Post #675181

2026-03-16 17:27 UTC

Hi. Hello. Someone tried to scold me for moving a default branch from master to main by being very pedantic with the Oxford Dictionary so I just said, &quot;Yeah well there are some men I call master so when I see the word I get an awkward chub,&quot; and immediately won the argument.

Replies (15)

@nasamuffin@jorts.horse 2026-03-16 17:40

@dkub LMFOAOAOAOCNDKCOS NCJC

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@realn2s@infosec.exchange 2026-03-16 17:45

@dkub 🤣✊🏻

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@thickurt@woof.group 2026-03-16 17:46

@dkub I mean you don't even gotta be pedantic about it. "Master" makes no sense and neither does "main" we should be using "trunk" because trunks actually have branches

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@aphyr@woof.group 2026-03-16 17:48

@dkub this is the canonical answer from now on 🙃

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@zicon@fribygda.no 2026-03-16 17:51

@dkub You are officially my favourite person today.

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@squeakypancakes@sunbeam.city 2026-03-16 18:08

@dkub i change mine to trunk so either way i get wood

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@alex@social.alexhyett.com 2026-03-16 19:33

@dkub awesome response 👏

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@jcnotwit@mastodon.social 2026-03-16 19:52

@dkub And that's a follow! And a super bonus follow for the T. A. T. U. reference in an earlier post. You're a man of culture.

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@WildPowerHammer@mastodon.ml 2026-03-16 19:58

@dkub In all my repos i renamed master to... Mistress No regrets

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@jesse@social.jelliefrontier.net 2026-03-16 21:14

@dkub Years ago I had a co-worker suggest (on Teams) we change "whitelist/blacklist" to "allowlist/blocklist". I was confused, because I didn't think there was a racial connotation, so I spent about 30 minutes quietly digging through the etymology of the phrase and began a carefully constructed response about how it "wasn't offensive" and "here's the historical context..." etc. While writing my reply, I stopped and thought, "Maybe this doesn't matter and I should just stfu." and deleted it.

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@kagan@wandering.shop 2026-03-16 22:40

@dkub Not all heroes wear capes! Some of them wear... whatever Master tells you to wear. 😉

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@drewtowler@mas.to 2026-03-16 23:27

@dkub I name my git main Senpai and my branches Kohai.

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@mauvedeity@mastodon.social 2026-03-17 12:58

@dkub can we call this action “master-baiting”?

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@AdaraAstin@supervolcano.angryshark.eu 2026-03-18 13:17

@dkub Bravo! 😂 🔥

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@plor@4bear.com 2026-03-28 20:52

@dkub @ccshan OMG you are gonna be unemployed be careful please

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