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Here's a few of the previous HN posts about Terry or TempleOS, unfortunately a lot of the links are broken:

Terry's HN account https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TerryADavis

TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16105043

TempleOS is applying to Y Combinator. Partners desired, send an email https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9246855

A Constructive Look at TempleOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9681501

TempleOS: 5 minute random code walkthrough https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349910

Porting third-party programs to TempleOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9843065

TempleOS: FlightSim and FirstPersonShooter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9673554

Mal Lisp for TempleOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15840054

Mega Man for TempleOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13971627

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Voce:motherboard article from 2014 "God's lonely programmer":

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj43x/gods-lonel...

Discussion on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8658283

There is also a channel that someone has mirrored with some of his earlier videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEPEqMr199q3iRTwToIotVA/vid...

I believe that https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS is also one of his HN accounts, with some more recent posts.

I wouldn't necessarily believe it, I've seen many posts on multiple boards on 4chan wherein people claim to make Terry impersonation accounts on HN specifically to troll

Yeah. His Facebook account was hijacked by someone pretending to be him / created a fake account and added Terry's family members.

Lots of fake screenshots are circulating around, so "proofs" by screenshots of emails are doubtful at most.

The guy who admittedly impressioned Terry on social networks is also known for taking money from Terry's PayPal. (Along with at least another guy who manipulated Terry into giving him $200). He said he did all of this "out of concern for Terry" It's the same guy who first claimed Terry's death on twitter.

He's now in damage control and wiping his internet presence after the infinity Chan crowd is trying to link him to the events.

Lot of disinformation around. Some people refuse to believe Terry's death until confirmed by a third party. Some other are spreading FUD and flood with stuff like "he's dead lads. Let's all forget and move on, shall we?" Some are just trolling around falsifying screenshots and "proofs". And some are just derailing threads to pull down any constructive discussion. And in this shitfest, kiwifarm is avoiding the blame and accuse others and whenever someone point a finger at them.

> His Facebook account was hijacked by someone pretending to be him / created a fake account and added Terry's family members

This is one of the things that should be remembered when people say "don't use facebook": if you're not on there and you're a "public figure", even in a very small space, it opens you up for someone else to impersonate you. I know a couple of people who have Facebook presences solely to prevent fraudulent facebook presences from being created for them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos (show dead)

I wondered why TD's comments on HN were so sober!

Well, I didn't have `show dead` on. It's actually really nice that HN has a setting for disabling this filtering.

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