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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 thei

by mst 6y ago

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 through to them they put the deceased's account onto a deep freeze where the systems were off but the data was kept to give the deceased's family time to get everything else done, with an understanding that once they sent a death certificate through that would allow for the data to be released to them. Also, if you're lost, contact me as 'mst' on irc.freenode.net or irc.perl.org - I make no guarantees as to how much I can help but everything I've learned from dealing with my friends' passing I'll be happy to do my best to use to help you deal with your friend's passing. My friends would, if they were around to do so, appreciate the re-use of effort and sharing of knowledge.

dgellow 6y ago
Sorry for your loss, I wish you all the best
- mst 6y ago
  Thank you. I get better at the "paperwork" parts every time. And I know my friends I've done it for before wouldn't be surprised that I keep volunteering to do it, and would, if they were around to do so, grin and say "yep, that's mst" at the fact I'm willing to use my experience on behalf of them to make it easier for others. This really isn't a selfless offer. It makes -me- feel better, and I know they'd approve. So, yeah, seriously people, if you need a hand with this stuff, come poke me with a stick (and I mean that in general, freenode I know far too well, anywhere else I might not know that well but I'll try to help anyway because it'll be easier for me to think it through than it will for you if you just lost a friend).
andai 6y ago
What does memorialized mean in IRC?
- ComodoHacker 6y ago
  Reserved nickname?
- mst 6y ago
  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".
  - remram 6y ago
    I find it a bit weird that you let nicknames expire for living people if you recognize the importance of keeping someone's identity constant.
gjvnq 6y ago
> slight case of death What counts as slight? Also, it sounds like something I would hear on an Oversimplified history video.
- mst 6y ago
  Mostly just my dark/gallows humour tbh. Just like there's not really any such thing as 'slightly pregnant'. en_UK understatement, because I've cried enough already so I prefer to remain as dry as possible from here on in.
- drewzero1 6y ago
  It's been a while, but I think it's a Hitchhiker's Guide reference.
- asveikau 6y ago
  Seems an attempt to lighten the mood when discussing a serious topic. Surely you've seen this before.
- mdip 6y ago
  For answers to this and other questions of life, the universe, and everything, stop whatever you are doing and download a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For best results, get the first 5 books of the trilogy and do nothing until you have read them all. It will change your life. :)
hoytech 6y ago
Thank you for sharing, and please accept my condolences. About memorialising IRC nicks, I understand why this is done but maybe it doesn't need to be a perpetual reservation? When an amateur radio operator passes, their callsign becomes a SK (silent-key): http://www.silentkeyhq.com/main.php http://www.silentkeyhq.com/main.php After a period of time, the callsign can be allocated to somebody else. Often this is a descendant of the operator, but not always. Usually the community is in fact happy to see a callsign remain active. In some cases there are multi-generational callsigns that have hundred year histories behind them, which I think is a wonderful connection to maintain throughout our shared history, and future.
- zitterbewegung 6y ago
  For usernames / callsigns there are other advantages to reserve them indefinitely like the possibility of them being impersonated. This is compounded because of the fact that on IRC your only method of communication is the internet.

by mst 6y ago

dgellow 6y ago

Sorry for your loss, I wish you all the best

mst 6y ago
Thank you. I get better at the "paperwork" parts every time. And I know my friends I've done it for before wouldn't be surprised that I keep volunteering to do it, and would, if they were around to do so, grin and say "yep, that's mst" at the fact I'm willing to use my experience on behalf of them to make it easier for others. This really isn't a selfless offer. It makes -me- feel better, and I know they'd approve. So, yeah, seriously people, if you need a hand with this stuff, come poke me with a stick (and I mean that in general, freenode I know far too well, anywhere else I might not know that well but I'll try to help anyway because it'll be easier for me to think it through than it will for you if you just lost a friend).

andai 6y ago

What does memorialized mean in IRC?

ComodoHacker 6y ago
Reserved nickname?
mst 6y ago
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".
- remram 6y ago
  I find it a bit weird that you let nicknames expire for living people if you recognize the importance of keeping someone's identity constant.

gjvnq 6y ago

> slight case of death What counts as slight? Also, it sounds like something I would hear on an Oversimplified history video.

mst 6y ago
Mostly just my dark/gallows humour tbh. Just like there's not really any such thing as 'slightly pregnant'. en_UK understatement, because I've cried enough already so I prefer to remain as dry as possible from here on in.
drewzero1 6y ago
It's been a while, but I think it's a Hitchhiker's Guide reference.
asveikau 6y ago
Seems an attempt to lighten the mood when discussing a serious topic. Surely you've seen this before.
mdip 6y ago
For answers to this and other questions of life, the universe, and everything, stop whatever you are doing and download a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For best results, get the first 5 books of the trilogy and do nothing until you have read them all. It will change your life. :)

hoytech 6y ago

Thank you for sharing, and please accept my condolences. About memorialising IRC nicks, I understand why this is done but maybe it doesn't need to be a perpetual reservation? When an amateur radio operator passes, their callsign becomes a SK (silent-key): http://www.silentkeyhq.com/main.php http://www.silentkeyhq.com/main.php After a period of time, the callsign can be allocated to somebody else. Often this is a descendant of the operator, but not always. Usually the community is in fact happy to see a callsign remain active. In some cases there are multi-generational callsigns that have hundred year histories behind them, which I think is a wonderful connection to maintain throughout our shared history, and future.

zitterbewegung 6y ago
For usernames / callsigns there are other advantages to reserve them indefinitely like the possibility of them being impersonated. This is compounded because of the fact that on IRC your only method of communication is the internet.