• rmuk
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    7 months ago

    It always seems fucking wild to me that they chose master/slave rather than, say, first/second, upper/lower, primary/secondary, A/B, whatever.

    “We’re trying to come up with names for two equal devices sharing a single connection.”

    “How about names that wrongly implies that one device is in control of the other while simultaneously evoking the concept of humans as property?”

    “Brilliant!”