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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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

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

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#Coffee #CowboyCoffee #MorningMudd

Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).

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

Site: Cryptography project site. (https://octade.net)
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BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/octade.bsky.social
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Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@buckbriar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZcXvuvGxmk

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Mobile phone and seatbelt detection cameras may sound like a narrow traffic enforcement tool, but many people know them by a more revealing nickname: “crotch cams.” In this video, Dr. Jon Padfield examines how these cameras work, why they are spreading across the United States, and what they actually mean for privacy, surveillance, and public policy. He breaks down federal traffic fatality data, questions whether photographing drivers’ groin areas is really the best way to improve safety, and compares these systems to other interventions like rumble strips, pavement markers, and pedestrian islands that may save more lives without expanding surveillance.

Drawing on his own highway safety research background, Jon argues that serious public safety questions deserve serious debate, not rhetoric or gaslighting. He also explores the broader incentives behind these systems, including revenue generation, data collection, and the growing overlap between roadside surveillance and in-vehicle monitoring technology. If we truly want safer roads, this video asks whether more cameras are the answer—or whether we are choosing surveillance over better solutions.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnUxRahoBJU

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How private is online therapy? And what happens to your most sensitive personal data when you trust an app with it?

There is an often-quoted idea that the true measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Book of James expressed a similar principle: caring for those in distress while remaining morally uncorrupted.

Today, tens of millions of Americans are seeking help through online therapy platforms. But what happens when companies entrusted with deeply personal struggles turn that information into a business model?

In this video, I examine major online therapy platforms including BetterHelp, Talkspace, and Cerebral—and the growing concerns around how sensitive mental health data is collected, shared, and monetized.

We’ll look at:
• The explosive growth of online therapy
• FTC actions against BetterHelp and Cerebral
• Allegations of data sharing with Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, and others
• Broader concerns about privacy across mental health apps
• What this means for people seeking help during their most vulnerable moments

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It’s official,, this administration is cursed by God.

Being baptized in his NAME means full mental and spiritual immersion in and submission to his authority and power, not mere immersion in a tub of water while rote speaking his name. Water baptism was for repentance under the law, and John the baptist testified that his ministry of water must decline while Christ's ministry of fire and spirit must increase. The real fire and spirit baptism of salvation has already come.

Jesus came to baptize men with the holy spirit and with power, not to dunk them in a tub. A man must die to rise again into everlasting life, and being buried in the water with Christ signifies this.

https://tuba.geopjr.dev/

#Fediverse #Fedi #Software #Linux #Windows

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#L3375P3AK

"I see a bright future for .onion sites."

https://mastodon.cr.yp.to/@djb/116353830912228373

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"NSA and IETF, part 7: Counting votes." Turns out to be 22 votes against, 21 votes for: not even a majority in favor, never mind consensus. IETF management is throwing the votes away, insisting on a replay, and trying to silence opponents.

"And then to tell us that they're working for "Ireland Inc.?" IDK. Not really the kind of public image that inspires confidence."

https://dev.to/dattran2346/building-a-youtube-to-podcast-pipeline-with-yt-dlp-ffmpeg-and-backblaze-b2-8nm

#Podcast #Podcasts #Audio #Youtube

https://casti.fyi/youtube-to-podcast.html

#Music #Audio #Video #Podcasts #Youtube

SINS of Christian Nationalism & Zionism

Sins of Christian War-Making

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-maDeoEDiI

Synopsis:

Holy war is a doctrine of the devil. Every church and organization promoting war for Christ is anti-christ.

Man cannot solve the evil in the world by 'fighting' or violence. That is exactly what the devil and his minions want. The gospel can not be spread by the sword or power of the state.

Every form of radical liberation theology or dominion theology is satanic because it denies the word of God and replaces it with the gospel of war.

Christian nationalists hate the lost because they too are lost souls with a messiah complex. Instead of following the messiah they want to reconstruct him in the imperial state. They do not have love of their neighbor.

My observation:

Christian Nationalism is disguised Roman imperialism, globalism and Zionism, hence it is neither Christian nor nationalist in character. Christian Nationalism has the same character imprint as Holy Roman Empire crusaderism. It is wicked and deceitful.

