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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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

#Coffee #CowboyCoffee #MorningMudd

Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).

Likes: Interested in WORK PRODUCT, inspiration, faith, truth, beauty, nature, self-improvement, encouragement, edification, praiseworthy things, how-tos, beautiful things, artwork, fluid poems, and general human kindness and achievement. See my profile hashtags for technical subjects of interest.

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.
Git: https://codeberg.org/OCTADE
Keyoxide1: https://keyoxide.org/0CF7084CF97B85F2ABF97010C6663A42C56F5F0E
Keyoxide2: https://keyoxide.org/B9B2A8EC2C4B20D2011CFEAA07E4A7FFF6585E8F
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/octade.bsky.social
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=OCTADE
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@buckbriar

When eating chicken one must watch out for bones. When eating echidna one must watch out for little swords.

A group of mad scientists named Folger, Maxwell, Horton, and Starbuck created an elixir that triggers the coffee gene.

#coffee

Sometimes when someone coughed we would say, "Have another cigarette, why doncha?"

Are you arguing over two kinds of toilets? One flushes and distributes the payload through a vast sewer system. The other is a latrine pit under a cardboard outhouse. Decentralized vs. centralized 101.

"Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." (1 John 3:15)

"Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." (1 John 3:15)

"Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." (1 John 3:15)

Inform your friends and family about these tools.

#Briar ... https://briarproject.org

"Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in."

#Retroshare ... https://retroshare.cc

"Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on #Android, #Linux, #MacOS and #Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service."

#RicochetRefresh ... https://www.ricochetrefresh.net

"Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging."

#OnionShare ... https://onionshare.org

"OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network."

#DeltaChat ... https://delta.chat

"Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app."

#Bitmessage ... https://bitmessage.org

"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."

#TorBrowser ... https://www.torproject.org/download

"Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."

#I2P ... https://geti2p.net

"The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work."

#Hyphanet ... https://www.hyphanet.org/

"Hyphanet is peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. The original Freenet."

#BitChan ... https://github.com/813492291816/BitChan

"BitChan is a decentralized anonymous imageboard inspired by BitBoard and built on top of Bitmessage with Tor, I2P, and GnuPG."

#DarkMX ... https://darkmx.app

"DarkMX is a new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor hidden services to allow you to easily have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet. You can chat. You can share files. You can search other people's files. You can keep a contact list and send private messages to your friends. You can create your own custom .onion site, available to anyone with a Tor Browser."

#Decentralized #TOR #AntiSurveillance #Anonymity #Anonymous #Privacy #Filesharing #Networking #Communication #P2P #F2F #PeerToPeer #Censorship #AntiCensorship #FreeSpeech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=533pBCqgE-k

"Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was giving a presentation at Utah Valley University when he was fatally shot."

The Christian god is EVIL! The Real GOD Saves ALL Mankind!

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

"The god of Christianity is an evil tyrant. The real God of Scripture is the Saviour of All mankind. Especially of believers. Hell or Eternal Torment is a Lie!"

I tried: https://a.gup.pe/u/opensource

And instead of the group page I got the page shown in the attached image.

#MemoryHole #GuppeGroups #Fediverse #Groups

Double trailer teaser ... it better be a good show!

I noticed that when I add attachments to a draft the attachment files remain in the static directory even after deleting the draft. I tested with TXT, HTML, and PDF files. I also ran snac purge and the orphaned files remain.

I am running the current /backports/ version of snac.

Is there something else I could do for orphan attachment file cleanup (other than manually)?

"Like, why don't more people hate me"

Let me know if you have any good methods for filtering the brain rot. I'm running snac2. I filter out some tags but it barely makes a dent.

#Filters #AntiSocialMedia #PollyCracker #MockingBirdMedia #CultSpeak #snac2 #Propaganda

I'm not one of the baddies, but I might have to ask:

"Am I the old man shaking fist at cloud?"

I sometimes catch myself mumbling grumpily at the 'cloud' and SaaS parts of yon Internet. Hosting and VPS services can make me especially grumpy and fist-thumpy when they break.

