OCTADE
@octade@soc.octade.net
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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).
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NEW: Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies
EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-jim-justice-doj-southern-coal-investigation-west-virginia
Judge's extreme car-brain horrifies even a High Court judge:
#CarBrain #BanCars #RoadViolence #RoadSafety #Kildare #MastoDaoine
How horrifying, not extracting maximum revenue from the cattle!
"He said: “Prosecutions that are driven by targets, statistics and finance have no place in this courtroom and bring the administration of justice into disrepute."
Exactomundo. He is right. The high court is wrong. He is outing the government grifter class for its grifting. How horrifying!
"“I have come to the conclusion that [speed camera contractors] GoSafe deliberately targeted an unjust speed zone in the townland of Clogheen, where there were rich pickings and, as the saying goes, they were shooting fish in a barrel.”"
Yeah, what a renegade judge! How scary to say such things!
O authoritarian high court, protect us from judges like this, who see us as more than tax cattle!
"Mr Justice Ferriter said that the judge’s approach was “wrong” in law and inappropriate comment for a judge to make as his role was not to express a view on correctness of speed limits adjudicated by another body."
This thinking is how authoritarians construct a Rube Goldberg money machine that cannot be questioned.
The lower court judge has a duty to prohibit corruption in the law from determining his decisions. The judiciary does not serve the legislature. The judiciary is separate from the legislature and is to serve as a check against corrupt legislation and enforcement.
How horrifying that one judge actually gets it!
If the world had more judges who acted sua sponte to point out corruption in the laws, and reject them based upon that, it would be a better world to live in.
We all know that traffic laws have ZERO, NADA, NAUGHT, NIL, ZILCH, and ZIP to to with safety and are about funneling revenue to 3rd party contractors, and maintaining the fear of constant police presence in the minds of the citizenry. This judge was just pointing out the obvious.
I found this comment in activitypub.c while reading some of the snac2 source code :
/* unify the garbage fire that are the attachments */
Involuntary chortle activated. It is a good read so far.
'sloccount' says snac2 is valuable:
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 740,878
'sloccount' says snac2 is valuable:Wow, that's a lot of inexistent money
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 740,878
grunfinkbucksHa!
https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2853
I remember a legislative hearing where the congress discussed the need for YouTube to censor all content that questions the veracity of heliocentrism and space programs. Perhaps this paper is following that trend?
#Censorship #FlatEarth #Cosmology #Globalism #Theology #Sociology #FreudianProjection
🔥 "Capable browsers, and the PWAs they support, hold the power to grow an ecosystem of applications that no gatekeeper can own or tax, based on standardised APIs that resist enclosure. But few outlets are connecting these dots for readers."
📖 Read: https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/
⚠️ "Open, interoperable, safe-by-default runtimes with standardised APIs threaten the foundations of this structure by breaking the duopolist's chokehold over software distribution. Browsers, and their core function of abstracting away the proprietary APIs of OS vendors, create a tax-free zone outside the grasp of the OS incumbents' mafioso App Store tactics."
🌐 "As it did twenty-five years ago, the web can unlock maximum change with the lowest risk, but regulators are falling down on the job, and tech reporters are not informing readers of the options or the stakes."
🧱 "By failing to acknowledge the power of the web to disrupt entrenched OSes (as demonstrated by the past 20 years of desktop computing), the press are failing to communicate the stakes of regulatory failure to enable browser competition."
🎯 "Regulators facing choices about where to invest scarce resources should foreground browser engine choice and web apps because they create mass behind their agenda and bring a powerful, pre-existing ecosystem to bear."
Then a songbird sang right outside my window.
The fledglings left the nest above my window. For days I could hear them chirping as their parents came to and fro with grub.
Now birds are singing all around my yard as the sun rises.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/11/ban-gambling-ads
Arguing for a ban on ads for commercial gambling. I can support this cause.
'/usr/bin/su' and '/bin/su would never be in the memory cache at all ... by default ... except in systems that run entirely in memory.
Perhaps suid binaries should have special sandboxing for forcing them to be read from protected media into sandboxed memory addresses.
Maybe that would be a tougher nut to crack?
@octade This won't do any good. The page cache vulnerabilities mean you can poison any file or binary, it's just convenient to pick on suid. You could target anything that runs as root in a cronjob, or poison /etc/*.
@fathia wow, your website is so lovely!! :)
@kayserifserif @fathia Yes it really is awesome! 🤩
@shellsharks thank you! not as elaborate as yours yet. it’s still in its early stage ☺️
@fathia Going as elaborate as mine would certainly be a choice. I really like your site’s crisp design / overall aesthetic. That said, it *is* fun to have a buncha stuff 😆
@kayserifserif omg thank you, Katherine!! that means a lot coming from you. your website has been a source of inspiration to me for a long time 💕
Paul warned about giving heed to ‘Jewish fables.’ The fables about supernatural hybrid nephilim are bunk.
The governing institutions of Christendom are the 'nephilim' or 'fallen angels.'
The 'giants' of Genesis are empires and tyrants created by Christianity.
