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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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

#octade #octad #binary #byte #jargon #etymology #bytemology #wordplay #wordgames #wordcrimes #history #retro #retronym #retronymous #yinzer #pennsyltucky #humor

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I've had the same free email for exactly 20-years, but over the last year it's become manipulative and intrusive while increasingly failing to filter spam.

My entire online life is linked to this email, now it might go sideways.

Are there proven, dependable, and hopefully free, services that do better, or is this a universal problem?

I don't want to bounce from one to another, constantly having to update sites. I'm also desperate to keep expenses down.

#email #internet #free #mail #today

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.

From his bully pulpit the President is proclaiming Imperial Roman religion about the Roman goddess Mary, formerly known as Minerva, also sometimes known as Venus, and formerly known as Isis in Egypt and Semiramis in Babylon.

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/

This is deadly Imperial Roman dogma being proclaimed from the Presidential bully pulpit.

The Roman "Mary" is Isis of the Egyptian trinity. The Roman "Mary" is NOT the Miriam who gave birth to Jesus of Nazareth. The Roman "Mary" is also known as Astarte, Easter, and in Babylon as Semiramis. The Roman Church pasted a "Mary" nametag on its pagan idol, then by the sword of Constantine and Justinian forced all Christians to worship this idol.

Anyone who can actually read the Bible can see that the 'immaculate conception' of a 'sinless mother of god' is nowhere taught in the Bible. But it was taught in Babylon, Greece, Egypt, and Rome. The trinity is a pagan idol having nothing to do with the God of the Bible. Trinity worship is the chiefest of things the true God of Abraham despises. The trinity is a hoodwink to trick Christians into worshiping the old serpent and insulting the divine Creator.

The Bible is clear on who God is:

"Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one [echad:singular] Lord alone!"

This is the first great commandment of the Law of Moses. Upon this one commandment hang all the Law and the Prophets.

Then in the Decalogue given at Sinai a similar command is given:

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

In the Hebrew of this phrase, the word BEFORE is means REPRESENTING. Thou shalt have no other gods REPRESENTING me. Notice he says GODS in the plural, as Israel just came out of Egypt where there was a trinity of gods.

The next commandment is a further condemnation of the trinity:

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:"

In the religion of the trinity, the father reigns over heaven, the mother/son/daughter/hermaphrodite reigns over the earth, and sometimes the third person of the trinity reigns over the waters. We see this with the Sumerian Anu, Enlil, and Ea, who are copied by the Romans in varying forms, for example as Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. In this one command the God of Moses is rejecting this form ot trinitarian worship, saying he alone is God, and he is jealous against all idolatry of this trinity demon.

Why did the first commandment need to be about God being one or singular?

Because Israel just came out of Egypt where the god of Egypt was a trinity. So God founded the entire law of Moses on a complete rejection of the trinity. The first commandment that God gave to Israel was to HEAR that he is SINGULAR.

Jesus Christ also rejects the Catholic Trinity:

" And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

Out of Jesus own mouth he says that only the Father is God. More over, he says that the Father is the "ONLY TRUE GOD" showing that Jesus knew there was a false god--the trinity of the Grecians and Romans that came from Egypt that came from Babylon.

The Christian religion is an organized insurrection against Jesus Christ while claiming to represent him. Jesus warned us that many would come in his name, and that they are all liars:

"All that ever came before [representing] me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. ..... But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep."

We have 30 thousand sects full of hirelings who teach you to worship their false trinity idol. Christ's sheep reject this idol and follow the true shepherd, who teaches that the Father alone is God. Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is the only divine being that has ever existed. There is no other. There is no 'god the son' or 'god the holy spirit'. There is only and ever GOD THE FATHER in heaven.

Only Jehovah is God. Jehovah does not share his glory. He shares his life. He shares his wisdom. He shares his titles. He shares his power. He shares his authority. He shares his property which he created. But he does not share his GLORY, his right to be known as the only singular God and Creator. And he especially does not share his glory with idols such as the Roman trinity.

Everyone worshiping the trinity is an idolator, just as ancient Israel committed idolatry with the trinity of Babylon and Egypt.

