use placemats…
apr 15, 2025, 3:36 am • 3 0 • view
I genuinely cannot imagine the privilege required to think any of this is a real problem. If you also have called leftists (or indeed anyone), a snowflake, ever, then that's even funnier.
apr 15, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
Cool now do the one where right-wingers insist on calling being trans “gender ideology” and call stuff they don’t like “illegal” etc etc. Got any grievances about that or are you just really really butthurt about changing “master” to “primary” for [reasons]?
apr 14, 2025, 11:10 pm • 8 1 • view
Have you been licking pennies again, Michael?
apr 15, 2025, 1:59 am • 1 0 • view
Hey you made up a bunch of examples and none of them were true. Then you got mad at the examples that you made up that weren't true. Then you got mad at people telling you that up made up the examples. This is 2nd grader behavior. Try to act like a grown adult.
apr 15, 2025, 2:49 am • 6 0 • view
Left of centre here. No problem with master bedroom. No one should be forced to put pronouns in their bio, but that said - if you don’t call someone by their chosen name you really are just an asshole.
apr 15, 2025, 2:05 am • 3 0 • view
why did you feel the need to call it a master branch so much? fucking weird, dude.
apr 15, 2025, 1:41 pm • 5 0 • view
I think you'll find there's plenty of different opinions on Bluesky. The main difference is that nonsense bullshit can't pay its way into your timeline, and if somebody cries about nothing and you don't want to hear it, you can just mute.
apr 14, 2025, 10:42 pm • 10 1 • view
I’m sure the switch away from the term “master bedroom” has been super hard for you - I’ll send thoughts and prayers as you work through these troubling times in your life. Oh man, I can’t fathom the pain of simply …. Swapping a few words of vocabulary. You are so strong.
apr 15, 2025, 12:00 pm • 8 0 • view
Why are you lying?
apr 15, 2025, 1:02 am • 0 0 • view
Why are you shitting your pants about people wanting you to be more polite?
apr 14, 2025, 10:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Is this some sorta new “I can’t do anything because of woke” thing? I genuinely have no clue what the hell point you are trying to make? I’ve got no clue what you are talking about.
apr 15, 2025, 8:21 am • 0 0 • view
Well, you obviously — or Ironically — have the “easy dunk” down pat.
apr 15, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
It's more like a few people at the table changed their napkins and you literally lost your mind about it
apr 14, 2025, 10:18 pm • 8 0 • view
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
apr 15, 2025, 2:35 pm • 3 0 • view
I am begging you to touch grass. Begging you to talk to another human being who isn't on the other side of a screen or ai generated or animatronic.
apr 15, 2025, 12:50 am • 8 0 • view
How do yoh remember to breath?
apr 14, 2025, 11:27 pm • 4 0 • view
Breathing is just sucking and blowing. He's good at both.
apr 14, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
This is probably the stupidest thing I have ever heard someone say, and I have heard a lot of stupid shit. No one has made you feel pressure to stop using the word master. Stop being an obtuse, block-headed whiny little shit weasel.
apr 15, 2025, 12:35 am • 1 0 • view
Admittedly it's pretty easy to dunk on men who perceive a change in words emotionally similar to having their toddler run over in front of them by a drunk driver.
apr 15, 2025, 12:33 pm • 16 0 • view
Don’t worry dude. You’re still allowed to masturbate.
apr 15, 2025, 1:47 pm • 3 0 • view
broaden my horizons with your different viewpoint on what you call the biggest bedroom in a house
apr 15, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
This never happened, you're inventing things to be mad about because you're a giant pathetic baby.
apr 15, 2025, 4:23 pm • 3 0 • view
We can't have democracy anymore because somebody corrected you once on word choice sensitivities. Lol. (And the kicker is i bet it probably wasn't even something that actually happened to you, just something you imagined happening and then got mad at.)
apr 14, 2025, 11:03 pm • 4 1 • view
apr 14, 2025, 10:58 pm • 118 4 • view
It has always been the Gulf of America.
apr 15, 2025, 12:40 am • 21 0 • view
I'm so sorry that Black men were stolen from their homes, shipped like cattle across the sea, lucky to live through the journey only to be sold as a slave into hard labor & because they had to call owners MASTER, now you have to feel a mild annoyance everyday when someone has FORCED you to change. 😢
apr 15, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
“Bluesky because it’s entirely devoid of non-left voices.” David Frum is “left” now?
apr 15, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
I like @davidfrum.bsky.social on SOME topics, but he ain’t “left”.
apr 15, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
You felt “intense social pressure” related to a vocabulary change in programming? Why is it that you find that so difficult? Is it because you disagree with the reasoning behind it?
apr 14, 2025, 10:47 pm • 8 0 • view
What a thread. Didn't know 4chan had also migrated to Bluesky. Nice to see people coming together over the written word.
apr 15, 2025, 1:15 am • 1 0 • view
Because people on the left are notorious for getting along with each other and not fighting about stuff. It's a giant lovefest where no one fights. Ever. Give your balls a tug. Discussions about language absolutely happen. I have bitched about disability and language. Stop being super soft.
apr 14, 2025, 10:55 pm • 9 0 • view
Boo fucking hoo you little baby
apr 15, 2025, 2:46 am • 7 0 • view
You have many personal problems that you should be working on with a therapist.
apr 14, 2025, 10:16 pm • 13 1 • view
OMG someone asked you to consider other people’s feelings! What a fucking tragedy!
apr 14, 2025, 11:06 pm • 9 0 • view
you are softer than baby shit and just as pleasant
apr 15, 2025, 1:33 am • 1 0 • view
Genuinely what is the problem with using a phrase that is kinder to a minority group? Why shouldn’t people decide to be a little better to each other if they can? Did people try to be nicer too fast for your liking?
apr 14, 2025, 10:27 pm • 20 1 • view
Exactly; when selling/listing our condo I asked why master bed isn’t used anymore, it was explained to me, and it makes sense to roll with “not being offensive to anyone” territory. Option B is just asshole territory
apr 14, 2025, 10:34 pm • 13 0 • view
It's good that you're getting clowned on bsky, and the platform is better for it. I was a UC grad student last year, and my friends were mostly extremely woke lefties, and maaaaaybe once I ever heard a scold about using 'master' for the main version of something.
apr 14, 2025, 10:26 pm • 3 0 • view
What on earth are you talking about? Master bedrooms are still listed as such and never stopped. "Brown bag lunch" what? Never even had someone say to think about not saying those words ... what a ridiculous comment.
