[HN Gopher] Dave Taht has died
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Dave Taht has died
Author : mhandley
Score : 116 points
Date : 2025-04-01 18:40 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| toomuchtodo wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_T%C3%A4ht
|
| https://blog.cerowrt.org/
|
| https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/bloat/2025-April/018...
| ggm wrote:
| Hosted one of his measurement boxes for a while. Nice guy, very
| committed to researching the problem space.
| zitterbewegung wrote:
| Sorry to hear this. I was at Goto Chicago for one of his talks
| and he used a bunch of people to model TCP and participated and
| learned a lot about the protocol. Really nice person and great
| lecturer.
|
| He also noted that GL INET devices have the LibreQos pre
| installed and recommended those routers.
| dredmorbius wrote:
| Oh man! I didn't know him closely, but we'd come into one
| anothers' orbits on Google+ and he was a great source of
| technical (and other) knowledge. One result of that is sitting a
| metre from me as I write this, as he'd turned me on to the Turris
| Omnia OpenWRT-based router.
|
| Pace, Dave.
| sinak wrote:
| What sad news. Dave was an incredible human and very dedicated to
| making the Internet better and faster. What a loss.
|
| Edit: copying over Vint Cerf's message that was posted on the
| bufferbloat mail list. I believe that's a public mail list so
| hopefully Vint doesn't mind:
|
| _OMG - that is truly terrible news! I could not say better than
| Frank already has how much Dave 's work has helped to improve our
| experience of the Internet. I can't think of anyone more
| dedicated to the proposition that performance counts and should
| be pursued with determination and vigor. I've known Dave for many
| years and greatly valued his counsel and technical skills - to
| say nothing of his healthy sense of humor. I will miss him but
| will be always grateful to have known him._
|
| dang, could we get a black bar?
| schoen wrote:
| Argh, he was the immediately previous person before me to work on
| the Unicast Extension Project and still a coauthor on all of our
| reserved address drafts!
|
| Now our lowest-address draft is at 50% deceased coauthors.
| sophacles wrote:
| I recently listened to a podcast episode he was on:
| https://castbox.fm/app/castbox/player/id3692892/id372628820
|
| It goes deep into his fq_codel work and why it was such a game-
| changer. It's an informal setting so his personality shines
| through - seems like we didn't just lose a great technologist,
| but also a heck of a human.
| petedoyle wrote:
| I didn't know him, but followed his work on bufferbloat closely.
| I've never seen anyone work so diligently, for so many years, to
| fix a problem most people will never know even existed. And yet,
| that work will be felt by almost everyone on the internet. I'm
| sad knowing he's passed, and thankful to have seen his work. Rest
| in peace.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| https://xkcd.com/2347/ (which is, in my opinion, highest praise
| in this line of work)
| zoobab wrote:
| Dave had a rtalk about Starlink at Wireless Battlemesh in Paris
| in 2019, we had some beers:
|
| https://media.freifunk.net/v/lightning-talk-starlink
|
| Rest in peace my friend.
| esaym wrote:
| The fact that he applied to starlink and they didn't hire him
| is depressing....
| wmf wrote:
| I don't think his personality was compatible with the
| corporate world.
| raggi wrote:
| Dave was ever-present in the areas he had passion for and that
| presence and unwavering advocacy had many positive outcomes. I'll
| miss his friendly challenges during future work in this space,
| they were always enjoyable and valuable even when we had
| differing approaches.
| omk wrote:
| Inspired by his work on buffer bloat like so many others. Rest in
| peace.
| askonomm wrote:
| His last name means "star" in Estonian. I was curious if his
| roots were from Estonia, but could not find any info. In any
| case, rest in peace Dave.
| Uzmanali wrote:
| iam really inspired by his work on FQ-CoDel and CAKE, which has
| greatly boosted internet performance. His legacy will continue to
| inspire and benefit the networking community.
| yusyusyus wrote:
| met him in prague. had his guitar. played a song for me and this
| other dude hanging out in the smoking area.
|
| have a video of it if there is a good place to send it to.
|
| RIP to a real one.
| muppetman wrote:
| This would be as good a place as any to share it :)
| lxgr wrote:
| Learning about Bufferbloat in my undergrad, but more importantly
| that by running OpenWrt on my EUR20 home router and simply
| activating an (at the time) nonstandard queueing policy could
| make a shared internet connection infinitely more usable, blew my
| mind.
|
| I never met him, but from what I saw on the relevant mailing
| lists, Dave was at the center of it all. Rest in peace.
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