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Perhaps the next-of-kin can even volunteer to take absent Monk's place and continue the divine work?

Oh no! Most of my family thinks that WhatsApp is the best chat app for your privacy and security problems don't happen because they run Windows. Giving them write access to my source code (or to that of the monastery) would be an astonishingly bad move, second only to inviting Kim Jong Un to run your workers union.

I mean, i love my family and i'm perfectly fine if you want to do this experiment. Just make doubly sure i *really* have passed of before you start, i want to be safely on the other side of the (barred) pearly gates before the fit hits the shan...

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Re^5: RFC: Add profile field "emergency contact" or such like as
by jdporter (Paladin) on Dec 01, 2023 at 16:28 UTC

    I recognize that your comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek, but to the extent that it wasn't:

    Nothing in this proposal affects who can log in. Essentially, if you were unexpectedly gone for a year or something and another monk was worried about you, we (the admins) would have a way to reach out to "someone" and ask if you're OK.

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Re^5: RFC: Add profile field "emergency contact" or such like as
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 01, 2023 at 13:59 UTC
    A post mortem forwarding service may be the next big business opportunity.

    Something like:

    Make sure your widow can reply to all messages from your drink buddies, while bills from porn sites are automatically deleted.

    Triggered after your mobile stopped recording your breath for a week ...

    (hmm ... /me in anticipation of "Google RIP", "Meta Death" and "iGrave" to hit the market soon 🤔)

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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      I guess the PM version would be something like "PerlMonks: Season 2"

      I look at these things with humor, in the spirit of Monty Python: "Always look on the bright side of death"

      (german language joke follows) Oder halt, wie mans aus den Bauernregeln kennt: "Stirbt da Bauer im Oktober, braucht er im Winter kan Pullover. Stirbt der Bauer früh im Mai, wird a Fremdenzimmer frei."(*)

      Plus, the moment you find a way to live forever, the government will decide that it might as well tax you forever.

      (*) Explanation for people not familiar with the German language and the Austrian culture:

      A "Bauernregel" is an easily remembered rule, usually for farming that is designed to remember when to sow what, etc. I think the english version is something like a "weather proverb". These are joke versions(**) of these types of rules; roughly translated: "If the farmer dies in october, he wont need a sweater for winter. If the farmer dies in may, another guestroom is available for renting out."

      (**) Let's construct a basic one that sort of works in German and in English. The only thing to culturally understand is that in German speaking countries, the last day of the year is called "Silvester". So you can say (in german) "Ists zu Silvester hell und klar, ist am nächsten Tag Neujahr", which translates nearly 1:1 to english: "If on Silvester the weather, it is nice and clear, the next day is New Years".(***)

      (***) The joke here is that it is undefined what happens if you run into foul weather. New Years might happen anyway. Or you might have to continue with December 32nd...

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Re^5: RFC: Add profile field "emergency contact" or such like as
by bliako (Abbot) on Dec 01, 2023 at 12:38 UTC

    lol

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