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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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#Privacy #AI #Singularity

It’s a beautiful day until you realize that 64GB of high performance RAM carries the same price tag as a brand new MacBook Air featuring a "generous" 16GB of RAM. How did we get here? Here we call it the “AI” tax 😏 and it is just the beginning of the new era for DIY users.

AI is not the future of anything except domination and control. AI is the death of the future and the return to a dark age of conformity and social thought control. AI regurgitates accepted dogma and is a bar to real research and inspired creativity. AI is a homogeneity engine.

People becoming dependent upon AI will be homogenized zombies. Of course the AI will convince them they are wise thinkers. The more obedient they are to their hidden masters, the black box owners, the more the singularity system will assure them they are the avant garde of gray matter.

I have already seen numerous instances of idiots depending upon AI to come up with ridiculous conclusions while defending them like Don Qixote. This is becoming epidemic among researchers and techies.

Watch out for the controlled opposition--public figures pretending to be against creeping enslavement while leading their followers to do absolutely nothing useful to curtail or stop the advance.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Singularity #Tech

Different facets of the planned system are being individually implemented across an array of countries. The speech control system is implemented in Britain and being tested there. The social credit system is implemented in China and being tested there. The fake news and propaganda system is heavily implemented in the United States.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #CBDC #Currency #Money #SocialCredit #Government #Economy #Enslavement #CreepingControl #ControlGrid

The world rulers are playing a game of drones. Either you will serve the masters of the hive or you will be fed to their digital dragons.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #Money #Cash #Currency #Penny #SocialCredit #Tyranny

Anyone who tells you to trust authority is your enemy and the servant of your slaver.

#Authority #Patronage #Freedom

Now listening

Tom Scott – Bless My Soul

On Something Blue - https://kasu.org

#jazz #blues #radio

It's quite telling that Firefox [mobile] doesn't have an ability built in to block domains. That prevents anything from being loaded from the domain.

I understand that extensions support this, but it seems like a basic function that the browser should support for safety.

A capella music is not cool.

And as another Christmas dinner is completed and the table gets cleared, please join with me in giving a little word of thanks to the inventor of the dishwasher.

I want to find every available source of plaintext and VPL bibles in English, Greek, and Hebrew. If I can find plaintext Masoretic text versions and Greek Septuagint versions I will be so very ecstatic.

I would like to find all useful software for bibles: translation, format conversion, preservation, verification, etc. The sword tools are useful, but limited, so I want to see what more is out there.

If you know of any such resources please shoot the links right back here. Thanks!

#Bible #Translation #Greek #Hebrew #Septuagint #Xiphos #BibleTime #Sword #Crosswire

There are universalists in every form of Christianity: Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Pentecostal/Charismatic, etc.

We are still a minority in the Christian fold, but we are everywhere.

Even if age verification laws require data deletion, you have to trust every website and third-party verifier will actually do it. That's a lot of faith to place in companies with spotty track records—and a risk that doesn't exist in-person when a bartender just glances at your ID. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person

Bye there #Mozilla,

Hope your CEO and your AI have a good time together because soon they will be the only ones left using any Mozilla slop 🤖

I was wrong for thinking we could have a nice browser, silly me..

@mozilla

One of the best cinema scenes of all time:

https://youtu.be/tSm6RjyNtEQ

Meanwhile, on the App Store, Firefox claims to champion privacy is now advertising AI partnerships as a new feature 😏 it is turned on by default but you can turn it off. Overall the future of Firefox is not so bright.

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A promotional image for a major update to the Firefox mobile browser. The phone screen is purple, displaying a search bar with sparkles, and text that reads "Search Smarter with AI" and "Meet Perplexity AI in Firefox. Get conversational answers with trusted citations for faster, more confident browsing." A banner at the top reads "NOW AVAILABLE."

I am not capable of political opinions.

Which means both sides think I'm complicit in whatever they see as evil. I don't know, I can't force both sides to find an objective meaning of evil from which I can derive a logical conclusion that they would approve of. And even if it were possible, I'm probably still not capable of political opinions.

The good thing about running a small business these days is you don't answer to anyone, including customers 😭

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#mastui

Quoted posts are now shown.

Added metadata to remote users in the people page (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed memory leak (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed user matching (contributed by rakoo).

Rendering visibility conditionally, with lesser reach if needed (contributed by byte).

Added a button next to a follow notification to follow back.

