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Re: GitHub Deceased User Policy

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So, on top of financial debt, you can also transfer technical debt to your successors ?

Immortality (in minds of pissed off relatives), here I come!

They say that every man has two deaths. The first when they breathe for the last time. The second when their name is screamed out and cursed at for the last time.

Re: GitHub Deceased User Policy

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Would be pretty cool, to use your GitHub as a part of your memorial. Open source the will, with the names anonymized of course.

There's a part of me that would just love for my next of kin to read some of my code to see how I thought when I was alive. Feels like a very interesting tech TV miniseries, an Open Project that's passed down from generation to generation.

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If one of your friends is a freenode user and comes down with a slight case of death, please contact the freenode staff via chat.freenode.net #freenode and their account will be memorialised. (I had to do one of these a few days ago and it's sadly not the first) A lot of providers will be happy to figure something out, too - the previous-to-this one situation the deceased also had a linode account and once I got thro…

What does memorialized mean in IRC?

Re: GitHub Deceased User Policy

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post #54

If one of your friends is a freenode user and comes down with a slight case of death, please contact the freenode staff via chat.freenode.net #freenode and their account will be memorialised. (I had to do one of these a few days ago and it's sadly not the first) A lot of providers will be happy to figure something out, too - the previous-to-this one situation the deceased also had a linode account and once I got thro…

What does memorialized mean in IRC?

Reserved nickname?

Re: GitHub Deceased User Policy

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post #73
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If one of your friends is a freenode user and comes down with a slight case of death, please contact the freenode staff via chat.freenode.net #freenode and their account will be memorialised. (I had to do one of these a few days ago and it's sadly not the first) A lot of providers will be happy to figure something out, too - the previous-to-this one situation the deceased also had a linode account and once I got thro…

What does memorialized mean in IRC?

Basically the account gets marked memorialized and then will never be expired.

So, yeah, as the other reply said, "reserved nickname", but more precisely "reserved accountname indefinitely".

Re: GitHub Deceased User Policy

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I was thinking the other day that I would like to open-source all my random projects or startup files if I die but I couldn't think of a good way to do it. I guess maybe a private repo with instructions could do, but it requires a technical person in the family or friends to check it if/when GH gives them access. The way that Facebook does it with their memorial service is not bad. You can set what happens with the a…

GitHub has an account successor system. The successor can be anyone. I set a technical friend of mine as my account successor.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-yo...

Re: GitHub Deceased User Policy

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Immortality (in minds of pissed off relatives), here I come!

They say that every man has two deaths. The first when they breathe for the last time. The second when their name is screamed out and cursed at for the last time.

*the second when their last bug in production code is squashed

Re: GitHub Deceased User Policy

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post #77

Is there a standard internet graveyard? For example, some place where all of your social media, blog posts, code and platform data can live under one ID after you pass away?

Interesting idea. Like a centralized memorial with curated data from your online presence over time?
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