apr 14, 2025, 10:20 pm • 13 0 • view
Seriously. Brown bag lunch is still used and no one says shit. Sack lunch is just ALSO used. Meanwhile, people also sometimes call sweet fizzy drinks “soda” and other times call them “pop” and there are no breathless editorials about how the language police have gone too far!
apr 14, 2025, 11:21 pm • 10 0 • view
Sometimes it’s literally just a little regional dialect thing and it’s absolutely strange and bizarre to complain so hard that other people use language a bit differently than you do.
apr 14, 2025, 11:25 pm • 6 0 • view
I think we should write an editorial about how we “pop” users are the victims of an unfair and changing demographic
apr 15, 2025, 1:26 am • 1 0 • view
Come to Canada—we are your people! (Pop-le?)
apr 15, 2025, 1:53 am • 2 0 • view
CANADIANS SAY POP?!
apr 15, 2025, 2:00 am • 1 0 • view
In my region (western Canada) it’s pretty common. There was even a beverage company named The Pop Shoppe 😄
apr 15, 2025, 2:24 am • 1 0 • view
We Midwesterners also say pop!
apr 15, 2025, 12:11 pm • 1 0 • view
To really sell it we’ve gotta make up some shit about how “soda” users are unhinged wokeists who object to “pop” on the grounds that it’s sexist to call your drink daddy.
apr 15, 2025, 1:50 am • 1 1 • view
And if you live in Texas, all fizzy drinks are called "Coke" as in "What kind of Coke would you like?" "A Dr Pepper, please"
apr 14, 2025, 11:24 pm • 3 0 • view
I must admit, that one DOES rub my brain the wrong way, a Coke is a much more specific thing! But I’m not gonna stay up nights fretting over it.
apr 14, 2025, 11:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Because you must be a grown up 😊
apr 14, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, that’s debatable, but I do try.
apr 14, 2025, 11:30 pm • 2 0 • view
“Brown bag lunch” what’s offensive about that? 🤷♀️ Lunch in a paper bag?
apr 15, 2025, 2:19 am • 1 0 • view
Fuck you're dumb and pathetic
apr 15, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
maybe we should ship you to a foreign gulag without recourse for your mewing bullshit? Is that better?
apr 15, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
Have you considered not being a whiny bitch about inconsequential nonsense?
apr 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 64 1 • view
Where was Michael’s outrage when they renamed the water closet?
apr 14, 2025, 11:40 pm • 14 0 • view
IT'S ALL LITTER TRAYS NOW!
apr 15, 2025, 2:42 pm • 2 0 • view
It was in the Xitter can in his backyard
apr 15, 2025, 12:24 am • 5 0 • view
We’re mocking you for throwing a tantrum over something that is actually insignificant to your life. You’re mad because now it’s “main” branch instead of “master”? Truly, how delicate you must be
apr 14, 2025, 10:24 pm • 11 0 • view
apr 14, 2025, 11:34 pm • 27 0 • view
10 ply
apr 15, 2025, 2:49 am • 0 0 • view
Go back to sleep.
apr 14, 2025, 10:47 pm • 6 0 • view
Y, he things that people don't disagree here ? We do disagree and try to come up w tte best solution , but we are not trying to install oligarchy & kleptocracy.
apr 15, 2025, 1:47 pm • 1 0 • view
These posts have less relevance than the literal braying of a literal jackass, so I'm going to have to think of a better metaphor to describe you.
apr 14, 2025, 10:53 pm • 11 0 • view
Hey buddy: trigger warning Quit being such a gigantic baby, man up and be polite. Like maybe gracious even. It’s extremely unmanly to complain like this.
apr 14, 2025, 11:02 pm • 7 0 • view
Lol. What the fuck are you even talking about? Are you a child? This is massively embarrassing for you. You should feel bad that you wrote/feel this.
apr 14, 2025, 10:18 pm • 47 1 • view
"Guy who has never faced a single difficulty much less a real problem" disorder
apr 14, 2025, 11:30 pm • 13 0 • view
Seriously, wth did I just read. If this is what gets his knickers in a twist, dude needs to genuflect to the universe that he has such a soft and easy life.
apr 14, 2025, 10:44 pm • 5 0 • view
Hey i have to carry my green card around now and have a go bag packed. I’m so sorry for the struggles you faced for having to make a slight adjustment to some documents.
apr 15, 2025, 1:15 am • 889 14 • view
Gargantuan ratio
apr 15, 2025, 5:48 am • 4 0 • view
I think the point being made was that “language policing” was unpopular and pushed some people away from liberal values and that it was one of many factors that created a situation where you have to carry your green card and live in fear of being disappeared.
apr 15, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
Because we don’t say “master bathroom?” A phrase popularized to sell houses to 26 year olds so they could feel grand about taking on mortgages? This made people fascists?
apr 15, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I think lots of people felt like they were being told words like master are racist, and that made them uncomfortable. If I've has been using a word all my life, and you're telling me that word is racist, that feels like you're calling me racist.
apr 15, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Fascism isn't popular, so fascists have to sneak through the back door. Most Trump voters didn't know they were voting for getting rid of due process. In hindsight, issues like word policing seem insignificant but that perspective wasn't available when people were voting.
apr 15, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
It just doesn’t play out in the polling data. Cultural issues barely registered. People who voted for him who weren’t already on board with the anti-trans or anti-inclusion policies were motivated by material things like inflation
apr 15, 2025, 2:40 pm • 1 0 • view
That you are this loquacious and yet haven't gotten around to posting anything beyond replies tells me you're not relevant enough for us to be responding to you. I'm not sure why others haven't simply initiated the nuke block sequence, but I'll pull the lever first.
apr 15, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel like I’ve been perfectly civil and am just trying to have a conversation about how to fix things so we don’t lose again. I’m definitely not relevant though, that’s fair.
apr 15, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
The point is bullshit. Many people have shown that “master bedroom” is still in use on realty websites. Yes there has been progress against a couple slurs, something that happens over time as a result of society becoming more progressive. It’s just externalizing blame for previously held RW values
apr 15, 2025, 12:08 pm • 17 0 • view
I don’t think a few examples of people using the “wrong” term disproves there’s been an effort to get people to use the “right” term. It just means some people aren’t aware or disagree. People feel it, whether it’s real or not, and I don’t think telling people they’re wrong is helpful.
apr 15, 2025, 12:43 pm • 0 0 • view
You're certainly right that language changes to reflect society, but perhaps this is an example of language changing faster than society. That made people uncomfortable and played a factor in November.
