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Why not just turn it off and say we need money to turn it in again?
by seb1204 11mo ago
Why not just turn it off and say we need money to turn it in again?
- ramon156 11mo agoTurn what off?
- bilekas 11mo agoTime itself maybe, I know I could use with a little bit of a pause.
- baq 11mo agoReturn to the basement now. No escape.
- rswail 11mo agoI really enjoyed the first part (say 2-3 weeks) of COVID lockdowns, we had the longest in the world here and it got pretty old by the end of it, but the first few weeks, no traffic, no noise, quiet city. 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).
- theblazehen 11mo agopool.ntp.org dns resolution and any servers that they control, presumably
- rnijveld 11mo agoThe ntp pool is actually independently run and funded and has nothing to do with the NTPd implementation nor the NTP Foundation, other than them allowing the pool to use that DNS name.
- onion2k 11mo agoThat might work, but the second order effect would probably be companies trying to do the work of time synchronisation themselves in case it happened again. That would lead to fragmentation and incompatibility.
- Aurornis 11mo agoThe cloud providers already use their own NTP infrastructure. Much of it is public and you can use it for free, too.