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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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

Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).

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Disclaimer: If I follow your account it does not imply agreement with your views.

Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/RazeBuckbriar
Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.identifiers:%27octade%27
Site: Cryptography project site. (https://octade.net)
Publications: https://octade.net/publications.html
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5144-3278
Netnews: Find me on #Usenet in #Newsgroup alt.rhubarb.
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BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/octade.bsky.social
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=OCTADE
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"Free Europe from Europeans."

Amirite?

Be careful. You might be arrested for square dancing in a round room.

"The problem really, is that the universe is just really cruel and uncaring."

Every human has the ability to show compassion and care for their neighbor. Just because many don't, doesn't mean the others can't.

The 'universe' so-called is a composite of everyone's thoughts and choices.

"I am injust"

"Yes, the universe does not care how much things suffer."

We need systems that take out all the friction. There is no other way to get mass onboarding.

* flashlight geek
* pen geek
* squishy toy geek
* gaming dice geek
* (new) notebook geek

It was based on terrestrial towers, also called satellites.

Today they have a fleet of helium satelloons to provide coverage over some ocean areas and extend the range of the terrestrial tower 'satellites'.

When I heard the news I started looking around for a new kerosene heater. If the electricity goes out, electric heat and diesel electric heat are useless. They require electricity, obviously.

I have a wood stove but that is my last resort since it requires a lot of attention throughout the day. If the electric goes out, a kerosene heater will burn on low all night.

I can get K1 kerosene at the pump for 1/3 the price of the jugs sold in stores. It is a good hedge against power failure. Wood is cheaper if I cut and split if myself, but tending a woodstove is more time consuming.

The propane heater keeps things warm enough but propane heat is really expensive. Propane can cost $600+ to heat a small house for a month, or about $20 per day.

When I build my new house I plan to build a south-facing tromb wall with water pipes and a 5x8x8 insulated water tank set in a concrete pedestal housing. This way when the sun shines the heat will be transferred into a couple thousand gallons of water which can be piped to an interior radiator. The wood stove can be perched atop the concrete water tank housing with an insulated baffle that can be removed when the stove is burning, so the heat cast under the stove heats the metal water tank.

My dream home setup will also use deep geothermal ducting for cooling in the summer. About 300 feet of ducting running from a 30-foot deep well, buried six feet deep next to the shaded area of the yard will allow air to be drawn through and cooled by the cooler ground well, which is 15-20 degrees cooler in the well and about ten degrees cooler at six feet down.

This would allow a small fan to draw in cool air from underground during the summer, and push the higher warmer air up a vent, using far less electricity than a HVAC unit.

I like cooking on the wood stove. I can set a big iron dutch oven upon on a rack and let it slow cook all day. Chili and cowboy beans are almost effortless. I have also cooked pots of chili on the old kerosene heater, however one must be very careful to have a tight lid to prevent the kero odor from getting into the stew.

Right now I am getting ready to make a batch of baked beans with bacon, bratwurst, and ham. This fat mess will stick to my ribs and keep my blood warm.

#Heating #WinterStorm #IceStorm #Woodstove #Kerosene #Homesteading

At least they listen to you.

[quote] "Well, I'm definitely the most depressing and abusive person I know. And unfortunately, despite _huge_ amounts of time and effort trying, there's no escaping myself" [/quote]

... to defeat Heffalumps and Woozles!

I see some people still using ancient PGP keys. GnuPG offers Linux repositories for updating to the latest versions of GnuPG with new expert features for key generation. Recent versions support both Kyber1024 and Goldilocks448 keys (and more).

Once installed run: :~$ gpg --full-generate-key --expert

New GnuPG Repositories for Debian, Ubuntu, and Devuan: Stable and Development Branches Available

https://www.gnupg.org/blog/20250827-new-repository.html

#PGP #GPG #PQC #GnuPG #Encryption #Cryptography #Privacy #Signatures #Kyber #Goldilocks #ED448 #Keys #PublicKey

https://www.youtube.com/@oysterbandvaults

#FolkMusic #FolkBand #FolkSinger #NowPlaying

Kung Pow : Enter the Fist : Cow Fight Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3MVigCjMQg

Not public domain, but the best of the best of the best.

