When did Github change its first branch's name to main from master !? Wth..

The SJWs have won !?

Have you found out that COVID happened, Biden Won, Internet Explorer died?

You're late to the party :( this changed on junuary last year, indeed they have won as they always do -_-

Loooooooooongbtimeago... Bro just woke up from sleep?

@molaram and then changed to "rubbish"

Yeah this happened in a lot of git systems some month ago. Completely retarded and unnecessary change.

@Hazarth 4 months at the helm, and the whole shebang is already imploding. especially when you factor in the rest of the world.

hardly a victory...

this article might shed some light on the matter:

"Microsoft acquires GitHub"
https://news.microsoft.com/announce...

Did you just get out of your rock?

Wow.. Github isnt the entire world people. I was away from github for a while and was using only my old repos.. and in work, we use bitbucket which still uses master as the first branch. And local git still creates a master branch as first.

I don’t think they actually changed the default did they? Just added an additional line to the instructions to change it yourself.

@platypus Possible. When i created a repo today i didnt notice and copied the commands as is.. and noticed it renamed my local master branch as main branch. Thats where i was shocked.

My VSCode is still defaulting to "master" as name for new local branches. I still have to manually rename the shit to match.

Git (the cli) was updated to default to main, however you can still override it to master or "ImAPunkAssBitch" if you please.

Now, I'm the last 18 months, the world has ended, COVID vaccines contain microchips, bill gates rules the world, IE11 is discontinued, the earth is still flat and everyone is jumping over the edge.... get it 😅

@platypus Since the update went into effect, any new GH repos default to main; those which existed by then didn't have any change.

@purist
You where shocked?
Is "main" really that bad a name choice for the branch that is the one everyone branches from and merges into?

IMO, while it was changed for the wrong reason, the change itself isn't actually bad. The new name is not wrong and slightly shorter (i am a CLI user).

@Oktokolo As you pointed out, it was for the wrong reasons, fighting the pseudo racism that as if it'd cause them physical pain to read certain words.

Other than that, I'd also throw in unnecessary and muscle memory and aliases/bash functions alike.

@fjrevoredo While I might agree because of the reason of the change, I have to say that `main` is far quicker to type than `master`

been there...and suck up

@Oktokolo i was shocked i didnt know this changed. I expected it to change someday, but i always thought it would take a long time to actually happen since a lot of systems now depend on the master naming.

@ostream One foot in the door mate

@ostream It's not a falacy if It's a legit psychological technique.

The fun thing is that only one of us can be right.

Mathematically that means we either lose something or nothing changes

Which means It's a negative sum game, and we shouldn't play it in the first place

@ostream

"Illinois State Rep Reportedly Suggests This Callous Solution to Abortion"

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...

you know where this is going...

Main is also a problematic word isnt it ? If someone is main.. Then does it mean other people are unimportant !? Do they mean everyone except the main guy deserves to die !?

I think i should petition to remove the word main to set even a more inclusive name to include all the unmain people around the world.

@bad-frog wow. What a brilliant solution. You wont be able to abort if one doesnt even conceive. Thats the most amazing solution to this debate i have ever heard.

@bad-frog what the actual fuck did I just read...

@Hazarth lol old news.
its not like its isolated. i remember hearing a similar story about a blizzard sales rep tweet, more recently.

prolly much more to be found if i really dug

@bad-frog
Well, vasectomy actually is a thing. It is way more reliable than the pill or the condom.
That obviously is more a family planning tool for aging couples though.

So there still needs to be a solution for all the other occasions where women can get pregnant without consent (which also includes when the pill and/or condom fails or when teenagers just get drunk).

@ostream calm your tits fraulein

and tell me what made you so hysterical

@Oktokolo well, there's tubal ligation...

and there's not being promiscuous in the first place...

@ostream In one sentence you manage to both call social psychology bullshit and legit... But who said it has to be applied by an individual?

You don't really need an individual to apply manipulation techniques like this... It's been one of the most popular marketing strategies since the 90s

You're really going to tell me companies don't do that? that the media don't do that? That we're not slowly force-fed bullshit, so everyone keeps accepting it?

Why are you supporting this arguably completely useless change anyway? it does nothing other than mess with bunch of stuff that already worked fine. In principle it's nothing more than a pointless change for a completely twisted reason... Even if we agree that the change isn't just one more step for some very upset people to gain more power, it's still at best pointless, at worst a bother...

Ignoring all assumptions and looking at the change for what it is still results in you defending something with 0 value. why?

@ostream It's called a fallacy not simply because its irrational, but because *people are prone to falling for it*.

People are after all, not wholly rational animals.

To illustrate: I invite you to use/enslave only *some* of the prison labor seeing as they are after all, lawfully incarcerated (assuming the law system did its job instead of failing horribly like it is prone to).

Obviously nothing will go wrong and this wont grow into a giant for-profit system of rampant exploitation that has a perverse incentive to create more and more laws that entrap people for profit.

Just go ask the local uniparty rep that just received a giant campaign donation from the private prison industry.

They'll tell you "this isn't going to lead to an out of control cancerous for profit prison industry gobbling up more and more innocent lives."

