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The police poster mentioned "was only able to hike 10 miles a day". Makes me think it's health related, 10 mi / day is absolutely abysmal for a normal thru hiker. Most aim to do that amount by 10 in the morning...
10 miles is a lot if you're just getting into it and have a heavy pack. To suggest that only something extreme could cause that is naive. Could be limited by a minor foot problem.
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In any context I can think of privacy only exists while someone is alive. Once you are dead your life history sort of exists in the public domain.
Except that the privacy of a bunch of “suspects” is also being broken, who are definitely still alive.
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In any context I can think of privacy only exists while someone is alive. Once you are dead your life history sort of exists in the public domain.
What about respect for the dead? I for one would like to live in a society that tries to honor my last wishes.
It is not reasonable to assume that this person's family does not want to be informed of his passing.
It's amazing how rude Facebook, reddit, and in this case, greedy companies, can be. If he cared enough about anyone knowing who he was, he'd have told someone. This is just blatant disregard for a man's privacy.
When/If his true identity is discovered it will be a major let-down.
He'll become Kevin or Ben from Somewhere or Nowhere. And that'll be the end of it.
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If someone wants to check, I'd bet he at least forked or starred the github repo. A script to pull the list of those people, minus anyone whos been active since april 2017, would probably show his account.
Looking at https://imgur.com/a/eTphrRF The code that he writes is a blend of languages. The arrow operators -> is indicative of C/C++ but C/C++ doesn't use nil or function. It's like he thinks in C/C++ first which puts him at about my age mid-40s. Anyone younger than 40 would be using dots '.' due to Java/Javascript/Python instead of '->'. Does anyone else get that vibe?
There's a lot more detail, including many photos and the full autopsy report, at this site [WARNING - includes photos from the scene of death (not gory)]: https://truecrimesociety.com/2019/08/22/unidentified-and-mos... There are two remarkable things that I saw in the autopsy report - First, there were "abundant" feces in his intestines, which suggests to me (though I am not a doctor) that he didn't starve to death.…
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Kind of a stretch but the crossover between jaded dev/tech people and EVE Online players is high: Mostly Harmless is an old, now defunct, EVE corp. Might be someone who ran in that that might recognize him. https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/cd7ku3/disbanded_allia...
Mostly Harmless is also a difficulty level... I wouldn't dig too deeply into the name so much as the choice.
Why not? Every other avenue has been explored.
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With an all time peak of 357 players playing at a time, Screeps is still the best lead especially when you link it to a Steam account. https://steamcharts.com/app/464350 Hopefully, the developer still has logs and data for 2018 and earlier
That number is way off- the steam client came out well after the website version (they both connect to the same MMO server), and there are a lot of users who just use the website to play the game. The community- with the admins- put a lot of work into trying to figure this out. I lead a group who does analysis of other people's codebases by scraping data from the game, as a way to identify unique codebases (and playe…
It’s great though how both the developer and community came together to help ID the guy.