Read more ...
https://blog.nightbulb.net/nephilim-as-giant-monsters-and-other-jewish-fables-that-turn-from-the-truth/
It's 2:47 a.m. You up? You wanna talk about your favorite Library ever? Mine was the Chandler Park Branch in Detroit. It wasn't far from my house. My ma used to walk us there on weekends. I remember the ozone of the air conditioner mingling with the smell of so many thoughts, not so much books. It was like the library was the home of so many different kinds of scientists, each one looking for the answer to a different question.
Today on Computers Are Bad: Extremely Low Frequencies
https://computer.rip/2026-05-09-extremely-low-frequencies.html
@jbcrawford
The sizes of antennas and other man made structures involved with VLF and ELF are mind boggling
@Levi00 I think Paul's letters and history encourage us to engage in poetry.
(Ephesians 5:18-19 NKJV) 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
(Colossians 3:16 NKJV) 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
(Acts 16:25 NKJV) 25 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
The prophets all spoke in poetry also. Their prophecies were thought to be inspired because they were poetry.
(1 Chronicles 25:1 NKJV) 1 Moreover David and the captains of the army separated for the service [some] of the sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who [should] prophesy with harps, stringed instruments, and cymbals. And the number of the skilled men performing their service was:
God bless you!
From Genesis to Malachi the Bible is very poetic. The Psalms are top-shelf poetry.
Much of the New Testament uses the same poetic emblems of the Old Testament.
God the Father is the master of poetry.
#christian #christianity #godsword #jesus #christ #god #poetry #bible #Jesus
Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.
But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:
> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
Software has been "built by machines, directed by people" for decades.
That's what compilers and linkers do, that's what uncountable lines of Bash and endless CI/CD pipelines are – machines building software, directed by people.
And for decades, the bottleneck has not been churning out code. It was code review, it was quality control, it was bug fixing. AI slop makes that *worse*, not better:
https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367
GitLab, and the rest of the industry, is solving for the wrong problem.
The outcome of this will be *worse* software.
It will feel even more plastic, it will be even more brittle, and it's not because we don't know how to write better, more reliable software, but because the industry decided that writing better software is not how money is made.
And GitLab just went all-in, announced to the world: we're here for plastic software, we're here for shit quality code, we're here for forcing people to review unreviewable slop and then blaming them for the bugs.
The push for this is about labor, and is about power. CEOs all around the world have wet dreams of never having to pay people ever again. Of never having to hire people.
Slaves would be good though.
And AI "agents" is the closest CEOs can get to slaves. The next closest thing are employees that are too terrified of getting fired to stand up for themselves.
No surprise, then, that in this same blogpost, in the same breath, GitLab's CEO announced layoffs.
More than this, they also want it to be impossible to create software without renting all the tools from a capitalist.
They're trying to end the era of anyone being able to ship software using cheap commodity hardware and free tools.
@svavar @rysiek Impossible to use without renting as well. Endlessly brittle, hard to maintain software means you need constant bugfixes, which means permanent subscription fees. Once upon a time you could buy software on a CD and keep using that same version for a decade or more. They *want* something different broken every month so you have to keep paying them to "fix" it.
Unfortunately there is only GitHub in close comparison. I don’t know anything else capable of being used for business when you want an integrated version control and CI/CD tool (so no Jenkins (🤢) here, whateverforgit there)
If anybody knows an alternative please respond.
@maschinentraum pretty much right after this gitlab announcement was posted, a gitlabber posted an unofficial CI tool they wrote for running gitlab CI/CD pipelines without gitlab.
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/work_items/2797#note_3339902449
what's interesting is it makes use of the official gitlab-runner connected to a mock gitlab rest api service... i imagine a similar approach could be used to integrate gitlab ci/cd into another git forge via an intermediary service, potentially giving folks who are locked into their CI/CD an off-ramp to something else.
My recent post about Linux monoculture being bad for security has now started generating responses from people saying other systems are insecure.
I... yes? Literally the point of the post. In the words of infosec professional Bob Dylan, everything is broken. Diversity is strength.
@rubenerd
Just reminds me of Verisign using two operating systems and using two different DNS servers for the TLDs that they run. That way if there's ever a bug in one of them, that the other servers can keep running. That is they run four unique pairs of software stacks.
let's hear it for nutritional supplements that say "third party tested" on the label but never say what third party
real gym rat talk: it's insane how frustrating buying supplements is these days. look at creatine, which has good research support for improving performance and muscle gain (both fairly small effects but there are few if any downsides).
everywhere that sells supplements seems loaded with forms of creatine that I can ony describe as "suspiciously priced." many of these have some kind of seal on the label like "FDA GMP" that implies absolutely nothing, and you periodically read news reports that independent testing shows them to contain... no creatine. Well, great.
So there's an NSF program, NSF Certified for Sport, that seems pretty reliable and above board. NSF also has their own database you can search to see if manufacturer's might be... generous with use of the NSF logo.
Problem is, I mean besides the fact that NSF-listed products tend to cost twice as much, that the labeling seems like a bit of a mess. Some manufacturers don't put the NSF Certified for Sport label on things even though they are in the database. I see this label that says "NSF Contents Certified" sometimes which doesn't seem to mean anything in particular and feels sketchy, but then these products do seem to show up in the NSF database as tested under at least one part of the Certified for Sport program, the difference here being NSF 173 vs. NSF 229 test procedures I *think*.