#grumpy #grump #grumble #grrr #grouse #grouch

@Caiotekit

My friend has a great quote that I think about during these times:

"Family, it's not just a word, it's a sentence."

@bob@beamship.mpaq.org @noondlyt@hellions.cloud

Does anyone have any experience with or opinions on Movim? (https://movim.eu/)

AFAIK the Mormon church has the most extensive collection of open genealogy records in the whole world. Genealogy is a BIG part of their religion so they archive every scrap of genealogical data that comes their way.

#genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestors #Ancestry #FamilyTrees

Such a large number of texts being ciphered with the same key presents fodder for a fund of attacks. Key re-use is dangerous in such a scenario.

A master key is can be combined with a unique sub key or salt for each message for individual key derivation per message. The unique sub keys can be encrypted with the master key for additional security. Such keys and salts must be RNG sourced.

Qyber?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfehGfSTu70

#slop #FakeFood #nutrition

Sometimes a squirrel comes along that really likes me. This is my current buddy squirrel. She’s always up there watching me. She doesn’t have a name, I think this will be my Queen Maxima. I’ll ask her today what she thinks about it

Alt...

A female fox squirrel sploots up on a pepper tree branch. One front paw rests on a jutting tree nub like shes revving a motorcycle, vroom vroom. Green fronds hang around her shading her from the sun

Usenet is accessible via TOR and open access servers that don't require registration or identifying information.

The writer can write and discuss using a pseudonym or pen name without fear of retaliation from employers, government, friends, and family. This encourages some people to share their innermost thoughts they would otherwise not express. Of course it also encourages trolls, but there are plenty of trolls everywhere else.

Usenet is text-centric so unlike the fediverse there is not a stream of distracting images.

Even after all these years I still prefer reading and posting Usenet newsgroups over all other forms of so-called, 'social media'.

#Usenet #NewsGroups #NNTP #NetworkNews #NetNews #Anonymous #Anonymity #Writers #Writing

I like split pea soup with pumpkin or squash and sweet potato and lots of spice. You can top it with coconut cream, or yogurt, or sour cream.

Pride and joy of my garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1430574/pride-and-joy-of-my-garden/ #fun #gardening #GardeningFun

Alt...

Pride and joy of my garden

@paninid You know when I was a kid my dad went on a rant that I’ve never forgotten. He was just suddenly very vocally angry about the existence of telephones.

“You push a few buttons in your house. You have no idea what I’m dealing with, but you make a loud bell ring in my house and demand my immediate attention. Well fuck you. You can’t have it.”

I haven't checked gnutella in a long while since the proxy function in gtk-gnutella is broken. The DarkMX network is still up and running. It is the successor to WinMX, the best P2P app from over 20 years ago.

As for decent content, it depends on what you want. There are many terabytes of music and audio and video, and lots of reading material.

Retroshare is still under active development. It allows to create hidden F2F networks with blogs, forums, chat, file shares, mail, all E2E encrypted.

https://github.com/go-while/go-pugleaf

Pugleaf sports a web portal and built-in administrative tools.

#Usenet #RocksolidLight #Retro #NNTP #NetworkNews

Poppins is very similar to Sofia Pro. Perhaps by changing the weight it would be even more similar.

Nunito Sans is another font you might find agreeably similar.

"I want to be one of those women who gives the devil paralyzing panic attacks just because #God woke me up that day."

Their motto should be, "Don't be good."

1. Get a free account: https://www.eternal-september.org/
2. Get a newsreader: https://www.claws-mail.org/

Configure the newsreader with your new account credentials, download the list of newsgroups, and start subscribing.

There are many free Usenet hosts and many different Usenet reader client softwares. The two proposed above are very popular.

#Usenet #NNTP #EternalSeptember

Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks.

Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below.

Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups.

Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet.

Open source philosophy gained its steam via Usenet.

Usenet is the original free speech network.

Usenet is the original 'social network'.

