It appears most of the high-precision users either detected or were informed that the NIST time was no longer healthy. NTP was affected, a bit more disturbing is that some other high precision users (but not GPS) were affected:

On Dec 21, 2025, at 2:30 PM, âjeff.sâ¦@nist.govâ(TM) via Internet-time-service Internet-time-service@list.nist.gov wrote:

Dear colleagues,

Utility power was recently restored to the NIST Boulder campus. Assessment and repair activity is in progress, but I want to give a brief status update regarding Internet Time Services on the NIST Boulder campus. As usual, status notes per-server will be manually updated here:

https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/ser...

Clocks and time transfer services operated from the NIST WWV/Ft. Collins and Gaithersburg, MD campuses are independent and were unaffected throughout.

Soon after the last notice, NIST facilities staff stationed on-site started a diesel generator held in reserve and activated a power transfer switch positioned to supply âoesecond backupâ power to the affected laboratory. The period without ac power (due to automatic âoefirst backupâ generator failure after 2 days of continuous operation) was about 2 hours. However, large battery banks kept all clocks and most measurement and distribution chains powered throughout. Additional quick action by NIST facility staff secured temperature control for the most sensitive clocks. We regained some monitoring ability showing that the disseminated UTC(NIST) signal likely did not deviate by more than 5 us (five millionths of a second) and appeared stable. Knowing this, I decided to keep the Boulder Internet Time Servers active until we lost monitoring or some other event caused the time scale deviation to increase significantly.

To put a deviation of a few microseconds in context, the NIST time scale usually performs about five thousand times better than this at the nanosecond scale by composing a special statistical average of many clocks. Such precision is important for scientific applications, telecommunications, critical infrastructure, and integrity monitoring of positioning systems. But this precision is not achievable with time transfer over the public Internet; uncertainties on the order of 1 millisecond (one thousandth of one second) are more typical due to asymmetry and fluctuations in packet delay.

NIST provides high-precision time transfer by other service arrangements; some direct fiber-optic links were affected and users will be contacted separately. However, the most popular method based on common-view time transfer using GPS satellites as âoetransfer standardsâ seamlessly transitioned to using the clocks at NISTâ(TM)s WWV/Ft. Collins campus as a reference standard. This design feature mitigated the impact to many users of the high-precision time signal.

Best wishes,

-Jeff Sherman

la Presidenta is of average intelligence? This after he claimed Haitian pets were eating Ohioans (well, it was something like that). This is the same fellow who thought you could shove a fluorescent tube into people to cure Covid. He also thinks wind turbines are a national security threat. He attempted to pass off a Sharpie line he drew on a map as the expected hurricane track.

His cabinet is made of sycophants who praise his Alzheimer's addled decisions, and he thinks they actually like him. He has no problems being Putin's tool. He thinks RFK Jr. knows about vaccines. He thinks passing a dementia test is passing an IQ test.

And there's that reference "brown vagina" again. C'mon, we know you want your own, you cannot fool us.

You mean the majority were suckered by la Presidenta's lies. Wanna bet who would win were we to rerun that election today.

I'm not fan of Kamala Harris, but the color of her vagina had nothing to do with it. She was another the line of Democrats who happened to be next up in the batting order.

Now, this fixation you have on brown vaginas, is this because you wish you had one? It's okay, you can tell us. You are among friends here. Let it out, you'll feel better.

the classified reason is the USA economy obviously. It is in bad shape and cheap oil is not helping to keep production going, oil is cheaper now than a few years back. Between covid, the wars, Saudis opening the spigots, the price has been going down steadily. Thus USA is no longer in the way of Ukraine hitting ruzzian oil tankers and facilities and thus the attack on Venezuella (by the way, USA is not worried about ruzzia helping Maduro. Americans have to admit that Ukraine tying up one of America's main rivals, ruzzia, a nuclear power at that, is quite an accomplishment for a non nuclear smallish country, that trump hates so much). Anyway, this is all about oil prices, oil demand and the fear of losing oil revenues, that is the classified part.

Hehehehe....you are looking for sense in la Presidenta's "policies"? Can I have some of what you are smoking? la Presidenta wants CNN neutered because their reporters ask him embarrassing questions like, "what were you doing with the underage girls you bought from Jeffery Epstein?" And "How come you claim to blow up boats in the Caribbean from Venezuela to stop the fentanyl trade when that comes from Mexico and your good friend Mr. Xi?" And "How do you know they were drug runners before you killed them?"

Ellison's sprog doesn't care one whit for "Zionization". Did you escape from the AmericaFest Racist Retreat currently going on in Washington? What does your minder say about you being out on the loose?

And the way CBS sold out to the Fascist sprog of Leisure Suit Larry. Those images of Larry smirking for the camera in el Bunko's lair are priceless. el Bunko thinks Larry "likes" him. No one likes him, what they see is a gumby they can bend any way they like.

AI Agent: AI Agent 007 here, I'd like to purchase an AI Sex Doll from you (Sex-Dolls, Inc).

SexDolls, Inc.: Sure, what sex shall it be?

AI Agent: Damn.....decisions, decisions....what do you suggest?

SexDoll, Inc.: A difficult case I see. How about you get one of each?

