OCTADE or OCTAD is a retro word that means either an octal digit of three bits, or an octal octet or an eight-bit byte. Thus an octade, depending on its historical use, is either 3 bits or 8 bits.

OCTADE was used to specify eight bits, as opposed to BYTE which is not necessarily eight bits as the word BYTE could signify any of several numbers of bits.

This yields the retro 1337 numbers of 38 and 83. The number 38 is one more than 37 so a bit more elite a bit cooler. Thus it owns cardinally shorter byterz.

83 mod 38 equals 7, the highest octal digit. 838 mod 383 equals 72 or 9 times 8 which is 8 squared plus 8.

8338 mod 3883 equals 572 which is 72 times 8 minus 4 or 71.5 times 8.

8383 mod 3838 equals 707 which is 88 times 8 plus 3.

I prefer the old word OCTADE to the word BYTE. OCTADE sports a Euro-peon dignity and gravitas like an Internet serf ready to surf the worknet like pwnd peons. This is very true when pronouncing OCTADE with a thick Pennsyltucky Dutch or Yinzer accent. The Bostonian pronunciation sounds like bad beginner German or muffled mumbling of 'lactate.'

OCTADE or OCTAD was also used to describe a poem of eight stanzas.

OCTADE was also used to describe a period of eight years, or two leap years.

OCTADECANAL is a pheromone found in butterflies. It is butterfly perfume. I would not wear butterfly cologne. But I would sell it. Who would buy and wear my snobby smell? With wordplay we can call it OCTADE CHANNEL No. 8 . All rights reserved, ye French odor snooties.

Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':

Burroughs B5500 Information Processing Systems REFERENCE MANUAL
https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/burroughs/LargeSystems/B5000_5500_5700/1021326_B5500_RefMan_196705.pdf

Philips Data Systems Product Range - April 1971
https://www.vintage-calculators.nl/Philips%20productoverzicht%201971.pdf

Is there another name for octet that means 8 bits?
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-another-name-for-octet-that-means-8-bits

#octade #octad #binary #byte #jargon #etymology #bytemology #wordplay #wordgames #wordcrimes #history #retro #retronym #retronymous #yinzer #pennsyltucky #humor

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#Coffee #CowboyCoffee #MorningMudd

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BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/octade.bsky.social
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Rhizome Function Anagram Random Generator

preprint | https://zenodo.org/records/21551292

doi | https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5144-3278

Herein are described principles and a scheme of random number generation styled as, pangrandomonium, or ‘pangrand’. Pangrand is a anagrammatic random number generator that uses rhizome functions as chaotic indexing and shuffling instructions to reorder and sum perfect pangrams. Brief descriptions are given for the principles of pangram summing and rhizome indexing functions, Source code of the random number generator is included herewith. The source code is attached to the PDF file.

Sections:

1. Pangrams (Holoalphabetic arrays) ;
2. Rhizome Functions ;
3. Rhizome Hardness Problems ;
4. Random Generator Methods ;
5. Errata ;
6. Source Code.

#Preprints #Random #Cryptography #RNG #Pangrams #Anagrams #Pascal #Papers #RhizomeFunction #AcademicMastodon #Cryptology #Math #NumberTheory #Papers #Academia #ComputerScience #CompSci #AcademicChatter #OpenScience

From now on I am going to start publicly copying every DM sent to me on this platform, seeing as I explicitly state on my profile that I do not wish to receive direct private messages. If you send me a direct message expect it to be made public.

Sharing because i am in the second half of this comic 😂 credit https://www.instagram.com/paralumanxiv/

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Pixel art meme showing how other peopel use a Q-tip to clean their ear while my fathr uses a hairpin feather matchstick or key 😂

Rhizome Function Anagram Random Generator

preprint | https://zenodo.org/records/21551292

doi | https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5144-3278

Herein are described principles and a scheme of random number generation styled as, pangrandomonium, or ‘pangrand’. Pangrand is a anagrammatic random number generator that uses rhizome functions as chaotic indexing and shuffling instructions to reorder and sum perfect pangrams. Brief descriptions are given for the principles of pangram summing and rhizome indexing functions, Source code of the random number generator is included herewith. The source code is attached to the PDF file.

Sections:

1. Pangrams (Holoalphabetic arrays) ;
2. Rhizome Functions ;
3. Rhizome Hardness Problems ;
4. Random Generator Methods ;
5. Errata ;
6. Source Code.

#Preprints #Random #Cryptography #RNG #Pangrams #Anagrams #Pascal #Papers #RhizomeFunction

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One thing that really makes me sad when the first line of a repo’s readme has “with help from Claude” is the apparent diligence with “giving credit” to a nonexistent person, as if Anthropic doesn’t have immense disdain and ingratitude for the struggles and meaning of the work they ate.

On top of that, it’s voluntary and free advertising. It’s like going out of your way to put “Made with the help of Microsoft 365” in the header of your documents. I cannot take someone like this seriously, but it crushes my soul all the same.

I feel the urge to make #curl faster and safer. And I feel like blogging about design choices, which I have no expectation of anyone having an interest in.

Also I should invent a test case for a combination a clanker said was not working. Hmmm..

