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Comment by vbsteven | Hacker News Reader

It’s nice that they built something into the service but I think can this problem can be solved independent of the service.

One of my weekend project ideas is a small deadman-switch service that pings you every X days to press a button, if it hasn’t heard from you in Y days it sends a private key encrypted file and some instructions. Think onetimesecret with a button and a timer.

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https://www.deadmansswitch.net/

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Now the question is: What happens to the DeadMansSwitch service if something were to happen to its maker? It's like we need to form mini multi-generational cults to keep human services like that going for as long as humans keep going until the point they stop.

Uhhh...you mean like, a company?

Yeah, but multi-generational cult sounds way cooler

The research people have been doing into conveying the dangers of nuclear dumps to potentially primitive future peoples is quite fascinating.

Agreed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warn...

In futureLang:

- Hey, we found some hieroglyphs, in better shape than the ones near the pyramids, do you recognise the gods?

- No, but they all seem to say similar things: Don't open or "Calamities" or something. I wonder what their primitives beliefs were based on... Let's dig!

Maybe I should directly apply that language to my post-mortem open source projects:

This repository is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed code is placed here. Nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us.

This sounds like an interesting idea! I’m eager to help any way I can.

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