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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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I don't know why people pay so much for such things. If I had $600 to waste I would buy a computer or some tools.

The story should be taken with a grain of salt. ;)

The story should be taken with a grain of salt. ;)

(see the crazy AltText for example)

It seems to me that #AltText may be helpful to AI bots snarfing data. Since detailed descriptions are included this may be of great advantage to the AI intelligence curve for building more accurate scanning and analysis datasets.

One way to gum the gears might be to include non-sequitur AltText with noisy images where you don't want bots to benefit.

Alt...

Boris Beefcake has broken out of prison. A white supremacist duck named Boris Beefcake is wanted for assault with a unfriendly weapon in his bid to segregate geese and mallards. He is displaying his unfriendly weapon in this mugshot while drinking alcohol-free whiskey from the dewdrops. With his unfriendly weapon Boris Beefcake has an ugly mug only a mother could slap.

I like the scheduled post feature in the snac2 web front end. Is there a way to schedule a post using the command-line server side? I know, I know, I can just write a shell script or cron job to fire at particular times ... but figured I would ask if snac2 has that capability.

#Debian #Calamares #BTRFS

Exception: wearing a necktie as a headband or sweatband should remain legal.

The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed

https://youtu.be/onYWQJsWFpk

Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to police without warrants, leading to a massive surveillance operation that generated $94 million in fines. This explosive investigation reveals how SMUD transformed smart meters into government spy devices, monitoring when you shower, sleep, or use appliances.

Innocent homeowners faced armed police raids for using electricity to power medical equipment or mine cryptocurrency. One resident was forced outside in his underwear at gunpoint, while another disabled veteran was threatened with arrest for refusing warrantless entry. The surveillance threshold dropped dramatically from 7,000 to just 2,800 kilowatt hours per month, making air conditioning use suspicious in Sacramento's brutal heat.

Internal documents expose how SMUD analysts actively mined customer data for police, checking over 10,000 homes in a single month. Despite California law explicitly prohibiting utilities from sharing precise meter data without warrants, SMUD violated these protections daily for a decade.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit could reshape smart meter privacy nationwide. With the October 2025 court decision approaching, every American with a smart meter needs to understand how their utility company might be spying on them right now.

#SMUD #SmartMeters #EFF #Privacy #Utilities #Electricity #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Spying #4thAmendment #WarrantlessSearch #Constitution #CivilRights #Courts #Lawsuit #SCOTUS #Cops #Police #Extortion #Fraud

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Add to that the fact that some rich people actually do good things and care about their downline. It is impish and reactionary to curse someone merely because they have money.

I know this is different in the tech sector. A lot of self-inflated, brittle, fragile people stand at the top of that heap.

"Hosting a Tor hidden service — also known as an onion site — typically requires in-depth technical skills and manual configuration. With TorServ, you can host a static website anonymously in seconds, without touching any config files."

#TorServ #TOR #Onions #OnionNetwork #Privacy #Anonymity

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@infosec@a.gup.pe
@linux@a.gup.pe
@networks@a.gup.pe
@crypto@a.gup.pe
@darknet@a.gup.pe
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@infostorm@a.gup.pe

Alt...

Two slices of red onion stacked one atop the other. The onion symbolizes TOR, The Onion Network, and its multiple layers of cryptographic obfuscation.

I am doing some research on the nativity of Jesus of Nazareth. I am looking into the many sectarian traditions and scholarly opinions on this subject.

I would like to get hermeneutic opinions and off the cuff opinions on some groundwork questions.

1. What actual year do you think Jesus was born?

2. How old was Mary when she was married?

3. How did Mary conceive?

4. What is the significance of his birthplace?

5. What is the significance of the Magi who sought him after his birth?

6. Why was it necessary or significant for an angel to tell Mary she was going to conceive?

Where possible, links or citations would be useful for particular opinions or traditional explanations.

#bible #jesus #theology #mary #miriam #virginbirth #nativity #incarnation #christ #christianity

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Did the post strike a nerve?

You don't switch to FOSS.

FOSS converts you.

Fediverse is peppered with #cringy, delusional, self-hating twitposting. Some people's feeds read like a suicide letter demanding everyone else to commit suicide with them. Some twitfeeds exude the vibes of an assassin's hit list. Some twitfeeds smell like authoritarian extermination orders. Their toxic feeds should come with a Mister Yuk sticker.

Twitposter feeds run devoid of brotherly love and full of animosity towards things they don't understand. These twitposters seek to blame and punish innocent people for their perceived slights or suffering rather than helping others through their own suffering.

Twitposters try to classify and demonize others instead of viewing others as individual humans with their own individual destinies.

With this collectivist hateview of others, they concoct a delusional view of reality that justifies any oppression or atrocity toward the 'enemy' they have concocted, and often that enemy is the self.

#Fedi #Fediverse #cringe #twitposers #twitposting #twitfeeds #gag #MisterYuk

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Alt...

A green Mister Yuk sticker with a circular black border. In the border are the words, 'POISON HELP' and a toll-free number for a poison hotline.

If you mean Emule, yes, it is still kicking. There's even a GUI client in Debian repos.

Awesome! Edonkey is where I got most of my ebook reading collection. Amule on Linux still works.

I used to run Shareaza long ago. I don't any more because I don't want to manage and sandbox a WINE box. I imagine Shareaza is probably really mature after all these years. Yet I am happy with DarkMX for the time being. It is retro looking yet very solid.

Would you happen to know of a stable DirectConnect or DC++ GUI client for Linux?

I figured out several ways to run DarkMX on a headless server without GUI. This allows me to install it on a remote server without any desktop environment and run the software as a daemon without the GUI.

First I used the X forwarding feature of SSH to pipe the GUI to a local machine. On that machine I did all the configuration inside the GUI. Then I closed the program.

Then on the remote machine I used 'xvfb' to run DarkMX as a nohup'd daemon with a dummy GUI buffer. That way I don't need to be connected to the GUI from a local machine and the application will still run. It also uses less RAM without the GUI.

There are other ways to do this, such as VNC and xpra. I just chose the quickest, dirtiest method in this case.

Why would I go to all that trouble? Well, I don't need to, but there are some people who might need to publish while maintaining strict anonymity. So they would need tools like DarkMX and TOR. For me it's just fun.

DarkMX operates over the TOR privacy preserving network. As a result the location of my peer is hidden and extremely hard to impossible for an adversary to locate. So when I publish something, such as a letter, or paper, or opinion, anyone can download it since censoring it is not viable. It ensures that my speech remains free and available to the general public. Now when I author essays, papers, homiles and such, I can publish them as file shares, and I can publish them simultaneously as a TOR hidden website with the built-in webserver feature. So readers don't need DarkMX to read my files--they can just fire up TOR Browser or use a TOR proxy with their web browser. If they want to snarf a whole directory they can install DarkMX, or use a script to snarf them via TOR.

If you are inclined to fiddle around with installing this software on a headless server, please share the techniques and tools used that suit you.

(DarkMX download site: https://darkmx.app)

#DarkMX #P2P #FileSharing #Anonymous #SelfHosting #TOR #OnionNetwork #Censorship

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It seems that there are no pigs on money. Anti-pig bias has gotten out of hand. I vote for Porky Pig to be on the Euro currency.

There's nothing wrong with a little bit of mystery.