Fixed typo in man page (contributed by spky).

Updated Czech and German translations (contributed by pmjv and zen).

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If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

It's so freaking annoying that modern computers don't have VGA ports anymore >:(

Dave Winer is right: Mastodon is harder to host than WordPress

Even though it's apples and oranges in some way, Dave Winer is right when he says that it's easier to host WordPress than Mastodon. Dave's a little more all in on WP than I am. Maybe a lot more all in. Still, it's true that anybody can host their own WP instance on shared hosting, a VPS, bare metal -- what have you.

https://passthejoe.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/dave-winer-is-right-mastodon-is-harder-to-host-than-wordpress/

Police raided the wrong home, killed an innocent woman, then planted marijuana in her basement to cover up their mistake. https://theintercept.com/2025/10/08/collateral-damage-episode-one-dirty-business/

Re that last reblog...Police brutality isn't just an american thing it would seem.

Do you hate/dislike machine learning?

@globalmuseum please don't post ai generated stuff as though its real.

@globalmuseum

"Fact-Check: Does Mantiflora Aurantia Really Exist?

The short answer is no. Mantiflora Aurantia is not a real species. No credible scientific source, biological research paper, or natural history database mentions such an organism. All evidence points to this being a work of digital art and editing."

let me tell you, Wisconsin's #vpn ban is simply is nothing but #wordsalad because it doesn't work!
first off, the federal government literally recommends VPNs. in fact, if you see this document and this document you can see that the government literally recommends VPNs.
so this would go against the federal governments own recommendations.
second off, this violates the first and forth amendments.
o, and this doesn't work at all.
in fact, in order for this to even work, they would have to implement the #great #firewall of #china architecture, where they'd have to censor everything coming from the internet, or they'd have to do something similar to #kwangmyong which, again, would violate the first and forth amendments.
and knowing #internet providers like #comcast / #xfinity , #spectrum / #charter, ISPs are too lazy to implement deep packet inspection themselves, meaning they'd very likely just block VPN sites at the DNS level, which, keep in mind, doesn't work.
#epicfail #cybersecurity #censorship

Christmas presents complete! This is a seven-letter build of Cees' Cryptex (https://www.printables.com/model/28937-cryptex-5-6-7-8-or-10-letter-wheels). Tougher than I expected (a little elephant foot will throw off the letter wheel/encoder tolerances), but amazing once I got it right. #3dPrinting

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Is your Freudian slip a nightgown or pajama jumper?

Mockingbird swill is unimpressive, trite, shopworn, hackneyed, old hat, etc.

You are what you say you see in others.

We could view work culture numbers 996/955 like unixy permissions.

stat -c %a China
996

stat -c %a USA
METH

Huff it, fart muffin!

#roast #jokes #humor #brainfart

Well, someone I didn't even have a beef just told me I was selfih basically and to try to take my money with me. YOu know what? Funny. I don't have tis garbage over on Facebook with most of my sighted friends. There aree a lot of you on here I like, but some first-class whiny entitled jerks are making it not very pallatable.

Hey everyone, I’m new here and still learning how to use Mastodon.
My name is annmika, I’m originally from Germany and now living in the United States.
Nice to meet you all feel free to say hi, I’m still figuring things out here.

EDIT: @bedast is the master of the internet and found the song!!!!!

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/21946

Original request:

I have this bad habit of singing this little diddy that includes:

Happy happy
I’m so
Pee-pee!

Kev thinks I just made it up like the thousands of other random jingles I sing that I legitimately did make up, but I swear this is from a real song.

I tried to Ask Jeeves, but that dummy didn't know anything about it.

Does anybody know?

due to the #exploitation of tweesecake, whenever we can get @ChrisDuffley's mastodon instance to a newer version, I will be using his instance as the default. I will be migrating over there whenever I get the chance to update the instence

Public sentiment of AI remains overwhelmingly positive: 77% of GenAI users have a favorable view, vs. just 15% unfavorable. Personal AI use even leads work use by 2:1, showing AI has become part of everyday life, not just the office! Read more: https://ccianet.org/news/2025/11/new-ccia-research-finds-generative-ai-is-the-fastest-adopted-technology-in-history/

My gammon boss and his narcissistic wife posted a pic of them both wrapped in a duvet and drinking hot chocolate. I commented 'pigs in blankets' which I thought was on my burner account. It wasn't. Quickly deleted but think he saw it as he's been more hostile than normal