As well as the obvious implications to navigation both at sea and in the air, this is a timely reminder not to rely only on satellite-based signals for network time synchronisation.

More than 1,100 vessels have been hit by GPS interference across the Middle East Gulf since the start of the conflict, according to maritime firm Windward. Experts warn these attacks pose severe risks to navigation and are contributing to the de facto blockade of the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Fun fact: The best way to enable ptp_kvm on #coreos is ensuring the kernel arg ignition.platform.id=qemu is set. Then coreos-platform-chrony-config.service will load ptp_kvm and configure chrony accordingly.
rpm-ostree kargs --replace=ignition.platform.id=qemu
I was wondering why another VM at Ionos had ptp_kvm working without me setting it up. It turned out my Hetzner VM had ignition.platform.id=metal which prevents automatic ptp_kvm setup.
Today I learned: Hetzner supports ptp_kvm for time sync, no ntp servers necessary (although I still have them in my config).
La web impulsada des de la #PTP, i amb un manifest i amb adhesions per a entitats.

A Raspberry Pi 5 GPS Time Disciplined Stratum 1 Time Server with PTP and Realtime Kernel - GitHub - josh-blake/pixie: A Raspberry Pi 5 GPS Time Disciplined Stratum 1 Time Server with PTP and Realt...
TIL: Besides UTC, there also is TAI – Temps Atomics International aka International Atomic Time. And well … TAI currently is UTC +37s 🤯
For other interesting things about time, computer time and time protocols, I highly recommend the talk on PTP from last years #39C3: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-excuse-me-what-precise-time-is-it #ptp #ntp #timeprotocol


TL;DR Introduction I first encountered the chatbot as a normal Eurostar customer while planning a trip. When it opened, it clearly told me that “the answers in this chatbot are generated by AI”, which is good disclosure but immediately raised my curiosity about how it worked and what its limits were. Eurostar publishes a […]
Nur die Richtigkeit der Zeit bringt die Richtigkeit der Realität. Für eine Annäherung dessen bin ich immer zu haben.
Auf dem #39c3 wurde #PTP zur Synchronisation der Video Aufzeichnungen genutzt. #NTP mit mehreren ms Abweichung ist spürbar. Aber im Q&A Teil zweifel ich an, dass unser Gehör und Gehirn im ns Bereich arbeitet. µs Genauigkeit denke ich hier wäre richtig.
Und ab ins Rabbit Hole und zig Webseiten mit abweichender genauer Richtigkeit.
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-excuse-me-what-precise-time-is-it
