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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

i suppose that's true, but i think that's unfair as the term master/slave itself wouldn't constitute more than the literal power dynamic between A and B as is the intended point of the terminology. It's not meant to be broadly applicable in a generic sense. Though if we were to argue that it would be equally as easy to argue that architecture designs constitute far more than a master/slave style, such that it would remove the significance of the term in a similar manner.

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