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Vim 9 will be dedicated to Sven Guckes
- adelarsq 5y agoSad! Thanks for your effort Sven Guckes! Rest in peace!
- gjvc 5y agoI remember his "put some colour in your life!" pages with affection. Thank you, Sven.
- iso1631 5y ago:wq
- lytedev 5y ago:x
- nixcraft 5y agoZZ
- actionfromafar 5y agokillall -9 vim
- davidkunz 5y agoshutdown -r now
- hajhatten 5y agosudo !!
- furgooswft13 5y agoPulls plug
- willcipriano 5y agoAsk IT for a new EC2 instance
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- bravetraveler 5y agosomeone think of the swap files!
- georgewsinger 5y agopkill vim
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- balakk 5y ago:n
- kbd 5y ago> Our friend Sven Guckes died in Berlin on February 20, 2022. > He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in December 2021. Sheesh so fast... scary. RIP.
- jacquesm 5y agoYes, it can be that fast. Two cases nearby in the last two years. Very scary stuff, and you don't have to be over 50 either.
- echelon 5y agoAny way to get an early diagnosis and potentially be eligible for surgery? Any warning signs to look for? I imagine it depends on which cells are impacted. Glial cells not giving much option.
- jacquesm 5y agoThe two people that died recently near me: one a bad headache, the other a sight problem in only one eye. In both cases they went to a neurologist, the cancers were both the most aggressive kind and in both cases the time between initial diagnosis and the funeral was less than three months. Very harsh stuff.
- echelon 5y agoThat's so scary and sad. I'm sorry for your losses.
- jacquesm 5y agoThank you. Still not over one of these. To the point that I recently reached for the phone to give that person a call and only after getting the 'number not available' signal it clicked again. Cognitively I've long ago accepted it but in times of half-attention it goes off the rails so easily.
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- xwdv 5y ago:q! A life interrupted
- jacquesm 5y agoI use it daily and this is a good reminder to be(come) more aware of who all the people are behind the FOSS stuff that I have come to rely on for just about everything.
- sneak 5y agoSven was my friend. I knew him well. He was one of the first people in the tech scene I met when I first came to Berlin in 2007. I don't think we should be honoring him, though, because he was, despite being my friend, not a very good person: https://twitter.com/deborianerin/status/1495636848722513920 https://twitter.com/deborianerin/status/1495636848722513920 https://twitter.com/deborianerin/status/1495645190832463872 https://twitter.com/deborianerin/status/1495645190832463872 https://twitter.com/twena/status/1495537875651371012 https://twitter.com/twena/status/1495537875651371012 https://twitter.com/deborianerin/status/1495673397296218113 https://twitter.com/deborianerin/status/1495673397296218113 These tweets were posted today, but those of us that knew him well have known of these issues for years. I have as a point of pride many "problematic" friends; my friendship with someone is not approval of every (or even any) action they undertake in life. I do not approve of this dedication, as Sven was a good example of the kind of people who make the f/oss community worse, not better. We as a community can do much better than explicitly endorsing those who would cause our scene to be unsafe and unwelcoming to young women.
- btittelbach 5y agoSven was always welcome in our hackerspace. We never had any reason to find fault with him. Having known him, I can certainly imagine him hurting for companionship and being awkward about it. Surprise, Sven was an imperfect human, just like everybody else. Personally though I've NEVER observed him behaving in this way and being on the watch for such things, I would surely have talked to him about it. Despite the problems he had to deal with (or choose to ignore ;->) (not talking about the stuff above), he dedicated his life to improve things around him the best way he could see fit. If you had a problem with Sven and were happy enough to not speak up when he was alive, why raise this issue only now that he is dead? We are honouring Sven's contributions so others are inspired to be similarly helpful. It truth this is somewhat independent of Sven as a whole. But by dragging the person he was through the mud, you are not helping anybody or achieving anything for society.
- warmwaffles 5y ago> Sven was my friend. I knew him well. You are a wonderful friend.
- pantulis 5y agoF*ck cancer.
- ahallock 5y agoI've used Vim nearly every day for the last 20 years. Thank you for FOSS. RIP.
- r_singh 5y agoI’m surprised about Sneak’s comment being flagged on here. It’s okay to express your opinion about the person being discussed and add more information to it in general. If VIM is being dedicated to an alleged sexual harasser, I as an interested person is happy to know about this.
- stronglikedan 5y agoI'd say they got flagged because they made a huge accusation without a shred of non-anecdotal evidence.
