I wish there were a good alternative to master and slave that still had the connotation that the master did all the thinking and issued the orders, while the slave blindly obeyed. There are a fair number of protocols that work like that, and the alternatives I've seen don't capture that dynamic very well.

I've seen Parent and Child, but children definitely don't always do what the parent commands. I've seen Leader and Follower, but again, followers don't just blindly obey, they often let the leader take initiative, but they have some autonomy. Maybe Queen and Drone? I don't know enough about bees or ants to know if that's accurate though.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Perhaps people offended by the usage of master/slave in IT need to understand it isn't talking about people

[–] 7isanoddnumber@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve now got an image in my head of a new satanic panic around daemons and wizards in IT.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It would at least be a little more understandable, what with the whole aborting, terminating, or killing children before the parents to prevent zombies.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

I don't think there's much effort to get us to use different terms for that though. Slaved machines and programs though (what's the word got to do with it anyway? It's still going to be one thing directing another and the second following without question)

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