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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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Love my job, la la la.

Boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime.
That's why I poop
on company time!

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

I do not like machines learning about me.

Have you considered running your own instance?

Boss: "How are things going today?"

Me: "Oh, we were just standing around talking shit about you."

Co-worker: [eyes bulge like saucers with panic]

Boss: "Great. Let me know if I can help."

Me: [tries not to laugh]

Co-worker had no idea that me and boss are occasional jokers. The look in his eyes telegraphed his fear of the hatchet coming down.

Bring them cabbage rolls for lunch.

"have you reinstalled the operating system in that time?"

Absolutely worth it. Living in the boonies is a boon.

And you are right. Windows is a trap and a money funnel for big tech ... and for hollyweird.

We’re incredibly proud of Prof. Vincent Rijmen, whose pioneering work with Joan Daemen led to #Rijndael, now honoured with an #IEEE Milestone as the foundation of the global #AES standard. A landmark moment for KU Leuven and for secure communication worldwide.

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I'm stocked up on booze, pretzels, and popcorn for the next Carrington event.

that’s an unfortunate Google snippet

Alt...

Google search result titled: “FBI Records: The Vault – Jeffrey Epstein”. Snippet text: “Get a Job! FBI Fun and Games! Personal tools. Log in • Mail Image Get FBI ...”

Someday ... FIRESALE.

Not in The Prophecies: Practical Attacks on Nostr

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1459

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In this house, chili cheese fries count as a meal.

Have you tried brewing any of these yet?

- dandelion wine
- ginger bug
- spruce beer
- birch beer

What's the coolest or weirdest stuff you've fermented?

#Brewing #Wine #Mead #Ferments #Fermenting #Beer

Then imagine those customers texting and calling at off hours any time they damn well feel like it, to ask about an issue that was handed off to another person six hours prior.

If it were legal, I would slap every single one of them in the head with a 5-lb tuna fish.

We all find
A way to
Turn ache
Into art.
Just look
At what
Stars can do
When they’re
Given a heart.

#poetry

I am testing the recent Debian package. The app works well yet I see a few peeves.

I see no facility to passively serve a directory tree of files. This would be extremely useful. And I do mean EXTREMELY USEFUL. It would replace the need for running HTTP / FTP / SFTP etc. and keep it private over TOR.

I realize that things like OnionShare exist but these are dependent upon a web browser (insecure). I would like to see Briar able to serve a file listing with users able to share a directory and to select and download files within the app, as well as view static text and markdown files with clearnet URLs and includes disabled for security. The user could download files that automatically go to a downloads folder.

The app could be sandboxed by default. to prevent access to directories and files outside those specified by the user.

This would make Briar immensely useful and allow the creation of ad-hoc social network-type user groups and publications. Having this facility within a secure, non-browser, non-plugin, non-javascript interface used to be a thing many years ago, but for some reason all such apps have evaporated.

This is a sheet of unused turnpike tickets from an 18th century English toll road. Something like this is so completely unremarkable in its time that it almost never survives, but in this case it was used as wastepaper to fill out a binding, and then recently discovered inside. #NewAcquisition

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A sheet of eight tickets, meant to be cut apart. Each says "Hauxtonmills Turnpike" and "177" with the last digit of the year left blank, within a square ornamental border.

Bad patents already do enough damage. PERA makes it easier to get them and harder to challenge them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/pera-remains-serious-threat-efforts-against-bad-patents