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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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

What you propose has existed for decades. See the link:

https://www.fns.usda.gov/summer/sitefinder

Why on earth was the #ActivityPub protocol even let out the door without a well-specified and mandatory graceful, non-destructive key rotation scheme?

Yes I know the privacy issues. Those are not valid reasons to not have such a mechanism; it's a valid reason to not enable or use one.

What we're stuck with now is a ton of instances with absurdly long, legacy-algorithm keys (RSA-4096) with no way to replace them with shorter/better keys without effectively losing everything ever posted on the instance.

The protocol is only 7 years old! EC crypto was well-established at the time, and should have been the default.

And what happens once everyone has to replace the keys, because RSA is broken by quantum computers (I know, probably 100 years to go)? The #Fediverse will be a wasteland, with no instances trusting anything from any other instance, so all #Federation breaks down.

Sorry if I got some details wrong about what the protocol says. If I get flamed to death for being wrong, then I'll consider that a Good Thing(TM). I've been trying to find a way to rotate/replace keys for a while and all my searching turns up is either 1) confirmation that most people don't know or care about cryptography, or 2) https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/key-rotation-notification/562 - which really isn't helpful.

If it is possible to gracefully rotate the key(s) of an instance/user, there really has to exist some documentation that explains clearly how to implement this in a server and how to exercise it as a server operator.

#Cryptography #Rant #Mastodon

you can keep the hop, i'll have the scotch

DarkMX is the continuation of WinMX. It is a peer-to-peer network with built-in web sites, file sharing, chat, all secured over the anonymous TOR protocol.

DarkMX and its predecessor have over 20 years of battle hardening. Run in a jail or container, it is a set it and and forget it way to ensure your data is made available to the network 24/7.

https://darkmx.app

#DarkMX #WinMX #P2P #FileSharing #Networks

Potter Christ
Potterite
Cliff Christ
Clifftop Christian
Top Down Theology
Divine Cliff Diver
Potterite Donkey Jockey
Gone Potter
Mad as a Potter
Plunging Potter
Taking the Potter Plunge
Donkey Diver
Bray and Pray.

I have 'divined' these new additions to my jargon file.

I wonder, is the story of Potter actually true?

@jargon@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

This word has 10 letters. namely: 1234567890

1234 - carries heredity
456 - is a period of time
567 - is a pest
and 890 - is a charged particle

What is the word?

#Puzzles #Riddles #Cryptics

"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.

The rodent port and the accordion port.

One for the rodent, one for the accordion.

Is there a hurdy-gurdy port not shown in the image?

What you are describing is not what newscard does. The main feature of newscard is to register a NAMED record that displays directly in the terminal. See the pic for the general idea.

Newscard registers a unique name on the network or chosen host. Only one record can have that name. The record is retrieved by name. The name is hidden using cryptographic hashing. The same hidden name generates a different key for the encryption. There are no public keys involved.

When a user knows the secret name the user can retrieve the correct record and decrypt it.

If you install and test the application you will see the marked difference.

Alt...

Sample of a newscard displayed in a terminal. It is a picture of a gray cat generated using ANSI art in the terminal screen.

Could you show me how you would do the same thing with PGP?

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access this resource.

@linux@a.gup.pe

the mid-80s!

@selfhosting@a.gup.pe @retro@a.gup.pe @usenet@a.gup.pe @bbs@a.gup.pe @linux@a.gup.pe @nostalgia@a.gup.pe @opensource@a.gup.pe @networks@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

NEWSCARD Publish and fetch permanent named records via Network News

Newscard creates a decentralized, encrypted, named record paste bin.

[git repo] https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard (use most recent version only)

With a single command, name the card, snarf the file and encrypt it.

With another command, push the encrypted file to the public network.

With another short command, snarf a file from the network.

Only users knowing the name [key] of the record will be able to decrypt it.

If a strong passphrase is used to name the file, it will be very secure.

This is useful for quickly snarfing, encrypting, and publishing a text file:

$~: card enc [passphrase] [file]
$~: card put [passphrase]

It is useful for retrieving a text file with just a key:

$~: card get [passphrase]
$~: card show [passphrase]

If and when you want the general public to access the record just share the keyword.

Newscard uses nine (9) (NINE) layers of encryption with OpenSSL chacha20 cipher.

Newscard generates 9 each of: cipher keys, salts, key iteration parameters.

It would be nice if something like this were added to the ActivityPub protocol, such that keyword[@]host.url would do the same thing. Then secret text records could be stored securely for later retrieval or revelation.

