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- em1sar 3y ago[dead]
- amerine 3y agoIt's always heartbreaking to know parents had to deliver the news of a Childs passing. I hope they find peace and healing someday. Much love Jonathan (Zandar) Mott, you made the internet and the world better than you found it.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- JCharante 3y agoI often wonder how my online friends would find out if I died. In some guilds usually people will go missing for 2 years and then somehow someone hears from their family that they passed away and shares it with the community. I guess I should compile a list of email addresses that my sister should have access to.
- almostnormal 3y agoFor some games there are lists of deceased players, including links to related forum posts or videos. https://vbfbearcats.wixsite.com/memorial https://vbfbearcats.wixsite.com/memorial
- lettergram 3y agoWhile sad and I feel for the family, this is an insane amount of politics on this blog (and post). I say that, not knowing the now deceased blogger and if he was in some way connected to this community or to tech?
- peteforde 3y agoClearly politics was very important to him. Don't be one of those folks who tell comedians to stick to jokes.
- fsckboy 3y agoit's fine to be interested in politics and it's fine to sell tickets. It's fine to buy tickets. But if you bought tickets, what's wrong with telling comedians to stick to jokes?
- potatopatch 3y agoYou are free to stop buying tickets (to this free blog?) Ex-fans can be confused about social debts that don't exists and presumably stem from past transactions.
- amatecha 3y agoIt's an interesting "tech" moment when something like this happens. It's worth pondering the nature of mortality and how the technology we delve into relates to that. Like another commenter said, how will my online acquaintances learn about it if I were to suddenly die unexpectedly? Would it be years? Would a family member manage to make a post or two on various stuff my computers are still signed into? Maybe it's worth planning ahead for, even. Who knows. Definitely an interesting (and sad) thing to see IMO and certainly conjures some thoughts...
- aaron695 3y agoIt's trivial to pull heart strings by posting this stuff. But we've had over two decades of people dying on blogs and social media and it's exploded now in some sort of weird graph with age and usage increasing online. Being so common at this stage it's a fair question, was this person one of our own? Or what in particular about this situation is interesting?
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- ChrisArchitect 3y agoSad. But nice that the dad was able to access a logged in session on the blog to make a post I guess. I ponder how so many of our digital lives (and thus lives in general) would be locked forever should something untimely happen as no one would have access to anything unless we left some sort of giant password log book or mechanism in place.
- LeoPanthera 3y agoIf you are an Apple user, make sure you set up a Legacy Contact for your iCloud account. You can also optionally choose to allow access to your computer with your iCloud credentials, which will give your next of kin access to it. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212360 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212360
- langsoul-com 3y agoI was thinking the only way would be to write the master password and phone lock code in our will. That's really the only mechanism we have to reliability transmit information post death yeah?
- toomuchtodo 3y agoYou can also print out your passwords and keep them with you end of life documents, depending on how often you change passwords if at all.
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- S201 3y agoTangential: A few years ago a coworker of mine suddenly died in a tragic accident at way too young of an age. Every once and a while when I see his name pop up in a git blame from code written many years ago I'll click into his GitHub profile as it is frozen in time now. For the first year the worst part of this was watching the green contributions squares slowly retreat to the left until the wall was solid grey. It makes me wonder how long all of our online presences will remain after we're gone. Personal blogs/websites will go down and large companies like GitHub & social media will yield to newer competitors. Archive.org is probably the longest living publicly available archive of these profiles but who knows how long that will exist for either. Like countless other human lives, at some point there will be no evidence left that we were even here at all. "All those [profiles] will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
- amatecha 3y agoYeah, we had a colleague pass unusually young due to cancer. It was very sad. I saw his name in git blame or various JIRA tickets etc. for years. I'd always take the time to think about him and our time working together. It absolutely affected how I see work and how I value my time (especially since I later had a couple long-time friends die unusually young, too).
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoThere's so much social media skepticism that burns what happens online, that sweepingly categorizes all the effort as bad or pointless or negative. And yeah, so much is whatever. But man, we each carry a little light. And these records, these pasts, they - to me - mean something. Code commits or comments; they are some kind of testament I forget what it was but yesterday I think there was a nice submission where the author was saying even lack of evidence or failing is evidence. They were saying that just because theirnefforts didn't pan out as expected, doesn't mean they aren't informative pieces. Letting time in, letting us figure out long terms what values & lessons there are... I think that respectful & aweful ability to regard each other without moving to ill judgement is enormous. When people are gone it just becomes so obvious how much the world loses from that active actor trailing off.
