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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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California residents are not authorized to use MidnightBSD for desktop use in the state of California effective January 1, 2027. California law CA AB1043 requires a complex age verification system implemented for operating systems with no exceptions for small open source projects. At this time, we don't have development time or a plan in place for this.

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The warmongers of transnational capital want no avenues for dissent.

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Did any of you notice Pete Hegseth has a giant Ordo Templar tattoo?

He's a templar on a crusade for his mother church against all protestant and muslim heretics because protestants and muslims protest imperial Catholic hegemony and foreign Catholic landlords runnning their countries.

The wars are religious wars designed to secure the transnational capital of the mother church.

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Their 'core mission' seems to be getting donations.

EFF has said nothing about Linux marrying the AI industry.

AI is not innovation. It is conquest.

The EC is working on more detailed guidance about how the CRA will work in practice. After lots of input from many of our open source colleagues, they have issued a draft. There are substantial improvements to the guidance around open source.
The EC has opened a 4-week public comment period on this new document, it would be a good time to read it and comment, if you haven't.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16959-Draft-Commission-guidance-on-the-Cyber-Resilience-Act_en

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Laws in both states are threatening to require Operating Systems to have mandatory age verification.

California's bill has passed and takes effect on January 1st, 2027!

Colorodo's bill has not yet passed!

if you live in either of these states, contact your representatives! Get them to overturn these intrusive changes!

Abolishing Congress and replacing them with a jar of beans would be much more efficient for all industries.

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Never put anything private on a computer.

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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?

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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.

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[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!

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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.

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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.

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