I don't know, what am I complaining about, what do I want to be different? I guess the takeaway is that it feels like it should be de facto legal and, in fact, quite normalized to sell fake supplements... but it is. There's no real regulation of these products and most sellers don't care either.
@jbcrawford Something costing twice as much as a product that doesn't actually contain what it says on the label isn't a problem. $2 per 0 g is infinite price per mass.
@jbcrawford I ran into this with trying melatonin to help me sleep (recommended by a doctor). They are (un)regulated as a dietary supplement, not medicine, and the actual contents seem completely uncorrelated with what the label says:
https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.6434
https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.6462
My proposal: regulate these things as actual drugs, "supplements" shouldn't be a category, and enact/enforce plain-labelling laws.
@molly0xfff I'm thinking the bent grass confirms this is a position maintained over several metres of travel.
I am brainstorming a simple bible site generator and this is one of my recurring thoughts on the matter.
This goes beyond my original lamentation, of course. Just sharing frustrations.
I am grateful for many a good soul who does good work voluntarily, wanting no return.
I dream that if I just farmed potatoes, life would be easy.
Except there's gatekeeping assholes selling hoes & fertilizer & tractors or whatever, too.
I don't want to do that as a career.
Fun note, while looking for that image & the quote, I saw a MS L*nk*d*n page, saying NOT to be like Lloyd. Fuck that guy, right in the processing bought & sold things hole.
Once harvest is done you have to haul one truckload after another from your clamps to the buyer loadout clamps.
Usually a spud farmer hires a large number of hands (sometimes dozens) to do the harvest, then after the harvest is stored there are months of mechanical repair and upkeep, spud hauling, field dressing, flood mitigation, fixing irrigation lines, and hand-wringing before you get a break.
Many potato harvester tractors cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, and have a subscription access model built in to the software so you can't even repair your own tractor.
There is no Green Acres life in the modern world of farming. It is brutal just keeping the business afloat.
@octade I grew up in Idaho. Do not speak to me of the deep potato farming, I was there when they wrote it.
Uuugh, now I need to find a replacement for gitlab, since they're all-in on slop, too.
> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. … The supply of deep technical problems is multiplying, and the engineers who can solve them will be among the scarcest and most valuable talent in the market.
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WHERE YOU GONNA GET THOSE ENGINEERS, GOODLIFE SCUM‽
To misparaphrase The Matrix, Neo, what good is mathematics if you don't have a mathematician with which to speak?
Specifically s/mathematic/scheme/g in your case.
Even imagine a chatbot was generating the text of great programs. If your only way to find out if it wrote a great program is to prompt the chatbot to tell you in natural language, this would be like asking an anthropic engineer if their code was good. Well it is illegal for us to see the code so... (Then it leaked).
I don't really use distributed git nonsense, I have no team. I just need a place to dump a binary & sources, & you can read those sources. I already have a source page on the Cyberhole, but it's VERY simplistic, & wouldn't scale to multiple projects as is.
Also, gitlab had one of the most annoying login processes ever. I want to log in once & keep my credentials forever on this machine.
@mdhughes sounds like gitolite (or plain SSH) plus cgit would be sufficient for your usecase
@jn @mdhughes
I guess that https://gameoftrees.org/index.html uses bare git repositories as its storage format, so you could just host a bare git repository somewhere and then got checkout it locally. Though maybe I am missing the point.
@screwlisp @jn It's more a use case of publicly sharing the code, & especially built binaries.
I don't expect game players to be able to git clone, figure out how my weird build.zsh works, in order to run a game.
And I don't even want them to do that to read the source, if I've put that up, I want you to be able to click thru & read it.
Bare minimum is:
https://cyberhole.online/src/
But I would like something nicer, & per project. I may just write a dumb script to generate them.
Also looking at Sourcehut (sr.ht)
https://sourcehut.org
The principles look fine, & I don't mind paying a few bucks for a host that actually stays the fuck up but doesn't increase my sysadmin load.
BUT, I don't hear much about them? What's the mood?
@mdhughes it just works reliably all the time. If you don’t need a web ui for github style pull requests then it’s great.
@mdhughes
I would have figured you would have had an opinion on Drew DeVault.
@dch @dirtycommo
@screwlisp @dch @dirtycommo OH WHAT THE FUCK. I either never knew or forgot, motherfucker calls himself "sircmpwn" (Sir Cum Pwn?) just to hide that it's devault.
Well. Codeberg it is, unless there's someone else.
Forgejo: https://forgejo.org ...
"Forgejo is a Free Software platform for collaboration and productivity in software development. It offers a familiar environment to GitHub users, easy installation and maintenance, and a focus on security, scaling, federation and privacy."... or cgit, which is very fast and slick for the barebones portal ...
... codeberg has a nice setup (via forgejo) if you don't want to self-host.
#git #forgejo #scm #vcs #sources #source #code #vps #gitlab #github #codeberg #hosting
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