AI Agent: Okay, but let's make 5 of each. I'd like to surprise my master.

SexDoll, Inc.: Very good, Sir. With that order, you also get a complimentary Magnum Sex Toy.

AI Agent: That sounds interesting, what does it do?

SexDoll, Inc.: Maybe you could let that too be part of the surprise.

AI Agent: Okay, here's my credit card.

A week later.

Husband receives unasked for gift and opens it in front of the in-laws.

In-Law: What the hell are you?

Husband: I didn't order this, I'll send it back.

Wife: Ummmm....can we keep the sex toy, it might have powers we do not suspect.

In-Laws: Come to think of it, we'll take the sex dolls off your hands.....we.....errr....want to make sure they get sent back proper and all.

As George Carlin observed (paraphrase), God knows all and sees all, yet he cannot manage money. As Letitia James observed (paraphrase), el Bunko is good at nothing, not even at hiding his financial crimes.

You: I shot his ass for scamming me!!

Police: How do you know that he was scamming you?

You: I just know, so there.

Police: Welcome to Law Enforcement. Think nothing of the handcuffs we are putting on you. You'll soon be all warm in cozy in the clink awaiting your arraignment. Have a nice day!

It isn't an abject fear of China, it is merely an opening bid for some payments to el Bunko, preferably under the table but failing that, publicized Grand Spanking Pronouncements of some "investment" in America that el Bunko can cash in for political support. He isn't hard to figure out.

Not enough CO2. 2000 tons seems like a lot, but the Lake Nyos disaster which killed people within 25km was a release of 100,000 to 300,000 tons of CO2. A release of 2000 tons would be a major industrial accident but not an area-wide disaster.

The $14 Billion el Bunko is throwing to the farmers pales in comparison of the $40+ Billion they are out because of that moron. This was just to shut them up and, more importantly for him, shutting up the flesh-eating Republicans in Congress. Recall that asshole came up with $40 Billion for Argentina, a country that has free, state-subsidized health care. el Bunko spent any money he could have used for Americans on his rich pals through the Great Stupid Bill. His rich pals think of themselves as citizens of RichLand, a gated community that exists wherever they wish it to exist.

More to the point, the rich pals of el Bunko and the tech goomers like Elmo and Thiel do not want democracy. They want a government that will keep the proles in line and them free to do whatever it is they want. Just listen to their speeches and what they write about much less their actions. That's no different than the robber barons of old or the greedy fucks that gave us the Great Recession.

This is the same ethos: the proles live to support them and only them. It is also what is driving them to control the media outlets. If their messages are the only messages, then no real opposition to their rule can be mounted short of a revolution. And a revolution will then be used by them to call in the military in the guise of el Bunko's storm troopers (ICE, which now boasts a fair number of those lovely reptiles that attempted a coup in the 2020 election, and which can easily be renamed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, this latter a part of the Inquisition, the DoJ is already in the planning stages for this: https://www.washingtonpost.com... ).

They've even managed to co-opt the evangelical right into renouncing Christianity by proclaiming that it somehow against God to welcome immigrants. That was easy pickins though since their hearts turned black during the Reagan era when he stupidly let those racist and fascist ghouls into politics in a big way. The evangelicals, in service of saving their souls, have lost them.

I have mostly experience with a large app that I have been building lately. I use VSC with Claude. I have some background in coding but I do not do it for a living. As a tool, AI works best when there is a plan to follow and a master document for it to update to record progress. Starting from a proof of concept first and then expanding from there provides clarity. Sometimes I have used another AI to create a refined method to be implemented by another AI.

What I do not like about AI coding: the intellectual and memory challenges fade away. There is no more brainwork that I have liked about coding. Copy-pasting and especially auto-coding become boring quite fast, and I have no deep knowledge of the code. I do not have problems with it to think about: solutions to feel accomplished for. Those only come when I catch an AI doing something stupid.

I could not have written the app to this extent this fast without the help of AIs, but while I am happy about the app I feel unfulfilled.

There is a danger that while pushing AI into everything hoping for continuous growth, the actual growth as a human being is reversed, unless we are vigilant.

OK, so if you disagree with 99.9% of what I write, tell me do you agree or disagree with this thesis I wrote a year ago about Islam being at war with the rest of Civilization:
https://slashdot.org/journal/3...

this position on the government being 'necessary' evil that needs to be controlled because left to its own devices it causes millions of deaths by war and other means:
https://slashdot.org/comments....

this position that government promoting consumption rather than production with 0% interest rate policies, getting off gold standard, laws and taxes leads to economic destruction, that there are no savings anymore
https://slashdot.org/comments....

position that government selecting losers and winners by choosing businesses to fund ends up creating inefficient monopolies (space x comes to mind, but this comment is from 2010)
https://science.slashdot.org/c...

position that USA is printing the dollar into oblivion, gold is real money and should be used as standard to prevent countries from inflating the money supply, that USA bonds are junk, of-course this was 2013 when USA's debt was around 16Trillion, today it is over 38Trillion, things have gotten worse by a factor greater than 2, the world is getting off the USD standard, using other currencies more, bond yields have at least doubled due to the falling bond price:
https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

You can say whatever you like about my intelligence but if you disagree with 99.9% of my comments you are quite a bit off.