wAkawAka

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[–] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Big thanks for detailed answer! My understanding is more clear now.

[–] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks bad enough. But what's TPM role in this?

 

There are some speculations about TPM uncontrollably sending data to manufacturer servers if a laptop has any Internet connection. Others say it's not intended/capable of that, like this answer for example (which is 5 years old though).

Lemmy, what do you say?

[–] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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

[–] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't send any data that you haven't sent already! Just block 'em f out, feels so nice :D Or they'll demand a nude selfie next time!

[–] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 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 (3 children)

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) (1 children)

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 (3 children)

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.

[–] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Well, the question is not about the origin and sequence of weekday names, but about the first day in history of uninterrupted count of 7-day cycles which leads to today’s state of the week. Added this to the post.

 

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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