This is so sad because if you read his blog post from January 2021, he sounds so very hopeful and happy at the prospect of the immunotherapy working. It sounds like he discovered a new lease of life. Being thrown from that situation to the new prognosis which is infinitely worse, sounds like a hammer blow.
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#22This is a sad reminder of the masses of invisible labor (unpaid and paid) that hold up our world. Social scientists have been studying how labor becomes visible (or invisible) for a while without finding obvious solutions to "the situation." How can we build a world where an infinite procession specialists like Roy can get the care they need and also find and train successors in their important work? Not just because…
Is there anything like an “Open Source Hall of Fame”, for recognizing and remembering significant contributors? It’s not perfect, but perhaps it is a way to at least preserve the memory and the history.
Linux has the CREDITS file where you end up once you drop out of maintainership of some subsystem:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/CREDITS
(e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/054c4610bd05)
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#24This is a sad reminder of the masses of invisible labor (unpaid and paid) that hold up our world. Social scientists have been studying how labor becomes visible (or invisible) for a while without finding obvious solutions to "the situation." How can we build a world where an infinite procession specialists like Roy can get the care they need and also find and train successors in their important work? Not just because…
Just in my personal opinion, things like a UBI move us towards that world. It wound allow people flexibility.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Besides, having a tumor during the pandemic is particularly unfortunate as the standard of care has degraded mostly everywhere. Sadly, I know first hand. I hope he gets as much time as possible. Immunotherapies are improving all the time.
So tragic. Generic cancer treatment in the US, with a few exceptions, was already a horrifying, barbaric affair: unless you have a cancer treatable with newer genetic or immune methods, it's still approached with cut, burn, and poison, like it's been for many decades, with varying results. Add to that a constant battle at every step with insurance for pre-authorization pitting your doctor against a corporation, then…
The developer's cancer blog seems to indicate that they live in the UK and are receiving medical treatment from the NHS.
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#26A tragic message. > I have been dealing with cancer for some time and sadly the treatment has not worked. My life expectancy is now fairly short. I'm not sure what to say in response, since I don't know Roy. Though the prognosis is bad, nothing is certain. I hope he and his family gets as much time as possible.
Besides, having a tumor during the pandemic is particularly unfortunate as the standard of care has degraded mostly everywhere. Sadly, I know first hand. I hope he gets as much time as possible. Immunotherapies are improving all the time.
> Besides, having a tumor during the pandemic is particularly unfortunate as the standard of care has degraded mostly everywhere.
Same here... I lost my dad to cancer at the height of the first lockdown, and it was really painful to overhear the oncologists that were treating him holding passionate conversations about covid and nothing else. The nurses were obviously overworked and did nothing else than provide morphine. Cannot complain about the professionalism of the care he received, given the circumstances. But I feel that I could have spend a few weeks more with him if he had fallen ill at a different time.
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#27I've been using a website for 15 years or so that had a similar situation. The creator/maintainer got a short prognosis, but made an effort to ensure that his service would outlive him.
Even though I'll never meet Josh from Spamgourmet his work continues to make my life a little bit easier on an almost daily basis. I hope Roy's legacy is able to continue in the same way and that he gets some comfort from that.
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#28This guy is a machine. Roy fixed several bugs in dhcpcd that allowed the megacorp I worked for to ship dhcpcd in millions of devices. I donated.
but did the megacorp?
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#29I’d like to donate but the PayPal app just spins :-/
I’ll try web
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there anything like an “Open Source Hall of Fame”, for recognizing and remembering significant contributors? It’s not perfect, but perhaps it is a way to at least preserve the memory and the history.
Linux has the CREDITS file where you end up once you drop out of maintainership of some subsystem: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/CREDITS (e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/054c4610bd05 )
Ha - the last comment on that CREDITS list is pretty funny =)
Definitely worth the full scroll.