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kgwgk
on March 17, 2021
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GitHub, fuck your name change
The origin of the term is not so evil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)#Etymology
dijit
on March 17, 2021
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But we don't seem to care about origins of words, Master itself didn't mean slave owner until late in the 17th century.
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