Happy Thursday, everyone!

i just finished my pbulickl unannoucnd investigation into knight havenstein llp, a "Fraudulent / scammy law firm. they clamed to be hosting a law firm with family law, business law, among other things.
you can view the web page at https://web.archive.org/web/20260509223715/https://knighthavensteinllp.com/
it actually started with an eamil i got from an outlook account i got that told me i have 10.2 milliondolarsi n the bank. man i wante t go by me some pizza s bad with tht money, i could us10 milioon pizzas right now.
in all seriousness, i asked this guy to contact me with an official law firm domain so i can confirm the legitimacy.
and believe it or not, i did actually get a contact from a legitimate domain.
immediately, i dug in.
i decided to look them up on the law society of #ontario #canada , which is a bar association related organization, which all loyers are required to sign up to to become a loyer. and the law society act of canada equires all loyers regardless of practice must be admitted to the bar association.
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90l08

so i went ahead and checked the bar because they clame to be from "oakvile" (it's actually oakville, get it right) and noticed there was no law firm under that name.
https://lsodirectory.lso.ca/en-US/result-main/?licenceType=both&name=Knight+Havenstein+LLP
so after a bit more research, i contacted #hostinger , told them the situation, and got it taken down 2 days later. of course before that, it was reported to a cupple of security companies like #fortinet , and #alphamountain .

so yeah, i took down some #scammers today #scam .

The checklist for a social media post is ever getting longer:

Is it fake?
Is it by a bot?
Is it by a troll?
Is it click bait?
Is it rage bait?
Is it a dogmatical post?
Is it a fanatical post?
Is it a puritanical post?
Is it by a toxic poster?
Or is it posted only to annoy or tease?

(There is an even longer version...)

#EternalSeptember
#InformationAge
#InformationSociety
#LifeInTheInformationAge
#SocialMedia
#SocialPsychology
#UmbertoEco2015

Reminder of how dire our digital privacy situation has become...

TikTok can spy on you even if you don’t have an account.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260210-tiktok-is-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-use-the-app-heres-how-to-stop-it

Collecting personal data just to resell it should be outlawed in my opinion.

But combine this with data brokers, ChatControl’s recent vote, and the global push for age verification through 'trusted private third parties', all while data theft is at an all-time high, and you start wondering if we aren’t attending a clown show with very real consequences.

#Privacy #TikTok #ChatControl #DataBroker #AgeVerification

Toad looked around. He saw that Frog was not there. 'I AM ALL ALONE!' screamed Toad.

New #ebook @gutenberg_org: The religion of a sceptic by John Cowper Powys https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79153

I just now found a self-hosted fediverse server that allows connection and administration via SSH. So far its setup instructions are the simplest I've seen for any ActivityPub server software.

https://stegodon.social/

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #SSH #stegadon #social #SelfHosted #WebMaster #WebLord

In the early 1990s, the most profitable game in the world wasn’t called Mario or Sonic, it was Street Fighter II. And yet, this game was born from a chain of accidents: a series of unbelievable coincidences, burned-out developers, bugs that somehow made it into the final build, a component shortage that reshuffled everything, and a creator who stumbled into the video game industry purely by chance while trying to become a journalist. (54 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17PXpV3zFs8

#RetroGaming #Gaming #90s

Here's a script using our PQCrypto 2008 software to decode the 2^255 size from tii_decoding_challenge in <1 sec on 1 core: https://cr.yp.to/2026/20260722-break-fake-mceliece-sizes-from-tii.sh When TII announced its fake sizes in 2023, I said they had omitted "one of the central defenses in McEliece": https://web.archive.org/web/20260616122115/https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/KzmgtZ3qBME/m/LTiMRSnKAQAJ

I've always been a PC user. Never cared for smartphones.

Nowadays you have to refer to everything you use as "web-based" if you're accessing something on PC "wtf is a web app??"

I remember when it was implied any tech you were working with was through a PC. I'd run Notepad and just start building HTML code with tables, then save it as .html to view a quick website I built. No mobile versions and CSS.

An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.

I would be guzzling five cups of coffee a day even if it was bad for me.

Why the Inquisition Built the Surveillance State

https://clairesalerno.substack.com/p/why-the-inquisition-built-the-surveillance

The real motive behind web 2.0, web 3.0, the cloud, AI, and panopticon nonsense is to identify and isolate heretics.

"They began with the network. If you can find one suspected heretic and interrogate them about their associations, who they speak to, who they share meals with, whose homes they visit and which neighbours are sympathetic, you can build a list of names."

"Then, you visit each of those people on the list and ask them the same questions. From this you can build a map of the entire community, identifying relationships and flagging suspects."

"They used the social fabric of communities and rewarded those who denounced others. They reduced penalties for cooperation, and built the assumption that staying silent is itself suspicious."

"They made it so the rational choice for any individual in the community is to inform on neighbours before neighbours inform on them. This creates a self-policing community. The community does the work, with the institution as the receiving authority."

"Think about that for a moment, because it describes the current digital surveillance apparatus exactly."

#Inquisition #Surveillance #Panopticon #Privacy #Cathars #Censorship

https://cherrychapstick.diaryland.com/one-line-a-day-what-is-something-you-have-made-peace-with

#diary #journal

Mammals the size of buses swimming around singing. How lucky we are to live on this planet. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jun/19/bury-me-in-the-whale-graveyard-let-the-weird-starfish-chew-my-bones

The Internet is a ventriloquist. Who is the dummy? Whose hand is that making your tongue wag and your eyes water?

#ventriloquism #parrots #mockingbirds #regurgitata #zombies

> thread '

' panicked at 'failed printing to stdout: Broken pipe (os error 32)', library/std/src/io/stdio.rs:1015:9

This ought to be suppressed by default. The old GNU tools and coreutils I was using handled broken pipes gracefully by not bothering the user during commands that are meant to break a pipe as part of the stream processing. Now I have to re-write all my hundreds of scripts to trap this kind of stuff. Maybe they just want to make sure you know Rust is under the hood. IDK.

Programming has blown up into utter ridiculousness. I think I need to go touch grass again.