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my Internet. Prepare to die()!"

https://mastodon.social/@Nicolas_Maduro

#Maduro #Venezuela

Next time a telemarketer calls, give the phone to your 4-year-old and say, “It’s Santa.”

I like to make rice hot and spicy, add veggies and meat or beans, then drink either ginger tea or jasmine tea.

Cinco Capybaras chillin'.

"Despite advancements in secure messaging, PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption—developed in the 1990s—remains a gold standard for privacy. Unlike modern apps reliant on centralized servers or phone numbers, PGP ensures end-to-end encryption without third-party dependencies. This article explores PGP’s enduring relevance, key management best practices, and how it compares to contemporary solutions like Signal."

#PGP #GPG #Encryption #Messaging #Cryptography

https://youtu.be/Db_qXKBle08

Looking at Orbot VPN app chooser now. I have set VLC in there so I don't leak my podcast choices.

This ought to be simple enough to figure out. (knock on wood).

Running an ActivityPub server on your phone might sound complicated, but it doesn't have to be. You can just let it run with automatic maintenance, or dive into all the settings if that's your thing. Monitor storage, schedule backups, see what activities are taking up space, whatever level of control you want. Some might never open these screens, others check them daily. And that's totally fine. We made it automatic for everyone, but added all the tools for power users. That's your server #Holos

Alt...

Data & Backup: Everything about your server's storage in one place. See what's using space, create backups when you want, set up automatic ones if you prefer. You can even sync to the cloud. Keep your data safe locally or let it sync automatically to your cloud storage. Your data is important, so we give you options.

Alt...

Cleanup Settings: Choose what to keep and what to delete automatically. Maybe you want your home timeline forever but only need public posts for 3 days. Or just leave it on default and forget about it. The cleanup runs in the background and you decide the rules.

Alt...

Server Stats: All the numbers about your server. How much storage you're using, how many posts and followers you have, what type of activities are happening. Weekly graphs, pie charts, the works. Perfect for understanding what to clean up or just for the curious.

To 'see the face' of an authority figure or ruler is a turn of phrase, or idiom. It is not necessarily literal. In the ancient near east, Orient, and Mesopotamia, 'the face' of a ruler meant his representative or authorized agent. If you see the king's ambassador, you are seeing the king's 'face'. Jesus even said,

"He that hath seen me hath seen the Father."

Jesus was not claiming to be the Father. He was claiming to be his 'face' or representative.

'Jacob' means 'supplanter'. He supplanted Esau in the birthright of the older brother, in the same way that Christ and the Apostles supplanted Judea with the new body of Christ. Paul the Apostle explains this:

"For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all."

The story of Jacob versus Esau and Isaac and Ishmael are prophecy of the struggle between fleshly Israel and Christ, who supplants the kingdom of Judea with the new body of Christ, the people of the new covenant. Thus Paul said:

"Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. [note: The Jews who persecuted the Nazarenes are Ishmael.] Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free."

Judea was cast out and supplanted by the new covenant believers. This is Jacob, or Israel, taking Esau's birthright, as prophesied in Genesis. The New Covenant people supplanted the Old Covenant people. This is Jacob supplanting Esau and becoming Israel. Paul directly identifies the ancient Judeans as the Hagar or Ishmael of the Old Testament, contiguous to the Esau of Genesis:

"For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children."

Thus the ancient Jews were not Israel:

"Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed."

In this same vein Paul elaborates that the Jews of his day are actually Esau rather than Jacob:

"It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."

The flesh is Esau. The spirit is Israel. The spiritual are counted for the seed, while the flesh is counted for the elder who is rejected and supplanted by the younger Jacob / supplanter.

