Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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299 points gastonmorixe | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source

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juliusceasar ◴[12 Nov 25 13:00 UTC] No.45899605[source]▶

I refuse to donate. Trillion dollar companies depend leech on it and yet refuse to spend money on it.

Let it fail and see what happens.

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hosteur ◴[12 Nov 25 13:25 UTC] No.45899843[source]▶

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> Let it fail and see what happens.

It will get replaced by a proprietary protocol/paid service from each Azure, Cloudflare, Google, AWS, ...

The rest of us will be S.O.L.

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1. everforward ◴[12 Nov 25 15:48 UTC] No.45901602[source]▶

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This seems incredibly unlikely. They all want clients to have accurate time, because it underpins things like sessions and TLS certs. It would also almost certainly be trivial to proxy back to regular NTP.

Even if the NTP pool somehow died, all it takes to make your own Stratum 1 NTP service is a GPS chip. An old phone probably makes a great small-scale NTP server, or an ESP32 with a GPS chip attached. 20 years ago it would have required exotic parts, but they're mundane, cheap and omnipresent these days.

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