- r_singh 5y agoWell, I (& they) personally know people who are victims of Sven’s stalker like behaviour / issues / symptoms of a bigger problem I see that a lot of the appreciation posts are also purely anecdotal. So are we contesting whose word has more value here or what anecdotal experience is valid/invalid or appropriate to share?
- herthabroetchen 5y ago
- r_singh 5y agoSomeone very dear to me is a victim of Sven's stalkerish behavior. What behavior? Repeatedly texting / touching girls decades younger than him even after being politely rejected on multiple occasions.
- herthabroetchen 5y agoVery vague. Very, very vague. When did all that happen to the person very dear to you? Here's me asking because I have a hard time imagining how a very frail person on crutches is gonna stalk someone.
- ruhrharry 5y agoHe was well known as an open source evangelist and as a helpful guy. But he was also known as "sexual predator" who harassed young, underaged girls, see https://twitter.com/twena/status/1495537875651371012 https://twitter.com/twena/status/1495537875651371012 I don't know if it is appropriate to make a dedication to someone like this.
- Semaphor 5y agoThe source is some random person on Twitter saying he is? Really?
- ruhrharry 5y agoThere are more, see comment of sneak. A lot of people knew, that he was a "problematic" guy. He was kicked out of a hackerspace in Berlin after he harassed a young girl. The fact that she is still affected by this incident after 10 years shows that this wasn't a minor issue.
- herthabroetchen 5y ago
- Semaphor 5y agoYeah, I saw sneak’s comment afterwards. Despite that being only 2 more people, that was still a far more believable source than this random link.
- gotsa 5y agoDo you knew him? How is it possible that you catalog a person as a "sexual predator" without any proof?
- ruhrharry 5y agoI didn't catalig anyone. Do you know that the quote sign (") stands for quotes?
- zetalemur 5y agoOther HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30410077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30410077
- gotsa 5y agoIt's always humbling to get to know more about the stories behind software I use daily. Having Vim 9 dedicated to his memory is wonderful. Thank you, Sven
- kibwen 5y agoIt's curious to think that, for many of us, the most enduring legacy of our names will be as lines in CONTRIBUTORS.txt and ghostly email addresses buried deep in git histories.
- freedomben 5y agoI think about this occasionally too. When I hear about people dying surrounded by their loved ones I think about whether looking at my git history would give me the same comfort. I doubt it. I'm gonna go give my kids a hug.
- lenalena007 5y agoHello, a other victim of Scen Guckes here. I was harassed by him multiple times while stile underage. I heard of multiple other cases like this. After one incidence which was well observated by other Hackerspace visitors I talked to the club council and they banned them. Shocked to hear, that a vim version is being dedicated for him. :0
- kpjas 5y agoAs a doctor I wouldn't exclude the possibility that his behaviour could be influenced by the growing tumor. Some pathologically agressive individuals who had had a long history of antisocial and criminal behaviour were later found to be genetically determined by a kind of neurotransmitter mutation(s).
- jacquesm 5y agoYes, this crossed my mind as well. I've seen people with brain tumors do some pretty weird stuff, sometimes long before it became apparent they had a tumor. As in: years.
- em-bee 5y agoobituaries: https://martin.leyrer.priv.at/y2022/m02/Remember-Be_more_like_Sven.html https://martin.leyrer.priv.at/y2022/m02/Remember-Be_more_lik... https://sebstein.hpfsc.de/2022/02/21/mach-es-gut-sven-guckes/ https://sebstein.hpfsc.de/2022/02/21/mach-es-gut-sven-guckes... https://www.heise.de/news/Vim-Versteher-und-Kommandozeilenerklaerer-Sven-Guckes-ist-tot-6511004.html https://www.heise.de/news/Vim-Versteher-und-Kommandozeilener...
- em-bee 5y agohttps://quintessenz.at/d/000100038149 https://quintessenz.at/d/000100038149 https://k7r.eu/command-line-tool-lover-and-free-software-enthusiast-sven-guckes-died/ https://k7r.eu/command-line-tool-lover-and-free-software-ent... https://neenster.org/@maltman23/posts/AGgYQ6UpwqKaaKxyHA https://neenster.org/@maltman23/posts/AGgYQ6UpwqKaaKxyHA https://henrikheigl.de/2022/02/22/nachruf-sven-guckes/ https://henrikheigl.de/2022/02/22/nachruf-sven-guckes/