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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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

@wordplay@lemmy.ml @Vocabulary@lemmy.ml

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#Coffee #CowboyCoffee #MorningMudd

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Warriors of light and dark

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Sybil Danning - The Phantom Empire (1988)

The UK just announced they'll scan every photo on your phone to "protect children." The problem? "Proof of age" isn't defined. No legislation. No spec. No limits. This is surveillance infrastructure with no defined end state.

https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-about-to-scan-every-photo

#Privacy #UK #Surveillance #DigitalRights #OnlineSafety #KeirStarmer #Labour #Apple #Google #BigBrother

You are looking for products in aisle 6, the jihadi section. Thank you for shopping at Q-mart.

Don't use LLM for writing cryptographic code. You have been warned.

#cryptography #AI #LLM

The Israelites were not ready for the Shema, so God had to break it down for them into a set of rules.

I think you missed the entire point.

The commandment is not about monotheism. It is not. That idea is being read into the text, not taken out of it.

Really, I do think the point blew right past you.

The First Commandment of the Decalogue is NOT ABOUT MONOTHEISM.

"Thou shalt have no other gods before [representing] me."

The First Commandment is about having anyone or anything representing God, whether it be a man or an institution, such as a king, pharaoh, pope, pastorate, or bishopric, claiming to be representative of God.

God has no institutional representative. One man, and only one man, Jesus of Nazareth, is his representative.

This is what the first commandment means.

The second commandment is similar. Instead of talking about human and institutional idols, it talks about man-made idols.

So stop teaching that the first commandment is about monotheism. It is not. It is a condemnation of the monotheistic religions and their hierarchical structures.

"First Commandment: Ignore all the other gods. That’s an odd thing for a monotheistic god to say!"

The first commandment of the Decalogue reads in English:

"Thou shalt have no other gods BEFORE me."

BEFORE means REPRESENTING, or 'in place of'. In the ancient Hebrew the word translated as BEFORE means REPRESENTING, MASQUERADING, PERSONATING. In modern English we would say:

"You shall have no other judges representing me."

What God is saying in this commandment is that there is no one person or institution who is a 'vicar' representing him.

Why did he say this?

Because that's what they did in Egypt. Pharaoh was the 'vicar' of the deity.

Some nitwit will no doubt try to claim, "no, no, he's saying don't have idols."

To the nitwit: "That's the second commandment on graven images."

They don't teach you this in the Christian church because the Christian church is one of the forbidden, "other gods" pretending to represent him. Ditto for Islam and every other organized religion. Their existence violates the first commandment.

The Father hates religion. Hates all of it:

"And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams."

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are King Saul.

And they will be replace by the coming King David (Jesus).

"NEW: Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies"

How horrifying, not extracting maximum revenue from the cattle!

"He said: “Prosecutions that are driven by targets, statistics and finance have no place in this courtroom and bring the administration of justice into disrepute."

Exactomundo. He is right. The high court is wrong. He is outing the government grifter class for its grifting. How horrifying!

"“I have come to the conclusion that [speed camera contractors] GoSafe deliberately targeted an unjust speed zone in the townland of Clogheen, where there were rich pickings and, as the saying goes, they were shooting fish in a barrel.”"

Yeah, what a renegade judge! How scary to say such things!

O authoritarian high court, protect us from judges like this, who see us as more than tax cattle!

"Mr Justice Ferriter said that the judge’s approach was “wrong” in law and inappropriate comment for a judge to make as his role was not to express a view on correctness of speed limits adjudicated by another body."

This thinking is how authoritarians construct a Rube Goldberg money machine that cannot be questioned.

The lower court judge has a duty to prohibit corruption in the law from determining his decisions. The judiciary does not serve the legislature. The judiciary is separate from the legislature and is to serve as a check against corrupt legislation and enforcement.

How horrifying that one judge actually gets it!

If the world had more judges who acted sua sponte to point out corruption in the laws, and reject them based upon that, it would be a better world to live in.

