Crossposted from https://lemmy.cafe/post/28218826

While the Linux kernel has inclusive terminology guidelines for the past five years to replace phrases like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist, there has surprisingly been a “genocide” function within the kernel that was questioned when it was first submitted for inclusion but now removed in Linux 6.19.

Introduced to the Linux kernel back in 2023 was the d_genocide() function as part of various dcache updates to the kernel. The genocide name was questioned when the patches were first posted by longtime Linux developer Al Viro

  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    92·
    4 days ago

    People really need to get it though their fucking heads that English sucks and just cause both sex and gender use the same word doesn’t mean they mean the same thing.

    Homonyms suck. But the male sex and male gender are two different things. Sex is and always will be a three options thing. Male, female or both.

    Gender is not sex, sex is not gender.

    But I always heard people say the word homonyms is bigoted and I just can’t at this point.

    We built our language around humans and land mammals. We arnt mushrooms with 3000+ sexs. It sucks but we unless we can get people to start inventing new words somethings just have to be delt with.

    The slave master and white and black lists have valid understandable other options and we should use them.

    But short literally any other option for plugs is just going to be confusing or create arbitrary nonsense. Plug A and B would work but there’s no fucking world that doesn’t just end up with every other company or industry labeling things wrong or backwards compared to their competitors.

    And when your working with electricity YOU DO NOT WANT CONFUSION.