#NewsCard #Pastebin #Usenet #NNTP #NetworkNews #Encryption #Cryptography #Messaging #Anonymity #Protocols #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #BlackHackJack #Censorship #Retro #InfoSec #Ciphers #Codes #FOSS

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @crypto@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @selfhosting@a.gup.pe

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Playing card of the Jack of Clubs. The Jack is a moustached man in a black top hat and suit in a oval center cameo. The colors are inverted so that everything on the face is black except the lines which are white, like a charcoal cutout picture., giving it a retro digital appearance mixed with retro handicraft vibes.

I found a dumb watch that looks like a smart watch. When I touch the screen it lights up with the time. That is all it does. It has no bluetooth, nor wifi, nor apps. It just shows the time. It has no other functions or features. It does only one thing and does it well.

Now how will you thumb your nose at anyone? You could wave a wooden spoon.

You can also add any of these ingredients that you like: caramelized onions, blackened corn, beans, chard, collard greens, tomatoes, chickpeas, parmesan, lentils, split peas.

A brindle bunny!

I like the Friendica UI. However it stores a massive amount of data per user. I tested it with just one local user account and it stored gigabytes in the database in just a few days. Multi-user would likely have needed several terabytes storage.

https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net/

#NNTP #Usenet #RocksolidLight #Retro #PugLeaf

or for Erwin Schrodinger,

Erwin, Schrodi, Dinger, Ding,

FeLiNe - Iron + Lithium + Neon

or

PuSi - Plutonium + Silicon

or since it's black,

'Carbon Kitty'

or go with a theoretical element (copypasta'd):

Pentunseptium (Pus)

Pentunseptium is the systematic name of the theoretical 517th element in the periodic table with a symbol of Pus and atomic number of 517. Pentunseptium, also known as element 517, has five hundred seventeen protons in its nucleus, and five hundred seventeen electrons in its shells.

https://periodictable.chemicalaid.com/element.php/Pus

#Cats #Feline #Names #Nomen

My latest #BibleStudy notes on #Genesis20: https://notes.laniecarmelo.tech/shares/puLBoEJCgyPwKalkRc2WFg
#Bible #Christian #Christians #Christianity #Faith #Genesis @christians
Need to get a few things done but might try and do #Genesis21 here in a little while.

He said, "Of course I may be wrong,
But I wouldn’t be surprised
If this were the greatest Christian church
That ever man devised.

Our organ is the very best
Our choir stays on key.
Our stained glass windows — priceless
Our pulpit — the best you’ll see."

But only the wealthy were welcome there,
I heard slanderous gossip galore,
And from that pulpit so highly prized
The preacher glorified war.

"Is there anything more you could want in a church?"
In pride, he said to me.
"Just one thing," I made reply —

"Christianity!"

-- Peace Pilgrim --

#christian #church #religion #christianity #bible #christ #faith #prayer

@religion@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe @bible@a.gup.pe @poetry@a.gup.pe

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A black and white photo of a woman known by the moniker, "Peace Pilgrim" with the words, "Peace Pilgrim" printed on her shirt.

Real billboard. Seen it myself multiple times. The company also sells a replica in their store in the town of Uranus, Missouri. (not my photo)

#Uranus #Fudge #Billboard

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Photo of a billboard for Uranus Fudge Factory which reads, "The best fudge comes from Uranus."

I have updated the meme to modern times.

Alt...

young time - high money - low energy - high adult time - low money - low energy - high old time - high money - low energy - low

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66499.The_Creature_from_Jekyll_Island

I wrote this as a ha-ha-but-seriously-yes:

You should only use software you wrote for yourself, never let anyone else touch it. Other Peoples' Code is the work of the devil.

phunnee!

https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/minicrypt

#cryptography

I have been away from the Internet for at least a couple months. I came to quickly check my feeds and I am sad to have found report of the passing away of a very cool hacker, Thom Miller, known by the handle, Retro Guy. According to his wife Kaylen Miller, Thom died about two weeks ago from pancreatic cancer. He had a years-long struggle with cancer and multiple therapies and surgeries. During all the time of his illness he continued to hack away providing network access and software updates absolutely free to his user base. He was a strong believer in the value of open and decentralized communication for all. His software is simple and awesome, and useful for censorship-resistant communication. (https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light)

Thom, known as Retro Guy, created the Rocksolid Light NNTP forums and server software. He served the hacker community as a free speech advocate and provider of free speech communication networking. He refused to censor opinions that he found offensive or stupid on the principle of the golden rule. He endured a lot of annoyances to provide service for many. Thom maintained the software for years giving web-based NNTP access to countless users. Thom was always helpful and patient with users needing assistance, even when he was feeling ill and suffering. He pushed through his pain to serve others with something he believed was a necessary tool and blessing for the general public.

