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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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Inform your friends and family about these tools.

#Briar ... https://briarproject.org

"Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in."

#Retroshare ... https://retroshare.cc

"Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on #Android, #Linux, #MacOS and #Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service."

#RicochetRefresh ... https://www.ricochetrefresh.net

"Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging."

#OnionShare ... https://onionshare.org

"OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network."

#DeltaChat ... https://delta.chat

"Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app."

#Bitmessage ... https://bitmessage.org

"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."

#TorBrowser ... https://www.torproject.org/download

"Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."

#I2P ... https://geti2p.net

"The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work."

#Hyphanet ... https://www.hyphanet.org/

"Hyphanet is peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. The original Freenet."

#BitChan ... https://github.com/813492291816/BitChan

"BitChan is a decentralized anonymous imageboard inspired by BitBoard and built on top of Bitmessage with Tor, I2P, and GnuPG."

#DarkMX ... https://darkmx.app

"DarkMX is a new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor hidden services to allow you to easily have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet. You can chat. You can share files. You can search other people's files. You can keep a contact list and send private messages to your friends. You can create your own custom .onion site, available to anyone with a Tor Browser."

#Decentralized #TOR #AntiSurveillance #Anonymity #Anonymous #Privacy #Filesharing #Networking #Communication #P2P #F2F #PeerToPeer #Censorship #AntiCensorship #FreeSpeech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=533pBCqgE-k

"Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was giving a presentation at Utah Valley University when he was fatally shot."

The Christian god is EVIL! The Real GOD Saves ALL Mankind!

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

"The god of Christianity is an evil tyrant. The real God of Scripture is the Saviour of All mankind. Especially of believers. Hell or Eternal Torment is a Lie!"

I tried: https://a.gup.pe/u/opensource

And instead of the group page I got the page shown in the attached image.

#MemoryHole #GuppeGroups #Fediverse #Groups

Double trailer teaser ... it better be a good show!

I noticed that when I add attachments to a draft the attachment files remain in the static directory even after deleting the draft. I tested with TXT, HTML, and PDF files. I also ran snac purge and the orphaned files remain.

I am running the current /backports/ version of snac.

Is there something else I could do for orphan attachment file cleanup (other than manually)?

"Like, why don't more people hate me"

Let me know if you have any good methods for filtering the brain rot. I'm running snac2. I filter out some tags but it barely makes a dent.

#Filters #AntiSocialMedia #PollyCracker #MockingBirdMedia #CultSpeak #snac2 #Propaganda

I'm not one of the baddies, but I might have to ask:

"Am I the old man shaking fist at cloud?"

I sometimes catch myself mumbling grumpily at the 'cloud' and SaaS parts of yon Internet. Hosting and VPS services can make me especially grumpy and fist-thumpy when they break.

#grumpy #grump #grumble #grrr #grouse #grouch

@Caiotekit

My friend has a great quote that I think about during these times:

"Family, it's not just a word, it's a sentence."

@bob@beamship.mpaq.org @noondlyt@hellions.cloud

Does anyone have any experience with or opinions on Movim? (https://movim.eu/)

AFAIK the Mormon church has the most extensive collection of open genealogy records in the whole world. Genealogy is a BIG part of their religion so they archive every scrap of genealogical data that comes their way.

#genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestors #Ancestry #FamilyTrees

Such a large number of texts being ciphered with the same key presents fodder for a fund of attacks. Key re-use is dangerous in such a scenario.

A master key is can be combined with a unique sub key or salt for each message for individual key derivation per message. The unique sub keys can be encrypted with the master key for additional security. Such keys and salts must be RNG sourced.

Qyber?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfehGfSTu70

#slop #FakeFood #nutrition

Sometimes a squirrel comes along that really likes me. This is my current buddy squirrel. She’s always up there watching me. She doesn’t have a name, I think this will be my Queen Maxima. I’ll ask her today what she thinks about it

Alt...

A female fox squirrel sploots up on a pepper tree branch. One front paw rests on a jutting tree nub like shes revving a motorcycle, vroom vroom. Green fronds hang around her shading her from the sun

Usenet is accessible via TOR and open access servers that don't require registration or identifying information.

The writer can write and discuss using a pseudonym or pen name without fear of retaliation from employers, government, friends, and family. This encourages some people to share their innermost thoughts they would otherwise not express. Of course it also encourages trolls, but there are plenty of trolls everywhere else.

Usenet is text-centric so unlike the fediverse there is not a stream of distracting images.

Even after all these years I still prefer reading and posting Usenet newsgroups over all other forms of so-called, 'social media'.

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I like split pea soup with pumpkin or squash and sweet potato and lots of spice. You can top it with coconut cream, or yogurt, or sour cream.

Pride and joy of my garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1430574/pride-and-joy-of-my-garden/ #fun #gardening #GardeningFun

Alt...

Pride and joy of my garden

@paninid You know when I was a kid my dad went on a rant that I’ve never forgotten. He was just suddenly very vocally angry about the existence of telephones.

“You push a few buttons in your house. You have no idea what I’m dealing with, but you make a loud bell ring in my house and demand my immediate attention. Well fuck you. You can’t have it.”

I haven't checked gnutella in a long while since the proxy function in gtk-gnutella is broken. The DarkMX network is still up and running. It is the successor to WinMX, the best P2P app from over 20 years ago.

As for decent content, it depends on what you want. There are many terabytes of music and audio and video, and lots of reading material.

Retroshare is still under active development. It allows to create hidden F2F networks with blogs, forums, chat, file shares, mail, all E2E encrypted.

https://github.com/go-while/go-pugleaf

Pugleaf sports a web portal and built-in administrative tools.

#Usenet #RocksolidLight #Retro #NNTP #NetworkNews

Poppins is very similar to Sofia Pro. Perhaps by changing the weight it would be even more similar.

Nunito Sans is another font you might find agreeably similar.

"I want to be one of those women who gives the devil paralyzing panic attacks just because #God woke me up that day."

Their motto should be, "Don't be good."

1. Get a free account: https://www.eternal-september.org/
2. Get a newsreader: https://www.claws-mail.org/

Configure the newsreader with your new account credentials, download the list of newsgroups, and start subscribing.

There are many free Usenet hosts and many different Usenet reader client softwares. The two proposed above are very popular.

#Usenet #NNTP #EternalSeptember