Christian Nationalists claim to advance 'dominion' or 'taking dominion'. This is blasphemy. The dominion over the nations was given to Jesus, not to imperfect men. Jesus is the one who is given dominion over all the nations. Thus Christian Nationalism blasphemously posits itself as the messiah with the dominion, just like its Catholic parent church.

#GunpointGospel #Crusades #HolyWar #Catholic #HolyWar #Christian #ChristianNationalism #Nationalism #Zionism #Christianity #DominionTheology #Church

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#Usenet #NetNews #NNTP

Baptized in the NAME. Not a bathtub.

"never suggest the death penalty for sexual assault, rape, kidnapping, or child molestation. as soon as that's the penalty, then there's no barrier for the perpetrator not to murder the victim."

My comment referenced the post-attack enablers rather than the perpetrator.

So why are you pleading a faulty argument of mercy for the perpetrators of sexual assault?

"The ASA said she should have complied and sued the officer later. "

Yes, these fiends do think like that.

Everyone involved in her arrest and incarceration should get the gallows.

"Change can only come to the US if people learn to wield their collective power in ways that don’t depend on the elections."

Everything else is worldly-wise mind-poison.

#Repent

Maybe it means one must be high on spirits during the crime ...

... or the crimes were committed while high?

If Drumpf had a son he would look like Afroman ...

... because he got high.

Drumpf + Afroman = High Crimes and Misdemeanours.

IMPEACH AFROMAN

Mandatory Brawndo dosage is the contraceptive antidote.

#Drumpf #Afroman #Impeachment #Constitution #Brawndo #Humor #Jokes

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Tryptich of Afroman wearing an American flag striped suit.

Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does. I’ve been finding a number of interesting artifacts throughout. This June 1984 ad by Cadmus Computer Systems listed a #USENET address: !wivax!cadmus.

This is a UUCP bang path, for the kids who don’t know. The ! separates relay hops, it’s a literal routing instruction. Get to the backbone, reach wivax, forward to cadmus.

No DNS.

Machines screamed at each other to swap data.

#unix_surrealism

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A man works on a computer with multiple monitors displaying graphical data, surrounded by an advertisement for Cadmus computer systems.

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A vintage advertisement for the Cadmus 9000 computer system, highlighting its complete set of tools and contact information.

#Yinz graffiti on the freight car.

Game devs, drop the keyboard and play this drinking game. Then continue coding to experience real vibe coding.

https://ludocity.org/wiki/Tablero_de_Yinzer

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Tablero de Yinzer is based on Tablero da Gucci, which in turn is based, allegedly, on a gambling game called Tablero de Jesus. Tablero de Yinzer is the version Tablero da Gucci played in Pittsburgh, as adapted by members of Obscure Games Pittsburgh.

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#Yinzer #Pittsburgh #Beer #Games #BoardGames

#Yinz #Yinzer #YinzerMafia #Pennsyltucky #Pennsylvania #Keystone #Appalachia #Allegheny

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Beer glass with Pennsylvania map shape and the word Yinzer.

This is roughly how tax laws work in USA.

I find that I experience culture and community in 'meat space.' Online is mostly for entertainment or escape. I get away from the meat space goblins to fight with the virtual trolls and gremlins. YMMV.

In meat space you can verify that the person is real and not a sock puppet. Usually.

#MeatSpace #Cyberspace #Culture #Community

"Hoping that this bubble will finally burst"

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

Europe, the AI Continent.

One year ago, we launched the AI Continent Action Plan. Since then, we have made huge strides:

✅ 19 AI factories are now live across EU countries.
✅ We established the AI Skills Academy to train experts.
✅ The AI Omnibus is cutting costs for business.
✅ We have earmarked €1 billion to support AI adoption in industry.

We are building a secure and innovative AI future for Europe.

Here's how 👉 https://link.europa.eu/nj3VH9

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A robotic hand and a human hand reaching towards each other, reminiscent of "The Creation of Adam." They are framed by a circle of glowing pink and blue stars. Below, white text reads "EUROPE The AI continent," with the European Commission logo in the bottom right corner.

"I've got an AI bridge to sell. You interested?"

"... that is THE absolutest worst thing this account ever posted."

You may not have intended a pun with the word, 'holy' but here we are. Good work.