We’re negative doomscrollers, true. But most people seem pretty polite, at least in my experience.

This. There has been a huge investment in the tooling around JS. Using TypeScript, you get the benefit of that ecosystem with a decent language.

It isn’t perfect, but it’s perfectly cromulent.

Take a look at the global feed. Subscribe to what you like. Eventually you’ll have enough.

I only heard Coast to Coast a few times. The first couple of times I thought it was some kind of radio play (like the ones they used to play late on CBC) or art project. When I realized the callers were sincere, it just seemed sad.

We’re all here for entertainment. This isn’t news or information about the real world, it’s a hypothetical that’s asking for your advice.

If it’s fake, it’s a fun thought experiment.

If it’s real, it’s a fun thought experiment.

You can choose to

1. participate, thereby strengthening our community.

2. ignore it, having no positive or negative effect on our community.

3. shit on it, thereby weakening our community.

Dude has probably been planning it for months.

There’s also laziness. Until recently I didn’t care about a will because I didn’t have dependents or assets.

My older relatives have taken the appropriate steps: created wills, had discussions with their families about what is to be done after their deaths, paid for funerals, and arranged interment.

As are mortgages, car loans, and insurance.

The funeral home that handled my relative’s death runs regular grief counseling sessions. They mailed me reminders about them near holidays. I didn’t go, but I appreciate the service.

This may depend on jurisdiction. Joint accounts were not frozen in my case. A death certificate was only required to remove the deceased party from the accounts.

What happens if your partner sets up your home network and TV subscriptions and their email account is locked because you’re not the account holder.

In my case I was able to present the death certificate to the providers and the accounts were quickly closed, with the appropriate billing and hardware returns. It was no more inconvenient than a normal return.

I was fortunate. The deceased planned ahead and did all of the things I haven’t done: arranging a funeral and burial, keeping their will up to date, writing down their usernames/passwords, and making the appropriate joint bank accounts.

This is repeated across every single aspect of modern life. Your robot vacuum cleaner is linked to a single person, as are your IoT lightbulbs. It’s absurd.

My experience was with established services in mature sectors: they have procedures for dealing with deceased customers’ accounts. It was relatively convenient, even at a really shitty time.

None of that is easy, convenient or handled.

Why not?

Newer services don’t have that institutional experience. They haven’t existed long enough. But they’re starting to: Facebook has the concept of deceased users. As time goes on, more “new” services will as well.

Can you provide examples?

From what I’ve seen in Canada, death is handled like a standard event:

• Most businesses, banks, and government services have fast and convenient closing out paths when someone dies. In most cases a single phonecall/visit is enough to close an account and get the appropriate statements.

• Lawyers follow an established path when handling wills. Unless there’s contention, it’s pretty easy to “finish” the will.

• Funeral homes do an excellent job at handling the deceased’s body, providing grief counseling, running the funeral, and ensuring the cemetery accepts the remains. So long as it’s preplanned, the family and friends just need to show up.

• Government policy around executing a will is generally easy to understand and work with.

• Banks will act as executors. I’m not sure if they do a good job, but it’s relatively inexpensive.

• Health care providers do not try to prolong life for the elderly. From what I’ve seen, they are quick to prescribe end of life care.

• Palliative care is handled by empathic and helpful professionals. There could be improvements in grief counseling.

• My social group was empathic and caring. Family helped as much as possible, as did friends. I doubt this is true for everyone.

What else are you referring to, OP?

My machine is not a workhorse. I got it second hand. It has around 8gb of RAM, and an 80gb HDD I found in a laptop.

But it’s enough to work as a testbed, so it’s fine with me.

I’ve finally powered on a 15 year old machine to run a bot I’ve been writing. The thing is slow as dirt and stuck behind a flakey power line network, but it’s working. I got to write my first systemd service definition, which is kind of cool.

just one little drop

1. Read the global feed. There’s lots of content if you spread the net wide.

2. Block annoying posters and communities.

3. Be nice to other lemmites.

I had an elderly relative say something similar to me in the early 90s. We aren’t special. People have felt this way forever.

I’m not optimistic about the future, but I don’t think things will necessarily be that bad. Looking at child mortality rates alone, you could say that we’re leaving in a golden age. There’s a lot that’s wrong, but there’s a lot that’s okay too.

I’m a reformed Sync user. Nothing. I guess you can cross post from other clients. But that’s not really a loss.

That just makes the rerecapture all the more glorious.

Does blocking work?