GitHub Deceased User Policy

Re:GitHub Deceased User Policy by vbsteven on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:26AM (#26163349)

It’s nice that they built something into the service but I think can this problem can be solved independent of the service.

One of my weekend project ideas is a small deadman-switch service that pings you every X days to press a button, if it hasn’t heard from you in Y days it sends a private key encrypted file and some instructions. Think onetimesecret with a button and a timer.

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Re:GitHub Deceased User Policy by toomuchtodo on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:30AM (#26163373)

https://www.deadmansswitch.net/

Built by /user?id=StravosK

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Re:GitHub Deceased User Policy by RogantisAgat on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:29AM (#26163700)

Now the question is: What happens to the DeadMansSwitch service if something were to happen to its maker? It's like we need to form mini multi-generational cults to keep human services like that going for as long as humans keep going until the point they stop.

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Re:GitHub Deceased User Policy by mhh__ on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:53AM (#26164215)

The research people have been doing into conveying the dangers of nuclear dumps to potentially primitive future peoples is quite fascinating.

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Re:GitHub Deceased User Policy by microtherion on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:38PM (#26172141)

Maybe I should directly apply that language to my post-mortem open source projects:

This repository is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed code is placed here. Nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us.

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Re:GitHub Deceased User Policy by PebblesRox on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:41AM (#26164546)

Agreed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warn...

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Re:GitHub Deceased User Policy by marci on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:53AM (#26165004)

In futureLang:

- Hey, we found some hieroglyphs, in better shape than the ones near the pyramids, do you recognise the gods?

- No, but they all seem to say similar things: Don't open or "Calamities" or something. I wonder what their primitives beliefs were based on... Let's dig!

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Re:GitHub Deceased User Policy by bastawhiz on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:49AM (#26163785)

Uhhh...you mean like, a company?

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Re:GitHub Deceased User Policy by jtms on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:06AM (#26163884)

Yeah, but multi-generational cult sounds way cooler

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Re:GitHub Deceased User Policy by barakados on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:31AM (#26163379)

This sounds like an interesting idea! I’m eager to help any way I can.

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