Blxter to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-25 months agoInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up11K cross-posted to: computerhistory@lemmy.capebreton.socialprogramming@lemmy.mlinformatica@feddit.ittechnology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmit.onlinetechnology@beehaw.org
arrow-up11Kexternal-linkInventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85arstechnica.comBlxter to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-25 months agomessage-square56fedilink cross-posted to: computerhistory@lemmy.capebreton.socialprogramming@lemmy.mlinformatica@feddit.ittechnology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmit.onlinetechnology@beehaw.org
minus-squareTimeSquirrellinkfedilink164•5 months 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@MonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglish53•5 months agoWe didn’t. It has become a stinking pile of layers not even organizations worth hundreds of millions can put together anymore.
minus-square@4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish24•5 months 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 ArchylinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-25 months agoI thought I was being recruited to the Thieves Guild for a second… Wait. Am I?
minus-square@db2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish48•5 months agoWe’re already fucking it up. Facebook and Xitter exist.
minus-square@Bogasse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish17•5 months 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@pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglish10•5 months 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.