NovaBBS
https://novabbs.org

Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://www.i2pn2.org/

#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @academicchatter@a.gup.pe

@kajer@infosec.exchange

alt.2600
alt.2600.hackers
alt.anagrams
alt.anonymous
alt.centipede
alt.cyberpunk
alt.cypherpunks
alt.folklore.computers
alt.html
alt.rhubarb
alt.sources.crypto
alt.ygdrasil
comp.os.linux.advocacy
comp.os.linux.misc
comp.os.plan9
comp.risks
eternal-september.talk
grc.techtalk
grc.techtalk.retro
hispagatos.talk
news.software.nntp
rec.puzzles
sci.crypt
sci.crypt.random-numbers
sci.math

#Usenet #NetworkNews #NNTP #retro #social

Ygdrasil is the first online literary journal, first published in 1993.

You might find the editor on Facebook and at Academia.edu.

#zine #zines #journals #poetry #literature #ygdrasil

Usenet Reborn [0], a terminal‑based NNTP client written in Rust (by @rek2), is now available on pkgsrc.

[0] https://sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn/
#nntp #usenet #smolweb #pkgsrc

Alt...

Screenshot of a terminal window running usenet_reborn. On the left, a column listing subscribed newsgroups, and on the right pane, a threaded view of the comp.infosystems.gopher group.

It looks like Academia.edu is blocking works that were formerly public. So much for academic freedom and public knowledge ...

Libertarians are still lynching pumpkins.

Where's the lie? Your agitprop language and vague, nebulous insinuation has no effect here. Ah, that's where the lie lies!

The whole freak show is the "Synthesis of Opposites" to achieve the predetermined plan in the middle.

Libertarianism is socialism for the rich and ryot tenure for the working class.

#Libertarians #Libertarian

Phuque ottokorekt.

Welcome back to the 80s vibe.

Instead of kefir I've done homemade yogurt which firms up well.

You can also do clabbered milk with unpasteurized milk. Hillbillies have made clabbered milk since Methuselah was drinking it. The milk needs to be raw to properly clabber it.

Or perhaps one could saddle a teacup pig and be called the same.

" I live in England where we have zero evacuation orders, but still... "

GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUgv6dpJc

Short video: https://octade.net/urls/6000_patents.html

In 1998, Stanley Meyer claimed to invent a car that ran on water. Days later, he was dead—and his invention disappeared. But Meyer wasn't the only one. There’s a federal law, still active today, that allows the U.S. government to classify and bury private inventions deemed a “threat.” It's called the Invention Secrecy Act—and it's already been used over 6,000 times.

From Nikola Tesla’s wireless energy to Townsend Brown’s anti-gravity tech to Joseph Papp’s engine that ran on noble gases, history is littered with breakthrough inventors who vanished into obscurity... and whose technologies never made it to the public.

This episode uncovers the case studies, the hidden power of secrecy orders, and the chilling question: What else have they buried?

#patents #USPTO #inventions #inventors #secrecy #laws #Tesla #USGov #Government #NationalSecurity #GagOrders

@academicchatter@a.gup.pe @edutooters@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

I don't know about an IPv6 donkey client. It seems that interest has waned enough that most projects have stagnated.

I think if you connect aMule via a TOR proxy it should be able to reach the network. Perhaps it may work with torsocks or proxychains or socat.

DarkMX works great over TOR and it should connect regardless of your IP scheme.

RetroShare (http://retroshare.cc) also has built-in TOR connectivity and it is open source with a Linux repo. It is F2F instead of P2P. You have to invite people to join your network. This can be a big upside for security but would usually mean less files to find. RetroShare also has built-in messaging and forums.

I never felt
So lonely
As when
I learned
Your name

#poetry

#P2P #FileSharing #Networks #Darknet #Darkweb #Software

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @p2p@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe @networks@a.gup.pe

I don't know why people pay so much for such things. If I had $600 to waste I would buy a computer or some tools.

The story should be taken with a grain of salt. ;)

The story should be taken with a grain of salt. ;)

(see the crazy AltText for example)

It seems to me that #AltText may be helpful to AI bots snarfing data. Since detailed descriptions are included this may be of great advantage to the AI intelligence curve for building more accurate scanning and analysis datasets.

