Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess it was (••) ( ••)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) his time

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  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is fascinating because I was reading an article specifically concerned with losing his expertise. Let’s see if I can find it.

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• Fixbeat@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What does the p stand for? Surely not protocol that is in the title.

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  • survivalmachine@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a protocol named NTP. If you want to say “the ___ protocol”, you can say “the network time protocol” or “the NTP protocol”. Both are correct, even if the latter is technically redundant. You would sound really weird if you insisted on saying “the NTP”. Let’s not bring the worst parts of reddit to the fediverse. Needlessly pedantic is something we can move beyond.

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, that’s him. Arguably the father of modern computer time.

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  • recursive_recursion@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Network Time Protocol

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow. Sort of feel like the inventor of time just died.

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• sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What I also love about NTP is that its port (123) is open both ways on most networks, even the most locked down ones, so it’s a good place to hide VPN traffic.

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