Blxter@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agoInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comBlxter@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoShit. That thing is supposedly hard to understand.
minus-squarenoughtnaut@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-29 months agoVery. 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
minus-squareDragster39@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoThank you for the link to the interview!
minus-squareowenfromcanada@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoDang. NTP is that, isn’t it
minus-squarePlexSheep@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoThe 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?
Shit. That thing is supposedly hard to understand.
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
Thank you for the link to the interview!
Dang. NTP is that, isn’t it
image magic
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?