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> the project is essentially fraudulent Even if it's not, ESR is involved so it's not serious.
So, I understand first hand ESR might be a little, uh, eccentric, when dealing with humans. But it seems that his nerding, taken by itself, is pretty solid. Is that not the case?
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> the project is essentially fraudulent Even if it's not, ESR is involved so it's not serious.
So, I understand first hand ESR might be a little, uh, eccentric, when dealing with humans. But it seems that his nerding, taken by itself, is pretty solid. Is that not the case?
That’s not to say that his open source projects aren’t useful, only that there are thousands of other developers who’ve done work of similar scale and adoption.
This was submitted with a title that doesn’t match the page and is not even accurste (Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up) is not correct. This donation page is not for the public NTP pool. It’s for the NTP Project organization and their web page. All of the angry comments from people who think NTP will stop working if the donation bar doesn’t get to $1000 are misinformed. Also note that the bar isn’t upda…
This was submitted with a title that doesn’t match the page and is not even accurste (Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up) is not correct. This donation page is not for the public NTP pool. It’s for the NTP Project organization and their web page. All of the angry comments from people who think NTP will stop working if the donation bar doesn’t get to $1000 are misinformed. Also note that the bar isn’t upda…
Oh wow. I’m sorry. I should have done more due diligence and a better title.
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Oh wow. I’m sorry. I should have done more due diligence and a better title.
for the record: it was 300$ of 1k when I saw this site. 12h later it changed to 11k?? what happened no idea.
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I think maybe the title of this topic post is the main source of misinformation.
It’s definitely the title. The title is a plain and simple lie.
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It is kind of vague IMO. Especially since most of the actual NTP infrastructure is run by governments, universities, and companies. https://gist.github.com/mutin-sa/eea1c396b1e610a2da1e5550d94... But..it's $1k. This is basically pocket change on an institutional level. I've been part of some very scrappy and poorly funded community organizations and even they took in more than $1k every year. Even if you don't believ…
We're talking about $1000. In context i would assume its their hosting bill. I can't imagine its much more than that if we are talking about such a small sum.
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Turn what off?
Time itself maybe, I know I could use with a little bit of a pause.
It was like a vacation for our heads.
Not sure how, but a yearly "lockdown vacation" would be a Good Thing for our cities (IMNSHO).
I tried to donate, but apparently I am not human: > 1 error prohibited this submission from being saved: > Looks like you are not a human Good to know.
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Even a single highly paid employee of a FAANG, many of whom frequent this very forum, could pay for a year without breaking the bank.
100% true, but they shouldn't have to. If FAANG is using it, they should fund it. I don't want to work in a culture where the employees pay for the corporations' tools.