We all know that traffic laws have ZERO, NADA, NAUGHT, NIL, ZILCH, and ZIP to to with safety and are about funneling revenue to 3rd party contractors, and maintaining the fear of constant police presence in the minds of the citizenry. This judge was just pointing out the obvious.

#courts #fiddlesticks #revenue #government #bollocks

https://theopendiaries.com/

If only I had the time ...

#snac2 #css3 #themes #diary #wishlist #iwish

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2853

I remember a legislative hearing where the congress discussed the need for YouTube to censor all content that questions the veracity of heliocentrism and space programs. Perhaps this paper is following that trend?

#Censorship #FlatEarth #Cosmology #Globalism #Theology #Sociology #FreudianProjection

🌐 "As it did twenty-five years ago, the web can unlock maximum change with the lowest risk, but regulators are falling down on the job, and tech reporters are not informing readers of the options or the stakes."

Then a songbird sang right outside my window.

The fledglings left the nest above my window. For days I could hear them chirping as their parents came to and fro with grub.

Now birds are singing all around my yard as the sun rises.

#Bliss #Thankful #Birds #Nature #Blessed #PraiseGod

'/usr/bin/su' and '/bin/su would never be in the memory cache at all ... by default ... except in systems that run entirely in memory.

Perhaps suid binaries should have special sandboxing for forcing them to be read from protected media into sandboxed memory addresses.

Maybe that would be a tougher nut to crack?

#Linux #Fragnesia #DirtyFrag #CyberSecurity #Exploits

Paul warned about giving heed to ‘Jewish fables.’ The fables about supernatural hybrid nephilim are bunk.

The governing institutions of Christendom are the 'nephilim' or 'fallen angels.'

The 'giants' of Genesis are empires and tyrants created by Christianity.

Read more ...
https://blog.nightbulb.net/nephilim-as-giant-monsters-and-other-jewish-fables-that-turn-from-the-truth/

#Bible #Christ #Christian #Church #Genesis #Theology

Today on Computers Are Bad: Extremely Low Frequencies

https://computer.rip/2026-05-09-extremely-low-frequencies.html

From Genesis to Malachi the Bible is very poetic. The Psalms are top-shelf poetry.

Much of the New Testament uses the same poetic emblems of the Old Testament.

God the Father is the master of poetry.

#christian #christianity #godsword #jesus #christ #god #poetry #bible #Jesus

Humanity could use a new operating system based on different principles besides the mainframe-kiosk model of Unix.

#Linux

You just described homeopathics in a nutshell.

#dog #dogs

Once harvest is done you have to haul one truckload after another from your clamps to the buyer loadout clamps.

Usually a spud farmer hires a large number of hands (sometimes dozens) to do the harvest, then after the harvest is stored there are months of mechanical repair and upkeep, spud hauling, field dressing, flood mitigation, fixing irrigation lines, and hand-wringing before you get a break.

Many potato harvester tractors cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, and have a subscription access model built in to the software so you can't even repair your own tractor.

There is no Green Acres life in the modern world of farming. It is brutal just keeping the business afloat.

Forgejo: https://forgejo.org ...

"Forgejo is a Free Software platform for collaboration and productivity in software development. It offers a familiar environment to GitHub users, easy installation and maintenance, and a focus on security, scaling, federation and privacy."

... codeberg has a nice setup (via forgejo) if you don't want to self-host.

#git #forgejo #scm #vcs #sources #source #code #vps #gitlab #github #codeberg #hosting

And how is the code FOSS when the open source license governing the code is being flagrantly violated ... at the expense of the creators of the code?

Do better.

I found this comment in activitypub.c while reading some of the snac2 source code :

/* unify the garbage fire that are the attachments */

Involuntary chortle activated. It is a good read so far.

'sloccount' says snac2 is valuable:

Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 740,878

#snac2

0. The first line of moderation should not be the instance admin. Each user account should be able to moderate mentions of their ID, or replies to their comments.