One way to gum the gears might be to include non-sequitur AltText with noisy images where you don't want bots to benefit.

Alt...

Boris Beefcake has broken out of prison. A white supremacist duck named Boris Beefcake is wanted for assault with a unfriendly weapon in his bid to segregate geese and mallards. He is displaying his unfriendly weapon in this mugshot while drinking alcohol-free whiskey from the dewdrops. With his unfriendly weapon Boris Beefcake has an ugly mug only a mother could slap.

I like the scheduled post feature in the snac2 web front end. Is there a way to schedule a post using the command-line server side? I know, I know, I can just write a shell script or cron job to fire at particular times ... but figured I would ask if snac2 has that capability.

#Debian #Calamares #BTRFS

Exception: wearing a necktie as a headband or sweatband should remain legal.

The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed

https://youtu.be/onYWQJsWFpk

Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to police without warrants, leading to a massive surveillance operation that generated $94 million in fines. This explosive investigation reveals how SMUD transformed smart meters into government spy devices, monitoring when you shower, sleep, or use appliances.

Innocent homeowners faced armed police raids for using electricity to power medical equipment or mine cryptocurrency. One resident was forced outside in his underwear at gunpoint, while another disabled veteran was threatened with arrest for refusing warrantless entry. The surveillance threshold dropped dramatically from 7,000 to just 2,800 kilowatt hours per month, making air conditioning use suspicious in Sacramento's brutal heat.

Internal documents expose how SMUD analysts actively mined customer data for police, checking over 10,000 homes in a single month. Despite California law explicitly prohibiting utilities from sharing precise meter data without warrants, SMUD violated these protections daily for a decade.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit could reshape smart meter privacy nationwide. With the October 2025 court decision approaching, every American with a smart meter needs to understand how their utility company might be spying on them right now.

#SMUD #SmartMeters #EFF #Privacy #Utilities #Electricity #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Spying #4thAmendment #WarrantlessSearch #Constitution #CivilRights #Courts #Lawsuit #SCOTUS #Cops #Police #Extortion #Fraud

@privacy@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

Add to that the fact that some rich people actually do good things and care about their downline. It is impish and reactionary to curse someone merely because they have money.

I know this is different in the tech sector. A lot of self-inflated, brittle, fragile people stand at the top of that heap.

"Hosting a Tor hidden service — also known as an onion site — typically requires in-depth technical skills and manual configuration. With TorServ, you can host a static website anonymously in seconds, without touching any config files."

#TorServ #TOR #Onions #OnionNetwork #Privacy #Anonymity

@selfhosting@a.gup.pe
@infosec@a.gup.pe
@linux@a.gup.pe
@networks@a.gup.pe
@crypto@a.gup.pe
@darknet@a.gup.pe
@privacy@a.gup.pe
@infostorm@a.gup.pe

Alt...

Two slices of red onion stacked one atop the other. The onion symbolizes TOR, The Onion Network, and its multiple layers of cryptographic obfuscation.

I am doing some research on the nativity of Jesus of Nazareth. I am looking into the many sectarian traditions and scholarly opinions on this subject.

I would like to get hermeneutic opinions and off the cuff opinions on some groundwork questions.

1. What actual year do you think Jesus was born?

2. How old was Mary when she was married?

3. How did Mary conceive?

4. What is the significance of his birthplace?

5. What is the significance of the Magi who sought him after his birth?

6. Why was it necessary or significant for an angel to tell Mary she was going to conceive?

Where possible, links or citations would be useful for particular opinions or traditional explanations.

#bible #jesus #theology #mary #miriam #virginbirth #nativity #incarnation #christ #christianity

@theology@a.gup.pe @christianity@a.gup.pe @religion@a.gup.pe @academicchatter@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

Did the post strike a nerve?

You don't switch to FOSS.

FOSS converts you.

Fediverse is peppered with #cringy, delusional, self-hating twitposting. Some people's feeds read like a suicide letter demanding everyone else to commit suicide with them. Some twitfeeds exude the vibes of an assassin's hit list. Some twitfeeds smell like authoritarian extermination orders. Their toxic feeds should come with a Mister Yuk sticker.