- jemmyw 3y ago
- amatecha 3y agoSomething similar happened when an buddy of mine died. I think it was his mom who posted on his LiveJournal... hard to remember, that was a long time ago (considering what platform the post was on, haha) ... It was jarring to see what I thought was a post from him, which was uhhh.. well... not. Even more jarring as I read on. Sad stuff. I'm glad there was even such a way to hear about it though. There's no way his family would have gone through and emailed all his contacts or anything.
- lencastre 3y agoThings like this remind of Get Your Shit Together…
- ideamotor 3y agoThe world needs more people like Jonathan David Mott.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI just find online events of this sort -- the announcement of a death, the nice words that typically follow -- a reminder of how awful we can be to each other while we still draw breath. Like you have to die before anyone can stop being awful to you. Many years ago, I was part of an online community and some guy died who had been mistreated and banned and they were like "We shall reinstate his account and do this other thing to memorialize him" and I just felt like "Wow, this guy was supposedly your friend. You couldn't have been nicer to him while he was still alive?" In that case, he committed suicide. I couldn't help but feel like he could have still been alive if they had been nice while he still drew breath and it just infuriated me.
- greenyoda 3y agoThe obituary referred to in this post can be found here: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/hickoryrecord/name/jonathan-mott-obituary?id=53606951 https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/hickoryrecord/name/jona...
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- 0xbadc0de5 3y agoI took the time to read it. I had never heard of him, and likely would not have shared many of his viewpoints, but my sympathy goes out to his family and loved ones.
- gymbeaux 3y agoIf you’re not already aware, I encourage you to read about the bills that governors in Florida and Texas have been creating and passing. I think it challenges anybody (willing to accept that challenge) to choose between identifying as a made-up label and identifying as a human being. The “what” may not be particularly concerning, but the “how” and the “why” probably should raise some eyebrows.
- taxicabjesus 3y agoSame. He was certainly passionate about his politics. Condolences to the friends and family. (NTS: post on Sept. 21, 2023).
- 4ggr0 3y agoA bit off-topic - Reminds me of when I first stumbled upon Shamus Young's blog [1]. Someone on HN linked to it, and due to me being a gamer I was immediately hooked. For the next couple of days I read every article which sounded intriguing and was really happy to finally find a blog which interests me. But during all of this browsing I never visited the front-page. When I did, I saw the announcement about his death. Turns out he died a month before I found his blog. So far that has been the most tragic death of a person I don't know personally, just because it was so abrupt and eerie. RIP Jon, and Shamus. [1] https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/ https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/
- striking 3y agoI remember reading his blog article by article for hours as a kid. I had always wanted to do procgen and other game dev stuff, but never felt like it was accessible enough to approach until I found his step by step series detailing how he built his games and experiments. And all of the thoughts about what makes a game fun or what makes a game a game, the idea that games could be made better by taking a critical look at their stories and their systems and the way those interact, left a deep mark on me and the way I think about experiencing and making games too. I haven't read his blog in years but to find out he's gone is crushing.
- 4ggr0 3y agoYes, he died in June of last year[1]. It seems like his family is running the blog etc. now[2]. [1] https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=54513 https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=54513 [2] https://www.patreon.com/posts/finally-news-85529959 https://www.patreon.com/posts/finally-news-85529959
- mikrotikker 3y agoSimilarly I watched all of stobe the hobos yt vids up until current before I found out he had died.
- qweqweqwe1 3y agowho is this?
- RickJWagner 3y ago[flagged]
- zarzavat 3y agoA reminder to write down your passwords, if your want your family members to be able to access your devices in the event of your untimely end. Also a reminder to not write down your passwords if you don’t want your family members to be able to access your devices. Perhaps just have one device for family photos, and one device for Japanese tentacle porn.
- aio2 3y agoThat's oddly specific.
- alan-crowe 3y agoor cloakatively clichéd.
- ctur 3y agoFor those thinking about lessons to take from this, check out the EOL DR checklist: https://github.com/potatoqualitee/eol-dr https://github.com/potatoqualitee/eol-dr
- zingababba 3y agoReminds me of fight club, in death he has a name.
- WentFullRetard 3y ago[dead]
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoto the end