@k3ym0 The image features a webpage for the Mills-Spring Fund, established in 2024 to honor David L. Mills, an Internet Pioneer and architect of the Network Time Protocol. The page includes a header with the fund's name and a description of its purpose. Below the header, there is a prominent image of a futuristic clock tower surrounded by a vibrant sky and flying vehicles, symbolizing the fund's connection to timekeeping and technology. The main section of the page contains a donation form with options to choose a gift amount, including $10, $25, $50, and a custom amount. The form also includes fields for the donor's name, email, and address, with placeholders provided for each field. The form is designed to facilitate donations to the Mills-Spring Fund, supporting the development and maintenance of open-source timekeeping protocols used by billions of users.

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I'm assuming ongoing development is just timezone changes?

OR are we destined to follow DNS and have stupid shit like NTPoverHTTPS in the future?

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I think they stretch goaled it. Now at $2925/$8000. I threw them some money.

@k3ym0 Corporate America basically only responds to crises, real or imagined.

So if they want the companies that benefit from NTP to get their wallets out, they need to have a crisis. It can't just be "please let's prevent this bad thing"—if stuff like that worked, we wouldn't be staring down the barrel of global warming—it needs to be "THE INTERNET DIES TOMORROW UNLESS..."

Then the gears will turn.

Capitalism doesn't respond to pleas, it responds to threats.

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Done.

@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.