One example. Thats just one.

Slippery. Slope.

@theabbie

Internet Explorer died? Tragic.

@molaram

Wait, trash is now bin? Jimmy fucking crickets, go check the doomsday clock. Shits getting real.

@johnmelodyme

It was always rubbish.

@bad-frog

Well, if we're being fair, everythings been imploding since 2008. Hell since 2001.

@C0D4

My favorite part about bill gates is hes probably the closest thing to the worlds first real life corporate supervillain. 1. damaging people in india and africa with experimental medicine, 2. plans to study blocking out the sun lololol, 3. buying doomsday bunkers on remote islands 4. advocate of depopulation.

It's like a fellow billionaire and friend came to him and said "bill I double dog dare you to become a comic book super villain!"

And bill was like "awwww shit. NOWS MY MOMENT TO SHINE." as he clasped and rubbed his hands together and chuckled maniacally.

Right up there with those weird scenes in movies of villains getting a traditional straight-razor shave as some form of bizarre intimidation tactic. "Look at me and despair! I SHAVE!" all ozymandias-like. Its all rubble. Or more accurately, stubble.

@Wisecrack Thats one way to spin whatever Gates is doing. Conviniently ignoring his efforts for climate change, malaria in africa etc.

@purist no you misunderstand. I'm praising him out of misanthropy. Also for comedic effect.

@Wisecrack yup.
2007-2008 were important years.

2007:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

@bad-frog don't you know Putin is like the devil or something? That's why hes so eloquent.

Don't stand too close or he'll swallow your soul, probably!

Good speech though.

@Wisecrack yeah, guy might be ruthless...
but he's doing a good job. its not without reason that he has 80% approval rate.

my cousin lives there. used to be moscow but now hes trading crypto he moved to the country-side.

the guy has actual 80% approval rate.

also there's the fact that the west does agit-prop in russia. and the tsar doesnt share his power, so murders ensue. but its not like the west is any better.

in fact, the west is way worse.
nato has declared wars to murder people. (gulf 2 + libya) and not to protect their own country, but to cement their global power.
and have actual brownshirts, albeit they're called antifa.

heck, they even killed an american president...

@bad-frog I doubt any ruler has 80% approval rating. Murder and agit-prop is what countries do to each other on any given day.

There are no saints.

The same people in antifa playing at "punching nazis" are backed by Ukrainian ultranationalists.

The alt right groups like the base and proud boys who claim to fight communists are themselves backed and run by socialists.

The only thing either side gets right is that we are being played against one another to the benefit of international banks, their proxy nations, and middlemen.

They push ideological war, racial division, religious conflict, and all other manner of divisions. But the people pushing it are fighting on one front: them against everyone less wealthy than them. Im not talking millionaires or the "bushwahzee" middleclass. I'm talking billionaires and international conglomerates and banks. Class, the only division that still genuinely matters, the only war that is really being fought, is class war.

Always has been.

@Wisecrack i generally agree.
however, id add that the geo-political landscape is a little more nuanced.
globalists arent the only players here.
you have state-sized actors like the saudis or chyna.
the "deplorables" are a legitimate force now. the EU is breaking off the monobloc, or more accurately, becoming its new center.

even the management itself is divided. you can see that plainly in the ukrainian crisis for instance: like how ukraine was supposed to enter nato, but ultimately didnt (some wanted ww3, but cooler heads prevailed)

the board has changed very much in the past few years.

But are the Saudis really independent actors or another proxy for the u.s.?

china is America's number one manufacturing gulag. They'll grumble and reposition themselves for years to come, but what's come of it? They can't even get their protectorate Australia to behave.

I got a agree with you on the EU destabilization/realignment. In retrospect it should have been obvious from the moment the IRA appeared on the world stage.

None of that ultimately concerns me. What I'd watch for is the nordstream deal and Russia and Germany's new talks. Historically that has always lead to world war.

I think if NATO isn't revitalized in say the next five years then its gonna be dead in all but name. But I dont know enough to really say.

I think it's Russia plays its cards right oh, is it seems to have been doing for some years oh, it has a chance of genuinely presenting a plausible model of a multipolar world versus US hegemony.

@Wisecrack i think we can safely say that the saudis are an independent force now.

they orchestrated the big oil dip from past year, among with the russians.

low prices of oil are very hurtful for the usa because usa needs to extract it from the alaskan sands or through fracking.

iirc if oil goes down below 80$ for fracking and 110$ for sand extraction, it becomes unprofitable to exploit.
not sure at all about that considering the price is hovering around 60$ in the past 8 years, so i must have mixed something up.

concerning australia: yeah, one could think that the amount of chinese investment would turn the roos into a chink colony, but the chinese are dependent on australian iron ore. and aussies are part of the five eyes alliance and have close ties with japan, so bullying is not an option.

