It is so hilarious to me that we have FOSS maintainers begging for money to try to keep the development of NTP ongoing. NTP - you know, that protocol that the entirety of humanity relies on for access to the internet (or anything on a network for that matter).
Meanwhile the o̶l̶i̶g̶a̶r̶c̶h̶y̶ broligarchy makes billions of the backs of these people.
Anyways, they're currently at $495 of $1000 for their 2025 goal. Go throw them some $ if you feel so inclined.
@k3ym0 @siracusa done — I also signed up for ongoing support of LinuxPTP (which was on $0 for 2025)
This is in case I might (or might not) ever write that book about precision timekeeping, "A Brief History of Time…Keeping"
"from the minute-hand because of the railways"
"to nanosecond blackholes across continents"
It would leverage some incredibly good information I saw on a Web 1.0 site circa 2005, the sort of thing that is long lost, unless I get really lucky on another Wayback Machine dive. I'd have to find fresh references for the science anyway.
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