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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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"Hosting a Tor hidden service — also known as an onion site — typically requires in-depth technical skills and manual configuration. With TorServ, you can host a static website anonymously in seconds, without touching any config files."

#TorServ #TOR #Onions #OnionNetwork #Privacy #Anonymity

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Two slices of red onion stacked one atop the other. The onion symbolizes TOR, The Onion Network, and its multiple layers of cryptographic obfuscation.

I am doing some research on the nativity of Jesus of Nazareth. I am looking into the many sectarian traditions and scholarly opinions on this subject.

I would like to get hermeneutic opinions and off the cuff opinions on some groundwork questions.

1. What actual year do you think Jesus was born?

2. How old was Mary when she was married?

3. How did Mary conceive?

4. What is the significance of his birthplace?

5. What is the significance of the Magi who sought him after his birth?

6. Why was it necessary or significant for an angel to tell Mary she was going to conceive?

Where possible, links or citations would be useful for particular opinions or traditional explanations.

#bible #jesus #theology #mary #miriam #virginbirth #nativity #incarnation #christ #christianity

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Did the post strike a nerve?

You don't switch to FOSS.

FOSS converts you.

Fediverse is peppered with #cringy, delusional, self-hating twitposting. Some people's feeds read like a suicide letter demanding everyone else to commit suicide with them. Some twitfeeds exude the vibes of an assassin's hit list. Some twitfeeds smell like authoritarian extermination orders. Their toxic feeds should come with a Mister Yuk sticker.

Twitposter feeds run devoid of brotherly love and full of animosity towards things they don't understand. These twitposters seek to blame and punish innocent people for their perceived slights or suffering rather than helping others through their own suffering.

Twitposters try to classify and demonize others instead of viewing others as individual humans with their own individual destinies.

With this collectivist hateview of others, they concoct a delusional view of reality that justifies any oppression or atrocity toward the 'enemy' they have concocted, and often that enemy is the self.

#Fedi #Fediverse #cringe #twitposers #twitposting #twitfeeds #gag #MisterYuk

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A green Mister Yuk sticker with a circular black border. In the border are the words, 'POISON HELP' and a toll-free number for a poison hotline.

If you mean Emule, yes, it is still kicking. There's even a GUI client in Debian repos.

Awesome! Edonkey is where I got most of my ebook reading collection. Amule on Linux still works.

I used to run Shareaza long ago. I don't any more because I don't want to manage and sandbox a WINE box. I imagine Shareaza is probably really mature after all these years. Yet I am happy with DarkMX for the time being. It is retro looking yet very solid.

Would you happen to know of a stable DirectConnect or DC++ GUI client for Linux?

I figured out several ways to run DarkMX on a headless server without GUI. This allows me to install it on a remote server without any desktop environment and run the software as a daemon without the GUI.

First I used the X forwarding feature of SSH to pipe the GUI to a local machine. On that machine I did all the configuration inside the GUI. Then I closed the program.

Then on the remote machine I used 'xvfb' to run DarkMX as a nohup'd daemon with a dummy GUI buffer. That way I don't need to be connected to the GUI from a local machine and the application will still run. It also uses less RAM without the GUI.

There are other ways to do this, such as VNC and xpra. I just chose the quickest, dirtiest method in this case.

Why would I go to all that trouble? Well, I don't need to, but there are some people who might need to publish while maintaining strict anonymity. So they would need tools like DarkMX and TOR. For me it's just fun.

DarkMX operates over the TOR privacy preserving network. As a result the location of my peer is hidden and extremely hard to impossible for an adversary to locate. So when I publish something, such as a letter, or paper, or opinion, anyone can download it since censoring it is not viable. It ensures that my speech remains free and available to the general public. Now when I author essays, papers, homiles and such, I can publish them as file shares, and I can publish them simultaneously as a TOR hidden website with the built-in webserver feature. So readers don't need DarkMX to read my files--they can just fire up TOR Browser or use a TOR proxy with their web browser. If they want to snarf a whole directory they can install DarkMX, or use a script to snarf them via TOR.

If you are inclined to fiddle around with installing this software on a headless server, please share the techniques and tools used that suit you.

