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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 05:08:35 JST Ars Technica

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

   Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • Fubaroque (fubaroque@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 05:55:04 JST Fubaroque

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     @arstechnica Actually it doesn’t keep time, it synchronizes time. 🤭

   • crustyPauper (crustypauper@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 05:59:30 JST crustyPauper

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     @arstechnica sorry fake news, wiki search seemed to need his middle name initial, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills

   • Francis Mangion (M) (franciswashere@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 07:09:13 JST Francis Mangion (M)

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     Dave Mills, inventor of the NPT protocol. #RIP #HailAndFarewell

   • Francis Mangion (M) (franciswashere@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 07:11:32 JST Francis Mangion (M)

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     https://m.blank.org/@memory/111783966091745984

   • margot (margot_is_trying@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 08:09:22 JST margot

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     @arstechnica rest in peace man

   • zvhxxl (zvhxxl@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 09:27:51 JST zvhxxl

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     @arstechnica Condeolances to his kins.

   • Yaksh Bariya (codingthunder@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 11:17:32 JST Yaksh Bariya

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     @arstechnica Mad respect for this guy!

   • Frank Engelhard (frank_engelhard@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 15:24:18 JST Frank Engelhard

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     @arstechnica When you use abbreviations in your announcements, like you and other techies do, you inhibit lay people like me from opening your messages.

   • Tom Hannen (tomhannen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 15:28:39 JST Tom Hannen

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     @arstechnica "The 64-bit value for the fraction is enough to resolve the amount of time it takes a photon to pass an electron at the speed of light. The 64-bit second value is enough to provide unambiguous time representation until the universe goes dim.”
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol

   • nonesuch_user (nonesuch_user@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 17:00:40 JST nonesuch_user

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     @arstechnica and now his clock is stopped. Requiescat in pace.