What sort of Woke nonsense is this?

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I was just looking up the page on SPI for a question and came across this, on this link
SPI

This article was revised on 2021/11/18 by Karl Söderby.

Controller/peripheral is formerly known as master/slave. Arduino no longer supports the use of this terminology. See the table below to understand the new terminology:

Master/Slave (OLD) Controller/Peripheral (NEW)
Master In Slave Out (MISO) Controller In, Peripheral Out (CIPO)
Master Out Slave In (MOSI) Controller Out Peripheral In (COPI)
Slave Select pin (SS) Chip Select Pin (CS)

Have the woke brigade taken over here?

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Naaahh. They're just trolling for Neanderthals. Seriously, do you think they'll expose any? It's about as obvious as it can get. Oh, wait a minute. It works!

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Mmmm. IDK, I could live with it. But is it happening across the board? What about the chip manufacturers?

Maybe a different analogy would be more prosaic...

GIPO : Gippetto in, Pinocchio out?

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Fraid so.

Apparently out of respect of the ancient Greeks who seem to have come up with the term ..............

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I could go for it if the device had 3 SPI ports - just as long as the 3rd port was C3PO...

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It seems that GitHub has given up on pushing people to rename master to main.

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Maybe the Arduino core should be re-written with an alternative for the word 'serial' out of respect for the many victims of serial killers ?

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someone should tell the hardware team

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Driven by the Open Source Hardware Association
https://www.oshwa.org/a-resolution-to-redefine-spi-signal-names/

With hardware manufacturers like Sparkfun and Adafruit, and the Open Source Hardware Association adopting the SDO/SDI and PICO/POCI labels, the effort gets a jump start.

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It's hard to comment without becoming political, but I support this.

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Identifying mating connector pins will be next!

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I figure it this way, whatever trips their trigger. If I Google Gender Bender I see definitions I never dreamed up a few decades ago but a Google of Gender Bender Connectors I see the definitions I have known for years. Then who could not recall the General Radio GR connectors, Type 874? Hermaphroditic connector, so there were no "male" or "female" connectors; any GR connector could mate with any other GR connector. It was apparently well ahead of its time. Go figure.

While at my time in life I seldom find anything offensive to myself and if I did I would simply choose to ignore it I guess now I must be considerate of the feelings of others and what others may find offensive. Failing to do that I will need sensitivity training. I give up.

Ron

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Fair point.

So Male and Female connectors are out too.

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SPI was introduced by Motorola in the "Dark Ages", it is still the same with a few minor enhancements. Who is going to change all the data etc that has been published for decades?

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The internet will. Most of that published data is in landfill now.

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Oh dear the WOKE brigade strikes again.

plug and socket, would describe them better anyway.

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So are we going to have to change master / slave flip flops?
And mechanical engineering, what is going to happen to the bastard file or the grease nipple?

There were black slave owners you know, are they the good guys or the bad ones?

The big problem is that there are so many people ready to take offence on behalf of other people.

And when I am in land fill, I will stop using the term.
It is a great pity that I will not live to see the time the current woke brigade being castigated in the future for their use of very offensive language, because it will come.

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And then there is "virtue signaling".

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Who listens to them anyway sorry i support free speech , Master In Slave out been since the 60's "NOTHING" to do with Actual Slaves. ignorance

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I am of the opinion that words themselves are not inherently good or bad, but that it is the intent behind the words what matters. Therefore I do not think that banning words from a context where they do not have the purpose of causing offence will make the world a better place, we are merely narrowing our vocabulary.

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