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Doors I touched today (1999)

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Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by dusted »

Liquix wrote: post #56
piyh wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?

One reliable way to carry on a paid service after your own death is setting up an estate or trust which pays living people to ensure everything stays online.

Really? What happens when the website host crashes and burns? You know, some companies are outlived by humans.. Many.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by hellweaver666 »

wolframhempel wrote: post #73

I love how it ends with him having a midnight snack.

If this was me there would be about 50 entries of me opening the fridge door, staring for a minute and then closing it without taking anything out (also a fair amount of walking into rooms and forgetting why I was there).

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by nicky0 »

dusted wrote: post #71
Liquix wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One reliable way to carry on a paid service after your own death is setting up an estate or trust which pays living people to ensure everything stays online.

Really? What happens when the website host crashes and burns? You know, some companies are outlived by humans.. Many.

As long as your trust set-up is sufficiently well-funded and well structured the trust could in principle live on for generations. Obviously, the success of the venture depends on, well, trust.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by nicky0 »

barbs wrote: post #5

It's sites like these that make me dearly miss the old internet. Then I remember that the old internet is mostly still there, just buried under the ad-riddled mass-produced garbage pile of the current internet, and there are ways to dig through to it, but I never do.

A good rule of thumb is hand coded content > content managed by a CMS.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by isoprophlex »

jspash wrote: post #70
isoprophlex wrote: post #10

The artist sure loves him some diet coke

Some people are literally addicted to the stuff https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/feb/02/the-real-thing-...

That's totally frightening... makes me feel better about the trouble I had reducing my coffee intake. Caffeine can be pretty rough, addiction-wise.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by pjc50 »

dusted wrote: post #71
Liquix wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One reliable way to carry on a paid service after your own death is setting up an estate or trust which pays living people to ensure everything stays online.

Really? What happens when the website host crashes and burns? You know, some companies are outlived by humans.. Many.

The trust structure would have the obligation to maintain the website. Provided they make backups, which is totally a thing you could write into the contract (every five years a lawyer copies the site onto whatever document storage system they're using at the time, or puts a new tape in a safe), that would outlive any individual company.

There are however legal rules against trusts in many jurisdictions: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/100782/1/Article%20-%20The%20r...

So your best bet is to establish a community of people interested in preserving your website, or websites in general, and have them run a long term nonprofit for that purpose.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by pjc50 »

kube-system wrote: post #4

It's amazing that pathogens capable of living on surfaces haven't wiped us out already. Thanks immune system.

Never mind surfaces, which are probably cleaner in the 20th century than at any time previously, it's the airborne ones people seem to have forgotten about.
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