• Throwaway@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, basically the demand for hate outstrips the supply, so they decided that whitelist/blacklist is racist. Its just a power trip, being able to change peoples vocab with nonsense.

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        1 year ago

        What makes no sense is the words “white” and “black” as referring to people. People are brown, all of them.

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        1 year ago

        I remember when I tried setting up a server a couple decades ago and I didn’t understand what the difference between a white and black list were. Made no sense to me.

        Allow/block can’t be mistaken. It’s literally a better choice of words for many reasons.

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      1 year ago

      They are a trillion dollar company, they can afford to give some slack on this issue that maybe affects 5% of their users

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        1 year ago

        Its honestly not a big deal, its just something to go rename for no good reason. At least for my job, it took about only a couple man-days to get every mention of blacklist/whitelist renamed and the code reviewed.

        The bigger deal for me was master branch to main. Broke every pipeline script we had, broke our backups, and it caused not one but two outages in production. I guess its our fault for not making the branch name maintainable, but its never come up before and will never come up again. I honestly think between all the work we put in to that change, we spent a man-year on that. Thats before the production outages. Devops sucks.

        At least I got paid to deal with it.