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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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Software should empower users. Software should not abuse, spy on, or hobble users. This is SOFTWARE FREEDOM.

Some evil companies design software to wield power over users. This is SOFTWARE BONDAGE. It is analogous to literal bondage because the user is cornered, shackled or caged.

Some evil companies forcibly integrate user systems into the AI cloud panopticon so the system won't install or boot without the user being identified and tracked by the panopticon. This is SOFTWARE SLAVERY. It is analogous to literal slavery in that the user needs constant permission to use the system and can only use the system in a way that chiefly benefits the software slaver.

Some evil companies forcibly harvest user data and force users to store private data in compromising cloud settings where their privacy is violated and subject to even greater risk of violation. This is SOFTWARE RAPE. It is analagous to literal rape and denudes users of the privacy and security of their data.

When an evil company is doing evil with its software or hardware offerings these terms may be used to tell the truth about such evil actions.

#SoftwareFreedom #SoftwareBondage #SoftwareRape #SoftwareSlavery

One example is this account:

[at] HolosSocial [at] mastodon.social ('at' removed to prevent annoying the user)

I followed and unfollowed and re-followed and still it gives the /ap/ endpoint instead of the profile.

"Everything that happens to us is by a natural law."

This is a passive view of life.

Everything that I confront in this world is changed by me touching it. This is an active view of life.

The consciousness given to you by the creator is your hammer and chisel for your little part of the universe. Your mind becomes action that reforms everything around you. What are you sculpting?

Does iced tea or ginger tea count?

Right! You would never do that. I would never do that. What kind of whack-job would even think of distilling their own yummy spirits? It makes me glad to pay my taxes and follow the rules. How can those hillbilly hate mongers think they can flout the rules and make their own booze?

Really worth it ... really, i promise: https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/12ko862/disturbing_trend_involving_parking_meters_home/

SkiftOS : https://skiftos.org/

It's not a *NIX!

"skiftOS isn’t POSIX. It’s a fresh API and userland inspired by Plan 9, Haiku, and Fuchsia. Familiar ideas, different contracts."

Problem: the GPL is poison. It has polluted Linux and the Linux userland software so that only large corporations can afford to monetize it. BSD License or MIT License would be much better allowing small players to produce unique work without then being forced to share their source code with the AI hegemony racket.

#SkiftOS #Tech #Linux #OS #Plan9 #Haiku #Fuchsia #Computing #SoftwareFreedom #AIHegemony #GPL #License #BSD #MIT

"What more could you need?"

Right. I would never do anything like that. Except in Missouri and Arizona where the laws are sane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtEidzV5nNE

"Ever heard of the Enuma Elish? It’s this ancient Babylonian myth where the gods got tired of working, so they created humans to be their slave class. Sound familiar?"

"In this video, I’m exploring how Silicon Valley is basically reenacting this exact same story right now. Except this time, we want to be the gods, and AI is the new slave class."

"I dive into the difference between being made in the "Image of God" vs. the "Image of Man" (Imago Hominis), and why that distinction matters more than ever. We aren't building a god; we are building a mirror—and the reflection isn't always pretty."

#AI #SiliconValley #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #Religion #Myth

The gloom is just a shadow of things to come. Shadows seem gloomy until the sun rises high.

The warmongers spent eight trillion dollars to drop bombs on weddings, fatten defense contractors, and provide medical care for maimed soldiers ... but building homes for the homeless and poor would be evil socialism and we can't have that. In effect what is being implied is that we can't build homes for the poor, but we should instead use that money to bomb foreign nations for so-called democracy.

The money spent on military conquest could have built 80 million houses and provided millions of good, temporary jobs in construction.

In fact the money spent on the conquests in Iraq and Afghanistan could have made a quarter of Americans home owners.

The so-called government of this country HATES the people. And it shows. They are thieving, murdering liars and thugs full of active and chronic hatred and malice toward the people. We live in another Catholic-styled dark age, where the tax collectors and creditors rob the people and use the money to sniff out heretics.

I realize it is too much to ask. I realize you will all waste your energy whining about crap that doesn't matter, like entitlement programs and imaginary racism, instead of doing the things that actually build people up, like giving them a roof over their head free of the encumbrance of debt.

