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[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

and also typing only with index fingers constantly looking at the keyboard :'( :'( :'(

[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

"international war sponsor" what a nice title, I think every company operating in US should have it!

[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago

"Embrace ~~tar.gz~~ 7zip, son!"

[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe bcause you use a cloudflare DNS? xD there are mirrors tho: https://git.kescher.at/dCF/deCloudflare/src/branch/master/readme/en.md

[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And those are the two options, unfortunately.

Exactly. Mozilla is better but not that much. What we really need is a 100% community-developed browser engine sponsored by several large companies that are independent from each other. But seems like it's too late, we're boiled frogs at this point. Although maybe these are the circumstances under which such an initiative could finally emerge.

[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Thanks for pointing out! This tool seems to look and work awesome, but non-foss browser extension is an instant 'NO'...

[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just installed what popped up first in F-Droid search (Jerboa) and not feeling like I need something else - everything just works and UI/UX feels natural.

[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, this paragraph somehow escaped my attention 😯 Big thanks for pointing out!

[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, thanks, that's pretty much it! Except we cannot really make days of the week get locked to the days of our year because 365 is not divisible by 7, and we're adding 1 day to February every 4th year on top of that.

[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, I've rephrased the edit section once more

[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But the 7 days comes from the amount of time it takes to go from one visible lunar phase to another

I'm not arguing with that, but my question is different: where in history is the exact reference point (day) of today's weekday countdown? From when have people decided to stop adding or subtracting adjustment days and kept counting till today? The might have been some shifts along the way, but there should be a point exactly N x 7 days ago from which the 7-day countdown has not been interrupted. Or at least the earliest known day in history that everyone on Earth agreed upon as a reference point.

[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Here is the problem, because actual lunar cycle is 29.5 days long, so if we simply count its phases with whole 7 days it will quickly run out of sync. Therefore Babylonians and other ancient folks added a couple of 'out-of-week' days every now an then to compensate the difference.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by wAkawAka@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I mean, if today i.e. is Sunday then someone long time ago should have said "Today will be Sunday" for the first time in a period from today that is multiple of seven. I was assuming that it was Pope Gregory XIII in October 1582, but looks like he is not. I failed in googling and duckduckgoing out the answer, so I ask for Lemmy's collective wisdom!

EDIT: so question is not about the origin of 7-day week and sequence of weekday names, but about the exact reference point (day) of today’s weekday countdown. From when have people stopped adding or ommiting any adjustment 'out-of-week' days (like in Babylon or Rome) and kept counting to seven till today? In other words, there should be a point exactly N x 7 days ago from which the 7-day countdown has not been interrupted. Or at least the earliest known day in history that everyone on Earth agreed upon as a reference point

EDIT 2: Solved by https://lemmy.world/comment/1852458 Thanks everyone!

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