Linux, the kernel, also prepares to use politically correct language

Linux with inclusive words

We must be careful what we say. More than careful, already scared. A word can be used to be labeled as intolerant or something much worse, even if you use it to refer to some software. For that reason, as we read in this mail, Linux plans to use inclusive terminology, lest the software get angry and render millions of computers useless around the world.

This week, my partner Diego wrote an article of opinion referring to something similar. Although you can more or less agree with him, there is something that seems clear to me: all this it's getting out of control a lot And if we continue like this, not only will we not be able to use expressions that we have been using all our lives, but we will not be able to express ourselves freely if our way of speaking, I no longer say that of thinking, is not what is expected in politically correct society from the future.

Linux will stop using words like "slave"

But we go in parts. In the mail, Dan Williams has proposed stop using words like "slave", although in the third meaning of the RAE does not mention to no person, but "something" that is "surrendered" or is "obedient", also adding "in love", which would show that it is not always a bad thing. They want to do the same by stopping using terms like "Blacklist". And, well, opening umbrellas in preparation for criticism, I will say that the real racist is the one who sees a race problem in these types of expressions: what colors are the most dangerous clouds? What color is the darkness in which, by not seeing, we can suffer accidents? Maybe, just maybe, we don't use color expressions for skin colors.

As for what they propose, we have changes such as:

  • "Slave" for the words secondary, subordinate, replica, responder, follower, proxy, or performer.
  • "Blacklist" by "blocklist" or "denylist" (blocking or denying lists).

The change would be looking to the future, but also to the past

The new inclusive terminology would be included in the new Linux kernel code, but they also intend to change what is already created. Unless the change could cause significant damage.

So, seeing where we are going, we must be careful what we say and where we say it. They will soon say that talking about "male" and "female" in some connectors is macho or transphobic, so I already recommend saying "the part that gets into" and "the part where you put the part that gets into" so that Nobody marks us out of anything. It is what is coming and, for those of us who only want to express ourselves or even make jokes and jokes, I see it very black.


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  1.   Joaquin Mostacho said

    There are, in Spanish and Notary, the Language Academies from all over the world, where RAE is the maximum expression of how they speak and mean their interpretations in each place (country or region).
    But grammar is something else, and the political-correct thing is to blow up the grammar unit
    And for the record, I am Andalusian and our way of speaking quickly is hardly understood by anyone.
    But written, are we the ones with the most poets and Nobel laureates in the Spanish language?
    I disagree!!!!!

  2.   Alixander said

    Joaquín, you don't understand.
    Language evolves and there are things that have to be changed little by little.
    I don't see anyone saying now: "I respect fags as long as they fuck each other's ass."
    I don't think it is a problem little by little to change the language.

    1.    Enso said

      The article is very well understood in both its form and meaning, who is not understood is that to defend the indefensible you bring up filth that no one has said, in that case you could not continue calling the services "demons" because it offends to Christians.

      Aah! I forget that Christianity can be offended ...

      1.    FerchoJ said

        The problem is that the change should come with a scientific study of why it is done, this is a purely political movement to tell us how and what to think.

      2.    L1ch said

        It is incorrect to say demon to the daemons since they do not allude or mean the same, their "translation" would be daemon, which has nothing to do with the demons of the "Abrahamic".

    2.    Jonathan said

      What nonsense, instead of looking for that "inclusion", they should seek the true inclusion that is to include people with visual, motor or hearing disabilities so that they can make use of technologies.

  3.   Diego German Gonzalez said

    Between you and me we are going to get a crowd to gather to ask for our heads. And I have the advantage that the Atlantic Ocean is in the middle.

  4.   Carlos said

    We live in the dictatorship of the politically correct

  5.   Logan said

    what a stupid thing…. we live in the dictatorship of the politically correct

  6.   hiko_seijuro said

    Let's put the hypocrisy aside, if Microsoft and MAC were so inclusive they should totally open their codes and make them opensourse because they are discriminating against many groups and races that use Linux. What happens is that for a ridiculous fashion they want to give a twist to the bad things that honestly should not cause indignation, while the important thing is left aside.

  7.   Mephisto Feles said

    I just screwed this up now, yes, many circuit elements with TTL technique such as counters, shift registers, memories, etc. are implemented with JK-type flip-flops better known as "master-slave", haha ​​to reinvent electronics from the beginning

  8.   Hernán said

    This is already too much, with this criterion they should eliminate the words in the singular and plural of the word black… and the feminine of this word… and even more… will they perhaps eliminate this color? Will they stop painting and making products of this color?