(DarkMX download site: https://darkmx.app)

#DarkMX #P2P #FileSharing #Anonymous #SelfHosting #TOR #OnionNetwork #Censorship

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It seems that there are no pigs on money. Anti-pig bias has gotten out of hand. I vote for Porky Pig to be on the Euro currency.

There's nothing wrong with a little bit of mystery.

chacha20 and some other ciphers are not susceptible to the meet-in-the-middle attack and choosing 2 or 3 of those ciphers to multicipher with different keys does increase the security of the ciphertext. I have a method in which I use chacha20 exclusively, but for each new encipherment in the cascade I generate a new, random salt, encrypt the salt with a unique stream key, generate a new hash-derived passphrase, and the salt is not prepended to the ciphertext. Breaking that is like putting scrambled eggs back in the shell and uncooking them.

I have combed through PGP, especially GnuPG, quite a bit. To me its labyrinth of options is more complex than many programming languages.

So when one says, 'in minecraft' it is conceptual, and when they say, 'on blockchain' are they moving from minecraft to meat space?

The school cafeterias could remain open 24/7 for everyone. Sure, taxes would go up about 50% or so, but free sloppy joes would be well worth it, amirite?

What you propose has existed for decades. See the link:

https://www.fns.usda.gov/summer/sitefinder

Why on earth was the #ActivityPub protocol even let out the door without a well-specified and mandatory graceful, non-destructive key rotation scheme?

Yes I know the privacy issues. Those are not valid reasons to not have such a mechanism; it's a valid reason to not enable or use one.

What we're stuck with now is a ton of instances with absurdly long, legacy-algorithm keys (RSA-4096) with no way to replace them with shorter/better keys without effectively losing everything ever posted on the instance.

The protocol is only 7 years old! EC crypto was well-established at the time, and should have been the default.

And what happens once everyone has to replace the keys, because RSA is broken by quantum computers (I know, probably 100 years to go)? The #Fediverse will be a wasteland, with no instances trusting anything from any other instance, so all #Federation breaks down.

Sorry if I got some details wrong about what the protocol says. If I get flamed to death for being wrong, then I'll consider that a Good Thing(TM). I've been trying to find a way to rotate/replace keys for a while and all my searching turns up is either 1) confirmation that most people don't know or care about cryptography, or 2) https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/key-rotation-notification/562 - which really isn't helpful.

If it is possible to gracefully rotate the key(s) of an instance/user, there really has to exist some documentation that explains clearly how to implement this in a server and how to exercise it as a server operator.

#Cryptography #Rant #Mastodon

you can keep the hop, i'll have the scotch

DarkMX is the continuation of WinMX. It is a peer-to-peer network with built-in web sites, file sharing, chat, all secured over the anonymous TOR protocol.

DarkMX and its predecessor have over 20 years of battle hardening. Run in a jail or container, it is a set it and and forget it way to ensure your data is made available to the network 24/7.

https://darkmx.app

#DarkMX #WinMX #P2P #FileSharing #Networks

Potter Christ
Potterite
Cliff Christ
Clifftop Christian
Top Down Theology
Divine Cliff Diver
Potterite Donkey Jockey
Gone Potter
Mad as a Potter
Plunging Potter
Taking the Potter Plunge
Donkey Diver
Bray and Pray.

I have 'divined' these new additions to my jargon file.

I wonder, is the story of Potter actually true?

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This word has 10 letters. namely: 1234567890

1234 - carries heredity
456 - is a period of time
567 - is a pest
and 890 - is a charged particle

What is the word?

#Puzzles #Riddles #Cryptics

The rodent port and the accordion port.

One for the rodent, one for the accordion.

Is there a hurdy-gurdy port not shown in the image?

What you are describing is not what newscard does. The main feature of newscard is to register a NAMED record that displays directly in the terminal. See the pic for the general idea.

Newscard registers a unique name on the network or chosen host. Only one record can have that name. The record is retrieved by name. The name is hidden using cryptographic hashing. The same hidden name generates a different key for the encryption. There are no public keys involved.

When a user knows the secret name the user can retrieve the correct record and decrypt it.

If you install and test the application you will see the marked difference.

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Sample of a newscard displayed in a terminal. It is a picture of a gray cat generated using ANSI art in the terminal screen.

Could you show me how you would do the same thing with PGP?

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the mid-80s!