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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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Bright Morning Star | Oysterband | a cappella
https://youtu.be/NRCB3egodx4

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

Alt...

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