apr 15, 2025, 12:47 pm • 0 0 • view
But there was no forcing or overcorrection. Every grievance that was amplified by right wing media was pulled from “best form” manuals like the APA or places like medical websites trying to be inclusive. Acting like there was a strong arm language movement is ahistorical
apr 15, 2025, 1:20 pm • 10 0 • view
Again, I think what's important to focus on is that people felt it and politics is about listening, not telling. Telling people they're wrong to feel some way is not a successful strategy to win an election. It's worth considering why some people felt harshly judged for using the wrong words.
apr 15, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
For someone who is allegedly very upset about tone and word policing you're doing a lot of it at the moment.
apr 15, 2025, 1:34 pm • 6 0 • view
I haven't claimed to be very upset about word/tone policing, and I'm trying to express an opposing view in good faith. We need to acknowledge that it's our fault we lost and be able to discuss what needs to change to win next time.
apr 15, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
What if they're actually wrong and the reason they feel angry is because they mainline propaganda that will make them feel angry because they have a compelling need to feel angry? In this scenario, there's nothing the non-existent word police can do bc the whole thing is bad faith Catch up, dude
apr 15, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
A parties job is to win elections, and they beat us. We can’t just sit around and blame the other side for not playing fair. Whether it was true or not, it’s our fault for being an easy target that people believed were more focused on unhoused vs homeless than building houses for people to live.
apr 15, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
The guy had his own example debunked! He’s arguing that there was “intense social pressure” which has been repeatedly disproven. If anyone is doing the “telling” it’s RW media trying to foment a culture war where this isn’t one.
apr 15, 2025, 2:10 pm • 6 0 • view
Get a profile Pic bot
apr 15, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
10/10 response
apr 15, 2025, 3:10 am • 40 0 • view
For sure
apr 15, 2025, 3:10 am • 1 0 • view
Plus he’s lying about his claim, and no one removed any words except the Republican administration did with history of women and black or trans folks in any government site or document and is suing or defunding everyone everywhere to make everything except “white male” made illegal to talk about.
apr 15, 2025, 3:38 am • 29 0 • view
Conservatives equate minor inconveniences with society ending threats all the time. It’s how they convince themselves that their sociopathic ideas are ok.
apr 15, 2025, 3:43 am • 23 0 • view
🛎️
apr 15, 2025, 1:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Overheard
apr 15, 2025, 4:33 am • 2 0 • view
are you going to tell us planned parenthood doesn't use the word women anymore but they do. IDK how you move forward with such grave injustices
apr 14, 2025, 10:11 pm • 27 0 • view
Yes they make us spell masturbate with a “u!”
apr 15, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
Must be Canadian 😉
apr 15, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
I also work in tech and you need to calm down.
apr 15, 2025, 1:35 pm • 12 0 • view
It's an easy dunk because you're a lying tool.
apr 15, 2025, 11:08 am • 91 1 • view
A) untrue and B) what a ridiculous thing to be upset about if it were true
apr 15, 2025, 3:54 am • 1 0 • view
It's like someone told you "the language we used to use invokes literal human slavery, maybe we shouldn't do that anymore" and no one not a fucking child dwelled on it for longer than 2 minutes. That you can't see "why the tablecloth had to be removed" shows that you're weak link in the chain.
apr 14, 2025, 11:11 pm • 6 1 • view
So weird how some people get all twisted in knots when asked to be more considerate and thoughtful with their language. Get over it. Stop being a dick. Get a fuckin hobby.
apr 15, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
You know these are easily checked, right? I built control systems which sometimes used the terms "master" and "slave" for certain components. That's technology still using those terms, today.
apr 15, 2025, 1:46 am • 1 0 • view
And 🤷♀️
apr 15, 2025, 2:22 am • 1 0 • view
More like someone stopped using the old racist term for brazil nuts and neither informed you of the change not asked for your opinion because they had no obligation to do either. Leading change by example is normal. So is when the example becomes popular
apr 14, 2025, 10:12 pm • 12 1 • view
Dude, I financed my college education writing and editing papers for computer science majors who did not want to put their academic energy into their Humanities pre-reqs. No one “yanked the tablecloth”. You chose not to sit at the table because it was beneath you. Language Evolves 101
apr 15, 2025, 1:58 pm • 19 1 • view
What a snowflake.
apr 14, 2025, 11:04 pm • 3 0 • view
To the extent that any of this is true - which is not very much - the impact of these vocabulary changes is so small that it barely registered. I work in software too. Nobody cared when we got rid of “blacklist” or “master” we all just went back to doing our jobs
apr 14, 2025, 10:13 pm • 43 1 • view
…hang on what are the updated terms to replace “blacklist/whitelist”, asking for a me bc I haven’t been caught up on that shift yet.
apr 14, 2025, 11:23 pm • 6 0 • view
Blocklist/allowlist
apr 14, 2025, 11:24 pm • 6 0 • view
Makes sense, communicates the exact function, I like it. Thanks!
apr 14, 2025, 11:25 pm • 10 0 • view
see a dr about your anti woke mind virus. They have anti virals these days
apr 15, 2025, 12:34 am • 0 0 • view
"Damn you, Smithers, tell me again why I can't call those awful Micks and Paddies by their proper names anymore?"
apr 14, 2025, 10:16 pm • 7 0 • view
Not the same.
apr 15, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
Well, thank god that's settled, then.
apr 15, 2025, 3:08 am • 0 0 • view
I will let you have your tablecloth back over my dead body.
apr 15, 2025, 3:55 pm • 3 0 • view
My unmarried friend called her bedroom the “mistress bedroom”. Is that OK?
apr 14, 2025, 11:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Change Is Scary is a more honest argument in defense of this position than what you usually see, but it is also cowardice masquerading as grievance so maybe stop that.
apr 14, 2025, 11:30 pm • 9 0 • view
You poor thing.
apr 14, 2025, 10:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Sooooooo fucking leave
apr 15, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
lol what a fucking dweeb you are
apr 15, 2025, 11:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Aww the poor little baby had to use some new words :( so sad, time to let right wing fascist take over the country to protect the baby from words they dont like
apr 15, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
that must have been very scary
apr 15, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view
I just checked some code into the master branch at the software company I work at. No one has ever complained or said anything is 'not acceptable'. You're a lying dipshit.
apr 14, 2025, 10:27 pm • 4 0 • view
That's hogwash.
apr 15, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
I work in building commissioning and dang if those lochinvars still use master and slave boiler designations. If you like being punished there are people you can pay for that service, but Zillow ain’t out to hurt your widdle fee fees
apr 14, 2025, 10:17 pm • 3 0 • view
I work in software. There's an easy fix for this "git fucked"
apr 15, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view
No you don't and no it isn't lmfao. This is so easy to fucking prove wrong.
