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wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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[–] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 90 points 1 year ago (36 children)

Not the main point, but this is the first time I've seen "allowlisted". Lol

...are they trying to avoid saying whitelisted because of the word "white"?

[–] OneDimensionPrinter@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Yeah, at my company we switched to allow/block listed last year. Whitelisted and blacklisted are verboten

[–] static@midwest.social 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The best reasoning I saw for this change was for clarity for non native English speakers. If you're learning the language "allowlist" is definitely more clear in meaning than "whitelist"

[–] StrongGoal2001@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not really, at least in Spanish we’ve always said “listas blancas/listas negras”.

[–] 3laws@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I don't know what you are talking about.

Even if our dialects (Mexican) didn't have vestigial racism and fake dichotomies, permitir y bloquear is as straight forward as you can get.

IT switched from white/black literally years ago, if your department didn't, you are quite stuck in time.

[–] Mat66@eslemmy.es 1 points 1 year ago
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