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The project has been hungry for years. There was a fork to clean up and secure the implementation: https://ntpsec.org and ideally they would combine forces. Summarized here: https://lwn.net/Articles/713901
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.
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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Why is research into the protocol useful. Isn't it done?
We keep coming up with new ways to use it: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20240011919
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.
For example, OpenSSH. Used everywhere yet IBM gives a big fat 0 to that project even though OpenSSH is even used in AIX. Even though I love to complain about Microsoft, M/S does donate a decent amount to OpenSSH via OpenBSD, so M/S gets my respect for doing that.
Time companies like IBM steps up and give, if not, we are back to playing with CMOS date/time. Which is how things were when I started programing at a large company decades ago.
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.
> 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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> 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.
It would be so much cheaper for the companies to support this than out their own solution
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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Bots use sites like this to validate lists of stolen cards with low dollar donations to validate the cards before using them on the target site. Without some one of protection sites like these are quickly flooded with fraudulent transactions and then fined and shut down by Visa and Mastercard.
This sounds like a problem where cryptocurrency could actually be the solution. Next time I want to make a charitable donation I will ask for an XMR address to preserve my privacy and work around commercial payment processor issues.