apr 15, 2025, 1:06 am • 0 0 • view
lol, this literally took you one click in GitHub to change and saves you two keystrokes repeated throughout the day
apr 14, 2025, 10:14 pm • 3 0 • view
[LOUD “INCORRECT” BUZZER]
apr 14, 2025, 10:25 pm • 4 0 • view
What the heck are you talking about? It was always called “main branch” with Git.
apr 14, 2025, 11:46 pm • 1 0 • view
No, this is true, default originally was "master". However, in my career no one is slapping people around making them change it. We recognize it as unsupportive and change it when it makes sense to. Businesses exist to make money. stackoverflow.com/questions/71...
apr 15, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
So Github changed the default in 2020. Astounding, could have sworn it was always called main. www.theserverside.com/feature/Why-...
apr 15, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
In all honesty, unless you're preoccupied with default branch names for some reason, it's hardly even worth knowing! We already have to keep so many things in our headspace when coding
apr 15, 2025, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view
At best, it's a deprecated convention that still occasionally used. But more importantly, who cares?
apr 15, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
What's it like on Planet Kyrpton. Since that is evidently where you live
apr 14, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I call BS; and I don't think you work in the industry. If you narrowed it down to preferring a different name for branches going forward -- sure, that's plausible. And `main` works fine. (My company does prefer alternate names, but we haven't renamed our existing branches.)
apr 14, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude, I work in software also. Nobody is forcing you to name your primary branch main rather than master. Also there are pretty clear negative connotations of the word master. It’s not much to ask. Maybe you shouldn’t be such a snowflake.
apr 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 23 0 • view
Look, I'll admit to some annoyance when I created a repo and found that it had named the primary branch main. It generates more work and the old name had familiarity. However it's a change in the scale of needing to install a new library because the old one is no longer supported. Not much.
apr 14, 2025, 11:32 pm • 4 0 • view
lol. Yup all of the master branches are gone. Every single commit in every repo has been up rebased to eliminate every reference to a master branch. We all did this. Sure. If you don’t do it they disappear you without so much as a hint of due process.
apr 15, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view
“A bloo bloo, they’re expecting me to say ‘primary’ and ‘secondary,’ and that makes me feel bad, boo hoo hoo.” Fuckin’ cry more about it, you soft bitch.
apr 14, 2025, 10:36 pm • 2 0 • view
I've seen a push to replace the actual master/slave terminology for things like IDE drives. Everything else on your list of made up grievances is a made up grievance.
apr 14, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
names change. language changes. most of us grow up and manage to not throw fits when something changes slightly without our permission. you didn’t have to include the software part, i could guess that from your whiny little bitch tone
apr 15, 2025, 1:48 am • 3 0 • view
I work in software too, what the fuck are you talking about
apr 15, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
github.com/search?q=bra...
apr 15, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
I, too, work in software. Therefore, I prefer "main" over "master" because it saves me two keystrokes.
apr 14, 2025, 11:26 pm • 1 0 • view
god that is pathetic. Oh no you gotta type “main” instead of “master” sometimes a terrible burden that comes at great personal cost. Why the fuck would your personal identity be tied up in “master” being the default branch name
apr 15, 2025, 5:43 am • 13 0 • view
cry about it
apr 15, 2025, 12:43 am • 0 0 • view
I work in software too, and people will still refer to a “master” branch. But, yes, source control systems moved to calling it a “main” branch and unless you are a complete jerk, this is not that big of a change.
apr 15, 2025, 1:28 pm • 21 0 • view
I mean, if you work in software, how many languages have you had to adapt to in your professional life?
apr 15, 2025, 1:28 pm • 18 0 • view
He "works in software" the same way a TSA agent "works in aviation"
apr 15, 2025, 2:02 pm • 14 0 • view
Same here. Listening to people whine about this has wasted more of my time than the actual change ever has.
apr 15, 2025, 2:38 pm • 1 0 • view
We have like 12,000 repos that still have “master”
apr 15, 2025, 12:02 am • 2 0 • view
Every project I worked in had a master branch the fuck you talking about?
apr 15, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view
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apr 15, 2025, 2:12 am • 0 0 • view
It is impressive that you manage to work on the software industry while being the absolute softest little baby ever born on Earth. Typically the biz only hires adults. Fortunately this is likely to be the only time in your career that you encounter new terminology or have to change practices.
apr 15, 2025, 4:10 am • 0 0 • view
God you sound like such a whiny weakling here. Language changes. not just in computing, not just in English. Get over it, snowflake.
apr 15, 2025, 2:04 am • 2 0 • view
Telling on yourself Aloicious
apr 15, 2025, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
I wish I'd lived such a sheltered life that shit like this would even register, much less constitute a serious problem
apr 14, 2025, 10:48 pm • 3 1 • view
you live in a fantasy world
apr 15, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
I am resisting the urge to dunk on you like everyone else, assuming that this is just defensiveness You don't actually feel unsafe or like your way of life is threatened because someone else sometimes uses a different word than before. Maybe take a breath and have another look at the big picture
apr 15, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I work in programming and we have “master”s of plenty of stuff lmao. Also, the change is from master to main on GitHub. Boo fucking hoo? Main is more descriptive anyways - it makes you think of others as branching off the main (as in a tree or hallway or highway or river or whatever)
apr 14, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
So? Is "main" such a hard piece of terminology to, erm, master? Apple reversed the direction of scrolling with very little warning. In tech, we're supposed to adapt fast, often for silly reasons. While "master" in this context is more akin to a primary copy, it's easier to change terms than argue.
apr 14, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view
What do you mean you can't "have" them? you mean you can't call them that? I'm weeping for you.
apr 15, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
Well now you’re just fucking lying.
apr 15, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
Honestly, the tree metaphor works. But so does simply labeling things as primary and secondary. Which has the very useful added advantage of tertiary and quaternary when needed, and so on. Master-slave cannot convey those relationships therefore the ranked/ordinal naming system really is superior.
apr 15, 2025, 12:53 am • 0 0 • view
Working in software you are no doubt aware of those places where master was used in a context that was offensive - where the secondary word was slave. There is zero hardship to removing all use of the word master from software because it serves no purpose not better served by another word like main.
apr 14, 2025, 10:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh my god did you die? Are you writing this died?
