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Shit. That thing is supposedly hard to understand.

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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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Wow! What an interesting read about someone I’ve never heard of, but whose work has impacted daily life in so many ways. Its amazing how many systems rely on accurately telling time and the intricate solution that NTP is.

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https://archive.is/2fw9A With no paywall. Thanks, what an interesting read!

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Thank you for the link to the interview!

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19 points

Dang. NTP is that, isn’t it

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image magic

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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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Hard to understand but at least there’s multiple implementations other than ntpd, like Chrony and systemd-timesyncd.

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