Hector Martin

Nah, at this point, the word is so associated with being a slur towards trans people, that any other connotation is basically gone. Personally, I'm trans and I don't care a lot about it, but his usage sticks out as deliberately anachronistic

Even as one of the cis, I wince whenever I hear that word used for transistor. I've heard it used more as a slur than anything else. I used to also be a staunch supporter of not changing "master-slave". Now? Just change it, plenty of other options.

tbh, if you were gonna Aussify it, Trano would probably be a better fit. Although that still sounds a little slurry to me.

yeah, as an australian, i really don't think it's "common" by any stretch in EE circles same as the master/slave, whitelist/blacklist "debate": who cares if you don't have an issue with them. but some people do, and you should do your best to be inclusive

Yeah, I used to be a bit more prescriptive when changing terminology. Sure, it can be an ass to do, but a few minutes, a reading level of a 5yo, and a thesaurus and you can probably still keep the acronyms.

And I admit I still use whitelist/blacklist. Never really thought much about it. I got no issue switching to allow/deny. Honestly that is far more descriptive anyway.

Honestly, connotations aside, I've realized master/slave is just *bad* terminology. It's been used and abused so much that now the only meaning it has is "vague sense of hierarchy". We're better off with more specific stuff like initiator/target, server/client, producer/consumer.

Can even keep MOSI/MISO if you just go with, say, Main/Secondary