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> "Master Password" renamed to "Primary Password" How does the term "Primary Password" describe the password which enables access to the list of credentials better than "Master Password"? Are they just entertained by the alliteration?
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> I suspect employees want their work to make them feel good in terms of alignment with their bedrock principles. if it makes you feel good to play with words I am not sure if thats a good energy expenditure for your activism. it feels like a cheap way to value signal instead of doing something actually meaningful.
Words have meaning and power. How they are used literally changes the discourse. Your participation in this discussion is proof that the example under consideration has impact well beyond "playing with words."
> "Master Password" renamed to "Primary Password" How does the term "Primary Password" describe the password which enables access to the list of credentials better than "Master Password"? Are they just entertained by the alliteration?
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What's pathetic is thinking that trying to use inclusive language is pathetic.
What's pathetic is thinking that using inclusive language is anything but pathetic.
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> I suspect employees want their work to make them feel good in terms of alignment with their bedrock principles. if it makes you feel good to play with words I am not sure if thats a good energy expenditure for your activism. it feels like a cheap way to value signal instead of doing something actually meaningful.
Words have meaning and power. How they are used literally changes the discourse. Your participation in this discussion is proof that the example under consideration has impact well beyond "playing with words."
.. for you. I hope nobody ever insults you.
> How they are used literally changes the discourse.
No. People come up with ideas and thoughts, and wanting to express themselves, they seek out looking for words. Peoples ideas and thoughts make up how words are meant.
I’ve given up on desktop e-mail clients. IMHO there’s currently no UI on the market that beats the Gmail UI.
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I think language matters, and de-normalizing language with a root in slavery is a good idea.
master has no root in slavery. to put it in another way: if master has to be removed because of slavery in america, then we should also remove the words chain, boat and trade.
I’ve given up on desktop e-mail clients. IMHO there’s currently no UI on the market that beats the Gmail UI.
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Alternative perspective on exactly the same data: This kind of developer-driven change does not wind me up, because developers working on products should be able to reflect on how those products are part of society and if they choose to make changes in their branding, presentation, or diction, they should be able to do so. Mozilla has a pretty rich tradition of employee activism, as we all observed after the Eich deb…
My company made the change from blacklist/whitelist to blocklist/allow list over two years ago and people, mostly external, still get annoyed and I just can't understand why. The former is literally one letter different and the latter makes just as much, arguably more, sense than the term it replaced. I get that some people see it as just posturing but you have to start somewhere if you are going to change the cultur…
Why instead of changing tech wording affecting every dev worldwide who does not care about american pseudo social justice, just do not call dark er skin „black“ and brighter skin „white“?
I mean still more people are afraid in the absence of light, hence the dark, than otherwise. And „white“ is often associated with clean, pure. There are psychological effects we can‘t just ignore.
Better just stop associating this pink skin with „white“ and darker skin with „brown“ or „black“.
I mean I still have to see a „white“ person and a „black“ person in real life.
For god‘s sake. Stop finding problems where there are none. Corporate trolling has reached the next level.
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Why are you saying that? There's a Linux version. Although I'ld expect a Linux user to be using their package manager instead anyway. But maybe Thunderbird should eventually release a Flatpak or Snap or AppImage which are cross-distro. https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all/
I am saying that because the Linux version of Thunderbird 91 does not seem to be available. If I go to the download page and download the Linux version, I end up with a Thunderbird 78 tarball. Not the 91 one.
See version 91 specific downloads for everyone: https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/thunderbird/r...