1. The top poster of a comment thread should be able to moderate all reply comments under that thread.

2. Instance admins should only delete posts that are clearly designed to offend, hurt, or viciously attack, bully, harass, gaslight, annoy etc. but should never delete a post simply on ideological grounds or heated but honest disagreement or debate. Telling the difference is very simple in almost all cases: tone and mindless repetition being the biggest giveaways of the respondent's intent. If it becomes an unwanted or unproductive argument the top poster should be able to quash replies.

3. Users should be able to click a button to block and entire thread regardless of who posts to it.

These things are not a major problem for me since I'm on a simple instance and I can add users to my personal blacklist via CLI. It would be nice to see this kind of stuff as standard, basic button functions in activitypub and fediverse since not everyone wants to run an instance and use CLI scripts to moderate.

#mastodon #fediverse #moderation #postDeletion #activitypub #social

The Darth Vader voice is missing.

Is this a mere oversight or are you a Jedi with a beef?

They employ gaslightery for peer-pressured thought control through social tension modeling.

Lemmy.ml is another platform marred by this kind of devilish megalomania in its munted mods.

"I wish I had a much bigger horse?"

Thank goodness Don Quixote never discovered the Abrams M-1 Army Tank.

Corruption, Degradation, Rot, Putrefaction, Subversion, Perversion, Debauchery, Decay, Debasement ...

are all better words.

Greek democracy consisted of choosing names randomly by lottery.

Modern democracy is not democracy. It is oligarchy. Party politics is not, never was, and never will be democracy.

Anyone calling party politics 'democracy' is an oligarch or oligarch supporter.

In real democracy names are put in a ballot box and names are randomly drawn to choose the candidates. Any other method is corrupt and is not democracy.

"... If I sold Google some data cables, and months later sent them an email “btw in 5 business days your cables will start sending all the data going through them to me, even though you specifically told me not to enable this feature, unless you re-disable it”, I would go to jail for hacking."

#Surveillance #Panopticon #SpyWare #Google #Gemini #Privacy #Security #Email

"When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it."

-- Anthony de Mello

What if, says a small child to me this afternoon,
We made a poem without using any words at all?

[.....]

https://www.christiancentury.org/artsculture/poems/best-poem-ever

#poem #poetry #poets #poems

But even Christians have their idols (dogmas, creedos, liturgies, customs, rituals) that blind them to the one and only one truth.

"My people perish for lack of knowledge ..."

Instead many Christians believe they have chosen the right narrow path, which is just one lane in the broad road superhighway to hell.

Real democracy for electing rulers is done by lottery, not by party ballot. Every citizen puts a name in the ballot box and then a random name is selected, and the candidate is examined. If the candidate passes muster, then he is the one put in the office. No campaigns, no campaign finance, no speeches, none of that garbage has any place in actual democracy.

The Bible has multiple instances in the law of God for casting lots (lottery) to choose a leader or successor for an office. That is real democracy. The Greeks called ballots for party or public candidate by a Greek word: Oligarchy.

Everyone who calls elections by the name of democracy doesn't know what democracy is. Democracy is not the 'choice of the people' but rather the 'random choice of God' from among the people. This is how the Greeks and Israelites originally practiced democratic elections. The idea of 'running for office' was anciently seen as a form of insurrection or oligarchy, not democracy.

#Democracy #Elections #Oligarchy #Vote #Government

[quote] "The legal instrument protecting your rights as a user of Linux is less important than the commercial ecosystem built on top of it. And that commercial ecosystem as we have established is controlled by the same corporations paying a half a million dollars a year for board seats at the Linux Foundation. ... The message ... enforce the GPL, lose your friends ... violate it openly ... get a seat on the board ... The GPL is not dead but its enforcement mechanism has been systematically dismantled by the very organization that claims to steward it."

Linux Foundation has squelched the voice of the lay contributors and now corporations control the decision-making process.

Now that your contributions to GPL'd free software have created mega-millionaires and billionaires ... those same rich fat cats that profited from your free code now want to keep you from sharing your own free code or profiting from it while they violate the software license to cash in. They promote ideology campaigns employing useful idiots and ideological parrots to insulate themselves from criticism and hold themselves above reproach from the people they are exploiting to build their tech empire. The Linux Foundation has joined the empire.

