Hi folks First of all, a huge thanks to @ask and all the other volunteers who have been running the pool in their spare time for over 20 years. You folks are the Internet’s timekeepers. I don’t mean to insult anyone here or make anyone uncomfortable, and this has probably been raised multiple time…

[image] giovane: who runs what in the NTP Pool Isn’t the (management of the) pool basically a one-man show?

[6205ca19352e4e7479faf9ebd4da1963] Obligatory XKCD.

Yeah… :wink: I always wondered if this cartoon was actually inspired by @ask ’s project … The year matches, but I don’t think he ever lived in Nebraska?

XKCD used Nebraska in order to protect @ask ’s privacy. :wink:

Do you have a link to the original xkcd page handy? There are so many places this is appropriate.

Dependency [image] Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.

I thought it meant ImageMagick, like it says in the text. But there are a lot of similar projects. The next time a spy manages to befriend one of these unsung heroes, we might not be so lucky as to have longer build times as a tell, and a very keen observer who actually notices those, to save us fro…

Like you, I’m grateful for all that has been done by the volunteers here. But it’s concerning to me that this still hasn’t received an answer. It kind of feels like the project is largely running on auto-pilot at this point. In some ways it’s a testament that it’s still working, but when things go …

It is not, GFK is working on the Geo DNS Servers. then you have the pool bees with the monitoring servers + im providing also some backend stuff for the pool. Code is mostly handled by ask, but you can contribute on github.

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MagicNTP February 21, 2025, 9:10pm 11

Anyone available to look into this?

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