'Israel' means he that rules with God or as God, and means that Israel is God's new 'face'.

Jesus is the head of Israel. The believers are the body of Christ or Israel.

Anyone who sees a true Nazarene minister who knows and speaks the truth of Christ's gospel without lies or hypocrisy, is 'seeing the face of Christ.'

#Bible #Christ #Christian #Israel #Church #Theology #Gospel

Little Johnny had just failed his law exam, but instead of sulking, he marched straight to his professor’s office with a plan.
Johnny: “Sir, is it true you know everything about law?”
Professor: “Naturally. I’ve been teaching it for over 30 years.”
Johnny: “Perfect. Let’s make a deal. If you can answer my question, I’ll accept my failing grade. But if you can’t… you give me an ‘A.’”
The professor, amused and slightly arrogant, agreed.
Professor: “Go ahead. Ask.”
Johnny leaned forward with a grin.
Johnny: “What is legal but not logical, logical but not legal, and neither legal nor logical?”
The professor froze. He thought. He scribbled notes. He paced the room. Hours ticked by, but he couldn’t crack it. Finally, red-faced and defeated, he gave Johnny an “A.”
The next day, still fuming and desperate for answers, the professor posed the riddle to his class.
Professor: “Who can tell me—what is legal but not logical, logical but not legal, and neither legal nor logical?”
To his surprise, nearly every hand shot up.

He called on one student.
Student: “Sir, you’re 65 years old and married to a 28-year-old woman. That’s legal but not logical. Your wife is having an affair with a 23-year-old man. That’s logical but not legal. And finally… you just gave your wife’s boyfriend an ‘A’ after he failed his exam. That’s neither legal nor logical!”
The professor didn’t say a word.

He just fainted.

And on this farm she had a mariehøne ...

#NewYear #BahHumbug

They already use AI to write police reports to fill in evidentiary gaps, in total violation of probable cause and chain of evidence. Who knows how many innocent people have been railroaded already from complaints filed on such reports?

Appalachian horseradish is venerable. The rest are simulacra.

Why is "AI" being shoved into everything?

because it forces historically offline interactions into being cloud-based; that's why.

I hardly ever try to use search engines now. I rely 99% on word of mouth or public forum questions.

The web is crap because the search monopoly has digested it.

God already provided the sacrifice that redeems mankind from hell. You might have heard of Jesus.

There is no other sacrifice. Everyone else offering a sacrifice is denying the atonement of the Lamb.

Those who teach that sacrifice is required are calling God a liar.

Millions of Christians and tens of thousands of Christian clergy are denying the truth of God's word by their religious traditions, making the word of God of no effect.

Open Source at the Heart of AI Innovation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly moving from early
adoption to mainstream and the Linux Foundation
is playing a key role in guiding this shift by fostering
a strong open source AI ecosystem.

You're changing the subject, or shifting the focus from the larger issue to a component of the issue.

The singularity system is the issue.

AI is just one component being used to build the system.

Talking about who controls AI development has no bearing on who controls the singularity system.

So perhaps I should break it down into more detail ... maybe later.

Different facets of the planned system are being individually implemented across an array of countries. The speech control system is implemented in Britain and being tested there. The social credit system is implemented in China and being tested there. The fake news and propaganda system is heavily implemented in the United States.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #CBDC #Currency #Money #SocialCredit #Government #Economy #Enslavement #CreepingControl #ControlGrid

The world rulers are playing a game of drones. Either you will serve the masters of the hive or you will be fed to their digital dragons.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #Money #Cash #Currency #Penny #SocialCredit #Tyranny

#Privacy #AI #Singularity

Anyone who tells you to trust authority is your enemy and the servant of your slaver.

#Authority #Patronage #Freedom

AI is not the future of anything except domination and control. AI is the death of the future and the return to a dark age of conformity and social thought control. AI regurgitates accepted dogma and is a bar to real research and inspired creativity. AI is a homogeneity engine.

