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Taking control of your digital legacy

A couple of years ago I sat at a close friend's kitchen table together with his wife. He was gone. We spent hours trying to make sense of what he'd left behind online: domains, virtual private servers, source repositories, online accounts, subscriptions, decades of accumulated technologist debris. Most of it made no sense to her, and honestly, plenty of it didn't make much sense to me either. We were grieving, crying and laughing at the same time, while trying to put a lifetime of digital footprint into some kind of order.

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