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Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by winfred »

sjtindell wrote: post #24
aeturnum wrote: post #9

This 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.

The way I see it, we already have that world, with capitalism functioning as a filter.

I worked my ass off to reach financial independence, now I'm dedicating the rest of my life towards helping other people.

I've proven to be capable of using the system to a degree where I can do whatever I want, which allows me the freedom to help other people full time.

It's not a perfect system, but I doubt UBI will be much better. At least capitalism filters out many of the people who shouldn't be helping others.

Helping those in need isn't something everyone should be doing. Not every needy person should be helped and helping others in desperate need incurs a mental cost that's not easy to carry.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by vmception »

shadeslayer_ wrote: post #21

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.

Cancer requires clinging to glimmers of hope. Yes, he felt that way at the time and yes, he wrote it down, but these improbabilities are all anyone ever has, its not over till it’s over.

I read that post too, going from a tiny undetectable bump under the skin that only his partner noticed, to unbearable pain pressing against his spine making him unable to sleep and think clearly.

It seems like 4 months were wasted just getting appointments.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by bombcar »

peterangular wrote: post #30
stefan_ wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Poor Leonard stuck at third to last - has to be a big hit for someone with a name like that.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by samblr »

I believe open source work is amongst the greatest works of charities ever. It is just staggering the amount of work that goes building/maintainer open source. And I possibly wonder every week on who are these wonderful people creating/maintaining them.

My heart goes to maintainer & family.

Everybody in this forum needs to do a bit.

Request everybody to donate generously via paypal mentioned in the link.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by pm90 »

sjtindell wrote: post #24
aeturnum wrote: post #9

This 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.

UBI + Government funded, free healthcare for everyone.

It makes no sense that, with all the excess industrial supply that we have today, that we refuse to provide a basic minimum standard of living for all human beings.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by pjc50 »

KennyFromIT wrote: post #3

Messages like these are so sad to read. The world will never realize how many people are working tirelessly behind the scenes to keep society moving forward. Cheers to all of the silent (and sometimes not so silent) people that continue to give of themselves to make this world a more wonderful place in their own little way. You all are awesome and we literally couldn't go on with our way of life without you.

I call this "Postel decentralisation": everyone thinks there's some kind of system or institution making everything work, but in fact there's just a guy doing it all on his own.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by bombcar »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #27

I'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.

Dan Jezek died way too early and his family worked hard to keep BrickLink alive - and now it will continue as it’s under the umbrella of the LEGO Group. https://www.danjezek.com/
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