The Demonic Trinity of Rome was the Capitoline Triad:

The Capitoline Triad was a group of three deities who were worshipped in ancient Roman religion in an elaborate temple on Rome 's Capitoline Hill (Latin Capitolium). It comprised Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. The triad held a central place in the public religion of Rome. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Triad]

The Capitoline Triad Temple is related to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre#Connection_to_Roman_temple]

Babylonians worshiped a trinity:

"The ancient Babylonians recognised the doctrine of a trinity, or three persons in one god--as appears from a composite god with three heads forming part of their mythology, and the use of the equilateral triangle, also, as an emblem of such trinity in unity ..." (Thomas Dennis Rock, The Mystical Woman and the Cities of the Nations, pages 22-23). [https://archive.org/details/mysticalwomanan00rockgoog]

Moses, the Prophets, the Apostles, and Jesus Christ of Nazareth rejected the trinity idol of the nations. All of these men gave glory to singular god whom they called, Father. So ask yourself why Christian preachers are teaching you to worship a trinity when the God of Abraham and Moses declares himself to be SINGULAR.

The answer is simple: The Christian religion is a centuries-long insurrection against the kingdom of God, masquerading itself as the kingdom of God. And this is what Genesis tells us about the kingdom of Nimrod.

The Father created Jesus Christ as the only valid image of deity that men can bow to. Humanity is always bowing to idols of their own making, both physical and mental idols. The Father in Heaven HATES this. He met mankind halfway since mankind is incapable of worshiping what he cannot see. So the Father made an image of himself in the man Jesus Christ, and commands us to bow to that man as God's face or representative. This in no way makes God a trinity nor does it make Jesus a person in a trinity. It makes Jesus a man, like any other man, who was chosen and formed to be the image of God. God solved the idolatry problem, yet to this day the Christian religion persists in denying God's mode of worship and substitutes their idolatry in place of what God commands.

Jesus is the Image of God. Jesus is the Son of God. Yet Jesus is neither God nor God the Son. That is a clever trick of Rome to fool people into worshiping their ancient trinity deity.

#Trinity #Rome #Catholicism #Trump #Mary #ImmaculateConception #Isis #Babylon #Egypt #Pantheon #God #Demons #Dogma #Church #Gospel #Idolatry #Reformation

The little guy cannot compete if he is forced to share his source code with leviathan-funded competition.

#DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18448042

A pangram is a sentence or phrase that contains each letter of an alphabet or character set at least once. A perfect pangram is an anagram of the alphabet which contains each letter exactly once.

Pangram hash generates a perfect pangram hash digest consisting of a anagram permutation of a character set. Each character in the output is unique and non-repeating.

#Hashing #Cryptography #Anagrams #Papers #Preprints

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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

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

This is such a bleak fucking planet

The book is perfect technology. It doesn’t need a battery, it interfaces directly with my brain engaging the “imagination.” It’s portable. It’s sturdy. What more could you need?

I figured out a way to hold the stupid molasses jug over the kettle while it takes forever to drain. I'll be fermenting this with wild yeast I captured from some flowers I picked in The Bahamas.

#Fermentation #Molasses

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A 1x2 board goes through the jug handle of a plastic gallon jug of molasses balanced across the rim of a large kettle and another board helps prop the bottle up so it is inverted over the top of the kettle

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

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 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

Any reputable journalism organization would fire someone who manipulated a photo this way; many have done exactly that. It’s a shame our government can’t adhere to such a basic ethical and moral code too. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-propaganda

The FBI obtained encryption keys from Microsoft to unlock BitLocker-encrypted laptops and Microsoft complied.

That’s a sharp break from past industry resistance to key handovers.

https://www.theverge.com/news/867244/microsoft-bitlocker-privacy-fbi

#fbi #microsoft #bitlocker #theverge #encryption #privacy
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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

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

I get email.

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An email whose subject line is "enshittification" and whose body reads "Why did you choose such a fucking dumb word to describe such a brutally important concept? "

So, apparently younger generations don't have as much generational awareness, because they have access to sooo much more content.

