ugh, good morning [cw misogynistic paperclip]

spelled "misogynistic" without having to look it up, folks, today is gonna be a great day

good morning from my prickly new chubby son 🌵

good morning, shout out to running water

good morning, here’s my new guitar

how do I know it’s mine?

it has my name on it 🤗

last night, I got to know the dirty channel on my guitar amp and I kind of fell in love a little bit

good morning, here's Dave

good morning

good morning

good morning [cw cat tongue]

good morning, I just love Monday mornings because I get to catch up on all my emailsssssss

morning [cw ec]

Morning!

@mdhughes I speak French as well, and I knew what the image says.

@bamfic my sister has started mocking me for it

@ashfurrow wait, is clippy hashtag problematic

@aeonofdiscord you heard it here first, folks, clip is CANCELLED

@ashfurrow wait, why is the paper-clip misogynistic?

@hirojin well, maybe "misogynistic" is too strong a word, but women told MS they didn't like Clippy, that it leered at them, and MS didn't listen: https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/25/8844365/microsoft-clippy-sexist-leering

@ashfurrow cacti rock 👍

@leeb I’m quickly falling in love with them 😍

@ashfurrow Prickly on the outside, soft on the inside, thrive on neglect. They're my kind of plants 😆

@ashfurrow running water is pretty great.

@ashfurrow Fun! Solid body electric?

@emartin that’s right – I basically only do acoustic lately because my epiphone les paul weighs a million pounds and hurts my neck/shoulder. I got an ibanez s621 instead :)

@ashfurrow Nice! My main one is an ibanez AS53 semi-hollow.

@ashfurrow
Morning! This is Shorts.

@Greyman what a cutie!

@ashfurrow sleepy boi

@eletious constantly yup :)

@ashfurrow What are you doing Dave...?

@ashfurrow wow, where does this image come from!?

@jasondclinton I don't know where any of my images come from, sorry. I did a reverse image search and it's apparently a meme?

@ashfurrow Depends on. The left one is open source – the right one proprietary.

@IzzyOnDroid @ashfurrow
Look to your left

@ashfurrow obviously the second one - otherwise it would need multiple pairs of trousers 😂

@ashfurrow I hate Monday mornings for exactly that same reason.

@ashfurrow

ugh, we really need to get away from using master in this context :/

@maloki @ashfurrow how about we just all agree to use upstream?

It's often the more accurate term, and it doesn't have any unfortunate history.

@RandomDamage @maloki "upstream" is good, but is already used for another concept. Naming things is hard! We'll get there, though.

@ashfurrow @maloki there's a little overlap, but I think it isn't too bad.

@RandomDamage @maloki _I_ agree, but when trying to change the name of something that already exists, little things like this will get used to argue against the change. Programmers gonna programmer.

@ashfurrow @maloki true.

All the more reason to just do the thing and let others follow or not ;)

But I chose that one specifically because it's already in use and close to the right meaning.

Beats the pants off what's been done to hacker.

@RandomDamage Exactly this, I'm not here for having the arguments, I'm here to create change. We'll probably decide on something and then stick to it. Those who want to follow can, those who don't don't have to. @ashfurrow

@maloki Yes, but it's tricky. Obviously "master/slave" is not appropriate, but in this context, "master" is used like "master key" (not that anyone's feelings/response to the term are invalid). The drive to move away from "master" branches is probably going to face more pushback than "master/slave", despite being the right decision, long-term.

It would take someone like GitHub changing this for it to take hold. Fingers crossed.

@ashfurrow @maloki Well, Yoda is a master ;)

But, aside from personal feelings about the terminology, for me "master" is not the best name for the default branch because it is usually used as "current" (or "development", or, yes, "trunk"). In the company I work for we have it renamed to "devel" in most our repos BTW.

@maloki @ashfurrow I'm totally on-board with “mainline” as a replacement for “master”. Even has the same autocomplete prefix.

Toot toot!

@maloki @ashfurrow why, when there is no 'slave' in this context?

@mvz Because connotations. @ashfurrow

@maloki @ashfurrow That is not very helpful, I'm afraid.

@mvz @ashfurrow you do you. I don't have energy to discuss the validity of trying to get away from that and other terms in tech work I do.

You can do whatever you want in work you do.

@maloki @ashfurrow I wasn't looking for a discussion, just for an explanation, since this issue was new to me, but OK.

@mvz @maloki it is because, I believe, “master” has connotations of slavery even without “slave” being explicitly included. let me know what I can clarify – language is tricky!