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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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

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Just letting y'all know I'm on vacation, if you know anything cool to do, eat or drink in the Lafayette, Baton Rouge area, let me know.

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'.

Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://eternal-september.org/

#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember #usenet #nntp #decentralized #censorship #retro #freespeech

There is always Paganini, who has never censored any of my messages over many years. And Paganini is open, no signup required. His server throttles, so you can only post a few messages then must wait until later to finish responding to more messages. Paganini allows TOR access.

When I was a teenager I had this wild idea that politics was a big show and the only path forward was to become so independent from government that it becomes irrelevant.

Then Trump happened and I got all caught up in that political / culture war nonsense.

Now I've realized I was right in the beginning. Politics and culture war crap only exists to divide and rule.

Now we're in a hot war and it's partially my fault for letting myself be deceived.

+++ Ausics (Australia)

https://newsgroups.ausics.net

https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com

http://news.chmurka.net

http://csiph.com

https://dotsrc.org/usenet

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0JAAF61AiE

"I warned you years ago that Windows 11 was the beginning of the end. Today, the door is officially closing on general-purpose computing. In this 24-minute manifesto, I am moving past the "ripping on Rust" memes to address a documented existential threat to your hardware. Between the $12.5M Big Tech "security" grants and the US government's memory-safety mandates, we are witnessing a coordinated execution of legacy systems."

Now with the state of Internet resources being full of politically motivated false information and myths pawned as history, I wish I had kept those encyclopedias.

At times there have been over a half million message objects in my snac profile directory. Snac has always handled it like a champ.

#snac ... Snac's Not A Crappie.

Snac2 software sources: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

https://soc.octade.net/sysop/

A fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #sysop.

#groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro

@Lydie@tech.lgbt

The natural world is full of order and laws, yet here we are looking at extreme entropy which should not exist but seems to exist because order exists.

@milo@types.pl

Null terminated strings is the main problem.

In Pascal we don't have this problem. Strings are automatically sized instead of null terminated. In many years I've never had a memory leak in a Pascal program. Even when I have used pointers, I've never had the problem arise.

🚨 LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

｢ Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits https://linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.
The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it ｣

https://browsergate.eu/

#linkedin #privacy #surveillance

If I believed anything in the news or on the Internet, I'd also be afraid to leave the house.

Shall we list the felonies the app developers committed?

Lawmakers don't care about people's children. They use children as human shields for criticism.

Try wearing a really fluffy sweat shirt on a warm day and see if you can get belly button lint ;)

AI psychosis among the C-suite is really high now. I’m seeing it at work, where they validate everything using AI even though they know it screws up. For example, if I tell them a reboot isn't needed for a CVE because we aren’t running the app directly on the server, its in Docker, they will immediately fact check me with AI right while we talking. It’s just 1 example, but I’ve never seen such bizarre behavior. They treat AI like some divine truth. Has anyone noticed this?

queue up Gomer Pyle 'surprise, surprise' clip

I suspected a man eater ;)

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

@phanpy@hachyderm.io

snac2 is in the Debian repositories. Easy to set up, painless to run, extremely low resource usage.

@Lydie@tech.lgbt

Don't store your data on a computer. Problem solved.

Second best option is air gapped machine with crypted storage.

@davidgreene@mstdn.social @HonoluluCivil@flipboard.com

If we just levy a progressive tax on all paid advertising revenue these social media parasites would fold up shop and we would have the old Internet back almost overnight.

There is no JQ. All modern forms of it are Catholic black propaganda. Jesus answered that question. Paul answered that question.

Matthew 3:9-10
John 8:39-44
Romans 9:6-13
Galatians 3:7

The Christian Church has no moral high ground from which to criticize the Jews, since Christianism has been openly persecuting Christ and his followers for centuries.

If you believe the word of God, you ARE A JEW. A true Jew is a spiritual title, and a spiritual tribe, that crosses all national boundaries. This is what the word HEBREW means: the conqueror (raptor) that crosses the waters of nations:

"I will send my ravenous bird from the east ..."

That ravenous bird is the Hebrew, Jesus. Jesus is the seed of Abraham:

"Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."

Christ is the seed of Abraham. All who are joined to Christ by faith become the seed of Abraham.