Twitposter feeds run devoid of brotherly love and full of animosity towards things they don't understand. These twitposters seek to blame and punish innocent people for their perceived slights or suffering rather than helping others through their own suffering.

Twitposters try to classify and demonize others instead of viewing others as individual humans with their own individual destinies.

With this collectivist hateview of others, they concoct a delusional view of reality that justifies any oppression or atrocity toward the 'enemy' they have concocted, and often that enemy is the self.

#Fedi #Fediverse #cringe #twitposers #twitposting #twitfeeds #gag #MisterYuk

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @socialpsych@a.gup.pe @psychology@a.gup.pe

Alt...

A green Mister Yuk sticker with a circular black border. In the border are the words, 'POISON HELP' and a toll-free number for a poison hotline.

If you mean Emule, yes, it is still kicking. There's even a GUI client in Debian repos.

Awesome! Edonkey is where I got most of my ebook reading collection. Amule on Linux still works.

I used to run Shareaza long ago. I don't any more because I don't want to manage and sandbox a WINE box. I imagine Shareaza is probably really mature after all these years. Yet I am happy with DarkMX for the time being. It is retro looking yet very solid.

Would you happen to know of a stable DirectConnect or DC++ GUI client for Linux?

I figured out several ways to run DarkMX on a headless server without GUI. This allows me to install it on a remote server without any desktop environment and run the software as a daemon without the GUI.

First I used the X forwarding feature of SSH to pipe the GUI to a local machine. On that machine I did all the configuration inside the GUI. Then I closed the program.

Then on the remote machine I used 'xvfb' to run DarkMX as a nohup'd daemon with a dummy GUI buffer. That way I don't need to be connected to the GUI from a local machine and the application will still run. It also uses less RAM without the GUI.

There are other ways to do this, such as VNC and xpra. I just chose the quickest, dirtiest method in this case.

Why would I go to all that trouble? Well, I don't need to, but there are some people who might need to publish while maintaining strict anonymity. So they would need tools like DarkMX and TOR. For me it's just fun.

DarkMX operates over the TOR privacy preserving network. As a result the location of my peer is hidden and extremely hard to impossible for an adversary to locate. So when I publish something, such as a letter, or paper, or opinion, anyone can download it since censoring it is not viable. It ensures that my speech remains free and available to the general public. Now when I author essays, papers, homiles and such, I can publish them as file shares, and I can publish them simultaneously as a TOR hidden website with the built-in webserver feature. So readers don't need DarkMX to read my files--they can just fire up TOR Browser or use a TOR proxy with their web browser. If they want to snarf a whole directory they can install DarkMX, or use a script to snarf them via TOR.

If you are inclined to fiddle around with installing this software on a headless server, please share the techniques and tools used that suit you.

(DarkMX download site: https://darkmx.app)

#DarkMX #P2P #FileSharing #Anonymous #SelfHosting #TOR #OnionNetwork #Censorship

@selfhosted@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe infosec@a.gup.pe

It seems that there are no pigs on money. Anti-pig bias has gotten out of hand. I vote for Porky Pig to be on the Euro currency.

There's nothing wrong with a little bit of mystery.

chacha20 and some other ciphers are not susceptible to the meet-in-the-middle attack and choosing 2 or 3 of those ciphers to multicipher with different keys does increase the security of the ciphertext. I have a method in which I use chacha20 exclusively, but for each new encipherment in the cascade I generate a new, random salt, encrypt the salt with a unique stream key, generate a new hash-derived passphrase, and the salt is not prepended to the ciphertext. Breaking that is like putting scrambled eggs back in the shell and uncooking them.

I have combed through PGP, especially GnuPG, quite a bit. To me its labyrinth of options is more complex than many programming languages.

So when one says, 'in minecraft' it is conceptual, and when they say, 'on blockchain' are they moving from minecraft to meat space?

The school cafeterias could remain open 24/7 for everyone. Sure, taxes would go up about 50% or so, but free sloppy joes would be well worth it, amirite?