The government forces a fragmentation economy on the people that forces millions to move away from their families and home towns just to find work and housing, then calls it 'socialism' to build houses for the people they have intentionally uprooted. Sick. Just sick and evil.

#homeless #housing #war #economy

Someone ordered that photo alteration. And someone ordered the manager who ordered it. And someone higher up ordered the action.

The world is full of liars, play-actors, and cynical deceivers. Some of them are so habitual about lying that they don't even think about it. They just do it.

"Hey, you are making too many different versions of the same thing that do the same thing and with a zillion different unnecessary interfaces and ways to all accomplish the same job. Stick to a simple interoperable scheme that can be audited against a standard."

Many years ago I used to troubleshoot dialup modems. Modems varied wildly in their firmware and AT commands. This caused wild variation in device drivers. And most of that variation was unnecessary. It caused a lot of busy work and wasted time.

A modem should not be a modem. A modem should be a specification. Then devices should be designed strictly around the specification. Apply to all other hardware devices, operating system primitives, boot system primitives, compiler logics and routines, then wash, rinse, repeat ... and things would move closer to an infrastructure that can be strictly audited regardless of the particular implementation.

Anyway consider this a fantasy rant. I don't see it ever happening.

While everyone is distracted by the scripted ICE theater the counter-reformation unification of Roman Church and state proceeds stealthily. Rome's agents are slowly converting America to the Imperial Roman religion. This is the true goal of so-called 'Christian Nationalism': the forcible conversion of America to Roman imperial Christianity, a la Constantine and Justinian.

From his bully pulpit the President is proclaiming Imperial Roman religion about their Roman moon goddess Mary, also known as Minerva, Venus, Easter, Astarte, Semiramis, and Isis.

Presidential Message on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

"In her honor, and on a day so special to our Catholic citizens, we remember the sacred words that have brought aid, comfort, and support to generations of American believers in times of need: Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/12/presidential-message-on-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception/

#President #Religion #Church #ICE #Reformation #Catholic #RomanCatholic #Imperialism #Christian #Jesus #Nationalism #ChristianNationalism

"#snac does not store nor cache media from other instances."

@pluralistic I completely agree with the email. "Enshittification" is a term I would have come up at the age of 14 during a period of heightened teenage angst, while still trying to sound far more intelligent than I would have been. It is completely unsuited to a problem this serious and ubiquitous. What's wrong with "platform decay" as listed on the @wikipedia article?

The poison problem with the current information generation is that 99% of the information at their fingertips is lies, more lies, damn lies, filth, pr0n, aggression, slander, gossip, and propaganda nonsense. Social media, news feeds, and even government blotters consist mostly of obese talking cocaine monkeys shaking their rumps in defiance of things they don't even understand.

And the more of this weaponized propaganda sewage they consume, the smarter they think they are.

I encounter people who think the ability to recall verbatim reams of nonsense is a sign of higher intelligence. Somehow the ability to memorize and regurgitate a fantasy encyclopedia is considered to be scientific prowess.

"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

I did not know that. So they borked a good feature to generate a self-censorship-oriented culture.

Thanks, #Mastodon!

Designing systems for stupid people yields stupid systems.

The simple answer is the interface and servers should reject statuses with a blank subject field.

ActivityPub should design upward for metadata usability so interfaces can do some productive and compact layout tricks with the information view.

I notice that the /people/ section of snac gives broken links to follower and followee profiles.

For instance entries for mastodon users are like this:

https://mastodon.social/ap/users/253190229248136435

Which appears to be an API endpoint rather than a web link. Links like this lead to a not found page.

#snac2 #mastodon #fediverse

#Mastodon #UX #GUI #Productivity #Interfaces

Brawndo. It has what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.

#Brawndo #Idiocracy

Christian Nationalism is Roman Constantinian Idolatry

This political idolatry of 'Christian Nationalism' is not new. Only the wide perception of it is new due to everyone now being plugged into the Internet via their ever-present phones and tablets.

