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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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[–] [email protected] 164 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is it. The original pioneers of the net are starting to leave us. I hope we can take care of their baby as well as they did.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We didn't. It has become a stinking pile of layers not even organizations worth hundreds of millions can put together anymore.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Those corporations are the ones who push for those layers to make it feel harder for you to do your own thing.

Fucking ignore them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But they own everything...

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We're already fucking it up. Facebook and Xitter exist.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

On a more positive note, Facebook and XFormerlyKnowAsTwitter are not essential parts of the internet. You can choose to not use or care about them. It is much harder to not use NTP, and it's great that it is an open and comprehensible standard 👌

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not fucking it up, it's already fucked up. The internet is a dumpster fire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

And everyday is getting worse.