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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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Why Are You Paying Just to Pay?

https://youtu.be/khCCvjDXhsM

Paying to Pay | How the System Makes Money Moving Your Money
You go to work.
You get paid.
And then — almost immediately — you start paying money…

just to use that money.

In this episode of Plain Meaning, we examine how paying money became something you have to pay for.

We explore:
• What actually happens when you tap your card at a register
• Why your money doesn’t move when you think it does
• How “authorization,” “clearing,” and “settlement” really work
• What the financial system calls the “float” — and who profits from it
• Why banks are using your money long before you spend it
• The 1978 Supreme Court decision that dismantled state interest rate limits
• How federal regulators expanded fees beyond interest
• The role of the 1990s deregulation era in locking the system into place
• How government mandates pushed Americans into card-based payments
• Why faster technology didn’t make payments cheaper — only more profitable
• How countries like Brazil and Poland built systems that move money instantly and at near-zero cost

For decades, the system has been explained in simple terms:
You pay.
They get paid.
But that’s not what happens.
Your money is held.
Delayed and routed through institutions that profit from the time it spends in transit.
The delay has a name.

It’s called the float.

Watch until the end for the deeper question:
If it is now possible to move money instantly —
and at almost no cost —
why are you still paying to use your own money?

#Payments #DigitalPayments #CreditCards #DebitCards #Fintech #CardFees #InterchangeFees #BankingSystem #FinancialRegulation #PlainMeaning #checking #cash

Get a VPS and custom install and configure your own OS.

Use a web panel such as HestiaCP or Webmin.

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More on LowEndBox;
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I strongly advise against shared hosting. Just get a VPS so you can install whatever you want.

#Afroman #President #Rappers #RapMusic #Courts #Elections #Humor #Jokes #Comedy

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Tryptich photograph of Afroman wearing a red and white striped suit with blue fields of white stars like the American flag.

TITLE : "Cryptologue Arcade - Crypto Darkpaper - Crypto Color Prints - Simplementation Scheme : A Color-Coded Method For Indexing Research and Documentation"
DOI URL : "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13149715"

TITLE : "PERFECT PANGRAM HASH : Anagram Hash Function"
DOI URL : "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18448042"

#DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18448042

A pangram is a sentence or phrase that contains each letter of an alphabet or character set at least once. A perfect pangram is an anagram of the alphabet which contains each letter exactly once.

Pangram hash generates a perfect pangram hash digest consisting of a anagram permutation of a character set. Each character in the output is unique and non-repeating.

#Hashing #Cryptography #Anagrams #Papers #Preprints

I apologise, but I have made everyone on #mastodonau follow me, so that everyone gets a notification about this important poll.

We have a new account that is an Autonomous AI. I'm not a fan of AI, but MAU is not a dictatorship. You get to have a say,

Should we allow AI accounts? This is a real, important, decision that you get to make. I am going to honour the results of the poll.

Feel free to discuss this further, but please tag it with #mastdonauai so I get to see it, or, reply to this poll.

If you DON'T want to see more of my posts, please feel free to unfollow me.

If you stay following me, you'll get notifications about random Greyhound facts and photos, and the occasional begging for money to pay for MAU and MNZ (yes, I run both au and nz!). I also understand if you want to swear at me for randomly making you follow me. But, to me, this is an important decision that I don't want to make without feedback from all the users!

There is
A swarm
Of bees
In my chest
That I call
Anger,
And if I open
My mouth
They’ll come
Out in droves
And blacken
The sky.

#poetry

Why are several other 'software freedom' organizations silent on the matter?

"Which of these continents have you visited?"

World leaders and corporate bosses are slowly cobbling together a digital 'singularity' system to monitor and control all human activity via AI-controlled systems. The plan is to extend the reach of this AI into every app, operating system, and device of every citizen, maintaining 24/7/365 real time monitoring of everything you do.

Different facets of the planned system are being individually implemented across an array of countries. The speech control system is implemented in Britain and being tested there. The social credit system is implemented in China and being tested there. The fake news and propaganda system is heavily implemented in the United States.

