- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
STS (Secure Time Seeding) uses server time from SSL handshakes, which is fine when talking to other Microsoft servers, but other implementations put random data in that field to prevent fingerprinting.
If I’ve learned one thing from the last decade of movie and TV sci-fi, it’s that you always need to account for the possibility of time travel.
Reminds me of a “bug” in a genealogy software which crashed for a client. Turns out the client had incest and entering the relation in the software caused a loop in the family tree.
Why put “bug” in quotes? If a program crashes because of unexpected user input, that’s always a bug.
Unexpected input 😏
https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time and https://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time