• Omniraptor@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I never got the complaints about that. It’s not inherently bad to have one thing exert complete control over another thing… the problem is when you start doing it to people

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think I’ve seen anyone with a problem with the computing concept itself, they have a problem with the unnecessarily unpleasant and offensive nomenclature. There’s lots of ways to express a leader/follower dynamic that’s intuitively understandable. Hell, call them Dom/Sub drives if you want to.

      There’s just no good reason to invoke historical attrocity that’s still ongoing to describe a concept like this.

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        1 year ago

        Ok fair point and that is a really funny idea. But afaict dom/sub dynamics aren’t complete control and it would be pretty dangerous if they were