    This is far from politically correct, it is monumental stupidity ... this will get worse wait for the extreme feminists to start delving into the world of computer science and other disciplines in detail.

  9.   Pauet said

    I do not see that it has to offend us so much that inclusive language is used.

    1.    KERVERUZ said

      THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENING, A HARDWARE BRAND STOPPED THE PRODUCTION OF MEMORIES BECAUSE THEY WERE WHITE AND WANTED TO PREVENT THAT THEY ARE NOT SOLD

  10.   José said

    We cannot play along with the manipulation of the language that the Sao Paulo Forum is trying to impose on us.

  11.   SRG said

    There are fools days, and fools every day.
    And every day more unofficial fools appear

  12.   Hernán said

    What madness, please! How sad it is for me to lose energy in these things ...
    I fully agree with the author of the note.

  13.   Danny said

    ok i think it's time to migrate to bsd

  14.   Danny said

    There is nothing more discriminatory and not very inclusive than changing a part of the world to treat a portion of the population differently and that it is not offended.

  15.   jonathan gabriel said

    The politically correct thing to fuck hahaha like the progressive lefties and politicians who rot haha, I will speak with the terms that are due and I will not let myself be enslaved is their dictatorship of resentful people.

  16.   kindars@gmail.com said

    ALERT CONFLIC IMMEDIATE, ALL PROGRAM CONFIGURED COM BLACK LIST WILL GIVE ……
    Is the past going to change, to change the name? Will the situation of these people change?
    You want to help those people JUST HELP THEM. stop fucking with that I put myself in place of the other changing a color of vehicle or name for another, because those people do not help shit, because they do not donate money in an NGO it is easier they will know how to help people and we we stopped so much asshole ...

  17.   01101001b said

    "Politically correct" means purposely not to call things by their names, but in incorrect and unreal ways, depending on how a lot of capricious ones who threw tantrums as boys and today when grown up are still in it, come to mind. themselves as the center of the universe.

    Today we are with the polar caps are about to disappear, triggering climate change with effects that will erase entire cities, due to hunger, disease and despair at a global level (the coronavirus is hardly a strong flu in comparison and already see the circus that they armed to mutilate individual rights with the preferred catchphrase of totalitarian regimes: "Taking away your freedom is for your security").
    And where is the attention of the people? In blunting the problem? No, it is in these noisy antics who try to impose on the rest their whims with false words. Ah, but the worst are the legions of giddy who are unable to distinguish a hand from a foot and applaud them like seals that they are, calling that decadence "progress" and talking like idiots, "inclusive." No, talking like a jerk is talking like a jerk. Of inclusive it has nothing.

    In short, if the survival of the fittest is a fact, humanity will no longer be around 15 years from now. An ending that will not be fair or unfair, but the one that earned this globalized idiocy.

  18.   McA said

    Absurd, ridiculous and pointless.

    If someone is offended by using terms like master / slave to refer to things that do the action or receive the action, then they are not "offended" but a troll.

    Going to rename things that work can only lead to them stopping working. And if that happens, then we will have a real problem.

  19.   Neiro G. said

    Well, each term can be used but it also means something different in many countries, in the North the situation with black and white is very sensitive, to be or not to be. It will be like that then but I believe that if we cannot speak as we want without offending third parties it is restricting freedom of expression, it is more tarnish the spoken language just because there are people who are more racist than others, and then they victimize themselves, then for the effects abandoning free software is a tentative option

  20.   Gerund said

    Is it that nobody is going to think about BDSM practitioners? How can you belittle and discriminate against the masters, mistresses, slaves, slaves ...? What if it's AI software for a sado-masochistic robot? Will the slave change for a sure servant and the master will be the orderer? ... The degree of idiocy to which the human being is reaching is only comparable to the previous state to which he was when he got down from the tree back in prehistory. Anyway, Einstein already warned us: «I believe that there are two infinite things, the universe and human stupidity. I'm not sure about the first one.

  21.   Paco said

    Can't you be more of an idiot?

  22.   Edwin said

    And then they wonder why Trump is going to win again. Group of idiots who have nothing to do but show their belly button. I will definitely have to take a closer look at FreeBSD