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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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 go through all that rigamarole when there is public domain?

By setting a boundary you have engendered a dare.

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poo-poo occurs.

I call McDonald's McSchittz. McIndigestion. McStroke.

Redneck it down a bit. What are you referring to?

Behold the digital dumbing down.

[for your address book]

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A #Fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #Usenet and #NNTP or #NetworkNews.

#groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro

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People are obsessed with images and video, so most people use the social media platforms. I'm thinking of those of us who are sick of the audio-visual rage outlet and want to read.

Which features would you want in such a network and its terminal interface?

https://pcpartpicker.com/

I bought my last build this way. I have zero affiliation with them whatsoever. I found it a really thorough way to shop for the build I wanted.

Cafe du Monde Coffee and Chicory

https://shop.cafedumonde.com/product/coffee-beignets/cafe-du-monde-coffee-and-chicory/

It's as if coffee and herb root tea got married.

I did not consent to your spam. Cease and desist.

#spammers

@micr0@fuzzies.wtf @micr0@wetdry.world

Arrested for Telling a Cop to Shut UP-James Freeman is Suing to Rename This Texas City

https://youtu.be/zyLnHzg4Xrg

#Corruption #Cops #Police #Thugs #Tyranny #Government #Law #Legal #Courts #Lawsuit #Constitution

It looks like a scam that should be investigated.

Appears the profile was deleted.

#FBI #IC3

You are
Not without
Hope:
You are
Strong
Enough to
Carry your
Heart.

#poetry

Rick Moranis is Hobbit Vader.

This part

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THE BILLIONAIRES INVESTING IN SPACE DON'T WANT STAR TREK THEY WANT DUNE.

If there were trust involved they wouldn't be 'ex' now would they?

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

... although I wish all the CSS elements could be named with custom top-level HTML tags instead of CSS classes. Classes are harder to style independently and some of the classes can't even be reached in the DOM for re-positioning.

PROS:

- efficient, lean, and fast
- low memory footprint
- simple and hackable
- the dev actually reads feedback and suggestions
- uses an order of magnitude less storage space than other activitypub servers

CONS:

- the CSS model for the generated pages
- doesn't clean up attachments after deleting posts

"I'm on a bit of a crusade."

I remember in my early youth when the climate crisis was impending global cooling and ice age that was going to freeze us all to death. When that dog didn't hunt, and people realized we were coming out of an ice age instead of going into one, the script was changed.

Then they hyped acid rain gonna kill us all for a decade.

Then they hyped 'pole shift' gonna kill us all.

Then they hyped earth's rotation would shift and kill us all.

Then they changed the script to global warming gonna bake us all to death.

Then they added that eating meat was killing the earth since all the cow farts would cause global warming.

Then they changed the script to, 'climate change' since the nordic ice core data shows the current average temperatures are lower than they were for most of human history.

Newsflash: the climate has always been changing for all of history. It's called weather.

You need a better god for your crusade.

The only crisis is histrionics and hysteria of people with first world problems and too much free time to peddle their existential delusions for profit.

Naw, FTW is the way. ;)

This is the way.

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Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

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I feel lazy when I know there will be zero reward and only pain for the task in front of me. I get into the 'whatever' zone.

If I sniff a hint of reward I'm the energizer bunny drummer.

Maybe you need an opportunity with a payoff--a great experience, a thrill, cash, etc.