Worth noting that there 15 other NIST time servers across two other locations (7 in Fort Collins, CO and 8 in Maryland) that are working perfectly fine and that even the affected servers remain accurate to within 0.0000046 seconds

source: tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/serve...

Lumberjack song holds a special place in my heart after spending my summers at Haliburton Scout Reserve in the 1990s.

Yeah, yikes… the number of these that I played in their original incarnations.

All application components require Local Admin or root to run, too? ‘Cause it’s just easier that way… 😬

Yep. TDSB, too. 🤬 Apparently there was an attempt to extort further money directly from the Toronto board: www.tdsb.on.ca/home/ctl/Det...

On one hand, it would help with staffing a broader and deeper set of skills for providing IT … something that must be difficult outside of the largest boards. On the other, I see the mess that the TDSB is in, in part because the Province has restricted their options. No easy solution.

Chris Hadfield. We took our space-obsessed kids to meet him at a few different events and he was nice and gracious.

We ran into him, walking in the park a couple years later and he was cool with spending a few minutes chatting with an 8 and a 10 year old… just a decent guy.

If you don’t mind paying an annual subscription, @1password.bsky.social is Canadian and I’ve been very happy with them for over 10 years.