apr 15, 2025, 2:02 pm • 3 0 • view
switching to main branches was a moderate hassle for large IT organizations and a near-imperceptible one for smaller ones, and both GitHub and GitLab offered affordances to simplify the process for their users
apr 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 3 0 • view
and that was downstream of the changes to database terminology, where "master" and "slave" were terms in common use until really not that long ago!
apr 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 3 0 • view
Language changed because that’s what languages do, my guy. Is it really a huge undertaking to use “main” instead of “master” for a primary branch or bedroom? (Hint: it’s not)
apr 14, 2025, 10:24 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s wild you work in software and don’t know about “slave” systems in engineering.
apr 14, 2025, 11:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I also work in software. I merged my changes to master on Friday. Today I attended a brown bag meeting. I do not have my pronouns in my signature. I've been at this company since 2023 and the policies have not changed in that time.
apr 14, 2025, 10:14 pm • 42 0 • view
The closest thing I've experienced to what you are talking about was that my tech lead once mused "maybe we should change our whitelists to allowlists". No sweeping change was made. To this day our codebase contains one "allowlist" and six or seven "whitelist"s.
apr 14, 2025, 10:18 pm • 23 0 • view
Not only are you wrong about this, but you sound like a baby with a full diaper.
apr 14, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
What a crock. We have a master branch.
apr 15, 2025, 12:33 am • 0 0 • view
I heard depeche mode got banned from taxachusetts because they played master and servant in woke cambridge
apr 15, 2025, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
You, sir, are speaking out of your arse.
apr 15, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Who gives a fuck
apr 15, 2025, 3:23 am • 1 0 • view
It doesn’t have to be directly and literally connected to have the same connotation. Being kind costs nothing.
apr 15, 2025, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
Wow what a truly great struggle for you. A kampf even.
apr 15, 2025, 12:43 am • 2 0 • view
Nobody in the software industry gives a shit.
apr 15, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view
Guys he just forgot to scroll down...He just saw 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, garage and didn't scroll down to more details. Come on honest mistake...just screwing around this guy is found lacking.
apr 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Hey dumbass where do you think git got “master” for its mainline branch from and what other branch name do you think Bitkeeper had?
apr 15, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
Hi, I work in software too - you are full of shit! Still got plenty of master branches hanging around w/o any voiced concerns at a pretty "woke" company.
apr 14, 2025, 10:15 pm • 137 0 • view
Did you slave the drive to the master? That guy is so full of shit.
apr 14, 2025, 10:35 pm • 19 0 • view
The right wing always tries to be a victim. Who the fuck cares if someone disagrees with using "Master bedroom?" The epitome of the right wing's babyism is basically, "how the hell do you like the color blue? EVERYONE should like green." Whiney and sad.
apr 14, 2025, 11:17 pm • 21 1 • view
Seems pretty acceptable still if you spend 2 seconds looking at GitHub.
apr 15, 2025, 6:19 am • 24 0 • view
GitHub updated their default to main and a certain segment of developers went apeshit. The rest (actual serious people) updated their build pipelines and then literally never thought about it again. I work with conservatives. They could not give a single solitary fuck about this, it’s largely fake
apr 15, 2025, 8:54 am • 18 0 • view
You soft little baby. Get some real problems.
apr 14, 2025, 10:10 pm • 6 0 • view
big fucking deal
apr 15, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
Why would this even matter?
apr 15, 2025, 7:42 am • 0 0 • view
I work at a large tech firm. Currently looks at my IDE after having just rebased onto “master”. What are you talking about
apr 14, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
So what? We used to say "war cripple" - then after WWII the term fell out of use by the 1950s. It's completely normal for generations to become disenchanted with one way of putting it. We used terms for people with intellectual disabilities that are now only used as slurs.
apr 14, 2025, 10:29 pm • 3 0 • view
"Oh, yeah, slavery isn't a great metaphor for tech" is a normal reaction. There was no "intense social pressure". Enough people cared for git defaults to be changed. BFD. Why do you care so much not just about using violent metaphors, but about everyone applauding you for it? Ppl have opinions!
apr 14, 2025, 10:29 pm • 3 0 • view
I work in software and you are full of shit
apr 15, 2025, 5:43 am • 2 0 • view
apr 14, 2025, 10:33 pm • 3 0 • view
I work in software and people call things master all the time dude what are you talking about
apr 14, 2025, 10:25 pm • 3 0 • view
main is a better descriptor of that branch. Master implies power over and was inaccurate. When the question popped us many of us just shrugged and took the opportunity to use more accurate language. Some of us started crying like babies.
apr 14, 2025, 10:14 pm • 78 0 • view
A master branch more like a “master copy” as when you “remaster” something, but the other connotations make the name too unclear for a default
apr 14, 2025, 10:58 pm • 6 0 • view
Honestly I was just glad to type two less characters
apr 14, 2025, 10:51 pm • 1 0 • view
💯
apr 14, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
It's the same thing with slave vs read nodes in databases. Generally trivial effort and increases accuracy/clarity for those outside of the in-group.
apr 15, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
literally none of these chud programmers understand at all how git works because the idea of collaboration is so alien to them
apr 15, 2025, 7:57 am • 2 0 • view
For a dude who works in software you are shit at just Googling this stuff.
apr 14, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
“Zero connection” is an odd assumption to make when dealing with a naming convention. Maybe you’re too young to have dealt with IDE hard drives & their Master/Slave jumpers and cable select options; but SATA drives still do this in the BIOS using master/slave terminology.
apr 15, 2025, 12:33 am • 0 0 • view
whats really crazy is this is not true, at all
apr 15, 2025, 2:25 am • 0 0 • view
Shut the fuck up nerd
apr 15, 2025, 3:18 am • 1 0 • view
I work in software too, and you are exaggerating. What happened was a few centralized tools like GitHub changed their default, and because most of us don't really care one way or the other we just use the new default branch name. No one who is serious is out there saying its "unacceptable"
apr 15, 2025, 2:50 am • 9 0 • view
This is totally fabricated. We still have a master branch here and no one has ever said word one about changing it on a project or corporate level. Decent-size company with strong DEI initiatives too.
apr 15, 2025, 1:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Or did someone chose more specific language?
apr 15, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Is this performance art? Or are you seriously complaining about using "main"?
apr 15, 2025, 2:44 am • 12 0 • view
Even if this were true, who the hell cares? Business changes what it calls things all the time. Do you go home at night and weep?
apr 15, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
Bruh we still use "master" and "slave" terminology in electrical engineering all the time. The only words I've ever been scolded for at work is when I had my pronouns in my bio. With respect you need to log off and touch grass.
