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> Pushing a hostile fork of a popular project, raising money for it, and then abandoning the codebase entirely for a rewrite takes a "special" kind of chutzpah. Now you're just str…

Here you're blatantly accusing ESR of fraud, which per you "requires an active intent to acquire something of value through misrepresentation", to wit, soliciting money for "attach…

Accusing ESR and the rest of the NTPsec project of fraud is a very serious claim. Could you explain in more detail why contemplating rewriting of most or all of the project in Go a…

This is merely a list of the "critical Internet services or libraries" that he claims in one way or another, and ensuring the maintenance of such software is part of the whole thes…

> The key idea: that he is an ILBP (or has been in 10 years) is absurd. He is not.... This attitude denies support to projects like NTPsec, for which he's the technical lead, your …

I'll repeat the claim from the NTPsec project page: > GPSD has billions of deployments in Android smartphones world wide and is a mission-critical component in most of the world’s …

NTPsec aspires to be "Internet Load Bearing Software".

A perfectly cromulent reply, you're welcome. :-)

Who just happens to be the tech lead to a partial answer to this problem: http://ntpsec.org/ Which implicitly criticizes the reference implementation.

Second item from the top: > gpsd > gpsd is a service daemon that monitors a GPS attached to a serial or USB port, decodes the position/velocity/time information it sends, and repub…

People who follow his blog will be familiar with at least some of the following: http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html Some distance down the list is reposurgeon, which has been u…

What generation of tape technology exhibited the problems you describe? I've never suffered such problems with original 1/2 mag tapes, DDS, or LTO. BD-XL is wildly more expensive t…

And Soma wouldn't be useful in pacifying a population if it induced tolerance in a few weeks like Xanax and the other GABA influencing drugs do.

You can't disconnect that bit of Newspeak from what really happened, a hostile takeover of the Navy Department by the Army and Air Force that previously comprised the War Departmen…

Realistically, companies keep making older generation tape drives for a long time, for example, HP LTO-5 drives are still widely available from normal vendors like Newegg. And exce…

> Backblaze's system architecture is fairly failure tolerant, so they use a huge number of "consumer" grade drives that would cause enterprise people to run away screaming. I think…

From previous reading, both are banned, Fuji recently: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/31/lto_patent_case_hit... (Although previously I remember it was Sony that declined to …

The Intel Atom C2000 product family had a terrible problem which would brick systems, see for example https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-failure-atom-pro... or https://www…

Officially, Intel says 10nm has lithography problems. They did try a more aggressive node than TSMC's first "7nm", entirely using 193nm UV, and were the only company to attempt Sel…

The number of calories lower class Indians are consuming is dropping , which your link has got to in part be reflecting. It's a mess.

EUV is in production today with Samsung and TSMC's "7nm" processes, and the latter has started "5nm" risk production which uses even more EUV. Here's a recent SemiWiki article on d…

As I recall it's for Day, because there's also H-hour for the time of the day to start, per Oxford Dictionaries "the time of day at which an attack, landing, or other military oper…

If I was the Taiwanese leadership, I'd make it very clear we'd prepositioned enough explosives that in a matter of hours all the top fabs and the like could be turned into junk, de…

> In case of soviet space program, this worked too, soviets had a lot of success, only the american program was more successful in the later years. A lot of that had to do with Ame…