Kee Hinckley on Nostr: If you’re an independent software developer, or you run a service people use ...
If you’re an independent software developer, or you run a service people use (including family). Please make plans for what happens to the things you provide if you unexpectedly pass away. Even if it’s just to make sure the service will keep running until they find a new home. (Remember that’s a requirement for people to be able to transfer off a Mastodon server…the old one has to be up for a while.)
I know people who have hired folks, or asked friends to try and crack passwords for a diseased family member. You don’t want family to be stuck in that position. For me right now it’s mainly family. My daughters have admin control of my domains, and my wife has access to the shared password vault (thank you npub12qez4j3dhqgz9nfwnwm437gm8tgmrcvk6qj5yv0g6x7wrkvhksmqyvenlx (npub12qe…enlx)) and knows my primary passwords. Plus Google will give her access to my account if I don’t use it for six months. But if you’re running services for strangers, things get more complicated.
I used to run mail services for some friends, and when I had a house fire I was scrambling to get them back online. And I still feel bad for the folks long before that, for whom my pro-angmar BBS was their primary access to USENET and email. I moved and didn’t make proper plans for transferring people, and on top of that, I didn’t bring the BBS back up.
(There’s a great cartoon I wanted to include here, but I can’t seem to find it. In it someone has approached a family at a gravesite and is saying something like, “I know this is a difficult time, but did they ever mention something about a password?”)
I know people who have hired folks, or asked friends to try and crack passwords for a diseased family member. You don’t want family to be stuck in that position. For me right now it’s mainly family. My daughters have admin control of my domains, and my wife has access to the shared password vault (thank you npub12qez4j3dhqgz9nfwnwm437gm8tgmrcvk6qj5yv0g6x7wrkvhksmqyvenlx (npub12qe…enlx)) and knows my primary passwords. Plus Google will give her access to my account if I don’t use it for six months. But if you’re running services for strangers, things get more complicated.
I used to run mail services for some friends, and when I had a house fire I was scrambling to get them back online. And I still feel bad for the folks long before that, for whom my pro-angmar BBS was their primary access to USENET and email. I moved and didn’t make proper plans for transferring people, and on top of that, I didn’t bring the BBS back up.
(There’s a great cartoon I wanted to include here, but I can’t seem to find it. In it someone has approached a family at a gravesite and is saying something like, “I know this is a difficult time, but did they ever mention something about a password?”)