I have said before that a new alternative operating system is required if software freedom and privacy are to survive. Linux is not the resistance against the system. Linux is the system.

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Full video for your earbuds: https://youtu.be/efDXFsUWk8U

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Our latest discussion builds on previous conversations, exploring the alleged corruption within the Linux Foundation and Linus Torvalds's potential awareness. We'll examine the intricate relationship between user space and the linux kernel developer, diving into how these components interact and influence the broader linux internals. This video aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the situation, explaining the nuances of these operating systems and the impact on open source software.

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#LinusTorvalds #Linux #LinuxFoundation #OperatingSystem #Corruption #BigTech #GPL #FreeSoftware #FOSS #Tech #Desktop

Timed myself: 9 seconds to create a fully working anonymous email.

https://qrypty.com — the UI is clean and modern, works perfectly on mobile, and asks for zero personal info. No phone, no verification, nothing.

I've never said "I enjoy checking email" before but here we are.

Please boost — more people need to know email can be beautiful AND private

#email #privacy #design #ui #mobile #aesthetic #tech #fast #boost #share

Utah’s VPN Ban Law Goes Into Effect in Age Verification Escalation

Utah is attempting to cover up the failures of their age verification law by effectively banning VPNs.

https://www.freezenet.ca/utahs-vpn-ban-law-goes-into-effect-in-age-verification-escalation/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #encryption #law #legislation #US #Utah #VPN

@neverbeaten@mas.to

Brawndo's got what plants crave.

Enjoy:

https://soc.octade.net/octade/p/1775948259.147313

#Brawndo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA_hmtuAPTY

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Did the Algorithm Change Your Decisions? | How Your Feed Was Engineered

Right now, somewhere on the internet, a video is being uploaded.

Within seconds, a system that no one elected, no one audits, and no one fully understands decides whether anyone else will ever see it.

Sometimes, it decides no one should.

And that’s the end of it.

In this episode of Plain Meaning, we examine how the modern internet quietly transformed from a system designed to deliver information… into one that decides what information exists for you at all.

It didn’t happen all at once.

It happened step by step.

Feed by feed.

Platform by platform.

Until nearly everything you see online is filtered through a machine making decisions on your behalf.

We trace how:

• Social media moved from profile pages to infinite feeds
• Facebook’s News Feed shifted from chronological to algorithmic control
• Advertising—not user experience—drove the need to control timing and visibility
• “EdgeRank” introduced the first large-scale automated editorial system
• By 2016, every major platform—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube—had adopted algorithmic feeds
• Recommendation systems replaced direct navigation across the entire internet

But this isn’t just a story about technology.

It’s a story about incentives.

Because once platforms controlled what you saw, they didn’t just control engagement.

They controlled attention.

And once attention became the product, the system began optimizing for something far more powerful than clicks.

We examine what happened next:

• How foreign influence operations exploited algorithmic feeds during the 2016 election
• The role of Cambridge Analytica and its parent Strategic Communication Laboratories in psychological targeting
• The scale and strategy of Russia’s Internet Research Agency
• How fake local news accounts built trust before deploying disinformation
• Why most influence content wasn’t political—but divisive
• How algorithms amplified all of it without distinction

And then we go further.

Because 2016 wasn’t the end of the story.

It was the beginning.

We look at how:

• Algorithmic systems shape not just what you see—but how you think
• Platforms reward emotional, extreme, and addictive content
• Foreign-owned platforms introduce new geopolitical risks
• Systems like ByteDance’s TikTok operate differently across countries
• The same algorithmic architecture can produce completely different realities depending on its objectives

This episode is not about one platform.

It’s not about one political party.

And it’s not about one country.

It’s about the system itself.

Because the algorithm isn’t just recommending content.

It’s acting as an editor.

And most of the time, you don’t even realize it’s there.

By the end of this video, the next time you open a social media app, you’ll understand:

Why your attention isn’t fully yours.

Why the world you see isn’t necessarily the world that exists.

And how to recognize when a machine—not you—is deciding what matters.

