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allowlist is objectionable not only on antiwoke grounds but more importantly on aesthetic ones; whitelist rolls off the tongue much smoother than that awkward linguistic astroturf
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generally speaking I deeply resent how this sort of contortion has become so commonplace that you get weird looks if you don't praise the emperor's new clothes
we've forgotten to design against ugliness
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@pee_zombie hmm.
TCP_wrappers had hosts.allow and hosts.deny (those are file names) which was not terrible.
"Allowlist" is pretty awful.
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much gender stuff is like this too