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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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"First Commandment: Ignore all the other gods. That’s an odd thing for a monotheistic god to say!"

The first commandment of the Decalogue reads in English:

"Thou shalt have no other gods BEFORE me."

BEFORE means REPRESENTING, or 'in place of'. In the ancient Hebrew the word translated as BEFORE means REPRESENTING, MASQUERADING, PERSONATING. In modern English we would say:

"You shall have no other judges representing me."

What God is saying in this commandment is that there is no one person or institution who is a 'vicar' representing him.

Why did he say this?

Because that's what they did in Egypt. Pharaoh was the 'vicar' of the deity.

Some nitwit will no doubt try to claim, "no, no, he's saying don't have idols."

To the nitwit: "That's the second commandment on graven images."

They don't teach you this in the Christian church because the Christian church is one of the forbidden, "other gods" pretending to represent him. Ditto for Islam and every other organized religion. Their existence violates the first commandment.

The Father hates religion. Hates all of it:

"And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams."

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are King Saul.

And they will be replace by the coming King David (Jesus).

"NEW: Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies"

How horrifying, not extracting maximum revenue from the cattle!

"He said: “Prosecutions that are driven by targets, statistics and finance have no place in this courtroom and bring the administration of justice into disrepute."

Exactomundo. He is right. The high court is wrong. He is outing the government grifter class for its grifting. How horrifying!

"“I have come to the conclusion that [speed camera contractors] GoSafe deliberately targeted an unjust speed zone in the townland of Clogheen, where there were rich pickings and, as the saying goes, they were shooting fish in a barrel.”"

Yeah, what a renegade judge! How scary to say such things!

O authoritarian high court, protect us from judges like this, who see us as more than tax cattle!

"Mr Justice Ferriter said that the judge’s approach was “wrong” in law and inappropriate comment for a judge to make as his role was not to express a view on correctness of speed limits adjudicated by another body."

This thinking is how authoritarians construct a Rube Goldberg money machine that cannot be questioned.

The lower court judge has a duty to prohibit corruption in the law from determining his decisions. The judiciary does not serve the legislature. The judiciary is separate from the legislature and is to serve as a check against corrupt legislation and enforcement.

How horrifying that one judge actually gets it!

If the world had more judges who acted sua sponte to point out corruption in the laws, and reject them based upon that, it would be a better world to live in.

We all know that traffic laws have ZERO, NADA, NAUGHT, NIL, ZILCH, and ZIP to to with safety and are about funneling revenue to 3rd party contractors, and maintaining the fear of constant police presence in the minds of the citizenry. This judge was just pointing out the obvious.

#courts #fiddlesticks #revenue #government #bollocks

https://theopendiaries.com/

If only I had the time ...

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https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2853

I remember a legislative hearing where the congress discussed the need for YouTube to censor all content that questions the veracity of heliocentrism and space programs. Perhaps this paper is following that trend?

#Censorship #FlatEarth #Cosmology #Globalism #Theology #Sociology #FreudianProjection

🌐 "As it did twenty-five years ago, the web can unlock maximum change with the lowest risk, but regulators are falling down on the job, and tech reporters are not informing readers of the options or the stakes."

Then a songbird sang right outside my window.

The fledglings left the nest above my window. For days I could hear them chirping as their parents came to and fro with grub.

Now birds are singing all around my yard as the sun rises.

#Bliss #Thankful #Birds #Nature #Blessed #PraiseGod

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/11/ban-gambling-ads

Arguing for a ban on ads for commercial gambling. I can support this cause.

'/usr/bin/su' and '/bin/su would never be in the memory cache at all ... by default ... except in systems that run entirely in memory.

Perhaps suid binaries should have special sandboxing for forcing them to be read from protected media into sandboxed memory addresses.

Maybe that would be a tougher nut to crack?

#Linux #Fragnesia #DirtyFrag #CyberSecurity #Exploits

Paul warned about giving heed to ‘Jewish fables.’ The fables about supernatural hybrid nephilim are bunk.

The governing institutions of Christendom are the 'nephilim' or 'fallen angels.'

The 'giants' of Genesis are empires and tyrants created by Christianity.

Read more ...
https://blog.nightbulb.net/nephilim-as-giant-monsters-and-other-jewish-fables-that-turn-from-the-truth/

#Bible #Christ #Christian #Church #Genesis #Theology

Today on Computers Are Bad: Extremely Low Frequencies

https://computer.rip/2026-05-09-extremely-low-frequencies.html

From Genesis to Malachi the Bible is very poetic. The Psalms are top-shelf poetry.

Much of the New Testament uses the same poetic emblems of the Old Testament.

God the Father is the master of poetry.

#christian #christianity #godsword #jesus #christ #god #poetry #bible #Jesus

Humanity could use a new operating system based on different principles besides the mainframe-kiosk model of Unix.

#Linux

You just described homeopathics in a nutshell.

#dog #dogs

Once harvest is done you have to haul one truckload after another from your clamps to the buyer loadout clamps.

Usually a spud farmer hires a large number of hands (sometimes dozens) to do the harvest, then after the harvest is stored there are months of mechanical repair and upkeep, spud hauling, field dressing, flood mitigation, fixing irrigation lines, and hand-wringing before you get a break.

Many potato harvester tractors cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, and have a subscription access model built in to the software so you can't even repair your own tractor.

There is no Green Acres life in the modern world of farming. It is brutal just keeping the business afloat.

Forgejo: https://forgejo.org ...

"Forgejo is a Free Software platform for collaboration and productivity in software development. It offers a familiar environment to GitHub users, easy installation and maintenance, and a focus on security, scaling, federation and privacy."

... codeberg has a nice setup (via forgejo) if you don't want to self-host.

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