#Algorithm #SocialMedia #DigitalMedia #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram #NewsFeed #TikTok #Twitter

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Everyone is trying to front the next 'big thing' or 'shocking idea' or 'nuclear tech gizmo' 'newest big truck brass nuts and chain' gimmick.

I would occasionally like a bit more arcane stuff and strange tools / writings most people don't care about. I'm not always interested in the big things and razz-ma-tazz. I like the tech equivalent of 'look at my puppy and bunny playing together' stories. Completely pointless algorithms and useless gizmos also have a place in my heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZcXvuvGxmk

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Mobile phone and seatbelt detection cameras may sound like a narrow traffic enforcement tool, but many people know them by a more revealing nickname: “crotch cams.” In this video, Dr. Jon Padfield examines how these cameras work, why they are spreading across the United States, and what they actually mean for privacy, surveillance, and public policy. He breaks down federal traffic fatality data, questions whether photographing drivers’ groin areas is really the best way to improve safety, and compares these systems to other interventions like rumble strips, pavement markers, and pedestrian islands that may save more lives without expanding surveillance.

Drawing on his own highway safety research background, Jon argues that serious public safety questions deserve serious debate, not rhetoric or gaslighting. He also explores the broader incentives behind these systems, including revenue generation, data collection, and the growing overlap between roadside surveillance and in-vehicle monitoring technology. If we truly want safer roads, this video asks whether more cameras are the answer—or whether we are choosing surveillance over better solutions.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnUxRahoBJU

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How private is online therapy? And what happens to your most sensitive personal data when you trust an app with it?

There is an often-quoted idea that the true measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Book of James expressed a similar principle: caring for those in distress while remaining morally uncorrupted.

Today, tens of millions of Americans are seeking help through online therapy platforms. But what happens when companies entrusted with deeply personal struggles turn that information into a business model?

In this video, I examine major online therapy platforms including BetterHelp, Talkspace, and Cerebral—and the growing concerns around how sensitive mental health data is collected, shared, and monetized.

We’ll look at:
• The explosive growth of online therapy
• FTC actions against BetterHelp and Cerebral
• Allegations of data sharing with Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, and others
• Broader concerns about privacy across mental health apps
• What this means for people seeking help during their most vulnerable moments

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It’s official,, this administration is cursed by God.

Being baptized in his NAME means full mental and spiritual immersion in and submission to his authority and power, not mere immersion in a tub of water while rote speaking his name. Water baptism was for repentance under the law, and John the baptist testified that his ministry of water must decline while Christ's ministry of fire and spirit must increase. The real fire and spirit baptism of salvation has already come.

Jesus came to baptize men with the holy spirit and with power, not to dunk them in a tub. A man must die to rise again into everlasting life, and being buried in the water with Christ signifies this.

https://tuba.geopjr.dev/

#Fediverse #Fedi #Software #Linux #Windows

5C00B1ED00B1ED00

#L3375P3AK

"I see a bright future for .onion sites."

https://mastodon.cr.yp.to/@djb/116353830912228373

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"NSA and IETF, part 7: Counting votes." Turns out to be 22 votes against, 21 votes for: not even a majority in favor, never mind consensus. IETF management is throwing the votes away, insisting on a replay, and trying to silence opponents.

"And then to tell us that they're working for "Ireland Inc.?" IDK. Not really the kind of public image that inspires confidence."

https://dev.to/dattran2346/building-a-youtube-to-podcast-pipeline-with-yt-dlp-ffmpeg-and-backblaze-b2-8nm

#Podcast #Podcasts #Audio #Youtube

https://casti.fyi/youtube-to-podcast.html

#Music #Audio #Video #Podcasts #Youtube

SINS of Christian Nationalism & Zionism

Sins of Christian War-Making

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-maDeoEDiI

Synopsis:

Holy war is a doctrine of the devil. Every church and organization promoting war for Christ is anti-christ.

Man cannot solve the evil in the world by 'fighting' or violence. That is exactly what the devil and his minions want. The gospel can not be spread by the sword or power of the state.

