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I wish when accepting donations, websites would stop caching the total collected amount or give it a super short TTL. I like to see the little progress bar get closer to the goal thanks to my couple of bucks.
Though they could fake it: take the current cleared total and add your amount for your display.
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Why is research into the protocol useful. Isn't it done?
The project isn't about research it's about creating a reference implementation
Research is put front and centre in their pitch for funding.
It's sad that a project that literally every company in the world depends on is requiring donations to keep working.
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It's not really clear why they need this money either?
> It's not really clear why they need this money either? Really? The sentence at the top of the Donate page seems pretty clear to me: > Your donation helps Network Time Foundation maintain the NTP website and provide resources and support to NTP developers. Is it unclear to you?
and $1000 seems at the same time to be quite a bit of money, but also too little to be for funding people long term.
I am surprised that NTP project is not funded, fully or partially, by larger organizations or governments, given the criticality of the project.
Notably NTPd doesn't support leap-smear, which means those who absolutely must have monotonic time can't use it at all.
I donated an amount but the bar didn't move and is at the same level($395) as before my donation
That seems very low for such a high profile site/project I donated an amount but the bar didn't move and is at the same level($395) as before my donation
That seems very low for such a high profile site/project I donated an amount but the bar didn't move and is at the same level($395) as before my donation
If you follow the "Foundations work" link at the bottom, you're taken to another page that shows $4,675 of $11,000 November goal.
I am surprised that NTP project is not funded, fully or partially, by larger organizations or governments, given the criticality of the project.
The reference implementation, while historically important, has largely been displaced by more secure/performant implementations (ntpsec, chrony), or by in-house implementations (Amazon, Google). Notably NTPd doesn't support leap-smear, which means those who absolutely must have monotonic time can't use it at all.
... shouldn’t be using a Unix timestamp, or anything else that’s not a count of SI seconds elapsed since a fixed reference point, to begin with.