Thank you, yes, he had. He simply died from age-related exhaustion and - thank god - it went relatively fast, about 2 weeks in hospital and the last 3 days at home…
I admire anybody that value truth more than their feelings and admit that truth is not relative, that’s a pretty low standard but this is the world we live in today.
A while back, I made a script to detect username changes. Only a few people ever changed their usernames, and it was mostly small changes like going from “DBCstm” to “DB Custom”. But one guy stood out, because he alone accounted for more than half of all username changes in the site’s entire history. And that … was Darryl.
List of usernames logged for old-site UID 6002, in chronological order:
Darryl
neutralwhite
zebrastripes
hdssystemsdy
hds_systems_dy
Prometheus_Lights_DY
elzetta_dy
hcri
ZFL-M60
HDS Systems
HCRI9080
optosolis
malkoffdevices
virencelights
I haven’t run the script since 2019 though, and it doesn’t support the new site. All the UIDs changed during migration, so it would be even harder to track now. Plus, the new site doesn’t have a feature the old site had, where the user’s post history showed the past username for each post.
If I recall correctly, I made the script because the owner of Virence Lights (really nice guy, BTW) didn’t like having a random person use that name. People thought it was the company’s official account, and this caused problems. So I did some digging and found way more than I expected. And then I think sb adopted a slightly stricter policy for username changes.
Of course, all that is probably out the window on the new site.
Oh it shouldn’t be that interesting. Someone just made a post that I happen to have a little insight to. Doesn’t really matter to me. Someone was just curious as to what happen to someone. Thought I’d shed some light on it. It’s not real difficult to put that info together.
And I’m not speculating. I can actually prove it. But, I won’t here. Not the time nor the place. Plus I don’t care. Figured it was common knowledge to anyone who’s been around a while. People change who they appear to be for many reasons.
I admire someone who knows the difference between Fact & Speculation.
One who speaks Truth & can back it up with Fact.
A person such as this is unshakable.
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speculate - form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence.
fact - a thing that is known or proved to be true.
“I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.”
—Thomas Jefferson