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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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 still refuses cookies and don't have any LLM or AI installed on my desktop. I just used grep and find commends to find files. You don't need this tech bro bullshit on your personal machines.

Alt...

A screenshot of social media post by user called Wise (@trikcode) and post text reads: the generation that refused to accept cookies. is now giving AI access to their desktops, files, and bank accounts

The Cryptographic Zombie: How Keybase Went from Privacy Darling to Zoom’s Cleanup Crew

Once the ultimate geek flex for cypherpunks, Keybase promised to make PGP cryptography accessible to mere mortals. Today, it hovers in the digital ether as a "zombie" app. Here is the story of how a revolutionary open-sour

https://schulz.dk/2026/04/06/the-cryptographic-zombie-how-keybase-went-from-privacy-darling-to-zooms-cleanup-crew/

#Misc #Privacy #Security #cryptography #nostalgia #security

A tick?

Anywhere anyone calls for a vote, there is a crime in progress ...

... and someone wants a vote to varnish the crime legit.

See what I did there?

Snakes exist just to eat.

#snakes #serpents #animals #critters #humor #jokes

You really do want this CRAP ...

It's not a mission. It's performance art for a money laundering operation.

#Artemis #Moon #NASA #Astronauts #Astronomy #Space #Cons #Frauds #Psyops #Scams

I just read the code. No tools, no parsers, no gimmicks. Look at the code and mentally follow exactly what it does.

Everyone is making everything vastly more complicated than need be.

If your code is modular with proper typing and formats, you don't need any of this extraneous stuff.

Better yet is to keep programs as small as possible, so boondoggling won't come up.

Discipline is hard with FOMO everywhere.

I find myself
Alone with
The shimmering
Stars,
And silence
Sounds like
Music
At last.

#poetry

"Christ has conquered all of hades, and given all its inhabitants the opportunity to arise out of it to the Paradise of the living."

Agreed. Apokatastasis.

"And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church [legislature, ekklesia]; and the gates of hell [hades, sheol] shall not prevail against it."

Notice the gates of the heavenly city in Paradise are always open, no more to be shut:

"And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: ... And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there."

"potential distinctions between "paradise" and "heaven"."

When Jesus told the thief he would be with him in Paradise, he was conveying the man directly to the central district of the heavenly realm where Christ himself would visit. That one act of faith by the thief elevated him above all the kings of the world. A real deathbed confession ...

2 Corinthians 12:4
Revelation 2:7

Dressed in
This flesh,
Our bones
Know the
Meaning
Of patience.

#poetry

Just letting y'all know I'm on vacation, if you know anything cool to do, eat or drink in the Lafayette, Baton Rouge area, let me know.

I don't use AI. I avoid it like a disease. I despise it because I know what it is, mind poison.

I have seen people post AI generated analyses of stuff that was just bonkers, wicked, and clearly laced with biased propaganda. No thanks.

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'.

Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://eternal-september.org/

#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember #usenet #nntp #decentralized #censorship #retro #freespeech

There is always Paganini, who has never censored any of my messages over many years. And Paganini is open, no signup required. His server throttles, so you can only post a few messages then must wait until later to finish responding to more messages. Paganini allows TOR access.

When I was a teenager I had this wild idea that politics was a big show and the only path forward was to become so independent from government that it becomes irrelevant.

Then Trump happened and I got all caught up in that political / culture war nonsense.

Now I've realized I was right in the beginning. Politics and culture war crap only exists to divide and rule.

Now we're in a hot war and it's partially my fault for letting myself be deceived.

+++ Ausics (Australia)

https://newsgroups.ausics.net

https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com

http://news.chmurka.net

http://csiph.com

https://dotsrc.org/usenet

https://www.eternal-september.org

https://news.gegeweb.org

https://news.hispagatos.org

https://news.nntp4.net

https://usenet.ovh

https://www.open-news-network.org

nntp://paganini.bofh.team

https://pasdenom.info/news.html

https://solani.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0JAAF61AiE

"I warned you years ago that Windows 11 was the beginning of the end. Today, the door is officially closing on general-purpose computing. In this 24-minute manifesto, I am moving past the "ripping on Rust" memes to address a documented existential threat to your hardware. Between the $12.5M Big Tech "security" grants and the US government's memory-safety mandates, we are witnessing a coordinated execution of legacy systems."

Now with the state of Internet resources being full of politically motivated false information and myths pawned as history, I wish I had kept those encyclopedias.

At times there have been over a half million message objects in my snac profile directory. Snac has always handled it like a champ.

#snac ... Snac's Not A Crappie.

Snac2 software sources: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

https://soc.octade.net/sysop/

A fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #sysop.

#groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro

@Lydie@tech.lgbt

The natural world is full of order and laws, yet here we are looking at extreme entropy which should not exist but seems to exist because order exists.

@milo@types.pl

Null terminated strings is the main problem.

In Pascal we don't have this problem. Strings are automatically sized instead of null terminated. In many years I've never had a memory leak in a Pascal program. Even when I have used pointers, I've never had the problem arise.

🚨 LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

｢ Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits https://linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.
The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it ｣

https://browsergate.eu/

#linkedin #privacy #surveillance