Every form of radical liberation theology or dominion theology is satanic because it denies the word of God and replaces it with the gospel of war.

Christian nationalists hate the lost because they too are lost souls with a messiah complex. Instead of following the messiah they want to reconstruct him in the imperial state. They do not have love of their neighbor.

My observation:

Christian Nationalism is disguised Roman imperialism, globalism and Zionism, hence it is neither Christian nor nationalist in character. Christian Nationalism has the same character imprint as Holy Roman Empire crusaderism. It is wicked and deceitful.

Christian Nationalists claim to advance 'dominion' or 'taking dominion'. This is blasphemy. The dominion over the nations was given to Jesus, not to imperfect men. Jesus is the one who is given dominion over all the nations. Thus Christian Nationalism blasphemously posits itself as the messiah with the dominion, just like its Catholic parent church.

#GunpointGospel #Crusades #HolyWar #Catholic #HolyWar #Christian #ChristianNationalism #Nationalism #Zionism #Christianity #DominionTheology #Church

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#Usenet #NetNews #NNTP

Baptized in the NAME. Not a bathtub.

"never suggest the death penalty for sexual assault, rape, kidnapping, or child molestation. as soon as that's the penalty, then there's no barrier for the perpetrator not to murder the victim."

My comment referenced the post-attack enablers rather than the perpetrator.

So why are you pleading a faulty argument of mercy for the perpetrators of sexual assault?

"The ASA said she should have complied and sued the officer later. "

Yes, these fiends do think like that.

Everyone involved in her arrest and incarceration should get the gallows.

"Change can only come to the US if people learn to wield their collective power in ways that don’t depend on the elections."

Everything else is worldly-wise mind-poison.

#Repent

Maybe it means one must be high on spirits during the crime ...

... or the crimes were committed while high?

If Drumpf had a son he would look like Afroman ...

... because he got high.

Drumpf + Afroman = High Crimes and Misdemeanours.

IMPEACH AFROMAN

Mandatory Brawndo dosage is the contraceptive antidote.

#Drumpf #Afroman #Impeachment #Constitution #Brawndo #Humor #Jokes

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Tryptich of Afroman wearing an American flag striped suit.

Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does. I’ve been finding a number of interesting artifacts throughout. This June 1984 ad by Cadmus Computer Systems listed a #USENET address: !wivax!cadmus.

This is a UUCP bang path, for the kids who don’t know. The ! separates relay hops, it’s a literal routing instruction. Get to the backbone, reach wivax, forward to cadmus.

No DNS.

Machines screamed at each other to swap data.

#unix_surrealism

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A man works on a computer with multiple monitors displaying graphical data, surrounded by an advertisement for Cadmus computer systems.

Alt...

A vintage advertisement for the Cadmus 9000 computer system, highlighting its complete set of tools and contact information.

#Yinz graffiti on the freight car.

Game devs, drop the keyboard and play this drinking game. Then continue coding to experience real vibe coding.

https://ludocity.org/wiki/Tablero_de_Yinzer

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Tablero de Yinzer is based on Tablero da Gucci, which in turn is based, allegedly, on a gambling game called Tablero de Jesus. Tablero de Yinzer is the version Tablero da Gucci played in Pittsburgh, as adapted by members of Obscure Games Pittsburgh.

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#Yinzer #Pittsburgh #Beer #Games #BoardGames

#Yinz #Yinzer #YinzerMafia #Pennsyltucky #Pennsylvania #Keystone #Appalachia #Allegheny

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Beer glass with Pennsylvania map shape and the word Yinzer.

This is roughly how tax laws work in USA.

I find that I experience culture and community in 'meat space.' Online is mostly for entertainment or escape. I get away from the meat space goblins to fight with the virtual trolls and gremlins. YMMV.

In meat space you can verify that the person is real and not a sock puppet. Usually.

#MeatSpace #Cyberspace #Culture #Community

"Hoping that this bubble will finally burst"

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

Europe, the AI Continent.

