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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] PlexSheep@feddit.de 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The Internet would not collapse without images. Usability would be bad in many cases, but it would still work. Now imagine your clients don't know the time and cannot verify if a certificate is still valid?

[โ€“] anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I don't know the time right now and I barely function.