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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85(arstechnica.com)

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Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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Shit. That thing is supposedly hard to understand.

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noughtnaut@lemmy.world
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Very. And he was going blind, too. I read a marvellous interview with him not too long ago, I’ll see if I can find it.

Ah, here it is: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time

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Dragster39@feddit.de
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Thank you for the link to the interview!

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owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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Dang. NTP is that, isn’t it

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orrk@lemmy.world
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image magic

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PlexSheep@feddit.de
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The Internet would not collapse without images. Usability would be bad in many cases, but it would still work. Now imagine your clients don’t know the time and cannot verify if a certificate is still valid?

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