Your Facebook account when you are dead

true!... the forum.

I think about it every now and then too.

More than anything, I think about the hassle for my loved ones who, in that terrible (? ) moment, must notify my dear friends, even those far away by now, etc..

every now and then I think that there should be a scheme like "uncontrolled fission" with names and phone numbers, at least of those we care about, so they know that we are dead..

The problem, in my opinion, is notifying the "legacy contact" that you have died

Or to ensure that the heir does not die as well...

Since we are on the mournful theme, my concern is what will become of my website.

The heirs do not renew the server subscription and after 30 days all the work of years disappears.

If you write a book, it ends up in a library and even after three centuries someone will be able to find news in it that is interesting to them.

For a website, however, a server technician presses the "Delete" key and a lifetime of passion disappears.

What a terrible thought... actually very distressing... for me too as a user...

In effect Terenzio ...you are absolutely right.

If you write a book that makes sense, I think that even if it ends up in a library, someone will consult it sooner or later.

I would set my hand to the inkwell.

Very lugubrious as a thought, anyway anything can happen; in these cases it is always good to know the site access credentials by heart so that someone else can carry on the work or simply keep everything standing as it is...

The same applies to many other things; for example, the photos that we all take digitally, how many people take the trouble to print the same ones on paper? We limit ourselves to putting them in a computer folder, or making a copy to keep on an external hard disk, even while knowing that we could lose the memories of at least the last 10 years, "adieu" to the images at the sea, of children growing up, etc.. what a great! invention, paper.

Well, thank God now there are cloud services that have backup servers. Losing data there is only possible if the human race is annihilated, and at that point, it makes little sense to talk about data no longer being accessible.

Terenzio wrote:

Since we are on the subject of lugubrious things, my concern is what will become of my website.

The heirs do not renew the server subscription and after 30 days all the work of years disappears.

If you write a book, it ends up in a library and even after three centuries someone might find some information in it that is interesting to them.

For a website, however, a server technician presses the "Delete" key and a lifetime of passion disappears.

It is a website of such interest that it should be supported by a musical foundation! Or one could start a subscription...

Terenzio ... between the lines in another topic I had suggested looking for a collaborator, I clearly share Red's post

Frank wrote:

Terenzio ... between the lines in another topic I had suggested looking for a collaborator, I clearly share Red's post

I had read and ignored your previous advice because, deep down, I am jealous of my site, which is the result of almost ten years of work.

Every now and then I think about a collaborator, but then I wouldn't know how to manage them or where to find them.

It is such a particular and engaging job that it can only be done out of passion.

Anyway, I'll think about it. Maestro Dall'Ongaro, president of Santa Cecilia, has given me a glimpse of the possibility in the future of integrating my site with theirs or entrusting it to the young people gravitating around the orchestra.

We'll see. Anyway, for now, I am moving forward, also because it is an excellent way to spend my retirement.

Recently, the director of the Santa Cecilia Library told me that she envies me because she stays there shuffling paperwork while I do much more interesting research.

My catalogue of Giovanni Sgambati, which did not exist, is becoming a reference for musicologists. To build it, I visited all the libraries in Rome, hunting down manuscripts.

The same goes for the catalogue of Ildebrando Pizzetti.

Terenzio wrote:

I had read and ignored your previous advice because, deep down, I am jealous of my site, which is the result of almost ten years of work.

I imagined you had pretended nothing happened; you are doing the right thing because it is a beautiful creature... but it must "survive" through the centuries (let's say at least as long as there is electricity).

Anyway, I read some interesting possible evolutions from your post.

Today I called the support for the server hosting my site and had the opportunity to speak with the owner of the company.

After examining the technical problems that had prompted my call, I took the opportunity to ask him about the future of the site.

Answer: Simple, when he deems it appropriate, he will pay us 20 years of subscription in advance. After this period, however, the contents of the site will be obsolete.

Hibernation as in America then... the true immortals are the great authors and artists...

Do something that serves humanity and you will earn immortality...

From heart to hearts, right?

Terenzio wrote:

The heirs do not renew the server subscription and after 30 days all the work of years disappears.

If you write a book, it ends up in a library and even after three centuries someone will be able to find something interesting in it for them.

For a website, however, a server technician presses the "Delete" key and a lifetime of passion disappears.

Thinking about it, it is not far from the concept of "rubbish"; a single action that allows everything to be thrown away. Sometimes it happens even when institutions are behind it; clearly, the private world is based on the economic availability of someone who can keep a certain thing alive.

The word "macero" [refuse/rubbish] makes me think that in a distant future, archaeologists equipped with technologies we cannot imagine today will be able to read very old hard drives found in ancient abandoned landfills, even reconstructing parts that had been deleted.

This gives us hope that perhaps not everything will be lost.

After all, today we do this with ancient papyri and dead languages. Why won't they be able to do it with hard drives in the future?

Two considerations Terenzio, paper is physical, hard disk memory depends on electrical power... the worst thing is that paper deteriorates in x years (we have millennial examples), magnetic media deteriorate in y years (manufacturers guarantee ... let's say, 50 years?)

Ha Ha...I think so too Terenzio.