I find "logs off" as a euphemism for passed away to be quite poor, even in the context of someone who contributed to to the computer industry writ large.
The article body looks fine to me; only the headline sounded odd, to my US ears.
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should do then. Pretty obvious on a gravestone.
It smacks of someone trying to be cute but lacking the wit to do so without inducing eye rolls. I couldn't do any better, but I'm also not trying to.
That perfectly sums up the register
"So and so has exited with code 0 and his/her resources have been reclaimed by the system"
A human being is more like an event (a fire, a OS process) than like a persisting object.
Once a process (/fire) has ceased running (/burning), you can start a new process (/fire), but it wouldn't be considered an instance of reviving the old process (/fire), which has ended for good.
Passed on Expired and gone to meet its maker Gone off the twig Kick the bucket Pushing up daisies Shuffled off the mortal coil Run down the curtain Joined the choir invisible
Irreverence has been part of the El Reg reading experience since I can remember. Someone always complains about them writing about "boffins."
I have seen it used when eulogising people that died of natural or medical causes. (And I agree that it's distasteful)