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Gone Man’s Switch (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by TrainingHighlight790@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Gone Man's Switch is a simple web application that allows you to create messages that will be delivered by email when you are absent (gone) for a certain period, AKA a dead man’s switch.

It is a free self-hosted alternative to deadmansswitch.net. It doesn’t have as many features, but it does the job.

More info in the GitHub repo: https://github.com/jhonderson/gone-man-switch

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[–] mirisbowring@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How long should one configure the „absence“ time? I mean i dont want to click „I am alive“ daily. But also my Family would not want to wait half a year until they get access to our systems. Even 20days or so could be too small. Imagine you have an accident and are in the hospital „Intensivstation“ for this period. You are alive and will survive but cannot „check in“ and therefore the switch would fire

[–] bigboicarlo@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

What could be great here is to have the possibility of a trusted third party to request “early release” - this could then prompt the user for acceptance or not with a shorter time frame. We would however need to make sure this is not abused