I'm an elder Millenial, and I grew up watching what was on TV, and then whatever VHS/DVDs my parents deemed worthy of purchasing. So, the things I would watch would be newer movies and TV shows, of course, but then also older movies and cartoons, as well. I had a larger range of social references, just because I was plumbing from a shallower well. It seems like it shouldn't work that way, but new content is being made at a unprecedented rate. Not just major studios, and Streaming Services, but things like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitch. I might watch a Midnight movie from the 70's, because that was all that was on, but younger generations never need to. There's just an endless supply of content from whatever you're into at the moment.

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

Thanks, #Mastodon!

Two features I wish #Mastodon would improve are Lists and Private mentions.

Lists is a confusing feature with no explanation or onboarding.

Meanwhile, private mentions don't align with people's mental model of how sending DMs works.

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The empty Lists screen displays an empty page and prompts the user to create a list.

One-Ended Encryption / OEE | JP Aumasson https://alecmuffett.com/article/143356 #encryption

One-Ended Encryption / OEE | J...

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

#Brawndo #Idiocracy

Sharing our grief at the state of evangelical Christianity in America, my excellent friend @CharismaticBatman had lamented that very few Christian leaders have spoken out against political idolatry. It's true, but that makes the rare cases so much more meaningful.

Russell Moore was the president of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and was forced out because of his criticism of the Trump administration. Today he's editor-in-chief of Christianity Today. Here's his wiki bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_D._Moore

John Piper is a huge influence in Reformed circles but wrote a blog post one week before the 2020 election explaining why he would not vote for Trump. He's an older man and genuinely didn't seem bothered to lose his "platform." His article seems prophetic now: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/policies-persons-and-paths-to-ruin#modal-346-rtqxdfun

Although he's not a pastor or leader, another well-known Christian who has been criticized for becoming "woke" is one of the creators of VeggieTales (strangely, he had hired Eric Metaxas as a script-writer at VeggieTales). He was the voice of Bob the Tomato! Today, he's one of the hosts of The Holy Post podcast. Here's his wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Vischer

I've never met these people, but I pay attention and remember this kind of stuff. It makes me feel a tiny bit better to know that even a few people of influence have paid a price for advocating for a more biblical and faithful version of Christianity.

If y'all know of other Christian leaders who have spoken out against political idolatry and paid a price, please reply to this post!

Stumbled upon this golden joke that says volumes:
WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI.

1. Find more resolve.
2. Procrastinate.
3. Try again next year.

Monkey knight riding a golden-scrotum ram. psalter and hours, Ghent ca. 1315-1325. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.82, fol. 194v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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Monkey knight riding a golden-scrotum ram. psalter and hours, Ghent ca. 1315-1325. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.82, fol. 194v. #medieval #MedievalArt

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Bebop Beatniks, Kai Engel, UK Jazz Voyagers, and Jeff Gburek. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM Central, at kasu.org.

Merry Christmas from HairyLarryLand to you.

Now available for free download and streaming including flac files.

#jazz #blues #fusion - Zoo's Gnus Blues

https://archive.org/details/zoos-gnus-blues
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Delta Legends - Hog Jowl Blues

https://archive.org/details/hog-jowl-blues

Not one, but two, Christmas Eve Releases

#hairylarryland #albums #Arkansas

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Album art for "Zoo's Gnus Blues" by #jazz #blues #fusion shows two gnus in an antler battle. Photo by Frans Van Heerdan.

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Album art for "Hog Jowl Blues by Delta Legends shows an ugly black hog. Photo by Fabian Blank on Unsplash.

Down with the religious patriarchy.

"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

#patriarchy #religion #bible #church #haha

morning. i am in almaty international airport now. i am gonna fly to astana and then visit the czech embassy and stuff. kinda worried, i really feel terrified of airplanes.

True equality isn’t yet a reality in our Union.

This must change.

Today, we’ve adopted the new EU Anti-Racism Strategy to:
✅ Fully enforce EU anti-discrimination laws
✅ Promote inclusion in education, employment, healthcare, and housing
✅ Join forces at all levels of society to fight racism

For a Europe free from racism, where individuals can thrive, fully participate in society, and help create prosperity. 🇪🇺

More: https://link.europa.eu/XBJ84X

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Purple background with the repeated white phrase ‘Europe free from racism’ stacked in multiple lines, creating a pattern. The European Union flag icon appears in the bottom-right corner.