In the 1600s through the 1800s we see the political idolatry was at fever pitch and full swing, giving a host of politically-oriented cults, such as Witch-burning Puritanism, Swedenborgianism, Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism, etcetera. Even the Anglican church is an Imperialist political cult and has no warrant or sanction in the Holy Scriptures. It is a 'nationalist' tyranny over the mind. And then we see Islam, which Christians mistakenly believe to be a non-Christian religion. Islam is a Christian heresy, founded by heretical Catholics. Even the name, "Mohammed" is a corruption of the earlier Arabic, "Mahmed" meaning, "Messiah". Islam is an offshoot of medieval Christianity with its Saturn idolatry gone to seed. Islam is a daughter of Babylon, the Judeo-Roman prostitute.

Christianity has always been a politically idolatrous cult. For instance, The council of Nicea was convened by the Apollo-worshiping, Luciferian Emperor Constantine for nefarious and ungodly political purposes. Every bishop who was a political apparatchik showed up, ironing out a fascist version of Christianity that was forced on the empire by the sword for centuries.

The luciferians try to repeat this in every generation in which it looks like Christians will flee the Church plantation for the true body of Christ outside the Church.

Remember, the outer sea court of the temple was for the Gentiles (nations). The kingdom was removed from the inner court and given to them without. Christian authoritarians still have not recognized this.

If you want to advocate for a more biblical and faithful version of Christianity you need to leave behind the Imperial leadership model of the Church. The Apostles and the Reformers warned us about the man of sin sitting in the chair of the bishopric building his tower of Babel using the people (laity) as their bricks.

This thing commonly called, 'Christianity' is the backsliding idol worship of Israel in the Old Testament, brought to life in our current age. Jesus Christ is not a Christian. The Apostles of the Lamb are not Christians. Neither Jesus, nor the Apostles, nor the Prophets would recognize Christianity as legitimate. The sum of all their teachings mark Christianity as an impostor religion of idolatrous customs trading darkness for light.

There is no municipal kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of God cannot be brought about by the force of arms of mortal men. It comes by the Spirit of the Lord, not by the spirit of the world. Everyone pretending to build God's kingdom by inveigling, shaming, brow-beating, force, intimidation, fear-mongering, or authoritarianism, or civil government sanction, is an anti-christ, no matter how much they pretend to worship the Father and the Son and no matter how many zillions of times they claim their names.

In the Old Testament the Father prophesied to us the rise of the Christian world empire and its eventual destruction in the turning of the ages ahead. The Imperialist Christian cult likes to distract from its own wickedness by pretending Islam is the scapegoat, or by pretending Jews are the scapegoat. It might work for a time for their politics but God the Father is not fooled.

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. ..... How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."

The 'she' is the Christian Church. She is the harlot Babylon with her many Church babies, a true mother of political prostitutes and abominations of the earth. The Christian church glorifies herself and her system of bishopric authority instead of glorifying the simple gospel of Jesus Christ. Christianity is a machine for perpetuating its own system instead of setting the spiritual captives free.

We can truthfully say to the Christian Church what Christ said to the Scribes and Pharisees of ancient Judea:

"But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

In this age the first Adam who fell is the Church, the continuation of temple idolatry on life support. The second Adam who rises is Christ, or Jacob, who will supplant the first Adam as Jacob supplanted Esau in the birthright, as Jacob crossed his arms to swap the birthrights of Ephraim and Manasseh, as Isaac supplanted Ishmael, even as Paul the Apostle told us plainly. God has repeatedly told us how this Christian empire will be supplanted by Jesus Christ in the last days, yet Christians do not see what is plain in the scripture because they want political and spiritual power over other men, rather than being like Christ and humbly desiring to be a servant of servants for the love of God rather than recognition of position.

We learn from the Bible that God doesn't value man's concept of the birthright of authority, and freely supplants the older with the younger, even as he will supplant the older religious and Christian empire of the world with the younger Jesus of Nazareth.

#Christianity #Religion #Cults #Idolatry #Church #Imperialism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ChristoFascism #Gospel #Jesus

This is a very serious matter, but this article omits some important points.

There must be laws and regulations which require every organization handling sensitive information (not only financial institutions and the like) to have sufficiently secure computer systems.
And there must be regular audits of the latter.

Software engineering must be regulated in a manner similar to civil engineering and electrical engineering with respect to reliability, safety, and security.

From the BBC:
Vastaamo hack: My darkest secrets were revealed to the world
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62nzxqw45eo>

#ComputerSecurity
#SoftwareEngineering

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