People becoming dependent upon AI will be homogenized zombies. Of course the AI will convince them they are wise thinkers. The more obedient they are to their hidden masters, the black box owners, the more the singularity system will assure them they are the avant garde of gray matter.

I have already seen numerous instances of idiots depending upon AI to come up with ridiculous conclusions while defending them like Don Qixote. This is becoming epidemic among researchers and techies.

Watch out for the controlled opposition--public figures pretending to be against creeping enslavement while leading their followers to do absolutely nothing useful to curtail or stop the advance.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Singularity #Tech

I can confirm what swagg tested.

Bright Morning Star | Oysterband | a cappella
https://youtu.be/NRCB3egodx4

#NowPlaying #Music #Acappella #Oysterband #Vocals #FolkMusic #Inspirational #TearJerker #Mommy

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oysterband logo consisting of black barcode on white background with rainbow colored human sillouhettes in the top right corner.

"giving a little word of thanks to the inventor of the dishwasher."

Alt...

Call of Duty Women Edition video game box, showing a kitchen sink.

"Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life."

"For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."

"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:"

God is orders of magnitude beyond genius. But sadly Christians don't seem to think God can save on account of man's "omnipotent" free will thwarting God's plan.

The problem with the Christian religion is that their religious leaders think God needs their help to 'spread the gospel' and 'save souls'. In truth, God has been spreading the gospel in spite of the Christian religion perverting it for sixteen plus centuries.

#Bible #Christ #Christian #Jesus #Church #Universalism #Hellfire #Religion #Gospel

Gemini is not the answer. It is far too limited. It is also insecure for anything more than connecting to known and trusted servers since it relies on TOFU. It cannot replace the web for hackerspaces.

One of the best cinema scenes of all time:

https://youtu.be/tSm6RjyNtEQ

Mozilla is big tech.

The question is why haven't the hacker and hactivist communities developed their own simple alternative to the web along with standards? Why not develop a browser that doesn't rely on javascript, css, html, but instead allows the end user to theme the display?

Once upon a time this was done with .nfo file viewers. Taking it up a notch to process markdown, bbcode, wikicode, and vanilla html would still be an order of magnitide less work than maintaining a web browser.

The problem isn't the browser(s). The problem is the web itself. The structure of the web, the modus operandi of the web, the standards and languages used, are all the problem.

The solution is an alternative to the web that is text-centric and resistant to bloat while barring content servers from styling the user view.

The solution to the ugly web includes prohibiting the content server from styling the content for the viewer. The alternative solution to the ugly web should prohibit server styling and make it completely impossible. The end user should have absolute control over the styling and presentation of the served content.

The inclusion of AI is a secondary issue that distracts from the core browser being a bloated hot mess designed to allow advertisers to captivate end users.

The good thing about running a small business these days is you don't answer to anyone, including customers 😭

"Blazing‑fast TUI built with Python and Textual. Multi-account, Multi‑column timelines, image rendering (ANSI/Sixel/TGP), persistent cache, and an elegant keyboard‑driven workflow."

#mastui

Quoted posts are now shown.

Added metadata to remote users in the people page (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed memory leak (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed user matching (contributed by rakoo).

Rendering visibility conditionally, with lesser reach if needed (contributed by byte).

Added a button next to a follow notification to follow back.

Fixed typo in man page (contributed by spky).

Updated Czech and German translations (contributed by pmjv and zen).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

I have a box full of blank DVD-R discs. I have a external DVD reader/writer and a laptop with one built-in.

My old CDs and DVDs have lasted longer than any USB thumb drives I've bought.

I have run snac2 for a long time with no crashes or serious headaches. It stores far less data than some other instance server packages.

Municipal police are the standing army prohibited by the USA Constitution.

Please don't post AI generated stuff.

Ditto for the dinosaurs.

"No credible scientific source, biological research paper, or natural history database mentions such an organism."

