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Far Too Young to Die

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 27, 2024

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He seemed to be healthy; he was active in Twitter, hardly at Microsoft's GitHub, so the death was sudden and unexpected (health or young age is not a guarantee of life)

Daniel Bristot de Oliveira's blog was last active a year ago and it's still online, but he himself has just died and there are short tributes outside Microsoft's LinkedIn.

Daniel Casini, an Assistant Professor, said (in Microsoft's LinkedIn) that he "suddenly passed away at the age of 37, probably due to a heart attack."

I don't want to speculate about work-related stress (certainly fatal in Debian's case; he worked for Red Hat, according to this obituary, for over a decade) or the exceptionally high death rates (excess deaths) that include many unforeseen cardiac events which millions attribute to COVID-19 or the barely-tested vaccines (that's hardly a fringe or niche belief). See In Memory of Daniel Bristot de Oliveira or the screenshot below. It's sad that they break the news of the death of a Linux developer in a proprietary Microsoft platform that spies and censors a lot.

It is hard to describe the sadness of this moment. Daniel was both a friend and a colleague. We met in 2016 at the beginning of our PhD, and we continued to collaborate and be friends in our personal lives even after graduation. He was an affiliate member of the RETIS lab of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, and he was still actively publishing papers while being an extremely talented and successful Senior Principal Engineer at RedHat, with many upstream contributions and being also maintainer of several Linux kernel components. He recently bought a house where he was living with his partner, Bianca. Honestly, I would have many things to write about him here, but I don't have the words.

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