apr 15, 2025, 12:51 am • 6 0 • view
Quick question what was a non master drive previously called? Source control might not be directly related to the slave trade, but it absolutely pulled language from it. And the move to Primary, Secondary, Backup and so on became more descriptive of what we are talking about, whole also removing/1
apr 15, 2025, 4:06 am • 0 0 • view
While* The frankly insulting use of a term which never really fit what was being described in the first place. That said Master still sees plenty of use in the industry and it is only really the secondary that have seen massive adoption of name changes.
apr 15, 2025, 4:09 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, we can tell.
apr 15, 2025, 12:17 am • 0 0 • view
Of course you work in "software". You're creepy. Really fucking creepy.
apr 14, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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apr 14, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
A. I work in a big woke HR dept, almost every shared file is a "master file". I personally started using "primary" bc I just felt like. Nobody gave me directions one way or the other. B. You say it's "not acceptable". What happened when you tried it? You tried it and someone screamed at you right?
apr 14, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Gee I just hate it when I'm culturally pressured to start using completely different terminology arbitrarily, and worse yet it's always the PC police, oops I mean the SJWs oops I mean the Wokists and they're always trying to push their gay agenda oops I mean DEI oops I mean CRT oops, I mean...
apr 14, 2025, 11:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Boo hoo Karen
apr 15, 2025, 6:43 am • 0 0 • view
So do I, you are so full of shit its amazing you haven't burst. You're the silo from the Simpson's movie, a living ecohazard.
apr 15, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
This is an absurd take. I also work in software, and the only “pressure” in this regard has been internal. Companies have opted to shift their language to move away from master/slave because, trade or not, the relationship is one that they don’t want to propagate.
apr 15, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Other companies adopt the change because they see it working, and it’s a low-risk way to earn some goodwill. You sound like someone annoyed they get looks if they try to “Jew someone down” on the price of something.
apr 15, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
“Oh, but that’s blatantly pejorative to Jews.” Yeah. And the concept of a “master” is one of an inherently exploitative power dynamic.
apr 15, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Like, did you think everyone was as lazy as you and wouldn’t just check themselves? Like, what is the point in obviously lying? Do you think Trump will give you a job or something?
apr 14, 2025, 10:19 pm • 5 0 • view
You should consider a new line of work. We changed the default branch name because the main branch does not exert control over the other branches. It simply makes more sense to use "main" in the era of CI/CD, dipshit. Why would you insist on using a shittier misleading name?
apr 14, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
So do I, and I pushed to a master branch named master branch yesterday. And this is on a university git tool, the very place you people usually accused of pushing a "PC" agenda. I also review lecture slides teaching about master slave flip flops, again, using the correct those terms.
apr 15, 2025, 1:30 pm • 3 0 • view
I do too. This isn't really a thing in my experience. It has come up but it's also not like an iron law of git or something lol.
apr 15, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view
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apr 14, 2025, 11:21 pm • 12 1 • view
Does it bother you it's called "main" now? Why would it bother you?
apr 15, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
clearly this guy doesn’t work with legacy codebases, plenty of old repos still using master
apr 15, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I've worked in software for 20 years and I still work with master branches every day, at large corporations. This is just whiny bullshit.
apr 14, 2025, 10:51 pm • 3 0 • view
I work in IT and this is absolutely false. I have a master database in every one of my SQL Server instances. Master is the default branch name in any git install. Love when people talk about things they know nothing about.
apr 15, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
Hi. I work at an international software company. All of our master branches are still called master. Our data operations folks still call our read-replica databases "slaves" This is not pervasive in the way you claim. And even if it were I can't imagine what cause there is to really be upset.
apr 15, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, yes, people think that master branches in software were literally connected to the slave trade and that's why it got changed.
apr 14, 2025, 10:20 pm • 3 0 • view
The name is, though. There are tons of examples of “master/slave” across computing, Git is one of them. Git’s predecessor used “master” to refer to the primary copy of a repo and “slave” to refer to clones. When Linus made Git he reused terms from that older system and including “master”
apr 14, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
The terms, yes, but they aren't specifically software development terms. His whiny argument is just bad. Just say "I don't like change," people will get it. Hell, I spent half a year house hunting and still managed only a 50/50 chance of saying primary vs master.
apr 14, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, no one thought hard drives were part of the slave trade as they move away from master/slave terms
apr 14, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
That is a mind-blowing number of branches
apr 14, 2025, 11:09 pm • 18 0 • view
Feature branches ftw
apr 15, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Who's forcing you to rename your branches? The git police?
apr 15, 2025, 1:36 pm • 8 0 • view
If you don’t change your branch names they’ll have you committed.
apr 15, 2025, 1:47 pm • 18 0 • view
Now that's good.
apr 15, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
apr 15, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
apr 15, 2025, 3:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Don't push me cuz I'm close to the origin 🤷♂️
apr 15, 2025, 3:46 pm • 5 0 • view
I’m not remotely close to finished.
apr 15, 2025, 3:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah that's what your mom said last night 😎
apr 15, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
git: 'police' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
apr 15, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
The same people who enforce the pronunciation of gif
apr 15, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
you work in software? You can't be serious.. or the dumbest newbiest dev I've ever run into They have changed everything since Nov 2024? I've been involved in development since 1974 (eeproms) and software dev since 1981. The terminology hasn't changed www.geeksforgeeks.org/master-slave...
apr 15, 2025, 12:18 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah, language will do that.
apr 14, 2025, 10:09 pm • 6 0 • view
That's right bitch. We handled that years ago. real fucking easy. i hope this is a bit
apr 15, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
I work in software too. Changing the name of the branch had ZERO IMPACT ON MY LIFE. Grow up, you little baby.
apr 14, 2025, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you also angry no one uses trunk anymore?
apr 14, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Pushed to like 5 master branches to day, what are you talking about
apr 14, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
This is blatantly a lie. Source: I am also a software developer, and we still use the same branch naming conventions we've used for years.
apr 14, 2025, 10:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I work as a janitor. It is not acceptable to have "master" keys anymore, you have to call it an "I'm a little sissy crybaby key" now. Again, the language changed. The locks went WOKE!!!
apr 14, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
main is shorter. efficiency is good
apr 14, 2025, 10:55 pm • 2 0 • view
I work also in software and we don't have any fuss about it. And language is changing all the time. A software guy should know.
apr 15, 2025, 7:25 am • 0 0 • view
BOO FUCKIN HOO YOU BIG BABY
apr 15, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
I believe the 90s expression is, “You're making a mountain out of a molehill.” You can still use 'master' branches if you want, but 'main' is more semantic.
