Blxter to TechnologyEnglish • edit-21 year agoInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up11.01Karrow-down16 cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1999arrow-down1external-linkInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comBlxter to TechnologyEnglish • edit-21 year agomessage-square56fedilink cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareTimeSquirrellinkfedilink164•1 year agoThis 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish53•1 year agoWe didn’t. It has become a stinking pile of layers not even organizations worth hundreds of millions can put together anymore.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish24•1 year agoThose corporations are the ones who push for those layers to make it feel harder for you to do your own thing. Fucking ignore them.
minus-squareAnn ArchylinkEnglish2•edit-21 year agoI thought I was being recruited to the Thieves Guild for a second… Wait. Am I?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•1 year agoOn 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 👌
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoNot fucking it up, it’s already fucked up. The internet is a dumpster fire.
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.
We didn’t. It has become a stinking pile of layers not even organizations worth hundreds of millions can put together anymore.
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.
But they own everything…
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I thought I was being recruited to the Thieves Guild for a second…
Wait. Am I?
We’re already fucking it up. Facebook and Xitter exist.
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 👌
Not fucking it up, it’s already fucked up. The internet is a dumpster fire.
And everyday is getting worse.