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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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The Old Testament is prophecy about the eventual destruction of Christian imperialism. Jehovah is going to wipe the Christian religion off the face of the earth, along with all its cults and splinter sects.

The Old Testament is not a history book. It is a PROPHECY book. Elements of ancient history were poetically joined to tell the FUTURE, not to educate us about the past.

Isaiah 46:10 Jehovah says this plainly.

A few of the 28 spectacular "pattern poems" produced by the Frankish Benedictine monk Rabanus Maurus in his 9th-century work De laudibus sanctae crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross). More examples, and an explanation of how they work, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/medieval-pattern-poems-of-rabanus-maurus-9th-century

How about spending money on kernel development instead of all this other transnational capitalist stuff?

@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange

The new war may send diesel and gas prices through the roof. Or it may be used as a pretext to jack up the prices, like the collaborative price inflation of domestic food products.

They are earning the hate.

Never attribute to ignorance what is clearly malevolent.

@gblues @Taweret

[The crowd whips itself into a frenzy]

"More! More Hercules movies!" they cried out with mindless ardor.

And the rulers of #Monsterdon provided it for them.

-- from a lost Robert W. Chambers manuscript

AI hoovering has changed this. I don't want AI having any of my important stuff. It won't preserve information heritage. It will pervert all of it.

there are years of hacking where things progress by days, and there are days of hacking when things progress by years

Moar powwwerrrr!

@dylanisaiah@mastodon.social @catboi29@mastodon.social

If I were a programming language I would hire you as chief of the fan club.

Lobbying = treason.

A democracy is supposed to do the will of the electorate, not the will of power groups commandeering electoral power.

Anyone asking for money via social media is 99.99% certainly a scammer.

Don't feel guilted into giving money to total strangers through a wire. Donating to your local wino on the corner would likely do more for society.

@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

I recall a really old movie titled, DARKSTAR, with that theme of AI computer killing the crew.

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For 'research integrity' ban AI / LLM garbage from academia.

Funny, I was recently looking at bloom filters for the same reason: zero-knowledge bandwidth reduction.

Which field of Bachelor degree(s) have you?

'Age verification' is a thin pretext for the real purpose: mandating an API that allows remote access and control of the operating system.

Some mascot art is adorable, and some not so much. This one is just too grayscale for my taste.

Many times cops and government agents have been caught selling intelligence data to hostile actors. This is that gone to seed.

@david_bardos@mementomori.social

Don't forget the donation button.

'symbol of wealth'

hence

'globalism'

coincidence?

If a person or product is famous they are almost certainly compromised.

Decentralize all the things ...

"Removing anonymity from the web, which will inevitably happen when tech companies are required to identify and ban children, allows for easier government tracking and censorship of journalists, activists and whistleblowers [...] Non-profit and indie platforms could be forced to close, consolidating big tech’s power further. Mass surveillance systems, once constructed, could also be easily leveraged by governments and bad actors." - @taylorlorenz

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled

#privacy #tech

Psychology is an administrative vocabulary masquerading as a natural science, and the most damning evidence is that the discipline best equipped to rescue it is quietly declining to speak its language. Thoughts?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-zombie-factory?r=pvxh5

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I just saw a tiny dog happily trotting down the street with a short string of those sausages that are linked together end to end in its mouth. It was so happy. The scene looked like a cartoon that had come to life.

I would like to find obscure and interesting manifesto type writings not listed on that web site. Suggestions? Links?

#manifesto

If your friend is going bonkers, get them to do group things that don't involve a computer or phone.

If you don't get it yet, this age verification that California is forcing into OS's (and Colorado is about to) isn't about protecting kids. It does nothing to protect kids.

But it is the first step towards needing your ID to use your computer, and tying your ID to everything you do with your computer.

In short, this is bad, and it's laying the ground work for mass surveillance the likes of which we haven't seen before.

And the thing that sucks is because they're using the "Think of the children" line, it'll probably go through without any resistance at all.

Make your plans now for how you want to respond to this, because its probably not a matter of if, but when this happens.

Seven people are put on trial in #France for:
- using encrypted apps like Signal
- participating in digital security training

“8 December” case: why is encryption on trial?
"On 3 October, the trial of the so-called “8 December” case began. Seven people are prosecuted for being a “terrorist group”.

The intelligence services in charge of the judicial investigation (Direction générale de la Sécurité intérieure, DGSI), the National Antiterrorist Prosecution Office (Parquet National Antiterroriste, PNAT), and the investigating judge based their case on the fact that the defendants were using different tools to protect their privacy and encrypt their communications on a daily basis.

This trial is part of an increased political push by states and law enforcement for surveillance measures and the criminalisation of encryption. That is why the trial is crucial in the battle against the state’s ongoing attempts to criminalise commonplace, secure and healthy digital practices.

EDRi member in France La Quadrature du Net has continuously defended people’s right to privacy and fought for strong protections of everyone’s digital security. Now, once again, they stand up for the last pillar of our digital #security – #encryption."
via @edri
@surveillance@a.gup.pe https://edri.org/our-work/8-december-case-why-is-encryption-on-trial/

Did #WhatsApp Lie About #Encryption For A Decade?

WhatsApp just got sued for allegedly lying about end-to-end encryption, with claims that #Meta employees can access any user's #messages through a simple internal request.

While the lawsuit provides no technical proof, we'll show you the confirmed privacy issues with WhatsApp and explain why closed-source encryption is fundamentally untrustworthy.

https://techlore.tv/w/oqjQuc25Sc7xcEfavaf1Cf

Sammelklage: WhatsApp-Verschlüsselung angeblich unwirksam

Eine Sammelklage gegen Meta behauptet, die Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung von WhatsApp-Nachrichten sei nur eine Fassade. Meta weist das entschieden zurück.

https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/115972331299926515

A new class‑action lawsuit alleges WhatsApp’s end‑to‑end encryption is ineffective, claiming Meta can access users’ supposedly private chats despite long‑standing privacy assurances. 📱🔒
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Class-action-lawsuit-WhatsApp-encryption-allegedly-ineffective-11156940.html
#WhatsApp #Encryption #Meta #Privacy #TechNews

#SIgnal is the better #WhatsApp ✅ 💡

https://signal.org/download/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/introducing-encrypt-it-already

the EFF is now launching "Encrypt It Already" a push to try and get companies to invest in stronger privacy protections for Data & communications

You can find out more at the announcement/article above, and the official website here: https://encryptitalready.org/

#EFF #Privacy #Security #Encryption #E2EE

hat.sh lets you encrypt files locally in your browser using modern cryptography — nothing is uploaded or stored.

Perfect for securing files before sharing or using cloud storage. Open-source and self-hostable.

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Whether you’re a user or a business leader, understanding this gap between privacy marketing and technical reality matters.

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