apr 14, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
My company was woke before woke was a thing. We still have master branches. I think you're reaching a bit too far.
apr 14, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Dude if you can't find peace with people who have weird hang-ups about word choice you're worthless on a team as a software dev. I know this is a skill you have bro. Why save it exclusively for situations where the stakes are impersonal?
apr 15, 2025, 5:41 am • 0 0 • view
Changing from "master" to "main" did not hurt you in the slightest.
apr 15, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
You are so brave for enduring this.
apr 14, 2025, 10:14 pm • 29 1 • view
Average software dweeb throwing a hissy fit about some random github repos changing their branch names and pretending that's something normal people care about.
apr 14, 2025, 10:21 pm • 2 1 • view
Why does it matter so much to you? Is there some reason you’re so attached to the word “master”? Because it sounds pretty creepy TBH.
apr 14, 2025, 10:56 pm • 1 1 • view
Unless you really suck ass at software you can find out that master is still the most common branch name on GitHub in less than 30 seconds. The same amount of time it takes to determine you are wrong about Zillow. Are you always butthurt about imaginary things?
apr 15, 2025, 1:07 pm • 31 0 • view
So you had to learn some new vocabulary? Boohoo. Nine times out of ten meanwhile if you ever come across an out transgender person on dating app the only reason why we've even listed our transgender status is to avoid attracting people who would try to hate crime us in public. Even murderers
apr 15, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Are better off than transgender people are thanks to the trans panic legal defense. Which is allows them to get away with killing trans people cause they panicked when they found out the victim was trans. It's legal in 30 states. www.lgbtmap.org/equality-map...
apr 15, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
But clearly YOURE the victim here cause you had to expand your vocabulary and brush up on basic grammar🙄👌🏻 Thanks for perpetuating the stereotyping that tech geeks are insufferable rightwingers.
apr 15, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
It came from engineering, where it definitely had a connection to slave terminology. In IT we used to have things like master/slave drives. Is main too hard a change for you? If we elders can change, why is it hard for someone to young to remember? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%...
apr 15, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
for someone posting through it, you sure are
apr 15, 2025, 3:02 am • 0 0 • view
Sounds like you’re a big dumb pussy who’s afraid of change
apr 14, 2025, 11:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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apr 15, 2025, 12:09 am • 0 0 • view
Jumping in as another programmer to chime in that "master" branches are still widespread and generally not challenged
apr 14, 2025, 11:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I work in software too. The term 'master' is a Bitkeeper convention that Git kept. The thing it references is antiquated (binary files don't have 'master copies') and the terminology doesn't fit every modern branching strategy. So dropping the term master hurts exactly 0 people.
apr 15, 2025, 3:41 am • 31 0 • view
But now I have to type negative two extra characters... 🥺
apr 15, 2025, 4:28 am • 5 0 • view
(actually I lied, I still just type m-a-)
apr 15, 2025, 4:29 am • 1 0 • view
Lol it's extremely common you dip shit.
apr 15, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I've worked in software for thirty years in San Francisco, you are completely and utterly full of shit
apr 14, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, at least you convinced us you’re a techie.
apr 14, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
guilty, came to the city for the first boom
apr 14, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
"I work in software" read: "I am completely out of touch with anyone making below 50k a year"
apr 14, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view
He doesn’t work in software. Maybe a project manager or a marketer. Definitely not a programmer.
apr 15, 2025, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
Github changed the default branch from master to main for new repositories. It didn’t affect existing ones. You could change it to master if you wanted. And main is shorter to type. This is an industry where we routinely switch from AWS to GCP (and vv), from Java to Kotlin, from JavaScript /1
apr 14, 2025, 10:26 pm • 4 0 • view
… to typescript, from waterfall to agile, Angular to React, etc. etc. etc. And a branch name change trips you up?
apr 14, 2025, 10:28 pm • 4 0 • view
Seriously. These choads keep telling on themselves. They are those sad fucks that no one wants to work with because they haven't bothered to try a new thing since they learned to code in 1996.
apr 14, 2025, 10:40 pm • 3 0 • view
I work in Data and I definitely have created and continue to create tables with names that include the word “master” please don’t make it industry dependent when that’s not the case… BUT… BUT… and here’s the kicker if something becomes gauche and they asked me to simply change my language… I WOULD
apr 14, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Even when it’s shit I always say… because why THE FUCK do I care? Trying so hard and fighting against people who are saying “Hey this language is offensive and has roots in discrimination, please use this instead” it doesn’t hurt me.
apr 14, 2025, 11:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Chestfeed vs Breastfeed is a great one cus I think it’s so ridiculous and everyone has breasts (men and women) and this has been stated for a long time, I’d just change over cus WHAT THE FUCK DO I GAIN by arguing it? There’s absolutely no benefit in fighting it.
apr 14, 2025, 11:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol snowflake
apr 14, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Language changes. Why do you think we’re not still speaking Old English?
apr 15, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
I recall learning about “master slave” relationships in the context of USB protocols / device peripherals and I gotta say that definitely stuck out then as a little weird
apr 15, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
i work in software, and you're full of shit. i can also view zillow and redfin, as you invited us to, and can maintain that you're full of shit. about this conversation being "impossible on bluesky" you're again full of shit, we're having it right now - you just don't like not being agreed with.
apr 15, 2025, 3:55 am • 50 0 • view
Also I can’t think of literally any consequence of the change to main. The closest thing is that we had to update build pipelines to accept both branches. I can’t believe I wasted two whole minutes because of woke
apr 15, 2025, 8:52 am • 4 0 • view
Exactly! I remember making the change, and it took like, a day or two of forgetting, being told "branch not found", and saying "oh yeah, different default now". I can't imagine this being any sort of hill to die on.
apr 15, 2025, 1:27 pm • 3 0 • view
So supremely weird to be in software the field with variables and object call that can be anything and multiple things. Yet be so worried about pronouns and what things are called. Almost like you prefer the bigotry and hate when any of it goes away…
apr 15, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
Just a reminder that Bluesky doesn’t pay bonuses for engagement. Anyway, here’s the default branch of Linux, still “master.”
apr 14, 2025, 10:47 pm • 3 0 • view
You are lying
apr 14, 2025, 10:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Here's a question, though I doubt you'll read this: So fucking what? Language changes all the time. If you want to talk about "normal people with normal jobs" having problems with language, how about dealing with a new batch of consultant-invented buzzword bullshit every two years?