@Wisecrack now the EU.

its really complex. the EU's nature changes constantly with the political trends of its adherents.

i dont think the IRA was a drive to destabilize the eu. its rather a result of GB's imperial policies from before the EU existed.

if anything, the management constantly wants to consolidate the eu with the latest stimulus in date being a prime example for it:
"if everyone is broke they will be forced to play along".
yes, because ~50% of the incoming 1,8T EUR stimulus is to be sourced from adherent countries' loans with their respective central banks.

if the eu is becoming the centre of monopole team, its because usa is going down the drain.

btw, thats one reason im still on the fence concerning the orange man.

was he the origin of the management chosing another capital?
or was he a tool from the beginning bc usa was meant to burn?

@Wisecrack russia and germany are now in a strategic partnership.

germany got rid of its nuclear energy, so they are now dependent on fossil fuel.
and they have been an american colony for decades, so they chose russians, intent on doing buisness, not politics.

not that they wouldn't, if they could, but they can't. putins multi-polar vision is the only path for survival for post-communist russia. they simply could not afford imperialism.

only incidentally its the best path for the lot of us.

also thats why germany is considered as an unofficial leader of the eu:

even if the EU is firmly anti-russian, germany has very close ties with it. and the rest of the eu can only cope with that.

remember that adherents to the eu are actual sovereign countries, so the EU is walking a thin line, at the limit of legality by virtue of said sovereignity.

also you have on top of that many other quirks like the vyshegrad group (poland-chech-hungary group), brexit, the catalons, its complicated...

@Wisecrack ... but the finer detail are irrelevant.

you are 100% right on that the relations between germany and russia could spark ww3.

but the skies are blue on that front.
personally im more worried about china.
the chinks have ambitions of global domination.

thats redefines the relations between china and russia btw. i call them "enemy brothers".
they are forced into a temporary alliance because they oppose the monobloc, but ultimately they have opposite geopolitcal goals.

their rivalry begun in 1950's iirc with khruschev going enlightened, and mao being mao.

it persists til today:
https://express.co.uk/news/world/...

@Wisecrack as i wrote, its very complex. and fascinating on so many levels:)

@Wisecrack i have no opinion on nato.
at its core its a military alliance, so it may persist regardless of politics.

now that the usa commited political suicide, i thik its likely that it will work as intended: be a military alliance, period.

and even if it dissolves, im not worried about that.

nobody would want to mess with countries that have nukes...

and a multipolar world is more of a matter of fact today. doesnt mean the party is over tho.

in fact, the exact opposite.
technologically we approach what i call "the great automatisation".
its when the proletary class will be replaced by machines.
its a big game changer because it makes economy completely irrelevant: the whole concept breaks down if "nobody earns money, except for the producers?? how if there is nobody to buy their products???".
it will freeze class mobility, and the relations of power in every sense. between countries, between private people, between the people and the system.

@Wisecrack "scramble for africa 2: scramble for planet earth"

@ostream was it \@ me?

@ostream oh, didnt notice that.

thread became quite big, its hard to read it all

@ostream looking at it from another viewpoint: yeah, slippery slope

one could argue theres another level of "meta" in all this, the education of individuals through traditions/laws

obviously not everybody follows those, but im talking about the average joe.

one could posit that its the foot in the door technique:
1990-2000's : normalization of gender fluidity
2021 :
https://msn.com/en-us/news/...

id say slippery slope is true this time :/

@ostream man, im all for your body, your choice, but some things should be forbidden.

like drugs (i mean A class)

some pepole will do em anyways, but the average joe wont.

@ostream valid viewpoint.
if you ask for weed, it happens that dealers will offer you coke.

on the other hand i bet my foreskin that at least 20% of people in belgium smoke weed.
plenty of times you can see a cop smoking hash in their cars.
while the numbers for heroin are not proportionally higher.

higher, but should be even more.

if you legalize weed you remove the source of money and so power of many gangs.
ironically its the very reason it wont happen in belgium...

plenty of people would go from an enormous market to a more limited one (class B+).
also a more expensive one; = more violence

@ostream i say holland has the right approach.

holland has "legalized" it, taxes it like crazy, and educated their population.

result: iirc 10% of smokers there.

belgium has much more.

another advantage is that you can get stuff without being in contact with the criminal element of society, so a-class is much less available for an individual

@ostream when i talk about the weed market, you can trust me;)

Wow.. From github to weed.. wonderful

@purist adds variety:p

@ostream i thought saying prohibition is stupid as you have seen some shit in your city.. is using anecdotes to make a point.

And when someone speaks logically.. you will ask them to demonstrate.. if not with anecdotes then how !? Are you the kinda guy who utters only the things that are studied and widely accepted !?

@purist ur right, but also i dont mind naysayers.
finding the truth becomes a team effort:)

@bad-frog thank you all, but especially bad frog for teaching me so much. Really.

It is very clear that you are much more informed than I. Henceforth I will follow you around and nag you with questions whenever they occur to me.

What have you got yourself into.

@ostream I didnt see you arguing with the "200 years of literature about criminal trajectory".

@ostream so when you are arguing it is okay to use an anecdote.. because somehow just because you said it.. it is well known..

But when someone else uses it.. it is a useless argument. Coz anecdotes !

On this argument.. Some sane people assume that some harmful stuff should be illegal.

@Wisecrack lol
whenever you want

@ostream something being illegal doesnt meant you have to be punished for it.

and victimless crime is a broad description...
care to be more specific?