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   Vftdan (vftdan@mastodon.ml)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 16:58:09 JST Vftdan

   Why complementary to "master" is always "slave"? Why not "apprentice" or "pet"?

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 16:58:08 JST iced depresso

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     @vftdan sometimes it wasn't. master-master configurations existed, or master-failover. a blob was like "but primary and secondary" and i'm just like "if the 'primary' battery goes down, and i tell you we have a 'secondary', but the power is still out, you will ask me what the fuck, because secondary implies it can take control if needed'
     
     slave processes just obey, they don't control, that's why we called them that. otherwise we didn't. :blobcatdunno:
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 16:59:36 JST iced depresso

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     @vftdan i'm not per se bothered with somebody calling it dom/sub architecture or whatever. i just hate that the impetus for the name changes is white liberals being *entirely* performative, even though they have no moral authority on this issue and it really wasn't even an issue until the ESG morons made it one.