apr 15, 2025, 2:56 am • 0 0 • view
Stand-up, scrum, sprint - just three S-buzzwords off the top of my head. I reckon the average normal person with a normal job finds "associate" or "co-worker" more irritating than "employee", too.
apr 15, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
oh no, my git repo has a "main branch" now i'm gonna cry about it on the internet like a hungry child who missed nap time
apr 15, 2025, 3:08 am • 3 0 • view
I also work in software. We changed a couple of CI scripts. It took no time at all. And that’s two fewer characters per push at the command line.
apr 14, 2025, 10:10 pm • 94 0 • view
But “main” doesnt make me feel superior to others in society :/
apr 15, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
I work in software too. We haven't gotten around to changing our branch names because it isn't compulsory and doesn't matter.
apr 14, 2025, 10:26 pm • 46 0 • view
Me too. Holy shit you're a whiny little bitch.
apr 15, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
Either you have a very strained definition of “not acceptable” or our experiences differ wildly. I went from government contractor to mature startup. Both jobs set up new repos with `main`, but made little effort to convert old ones. No one ever corrected for referring to `master` branch.
apr 14, 2025, 10:15 pm • 12 0 • view
The main branch in git can be named anything. Always could be. You could name it aloysius if you want. Also, the term master/slave WAS a longstanding term used in computer communication models. Slave was used less and less over time. The master side of it just hung around through the years.
apr 15, 2025, 3:51 pm • 5 0 • view
Where on earth do you work? The rest of us are still using master branches.
apr 15, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view
apr 14, 2025, 11:34 pm • 4 0 • view
... git still defaults to master what are you talking about
apr 14, 2025, 10:31 pm • 17 0 • view
Also, I'm pretty sure the Amistad was using Mercurial.
apr 14, 2025, 10:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Also "main" is shorter to type
apr 14, 2025, 10:44 pm • 13 0 • view
The intense social pressure of 'i think I read an article about it'
apr 14, 2025, 10:50 pm • 17 0 • view
You see it’s because he can’t merge to branch names only four characters long
apr 14, 2025, 10:51 pm • 8 0 • view
Like is a .js developer problem? Because that's the only community that could possibly be spinning up enough repos to give a shit about this
apr 14, 2025, 10:54 pm • 3 0 • view
He heard someone say it once, therefore it is an absolute truth!
apr 15, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
if you're unable to process and manage change without losing your goddamned mind, then you're a fucking shit software developer
apr 14, 2025, 10:22 pm • 114 0 • view
Yeah the metaphor would be closer to someone coming in and replacing your tablecloth in the break room at work to a different color. Who cares
apr 15, 2025, 1:26 am • 2 0 • view
Sorry but no. You cannot go from "there was no pressure to change at all" to "if you cannot handle the pressure it's your problem". There was advocacy to change language, in some cases for entirely pointless reasons. It's not a justification for the mess we're in, but it's a fact.
apr 15, 2025, 12:12 am • 3 0 • view
like, this is an admission that you're unable to grow or learn anything new, both incredibly important skills in your profession
apr 14, 2025, 10:22 pm • 64 0 • view
It’s also utterly BS. I wasn’t aware couldn’t use master bathroom, and wow - the very first listing on Redfin has it. And master branch? I literally saw this today at work. Just jumping at shadows
apr 15, 2025, 2:21 am • 1 0 • view
Cry harder. Why do you want that so bad? Very weird and sad and pathetic. Nobody cares.
apr 15, 2025, 3:25 am • 2 0 • view
Wait until you learn that "computer ' used to mean a job title for women with a specific skill set...
apr 15, 2025, 12:12 am • 2 1 • view
As someone else who works in software, this guy is so full of shit. This was never an issue. No one ever brought it up. I think so people made some jokes about it though back in 2020.
apr 15, 2025, 2:45 am • 1 0 • view
You are 100% making that up.
apr 14, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
shut da fuk up
apr 15, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
sorry you're upset about losing your emotional support word i guess
apr 15, 2025, 5:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Patently not true. Master branch is totally normal. The only thing that went away is a default setting in git and the SLAVE terminology in databases
apr 14, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes you clearly do
apr 15, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
I work in software too. When one of my black colleagues set a new project to use “main” instead of “master” I went with it because 1.) zero effect on my life. And 2.) whatever he wanted to be comfortable with. He dealt with plenty of my preferences since I set up the linter.
apr 15, 2025, 1:15 am • 54 0 • view
The default name the main branch in git is master…this guy is dumb as rocks and most people changed to main because it made more sense than master. They also change from master/slave in clusters because it translated better to other languages…dude is a whiner.
apr 15, 2025, 2:07 am • 16 0 • view
I'll still call it "multi-master" replication but primary/replica otherwise. Just makes sense.
apr 15, 2025, 2:17 am • 2 0 • view
Slave implies that it's that device that's doing the work on behalf of the master and that's not reality at all.
apr 15, 2025, 1:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I work in software. At one company we switched from "master" to "main" and at my current employer it is still "master". It really is not a big deal, in fact it saves you two characters of typing to use "main". Why are you so invested in using the specific word "master"? Who cares?
apr 14, 2025, 11:38 pm • 4 0 • view
In what world are the terms master and slave for backup and source control *not* connected to the slave trade? That is literally the root origin of the terminology, and why we don't use it anymore. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
apr 15, 2025, 6:24 am • 1 0 • view
Nobody ever told me I had to stop using the master slave terminology. I did it purely as my own decision in my own repos and documentation because I thought it was fair enough. If you feel pressured, I'm sorry. But it's not a fucking big deal.
apr 14, 2025, 10:37 pm • 1 0 • view
tbh, I prefer the new standards "main" or "trunk" golden master records didn't have branches; it's much easier to use the words that describe different types of branch in the tree metaphor.
apr 14, 2025, 11:36 pm • 0 0 • view
This is where you’ve gone wrong—the very fact that said language _exists_ and is so common in English is _because_ of the role the slave trade played in our history. It’s simply so baked in that you never noticed it before. I know I hadn’t. It simply pervades everything.
apr 14, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I work in software. This isn't true.
apr 14, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh no
apr 14, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
As someone who grew up building computers with “master” and “slave” hard drives, in computing, the term “master” absolutely does have a connotation to it, and I could not possibly give two shits about having to find different words to describe things from time to time
apr 14, 2025, 10:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Guess you missed the memo that this change was and is optional. Still have plenty of "master" branches, and plenty of "main" branches, too. You might just be wrong, or you might just be trolling. docs.github.com/en/repositor...
apr 15, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view