I am sad to learn of Thom's passing. He will be missed and remembered. I will remember him by continuing to run his software.

More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=1024&group=rocksolid.nodes.help#1024

More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=560&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#560

More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=561&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#561

More:
https://www.novabbs.com/interests/article-flat.php?id=25410&group=alt.obituaries

#obituary #rocksolidlight #usenet #nntp #freespeech #cancer #condolences #networknews #retroguy #novabbs #bbs

~ Henry Kissinger

#quotes

@infostorm@a.gup.pe

IDK. You might ask the maintainer, "Mr. NNTP".

This is cool.

It is a Fediverse server you can use with a newsreader client like Thunderbird.

Demo: https://illuminant.asjo.org/
Profile: https://illuminant.asjo.org/user/asjo
Source: https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/

#NNTP #Illuminant #Fediverse #Software #Usenet #CoolCode

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @usenet@a.gup.pe @usenet@lemmy.ml

This former post elaborates on how the advertising cycle mentally enslaves people to pseudoscience and political agitprop:

https://soc.octade.net/octade/p/1740365507.346848

See:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/qnnfz2/quantum_computers_are_fake_they_will_not_break/

The Wind and the Lion | Full Movie with Sean Connery
https://youtu.be/D-In3mEfBxg

This movie was filmed before the normalization of brainless Hollywood portrayals of all foreigners as mindless drones. It showed an era of mutual respect and honor codes between adversaries instead of jingoistic 'light of the world' self-worship.

No spoilers. It is too good for that.

#WorthIt #SeanConnery #ClassicFilm #FullMovie #Movies #Film #Cinema #History #TeddyRoosevelt #Berbers

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @movies@a.gup.pe @classics@a.gup.pe @film@a.gup.pe

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Bearded Berber Sultan with black and red head dress, portrayed by Sean Conner in the movie, The Wind and the Lion.

https://soc.octade.net/octade/p/1740365507.346848

master: welcome to my Smart Home

student: wow. how is the light controlled?

master: with this on-off switch

student: i don't see a motor to close the blinds

master: there is none

student: where is the server located?

master: it is not needed

student: excuse me but what is "Smart" about all of this?

master: everything.

in this moment, the student was enlightened

Most events advertised by media and government are fiction. What you see on the Internet and TV is not real. What experts, foundations, agencies, governments, and nonprofits say is never the truth. None of it is real. It is all agitprop. It is all agenda-driven manipulation. None of it has ever been real. There is always an angle or agenda behind the way the information is presented. Those images and sounds and slogans and speeches are NOT reality. It is a false reality offered for you to buy into.

Reality is between you and your neighbor. How you treat your neighbor ... whether or not you treat your neighbor as equal in dignity and rights ... or whether or not you use your fears of government stories as an excuse to hate and abuse your neighbor ... which is why they give you their stories in the first place. By stoking division they can rule you, fleece you, control you, and profit from you.

In the Game of Thrones the Tyrion character was used to tell us who rules:

"What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? No. It’s stories. There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it. And who has a better story than Bran the Broken? The boy who fell from a high tower and lived… He's our memory. The keeper of all our stories. The wars, weddings, births, massacres, famines, our triumphs, our defeats, our past. Who better to lead us into the future?"

When you believe someone's stories, that person rules over you. The person who crafts the stories that you take for reality has control of your mind and your life. Whoever crafts your reality is your master. They keep ramping up the anxiety to stunt critical thinking and invoke emotional responses and emotional investment in narratives crafted to steer people into doing their bidding.

#Propaganda #Media #News #Politics #Religion #GameOfThrones

@infostorm@a.gup.pe

There is a much bigger and long-running situation. The problems didn't start on October 7th. This current crisis has been going on for 3 generations running. Palestinians have been under Israeli blockades longer than some of the people using the Internet have been alive. The small minority Christian population of the region has been living between the hammer of Israel and the hammer of the Islamist militants. Muslims who convert to Christianity face persecution and many have been forced to go into hiding. The big churches there aren't the only Christians. Smaller groups of Christians and the occasional converts from Islam to Christianity have sometimes had to 'go underground'.

Aside from that, the Christian community in Gaza dates back to the 4th century--even before Islam entered the region. Then Islam entered and eventually the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire. There is along history of the Christians of Gaza dealing with all of that, sometimes resisting, sometimes just resigning themselves to the situation.

#Bible #Christian #Christianity

Or DexMedia might also ship them to your region if you have a land line.

