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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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Say bye bye to SystemD.

If you must use Linux for work stuff and development and need dependability then Debian Stable or Testing will usually give the least headaches. If you like self-flagellating to fix all the latest breaking changes yourself then maybe Arch Linux will be your preferred punisher.

If you want to use the vast Arch AUR but don't want to piece together your system you can try Manjaro, which uses Arch but comes pre-built similar to Linux Mint.

If you're into pen testing then ParrotOS has the tools bundled ready to roll.

If you're paranoid there is Whonix, Qubes, and Tails.

If you need ultra-fast with ultra-low resource usage you might try Mabox, TinyCore, Puppy, or Slitaz.

If you are sick of all the crazy quirks and constant changes you can ditch *nix altogether and try running Haiku OS.

Or you can join the Luddite club, drop your computer off a cliff, and get farmin'. Cuz with all these conflicting and competing choices, all of which suck time like a tornado, I'm beginning to think that back breaking work in the sun and rain is better than a zillion hours of busy work keeping up with pointless changes in software. Plus calloused hands are cooler than carpal tunnel keyboard mitts.

How much filesystem storage space does gotosocial eat up?

"There are no hidden backdoors or privacy concerns because the entire codebase is open to peer review."

Alt...

"There are no hidden backdoors or privacy concerns because the entire codebase is open to peer review."

Many maths can be represented as modular sums. Everything is sums and sums of sums. Some sums sum some more than some sums sum.

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Fall drizzle in the forest feels supernatural.

"But even when you do a good or a fair job you're going to get raked over the coals by the folks who feel persecuted."

I got a couple of Racknerd servers. Racknerd periodically sends me a email telling me the RAID controllers are broke and I have to manually migrate my servers. Every time it is a HUGE hassle.

This keeps everything entirely under your own control.

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#Linux #Distros

Alt...

"The reason there are so many distro forks is so that everyone can share a donate button because they made an ubercool wallpaper, theme and some preinstalled useless programs. And most important beside the donate button: don't forget to print in front of the webpage: "DESIGNED FOR BEGINNERS, SPEED AND STABILITY". ⇒ $$$ profit"

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We might need Attila to straighten him out.

EEE - (E)mbrace, (E)xtend, (E)xtinguish

you forgot that option

I rather like the pic I took of my grandkid Onix here.

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

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