One year ago, we launched the AI Continent Action Plan. Since then, we have made huge strides:

✅ 19 AI factories are now live across EU countries.
✅ We established the AI Skills Academy to train experts.
✅ The AI Omnibus is cutting costs for business.
✅ We have earmarked €1 billion to support AI adoption in industry.

We are building a secure and innovative AI future for Europe.

Here's how 👉 https://link.europa.eu/nj3VH9

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A robotic hand and a human hand reaching towards each other, reminiscent of "The Creation of Adam." They are framed by a circle of glowing pink and blue stars. Below, white text reads "EUROPE The AI continent," with the European Commission logo in the bottom right corner.

"I've got an AI bridge to sell. You interested?"

"... that is THE absolutest worst thing this account ever posted."

You may not have intended a pun with the word, 'holy' but here we are. Good work.

SCOTUS rules that ordinary Americans do NOT owe income tax!

https://youtu.be/bTLYcr-JuDc

SCOTUS just contradicted a century of circuit courts and their malicious rulings subjecting Americans to the income tax. Will anyone notice?

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Dr Champion shows you the astounding words of a recent US Supreme Court decision, in which the Court explains why Americans need not pay income tax! The Court also bitch-slapped half the US Circuit Courts of Appeal in the process. A truly phenomenal decision! (Recorded December 4, 2024.)

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#Taxes #IncomeTax #IRS #SCOTUS #courts #law #legal #money

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

@wordplay@lemmy.ml @Vocabulary@lemmy.ml

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OCTADE | news://alt.flashback | https://soc.octade.net

Into the cathedral
Of night
To be baptized
By ancient
Starlight
And made
Whole.

#poetry

https://youtu.be/Nhz6vao13bs

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California AB 2047: The End of Open Source 3D Printing

California just introduced a bill that doesn't just regulate "ghost guns", it mandates a digital kill switch for every 3D printer sold. California AB 2047 requires "blocking technology" that connects your printer to a government-approved database before every single print. If the system goes down, or your file is flagged, your hardware becomes a paperweight.

This isn't just about firearms. This is the death of Open Source. If this bill passes, it effectively bans Marlin, Klipper, and Orca Slicer, forcing every manufacturer to lock down their firmware. It turns general-purpose computing into a walled garden where you only rent permission to use the hardware you own.

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#OpenSource #RightToRepair #Privacy #Clippy #California #Monopolies #3dPrinters #3dPrinting #Technology #Government #Firearms #Guns #SoftwareFreedom #Surveillance #Panopticon #Lobbyists

All the donor-funded foundations ought to be fighting against and speaking out against this Orwellian garbage.

@eff@mastodon.social
@fsf@hostux.social
@linuxfoundation@social.lfx.dev
@privacyint@mastodon.xyz
@openssf@social.lfx.dev
@rms@mastodon.xyz
@CCIAnet@techpolicy.social
@WriterOfMinds@sigmoid.social
@SeaGL@mastodon.social
@hopeconf@mastodon.online
@w3c@w3c.social
@ACM@mastodon.acm.org
@irtf@discuss.systems
@osi@opensource.org

🎙️ Why preserve college radio?

Radio researcher Jennifer Waits stopped by CJSF to share insights from her work managing college & community radio collections.

Jennifer volunteers at KFJC & works with the Internet Archive, where she curates the college radio collection within the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC). 📻

🎧 Full interview ⬇️
https://soundcloud.com/cjsfradio/interview-with-jennifer-waits

@internetarchivecanada @internetarchive #DLARC #CollegeRadio

i still refuses cookies and don't have any LLM or AI installed on my desktop. I just used grep and find commends to find files. You don't need this tech bro bullshit on your personal machines.

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A screenshot of social media post by user called Wise (@trikcode) and post text reads: the generation that refused to accept cookies. is now giving AI access to their desktops, files, and bank accounts

A tick?

Anywhere anyone calls for a vote, there is a crime in progress ...

... and someone wants a vote to varnish the crime legit.

See what I did there?

Snakes exist just to eat.

#snakes #serpents #animals #critters #humor #jokes

You really do want this CRAP ...