In my area they mail them to certain neighborhoods where the geriatric boomer brigades and the hippy generation are known to still reside. The last place I lived 4 years ago they still delivered them every year. In my new place they don't deliver to my neighborhood. For everyone else you need to order them, and they are only available for certain areas.

I surmise that the print phone books will never be completely extinct. They are critical infrastructure if the data grid goes down in some disaster. There are still millions of active copper phone lines across the country, and the way they were buried, it should be another two generations before all that copper corrodes. I have lines that are 50 years old and still in good condition. It is just sitting there, waiting in case it is ever needed.

#YellowPages #WhitePages #PhoneBooks #Telephones #Phones #RetroTech

Amen. And anything giving us a fake Jesus is also not Christian. Some sects are devoted to their own Jesus 2.0 version.

Musk worships a Spinozan deity in line with that taught by Christian occultists, Platonists, Hermetecists, Dualists, Deists, and other "Christian" blasphemers who have infiltrated the Church and many other institutions with their occult ideas. Think:

nomina sacra
word of power
manifesting your reality
key of knowledge
brotherhood of man
kabbalah
freemasonry
prosperity gospel

etc., etc.

How do you drink your coffee and/or tea?

Select all that apply!

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse

#Poll #Polls #POTD #Question #Questions #QOTD #Coffee #Tea

Every bit of attention you give him, positive or negative, only helps him continue his shenanigans and get paid to boot.

We can do no good thing without God doing it through us. Man is so puny. Yet so many think otherwise.

Don't drink out of a toilet bowl!

Brawndo. It has what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.

The Lord gives; the Lord takes away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

Dog is one of the Platonic solids.

4K-Autism Calming Sensory: Relaxing Music
https://youtu.be/yrAFXphbwgg

Abstract Liquids! V - 7! 12 Hours 4K Screensaver for Meditation. Paint in Water
https://youtu.be/L3Dp4oGkn3k?

1984 More Television Test Patterns
(mute the audio and relax)
https://youtu.be/l05OCJFjzFY

Old Test Patterns-IDs From Print - '50s-'60s
https://youtu.be/NS9uojwaN7E

https://youtu.be/IIqtuupvdWg

The same with Abraham. There was a man named Abraham who married a woman named Sarah. But the story of Abraham as written in the Bible is not about that ancient Abraham. It is taking the ancient Abraham and using him as a character to invoke an Abraham yet to come. It is about a FUTURE Abraham. Both Jesus and Paul say so ...

[Paul says] "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."

Take careful note how Paul says the story of Abraham is ALLEGORY of the followers of Christ, the New Abraham that Paul is helping Christ to create at that very time.

Hagar is Israel after the Flesh, under bondage to the Law of Mount Sinai. Sarah is the mother of the New Jerusalem, the Israel of all nations born after the Spirit. Thus Abraham was divided into two seeds, one earthly, and one spiritual, and the one would be at odds with the other, as foretold to Eve and the Serpent. So it is the spiritual seed of Abraham that enters the kingdom to come, and the fleshly seed that must be put to death:

"Ye must be born again!"

"Ye must be born of water and of spirit ..."

What flowed from the side of Jesus onto the earth? Water and blood.

"The life (spirit) of flesh is in the blood."

It has been in front of our faces all these centuries, but most have not seen because they did not heed the warnings about interpreting the scripture with vain fables and false histories:

"Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do."

"But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness."

"And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."

"Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth."

"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty."

"Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye."

(I have been drafting a homile set on this subject.)

Cold water flowing
The downy snowbank melting.
Goodbye, til next time.

#dailyhaikuprompt (snow)
#haiku

#theViewFromMudsockHeights: “Do all families have a deep corporate interest in #genealogy? I hope so, because it is fascinating and satisfying. The subject swoops in unannounced and occupies my days every few years.“ #bible #history https://ofb.biz/sa1288

Hide a message in an emoji
https://emoji.paulbutler.org/?mode=decode
More info:
https://paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji/?utm_source=tldrwebdev

In Canada the three stooges laugh like this: Cancuck nyuk nyuk.

On the Internet and in the media, "far right" means anything even moderately to the right of Josef Stalin. "Far left" means anything even slightly to the left of the Puritan witch burning crew.

Survival is having people, not things. I would trade everything I own for a half-dozen inspired and selfless people in my corner.

I run three external backups. I like BTRFS automated compression. I also like that BTRFS won't run out of inodes like EXT4 does.

