OCTADE

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Director of the International Department of Civil Disobedience.

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Bytemology of Retronym, OCTADE. Yinzer phonics. Butterfly Perfume.

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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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

@wordplay@lemmy.ml @Vocabulary@lemmy.ml

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    [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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    I like my coffee brewed so strong that you can float a horseshoe on top of it.


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      [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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      ABOUT

      Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).

      Likes: Interested in WORK PRODUCT, inspiration, faith, truth, beauty, nature, self-improvement, encouragement, edification, praiseworthy things, how-tos, beautiful things, artwork, fluid poems, and general human kindness and achievement. See my profile hashtags for technical subjects of interest.

      Disclaimer: If I follow your account it does not imply agreement with your views.

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      ... so that some other early bird could find something witty and pointless to share before going back to sleep.

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        ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]@linuxgal@techhub.social

        their our know ROLLS

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          [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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          meep

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            @codinghorror@infosec.exchange

            Libertarians are still lynching pumpkins.

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              @codinghorror@infosec.exchange

              Where's the lie? Your agitprop language and vague, nebulous insinuation has no effect here. Ah, that's where the lie lies!

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                A death cult. Specifically, a spiritual and mental death cult.

                The whole freak show is the "Synthesis of Opposites" to achieve the predetermined plan in the middle.

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                  @codinghorror@infosec.exchange

                  Libertarianism is socialism for the rich and ryot tenure for the working class.

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                    [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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                    Libertarians will rent you someone else's country to live in.


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                      [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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                      Use the source. Trust the source to guide you.

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                        @compfu@mograph.social

                        Phuque ottokorekt.

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                          [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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                          Many of the Linux shell commands are syntactically disorganized, unstructured and unrelated, forming no cohesive pattern. Over the years I developed my own set of aliases to overcome problems like the one you mentioned.

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                            Looks to be worth 1/2 million to 3/4 million, if it is in walking distance to all the cool hangout and retail places. The real estate market is a racket.

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                              @allenu@mastodon.social

                              Welcome back to the 80s vibe.

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                                Feral kitty came on to the porch. She demanded that I pet her. I put out some food. She would not touch the food and instead kept rubbing my leg until I started petting and wrestling with her. She still would not touch the food. Then I went and got a different kind of cat food and she nom-nommed and mow-mowed it down. Even the wild ones can be finicky.

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                                ThE iNtErNuTz is the same old stream of garbage. I want to put up a new antenna and start yakking skip. I would like to get one of those 1000-watt linears and a skull and crossbones sticker.

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                                @YKantRachelRead@treehouse.systems @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                Instead of kefir I've done homemade yogurt which firms up well.

                                You can also do clabbered milk with unpasteurized milk. Hillbillies have made clabbered milk since Methuselah was drinking it. The milk needs to be raw to properly clabber it.

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                                  [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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                                  If I could saddle a 800-lb hamster I would be a hamboy.

                                  Or perhaps one could saddle a teacup pig and be called the same.

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                                  [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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                                  " I live in England where we have zero evacuation orders, but still... "
                                  And there is the 50-lb hamster on the coffee table. More sunny climes await you across 72 commonwealth nations. Or even several countries in the Schengen area might appeal to your need for vitamin D. You can drive the EV. Or saddle up the hamster.

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                                  Related and relevant rant:

                                  GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU

                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUgv6dpJc

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                                    [?]OCTADE » 🌐
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                                    You might enjoy . Articles are almost exclusively plain text. I get annoyed by images and screenshots and videos. I want to read words or listen to words.

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                                      6,000 Patents Hidden By The Government | U.S. Invention Secrecy Act

                                      Short video: https://octade.net/urls/6000_patents.html

                                      In 1998, Stanley Meyer claimed to invent a car that ran on water. Days later, he was dead—and his invention disappeared. But Meyer wasn't the only one. There’s a federal law, still active today, that allows the U.S. government to classify and bury private inventions deemed a “threat.” It's called the Invention Secrecy Act—and it's already been used over 6,000 times.

                                      From Nikola Tesla’s wireless energy to Townsend Brown’s anti-gravity tech to Joseph Papp’s engine that ran on noble gases, history is littered with breakthrough inventors who vanished into obscurity... and whose technologies never made it to the public.

                                      This episode uncovers the case studies, the hidden power of secrecy orders, and the chilling question: What else have they buried?

                                      @academicchatter@a.gup.pe @edutooters@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

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                                        Where is the Muslim Museum?

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                                          @selfhosted@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe

                                          I don't know about an IPv6 donkey client. It seems that interest has waned enough that most projects have stagnated.

                                          I think if you connect aMule via a TOR proxy it should be able to reach the network. Perhaps it may work with torsocks or proxychains or socat.

                                          DarkMX works great over TOR and it should connect regardless of your IP scheme.

                                          RetroShare (http://retroshare.cc) also has built-in TOR connectivity and it is open source with a Linux repo. It is F2F instead of P2P. You have to invite people to join your network. This can be a big upside for security but would usually mean less files to find. RetroShare also has built-in messaging and forums.

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                                            I recall when nicotine was in the Debian repo. Debian removed some p2p stuff. I think some might still be in testing repo but some they took out completely. It seems like there was a thrust in open source to sandbag p2p networks to help push people into using server-based services.

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                                              Eye contact [SENSITIVE CONTENT]clippy avatar revolt?

                                              edit: Nevermind. I just followed your status and saw the video link.

                                              I enjoy Rossman raking the gluttons over the coals to render their fat.

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                                              'palooza' is a party, festival, shindig, hoe down, jam session, sock bop, etc. usually non-serious or whimsical and sometimes with silly or exaggerated themes for the gathering

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                                                Are you having a palooza?

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                                                  [?]Michelle » 🌐
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                                                  I never felt
                                                  So lonely
                                                  As when
                                                  I learned
                                                  Your name

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                                                    hur hur

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                                                      If you are using P2P file sharing software (besides bittorrent) please post links to the software with your opinion.

                                                      @infostorm@a.gup.pe @p2p@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe @networks@a.gup.pe

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