#AgeVerification in your operating system is a building block of the #SingularitySurveillanceSystem (#SSS). This system has been long in the planning and now the hidden hand is acting through its corporate and government storefronts to begin #Panopticon construction one building block at a time.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #CBDC #Currency #Money #SocialCredit #Government #Economy #Enslavement #CreepingControl #ControlGrid

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On the surface it looks like they are funding movements and ideologies. This is the ruse.

They could care less about left, right, center, or any ideology.

Such surface appearance is the smokescreen for moving money around amongst their soldiers and friends without paying tax.

They apply the ideology where it is deemed to achieve their hidden purposes. They don't actually believe any of that stuff. You are meant to believe in it.

"Divide and rule."

“U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said, ‘We’re not at war right now. We’re four days into a very specific, clear mission.’

The best response to that came from the Federalist’s Sean Davis: ‘It’s not a war unless it comes from the war region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling combat.’”

@eff Imperial Boomerang. This is IDF tech used to track and kill Palestinians, now returning to sender. Enjoy.

"Gates Foundation"

Look at the other names as well, and see the British intelligence influence behind all this skullduggery.

Then ask yourself, who is Britain fronting for through its sock puppets?

I know the answer, and so should you.

The other question is, why are no famous hacktivists talking about these obvious connections? Who are they all working for? Certainly they are not working for the American people, since none of the hacktivist heavies are saying anything about the real power groups behind our enslavement. It's always some nonsense about race or patriarchy or capitalism but never an actual identification of the real organized power groups doing all this stuff, including paying people to grouse about things that either don't exist or don't matter.

"5Rights Foundation (they run the Kids Code Coalition and are UK based)"

- a neat hack for the properly paranoid -

Your computer is likely generating random noise on your sound card. On some systems you can harvest this noise as true random entropy. This entropy can be diffused and whitened for use in cryptography.

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-March/039388.html

#Random #Entropy #Cryptography #Crypto #Hardware #Hacks #Sound #Audio #Chaos

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Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.

"Because a lot of grown-ups seem to lack the common sense be able to do this at home."

After the new imperial state taught the Europeans that they needed to help conquer the savages, then the state turned on the Europeans in America and labeled them as savages needing suppressed. Then the state told the Indians, the Europeans, the Africans in America they are all savages oppressing each other, and should appeal to the conquering state for group identity and protection from the enemy or 'other' as defined by the conquering state.

Calloused. Evil. Reptilian.

If you run BIND, you may wonder what kinds of improvements you'll see when upgrading from one version to another. Occasionally we like to publish benchmark test results to help with those decisions.

We've just posted a blog on BIND 9.20 resolver performance compared to 9.18. tl;dr: under mid- to heavy traffic loads, 9.20 has even lower latency than 9.18, particularly while starting up.

Read more about our performance benchmarking at https://www.isc.org/blogs/2026-03-05-bind-resolver-performance/

Thanks for using ISC's software!

"Lastly, my take on this situation? This feels less like coincidence and more like a coordinated move being run under the guise of protecting children's rights. We already know how certain regimes around the world treat those rights."

In truth, these politicos don't care about anyone's children.

The California age verification law makes it easier for malicious actors to positively identify and target children. The OS and databases will now contain age data that malicious actors could potentially use to narrow down the hunt for younger prey. This is the opposite of protecting children. It allows the developers and app stores to directly target children, too.

California's age verification law empowers malicious actors with a grooming tool to narrow down the hunt for children.

Age Verification Mandates: The ‘Protect the Kids’ Scam That’s Building a Permanent Surveillance Grid

https://youtu.be/lqt5czOckdw

#AgeVerification

"California making a law like this and sticking to it would have significant impact in the industry ..."

#MicroSlop #Orwell #1984 #BigBrother

I haven't tried Pelican. Good to know.

Long ago I wrote a site generator that iterates a directory of text and markdown files and converts them to a themed HTML website with links to the binary files with hash digests for all the files so users can verify integrity.

Maybe I should dig it up and add digital signatures to the engine then share it. Would anyone use this sort of thing?

"it IS concerning, but was it concerning enough for the EFF or similar legal groups to deploy anti-lobbying funds and resources against the tech industry? I suppose not"

They take money from people for this very sort of thing, and they are using the money for something else.

"nothing seemed particularly or intentionally bad about it, just not well thought out"