Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Eric S. Raymond
groups, shouldn’t that same > principal apply to platforms like AWS and Twitter? Yes, it would. This was an astonnishingly stupid move on AWS's part; I'm prett sure their counsel was not conmsulted. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Time and Timing Servers

2019-07-11 Thread Eric S. Raymond
server-howto/ No need for expensive proprietary hardware. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
oe ary least a good hard whack - at one set of systemic problems. Now we get to deal with the problems that come from the solution. That's what I'm trying to do. You know how to help. Take the Loadsharers pleadge and spread the word. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: OFFTRACK - Re: 1st Linux Distro [was:Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure]

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Eric S. Raymond : > Miles Fidelman : > > Now, if you mean, the oldest EXTANT distribution, that WOULD be Slackware. > > I will revise appropriately. And ask my informants some pointed questions. > > This is, by tge why, an exemplar of why LBIP evaluation should be > cr

Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: OFFTRACK - Re: 1st Linux Distro [was:Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure]

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
No other single person or smal;l panel of expes could either. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Chris Adams : > Once upon a time, Eric S. Raymond said: > > Tell it to Patrick Volkerding, who sweated to created the first Linux > > distribution > > No, he didn't. Can you be more specific? Are we possibly having some definitional issue about what constitutes a

Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
itlab repository I use for the main loadsharers page and FAQ, with the same toolchain for making the HTML. Which is, in case anyone didn't recognize it, asciidoc. With a Gitlab CI job rendering to GitLab pages and a custom domain. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
m. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mehmet Akcin : > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 08:41 Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > The members of this list are, I think, much more aware tham most that > > a lot of critical Internet software is maintained by unfunded > > volunteers, and of the systemic risks that result from t

Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
it. I see that Matt Harris had the same thought. There is no one list, by design. That would be a single point of failure. Each adviser keeps his or her own list. Loadsharers choose which advisers to pay attention to. Didn't anyone actually read the webpage? -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
fail. Above that point, when you fail to compensate your people adequately, you lose them. They bail out or they burn out. Altrustic drive can postpone that reckoning, but not prevent it. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
do is earmark some number of K$ per month for the job, then choose experts from among their employees to put it into Loadsharers, possibly acting as advisers to attract more money to the things they can make a case are important. > Hope your ankle's feeling better soon! Thank you, it seems to be healing nicely. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

2019-06-27 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ere to take the pledge and spread the word in technical communities where they have influence. But beyond that, there are several members of this list who are clearly qualified to join as advisers. We're going to need that as the Loadsharers network scales up. -- http://www.cat

Re: Cost effective time servers

2019-06-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
x27;t too bad, actually. Unacceptable if you're doing pgysics experiments but an order of magitude below the expected accuracy of WAN time synchronization. That said, my recipe *is* better. And a fun, simple, dirt-cheap build. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: NTP for ASBRs?

2019-05-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
close. Relevant link: https://www.ntpsec.org/white-papers/stratum-1-microserver-howto/ It would be delightful to add a WWVB radio version of the build to that document. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: NTP for ASBRs?

2019-05-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
get high-precision time from WWBV. Anybody know of anything fitting that description that you might want to deploy in a data center as a Stratum 1? If such a creature exists I shall contrive to get my lunch hooks on one and write a driver for it. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: NTP question

2019-05-06 Thread Eric S. Raymond
-howto/ -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: NTP question

2019-05-06 Thread Eric S. Raymond
windowsill above my desk - they're my test fleet for NTPsec. The trees near the outside of that window aren't a problem, and while it isn't *guaraneed* that you have a 4-satellite lock at any ven time periods of no tracking tend to be short. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: NTP question

2019-05-06 Thread Eric S. Raymond
. The modulation of the subsecond part of the WWVB signal changed in 2012. If your clock is older than that, the best it can still do is pick up the low-precision per-second tick. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: GPS rollover

2019-03-11 Thread Eric S. Raymond
e unpredictable number of weeks later. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: https://icei.org Please visit their site and donate: the civilization you save might be your own.

Re: NTP problems/time.windows.com?

2017-04-03 Thread Eric S. Raymond
erent failure modes at once. Dunno. One of our NTPsec devs posted the link on one of our project channels and suggested maybe we ought to call M$ with an offer of help... -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Please consider contributing to my Patreon page at https:

Re: Spitballing IoT Security

2016-10-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Ronald F. Guilmette : > > In message <20161030044342.ga18...@thyrsus.com>, > "Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > > >Ronald F. Guilmette : > >> Two kids with a modest amount of knowledge > >> and a lot of time on their hands c

Re: Spitballing IoT Security

2016-10-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
everal attacks a *day*. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Spitballing IoT Security

2016-10-29 Thread Eric S. Raymond
fairly distant second. Me, I think this fits the profile of a PLA probing attack perfectly. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Yet another NTP security bug we fixed before the CVE issued

2016-10-28 Thread Eric S. Raymond
embers) enough to join forces with us when we were trying to avoid a fork, rather than fighting us and forcing one to happen. Your choice, your consequences. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Yet another NTP security bug we fixed before the CVE issued

2016-10-28 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ror in the timestamp handling. On past performance, there'll be about a 75% chance each that we've pre-fixed the other new security bugs. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Spitballing IoT Security

2016-10-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
good idea and I am officially adopting it as part of the Evil Master Plan for World Domination. :-) I may recruit you to help draft the RFC. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Spitballing IoT Security

2016-10-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ware rate-limit outbound connections. Cute trick: if we unlimit any local IP address that is a port-forwarding target, most users will never notice because their browser sessions won't be effected. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
a lot of Shenzhen shops busy. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Leap Second planned for 2016

2016-07-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
m unambiguously across timezones. Their usage pattern is more like scientific than civil time. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Cost-effectivenesss of highly-accurate clocks for NTP

2016-05-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
synch. Do you think that's true? -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Re: Cost-effectivenesss of highly-accurate clocks for NTP

2016-05-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Bruce Simpson : > On 13/05/16 20:39, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >In 2012, nearly three years before being recruited for NTPsec, I > >solved this problem as part of my work on GPSD. The key to this > >solution is an obscure feature of USB, and a one-wire > >patch to

Re: Cost-effectivenesss of highly-accurate clocks for NTP

2016-05-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
directly on an antenna can cause some attenuation, but with any serious GPS engine made more recently than 5 years ago I would be extremely surprised if that lost it lock. The newer ones handle down to 30 feet in ocean water on robot submarines. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

Cost-effectivenesss of highly-accurate clocks for NTP

2016-05-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ver and knowing you're doing so or wasting your money. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Everything you know is wrong. But some of it is a useful first approximation.

Re: A briefing on NTPsec

2016-05-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
boo in cost limiting right now. I'll reply to this starting a separate thread. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

A briefing on NTPsec

2016-05-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
based on the RPi and other hackerboards. I've been working in that area as well. I'll be happy to answer technical and procedural questions about NTPsec. Any questions about politics and policy should go to Mark Atwood. See www.ntpsec.org for more information. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond

A briefing on NTPsec

2016-05-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
based on the RPi and other hackerboards. I've been working in that area as well. I'll be happy to answer technical and procedural questions about NTPsec. Any questions about politics and policy should go to Mark Atwood. See www.ntpsec.org for more information. --