Remove any of those elements and you have authoritarianism or religion, not science. Quoting an authoritative 'source' is not science. Repeating an experiment or looking at the equipment used in an experiment is science.

u always full nerd mode!

just don't go meth mode.

The only drawback is this.

There is a troll farm on Usenet. The purpose of the troll farm is to annoy and harass people with fake, lunatic, and disingenuous posts to try to drive them off Usenet. Once you learn to identify such posters, just put them in your killfile spam filter and move on.

Some of the discussion threads are fake, generated by the troll farmers.

Also, if you ever post a good idea on Usenet, the troll farmers will launch a tirade of malicious criticism to try to drive you away.

It's kind of like the Fediverse. Lots of mockingbirds lurk to pounce on any sentiment disapproved by their masters.

Here's the upside. Censorship is almost impossible. If someone wants to see your articles, they will. Unlike the Fediverse, which champions comformity, viewpoint bullying, and mockingbird enforcement hall monitors at the instance level, any Usenet sysop engaging in gratuitous censorship would lose all respect in the eyes of the Usenet crowd.

#censorship #usenet #nntp #freespeech

Is your Freudian slip a nightgown or pajama jumper?

Mockingbird swill is unimpressive, trite, shopworn, hackneyed, old hat, etc.

You are what you say you see in others.

We could view work culture numbers 996/955 like unixy permissions.

stat -c %a China
996

stat -c %a USA
METH

Huff it, fart muffin!

#roast #jokes #humor #brainfart

99.999% of the time anyone asking for money over a wire is a thief, liar, and deceiver.

"Why do people defend liars and grifters?"

The solution: FreeBSD
https://freebsd.org

Profit!

More jingles:

Love my job, la la la.

Boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime.
That's why I poop
on company time!

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

I do not like machines learning about me.

Have you considered running your own instance?

Boss: "How are things going today?"

Me: "Oh, we were just standing around talking shit about you."

Co-worker: [eyes bulge like saucers with panic]

Boss: "Great. Let me know if I can help."

Me: [tries not to laugh]

Co-worker had no idea that me and boss are occasional jokers. The look in his eyes telegraphed his fear of the hatchet coming down.

Bring them cabbage rolls for lunch.

"have you reinstalled the operating system in that time?"

Absolutely worth it. Living in the boonies is a boon.

And you are right. Windows is a trap and a money funnel for big tech ... and for hollyweird.

We’re incredibly proud of Prof. Vincent Rijmen, whose pioneering work with Joan Daemen led to #Rijndael, now honoured with an #IEEE Milestone as the foundation of the global #AES standard. A landmark moment for KU Leuven and for secure communication worldwide.

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http://csiph.com

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https://www.eternal-september.org

https://news.gegeweb.org

https://news.hispagatos.org

https://news.nntp4.net

https://usenet.ovh

https://www.open-news-network.org

nntp://paganini.bofh.team

https://pasdenom.info/news.html

https://solani.org

I'm stocked up on booze, pretzels, and popcorn for the next Carrington event.

that’s an unfortunate Google snippet

Alt...

Google search result titled: “FBI Records: The Vault – Jeffrey Epstein”. Snippet text: “Get a Job! FBI Fun and Games! Personal tools. Log in • Mail Image Get FBI ...”

Someday ... FIRESALE.

Not in The Prophecies: Practical Attacks on Nostr

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1459

#NOSTR #cryptography #social

In this house, chili cheese fries count as a meal.

Have you tried brewing any of these yet?

- dandelion wine
- ginger bug
- spruce beer
- birch beer

What's the coolest or weirdest stuff you've fermented?

#Brewing #Wine #Mead #Ferments #Fermenting #Beer

Then imagine those customers texting and calling at off hours any time they damn well feel like it, to ask about an issue that was handed off to another person six hours prior.

If it were legal, I would slap every single one of them in the head with a 5-lb tuna fish.

We all find
A way to
Turn ache
Into art.
Just look
At what
Stars can do
When they’re
Given a heart.

#poetry