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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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
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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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The Lord gives; the Lord takes away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

Dog is one of the Platonic solids.

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1984 More Television Test Patterns
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Old Test Patterns-IDs From Print - '50s-'60s
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The same with Abraham. There was a man named Abraham who married a woman named Sarah. But the story of Abraham as written in the Bible is not about that ancient Abraham. It is taking the ancient Abraham and using him as a character to invoke an Abraham yet to come. It is about a FUTURE Abraham. Both Jesus and Paul say so ...

[Paul says] "But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an ALLEGORY: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar."

Take careful note how Paul says the story of Abraham is ALLEGORY of the followers of Christ, the New Abraham that Paul is helping Christ to create at that very time.

Hagar is Israel after the Flesh, under bondage to the Law of Mount Sinai. Sarah is the mother of the New Jerusalem, the Israel of all nations born after the Spirit. Thus Abraham was divided into two seeds, one earthly, and one spiritual, and the one would be at odds with the other, as foretold to Eve and the Serpent. So it is the spiritual seed of Abraham that enters the kingdom to come, and the fleshly seed that must be put to death:

"Ye must be born again!"

"Ye must be born of water and of spirit ..."

What flowed from the side of Jesus onto the earth? Water and blood.

"The life (spirit) of flesh is in the blood."

It has been in front of our faces all these centuries, but most have not seen because they did not heed the warnings about interpreting the scripture with vain fables and false histories:

"Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do."

"But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness."

"And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."

"Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth."

"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty."

"Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye."

(I have been drafting a homile set on this subject.)

Cold water flowing
The downy snowbank melting.
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On the Internet and in the media, "far right" means anything even moderately to the right of Josef Stalin. "Far left" means anything even slightly to the left of the Puritan witch burning crew.

Survival is having people, not things. I would trade everything I own for a half-dozen inspired and selfless people in my corner.

I run three external backups. I like BTRFS automated compression. I also like that BTRFS won't run out of inodes like EXT4 does.

If the backup plan is simple to connected hardware, such as whole drive or whole home, making and automating a profile with LuckyBackup might be just the trick you need. If you are pushing the backup over a network link, there will be some tweaks necessary in the CLI.

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Another tip: have sense of humor. A few of us are roasting, not insulting. Big difference. Insults are done because one is deemed unworthy. Roasting is done because you are deemed tasty.

Don't delete your other accounts if you are trying to build an audience or customer base. Becoming a Mastodon celebrity will not pay your bills. Exposure is already sowed up by the gatekeepers and their arbitrary enforcement of policies. Augment. Don't get sucked into the prevalent exclusionary cultism rampant on this platform. It's neat, even useful, but it's not the savior solution some claim it to be.

Anyway, welcome to the party!

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Murica! Yeah.

If they are holding your data hostage while incommunicado, that could qualify as abuse in some jurisdictions. I would track down the contact info with the domain registrar. If that doesn't work start filing reports with their provider, hosting company, registrar, and perhaps they might forward to the domain owner or site admin.

A long time ago businesses used to give out custom pens with their business contact info on the barrels. Over the decades I have collected pens from hotels, businesses, and banks. Some ancient ones still write. Most of my collection has been lost over time, but I still have a grip of oldies.

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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'.

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