Re: [WO] Whom the gods would blacklist, they first make mad.
And so it begins... sigh...
[WO] Whom the gods would blacklist...
τὸ κακὸν δoκεῖν πoτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν
Why the hell did they accept that? The request was done by a complete nobody, crazy.
Somehow, you and I and others missed this quietly slip through in Junea time when many projects were doing such goodthinkful Political Corrections:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19227
The blocklist thing resulted in a terminological clusterfork, for the obvious reason that BobLawblaw stated.
For want of time to write an essay of my own right now, I will quote something insightful that I happened across in June from a four-digit slashdotter, after the OpenZFS lead dev suddenly renamed all of the master/slave variables:
https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16559200&cid=60174924
In other linguistic niceties https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19770
RPC: getpeerinfo: Deprecate "whitelisted" field (replaced by "permissions") #19770 ... luke-jr wants to ...
RPC: getpeerinfo: Deprecate "whitelisted" field (replaced by "permissions") #19770 ... luke-jr wants to ...
[WO] Whom the gods would blacklist...
linguistic niceties
τὸ κακὸν δoκεῖν πoτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν
I can't believe SJW rot has infiltrated Bitcoin Core, to the point they ACKED a merge to change "blacklist" to "blocklist".
For Bitcoin.
A blockchain.
...
For Bitcoin.
A blockchain.
...
Why the hell did they accept that? The request was done by a complete nobody, crazy.
^ The resulting comments are both hilarious and sad at the same time: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19897
Somehow, you and I and others missed this quietly slip through in Junea time when many projects were doing such goodthinkful Political Corrections:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19227
The blocklist thing resulted in a terminological clusterfork, for the obvious reason that BobLawblaw stated.
For want of time to write an essay of my own right now, I will quote something insightful that I happened across in June from a four-digit slashdotter, after the OpenZFS lead dev suddenly renamed all of the master/slave variables:
https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16559200&cid=60174924
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Capitulation will not save you (Score:4, Insightful)
by rho ( 6063 ) on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:28AM (#60174924)
I strongly suspect the people who are pushing for these things fall into two camps. The first camp are people who genuinely want to control the language, and by proxy, thought. These are very dangerous people and should be resisted at all times. The second camp are people who genuinely want to do something so they can be a part of this current trend and feel like they are participating in a meaningful way. These are ordinary decent people, but are certainly influenced by the bluster and actions of the first camp.
Here's the thing, though. If you're in the second camp, your actions will not save you from the first camp. The authoritarians in the first camp are fundamentally about control, and if you stand in their way, your past actions will mean nothing. Anything less than complete subservience to whatever ideology is currently in vogue in the first camp, is treated as a viral attack and is stamped out with extreme prejudice. Your past capitulation will not serve you in the future.
Nobody--at least nobody with a lick of sense or proportion--actually thinks that changing "master/slave" to something else will accomplish anything of substance or real value. It's nothing more than a publicity stunt to demonstrate that you are not like those people over there, the racists. It's a signal of your adherence to the new narrative, nothing more. The authoritarians in the first camp will acknowledge your signal, and they now know that later you will be more likely to accept the next click on the ratchet. Make no mistake, however; when they ratchet it too far for you, nothing you did in the past will save you.
It's the behavior of cults, and used to great effect at controlling behavior. What's surprising is how many tech people are susceptible to it.
by rho ( 6063 ) on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:28AM (#60174924)
I strongly suspect the people who are pushing for these things fall into two camps. The first camp are people who genuinely want to control the language, and by proxy, thought. These are very dangerous people and should be resisted at all times. The second camp are people who genuinely want to do something so they can be a part of this current trend and feel like they are participating in a meaningful way. These are ordinary decent people, but are certainly influenced by the bluster and actions of the first camp.
Here's the thing, though. If you're in the second camp, your actions will not save you from the first camp. The authoritarians in the first camp are fundamentally about control, and if you stand in their way, your past actions will mean nothing. Anything less than complete subservience to whatever ideology is currently in vogue in the first camp, is treated as a viral attack and is stamped out with extreme prejudice. Your past capitulation will not serve you in the future.
Nobody--at least nobody with a lick of sense or proportion--actually thinks that changing "master/slave" to something else will accomplish anything of substance or real value. It's nothing more than a publicity stunt to demonstrate that you are not like those people over there, the racists. It's a signal of your adherence to the new narrative, nothing more. The authoritarians in the first camp will acknowledge your signal, and they now know that later you will be more likely to accept the next click on the ratchet. Make no mistake, however; when they ratchet it too far for you, nothing you did in the past will save you.
It's the behavior of cults, and used to great effect at controlling behavior. What's surprising is how many tech people are susceptible to it.
Worth to note.
There is some kind of "truth", based on science, that assumes that change of language changes behavior.
In my humble opinion, the racism-directed changes to tech terminology that the industry is going through now, is indirectly forced by reasons you were stating above.
The thing is, basically i asked myself if i really have a problem with that, and in turn i got aware of the dictation that lies within. I think it's not that critical, but changing terminology in the code and in the books won't get rid of a part of what was once a successful human survival strategy (fighting the different). This is also the foundation for norms, that's why norms can be changed and used to control normal people.
If you're not normal (i don't mean this in any bad way), you naturally want to resist to these changes. I did too, still do a little hard to accept this, but this time it's acceptable, no need for a fart to become a storm. Still, the dynamics behind these changes can be very dangerous and need to be watched, especially by people that don't obey to norms, just because almost everybody else does. It's an expression of our (rather helpless) attempts to fight our own insecurities as humans.
"together we are strong" basically says it all. The price for "strength" is less diversity and more polarization.