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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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

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Site: Cryptography project site. (https://octade.net)
Publications: https://octade.net/publications.html
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Netnews: Find me on #Usenet in #Newsgroup alt.rhubarb.
Git: https://codeberg.org/OCTADE
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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

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#slop #FakeFood #nutrition

Sometimes a squirrel comes along that really likes me. This is my current buddy squirrel. She’s always up there watching me. She doesn’t have a name, I think this will be my Queen Maxima. I’ll ask her today what she thinks about it

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A female fox squirrel sploots up on a pepper tree branch. One front paw rests on a jutting tree nub like shes revving a motorcycle, vroom vroom. Green fronds hang around her shading her from the sun

Usenet is accessible via TOR and open access servers that don't require registration or identifying information.

The writer can write and discuss using a pseudonym or pen name without fear of retaliation from employers, government, friends, and family. This encourages some people to share their innermost thoughts they would otherwise not express. Of course it also encourages trolls, but there are plenty of trolls everywhere else.

Usenet is text-centric so unlike the fediverse there is not a stream of distracting images.

Even after all these years I still prefer reading and posting Usenet newsgroups over all other forms of so-called, 'social media'.

#Usenet #NewsGroups #NNTP #NetworkNews #NetNews #Anonymous #Anonymity #Writers #Writing

I like split pea soup with pumpkin or squash and sweet potato and lots of spice. You can top it with coconut cream, or yogurt, or sour cream.

Pride and joy of my garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1430574/pride-and-joy-of-my-garden/ #fun #gardening #GardeningFun

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Pride and joy of my garden

@paninid You know when I was a kid my dad went on a rant that I’ve never forgotten. He was just suddenly very vocally angry about the existence of telephones.

“You push a few buttons in your house. You have no idea what I’m dealing with, but you make a loud bell ring in my house and demand my immediate attention. Well fuck you. You can’t have it.”

I haven't checked gnutella in a long while since the proxy function in gtk-gnutella is broken. The DarkMX network is still up and running. It is the successor to WinMX, the best P2P app from over 20 years ago.

As for decent content, it depends on what you want. There are many terabytes of music and audio and video, and lots of reading material.

Retroshare is still under active development. It allows to create hidden F2F networks with blogs, forums, chat, file shares, mail, all E2E encrypted.

https://github.com/go-while/go-pugleaf

Pugleaf sports a web portal and built-in administrative tools.

#Usenet #RocksolidLight #Retro #NNTP #NetworkNews

Poppins is very similar to Sofia Pro. Perhaps by changing the weight it would be even more similar.

Nunito Sans is another font you might find agreeably similar.

"I want to be one of those women who gives the devil paralyzing panic attacks just because #God woke me up that day."

Their motto should be, "Don't be good."

1. Get a free account: https://www.eternal-september.org/
2. Get a newsreader: https://www.claws-mail.org/

Configure the newsreader with your new account credentials, download the list of newsgroups, and start subscribing.

There are many free Usenet hosts and many different Usenet reader client softwares. The two proposed above are very popular.

#Usenet #NNTP #EternalSeptember

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

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@kajer@infosec.exchange

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Ygdrasil is the first online literary journal, first published in 1993.

You might find the editor on Facebook and at Academia.edu.

#zine #zines #journals #poetry #literature #ygdrasil

Usenet Reborn [0], a terminal‑based NNTP client written in Rust (by @rek2), is now available on pkgsrc.

[0] https://sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn/
#nntp #usenet #smolweb #pkgsrc

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Screenshot of a terminal window running usenet_reborn. On the left, a column listing subscribed newsgroups, and on the right pane, a threaded view of the comp.infosystems.gopher group.

It looks like Academia.edu is blocking works that were formerly public. So much for academic freedom and public knowledge ...