If the backup plan is simple to connected hardware, such as whole drive or whole home, making and automating a profile with LuckyBackup might be just the trick you need. If you are pushing the backup over a network link, there will be some tweaks necessary in the CLI.

Hello. My name is Agnes Stone, and I am a new adult science fiction fantasy indie author. My debut novel was released in November 2024, and I am looking for new bookish and author friends as I try to flee Meta and prepare for the end of TikTok. #selfpublishing #books #bookish #sciencefiction #scifi #author #writersofmastodon #writingcommunity #bookstodon #indieauthor

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Image of Agnes Stone, indie author.

Another tip: have sense of humor. A few of us are roasting, not insulting. Big difference. Insults are done because one is deemed unworthy. Roasting is done because you are deemed tasty.

Don't delete your other accounts if you are trying to build an audience or customer base. Becoming a Mastodon celebrity will not pay your bills. Exposure is already sowed up by the gatekeepers and their arbitrary enforcement of policies. Augment. Don't get sucked into the prevalent exclusionary cultism rampant on this platform. It's neat, even useful, but it's not the savior solution some claim it to be.

Anyway, welcome to the party!

Spenglish: Spangled Banner + English.

Murica! Yeah.

If they are holding your data hostage while incommunicado, that could qualify as abuse in some jurisdictions. I would track down the contact info with the domain registrar. If that doesn't work start filing reports with their provider, hosting company, registrar, and perhaps they might forward to the domain owner or site admin.

A long time ago businesses used to give out custom pens with their business contact info on the barrels. Over the decades I have collected pens from hotels, businesses, and banks. Some ancient ones still write. Most of my collection has been lost over time, but I still have a grip of oldies.

"Remember that there is a distinction between a programming language and a graphical user interface. Don't confuse snazzy graphics (generated using someone else's libraries and tools) with good programming."

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @hacking@a.gup.pe @c@a.gup.pe @programming@a.gup.pe @dev@a.gup.pe @quotes@a.gup.pe

#BjarneStroustrup #C #cplusplus #Hacking #Hackers #Programming #Programmers #Dev #Developers #Code #Coding #quotes #quotations

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

I also have a paid, parked, Internet SMS number. The entire industry got together, decided that we are not allowed to send SMS messages anymore, and offered plans to pay $20 a month to use a SMS TEXT number that we're ALREADY PAYING FOR.

They are literally converting a free service that has been free since forever, and arbitrarily adding mail servers to their blocklist for no reason. Then they are taking the paid service, and saying, pay us $20 more per month for your SMS, and we'll let you actually use it. Thieves, all of them.

#SMS #Cellular #Phones #Telephone #PhoneParking #Grifts #Ripoffs

White-throat sparrows have two stripe colors: white and tan. They are the same species as they always mate with a bird of the other color.

https://thedailywildlife.com/birds-with-eyebrows/ (scroll down)

It sounds like you are setting up a serious system on that little Pi. I wish I had more time to play with those kind of toys ... it looks like a blast.

curl -H "CF-Access-Client-Id: {your-client-id}" ...
-H "CF-Access-Client-Secret: {your-client-secret}" ...
https://rss.laniecarmelo.tech/v1/me

I do know about CORS troubles from back when I made some web apps. You couldn't pay me to use Cloudflare middleman.

So I DO love me some python, but I just want to say that #Bash is awesome.

I had no idea this was a thing:

echo "${variable/$inTheString/$replacesIt}"

My instance runs on #snac2. I like it.

See #Friendica if you want the bells and whistles with less resource usage: https://friendi.ca/

"I am finding myself keeping a curated list of trusted sources, wikis, personal homepages, blogs, microblogs, to fetch information from ..."

It would also be nice if people shared lists of recommended social media accounts to follow, but not just addresses, maybe a half line of text describing what each is mainly about.

I would ask the Christians in Gaza how they have been surviving for 70 years. There are a few Palestinian Christians who now live in the USA. They would be good first-hand sources of information.

I would be grateful for some answers to a few questions. My host forced me to move to a new VPS and now some things seem off.

I am running the latest commit. I pulled, compiled it and upgraded about half an hour ago.

Here are the relevant settings on this instance:

    "local_purge_days": 0,
    "timeline_purge_days": 40,
    "max_timeline_entries": 30,

It appears that snac has been deleting local posts from the json stream and replacing them with html history files. Or maybe incorrect permissions are preventing them from being read. This causes a broken link from the history html file when clicking the tiny chevron arrows to view the old post. Is is supposed to remove the json files? Or would incorrect permissions cause such a thing?

How may I ensure snac does not remove the json files for posts made on the local instance, and/or troubleshoot the broken links in the history files?