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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).

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Site: Cryptography project site. (https://octade.net)
Publications: https://octade.net/publications.html
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5144-3278
Netnews: Find me on #Usenet in #Newsgroup alt.rhubarb.
Git: https://codeberg.org/OCTADE
Keyoxide1: https://keyoxide.org/0CF7084CF97B85F2ABF97010C6663A42C56F5F0E
Keyoxide2: https://keyoxide.org/B9B2A8EC2C4B20D2011CFEAA07E4A7FFF6585E8F
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/octade.bsky.social
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=OCTADE
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@buckbriar

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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Photo of a cryptex - a cylindrical combination lockbox with wheels that form a password when properly rotated. This one is partly open, showing the interior tube where you can store secrets. The endcaps are matte brown with silver accents, and the letter wheels alternate in marble and ivory colors.

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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?

Do you hate/dislike machine learning?

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

user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor

One of my coworkers took advantage of the pandemic to move out to the middle of nowhere, and as a result he has to drive his trash to a central collection site on his own, but somehow he's got fiber to his house.

So... is that a good trade? What would you prefer?

"the year of the linux desktop will never arrive"
...do you even remember the last year windows was any good?

as far as I'm concerned 2012 was the last year of the windows desktop.
Because that's when windows 8 got released with the full screen start menu that literally nobody asked for, with no option to change it, because that's when they decided they know better than everyone else.

Ever since then the only reason people use Windows is because it's a DRM console that runs apps Big Tech made.

We’re incredibly proud of Prof. Vincent Rijmen, whose pioneering work with Joan Daemen led to #Rijndael, now honoured with an #IEEE Milestone as the foundation of the global #AES standard. A landmark moment for KU Leuven and for secure communication worldwide.

Where do the bad rainbows go?
Prism.
They get a light sentence.
It gives them time to reflect. 🌈

Internet sure internets weirdly at the moment. Maybe I'm blocked by everyone.
Which does seem logical given the crap I torture you with.

But seriously, is this thing on? 🔊

🤔

LOAD "$" ,8

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I'm stocked up on booze, pretzels, and popcorn for the next Carrington event.

Illustration by Ivan Bilibin for an 1899 edition of the Russian fairytale Vasilisa the Beautiful.

One of two Bilibin illustrations from the tale available to buy as prints from our online shop — https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/ivan-bilibin

that’s an unfortunate Google snippet

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Google search result titled: “FBI Records: The Vault – Jeffrey Epstein”. Snippet text: “Get a Job! FBI Fun and Games! Personal tools. Log in • Mail Image Get FBI ...”

I feel like the modern connected internet is collapsing.

Phone apps fail to update themselves. Forms can't be completed. Email doesn't get delivered. People can't even link to their own websites properly. Cross--browser compability is on the decline. Every additional CPU core makes my laptop slower.

It's as if we achieved peak convenience a few years ago by building and building, all while ignoring the technical debt we were piling up. But now the dam is broken and it's sweeping down the valley and through the town.

#Grumpy #ITSucks

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hijack and starfish
villains verbing nouns

Not in The Prophecies: Practical Attacks on Nostr

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1459

#NOSTR #cryptography #social

Have you tried brewing any of these yet?

- dandelion wine
- ginger bug
- spruce beer
- birch beer

What's the coolest or weirdest stuff you've fermented?

#Brewing #Wine #Mead #Ferments #Fermenting #Beer

In this house, chili cheese fries count as a meal.

Discord.

How about “maybe never, fuck off putting intent in my mouth”

I have no idea what this is. I don’t care. I will never care. You’re a chat app. Go away.

Companies are *way* too comfortable disrespecting their users.

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y'know, I should really get to riding my next exploitation of the blind post, I meant to do a part 2 but never actually got to doing it

We all find
A way to
Turn ache
Into art.
Just look
At what
Stars can do
When they’re
Given a heart.

#poetry

Let's get fucked up on malt liquor and see where the night takes us.

I am testing the recent Debian package. The app works well yet I see a few peeves.

I see no facility to passively serve a directory tree of files. This would be extremely useful. And I do mean EXTREMELY USEFUL. It would replace the need for running HTTP / FTP / SFTP etc. and keep it private over TOR.

I realize that things like OnionShare exist but these are dependent upon a web browser (insecure). I would like to see Briar able to serve a file listing with users able to share a directory and to select and download files within the app, as well as view static text and markdown files with clearnet URLs and includes disabled for security. The user could download files that automatically go to a downloads folder.

The app could be sandboxed by default. to prevent access to directories and files outside those specified by the user.

This would make Briar immensely useful and allow the creation of ad-hoc social network-type user groups and publications. Having this facility within a secure, non-browser, non-plugin, non-javascript interface used to be a thing many years ago, but for some reason all such apps have evaporated.

This is a sheet of unused turnpike tickets from an 18th century English toll road. Something like this is so completely unremarkable in its time that it almost never survives, but in this case it was used as wastepaper to fill out a binding, and then recently discovered inside. #NewAcquisition

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A sheet of eight tickets, meant to be cut apart. Each says "Hauxtonmills Turnpike" and "177" with the last digit of the year left blank, within a square ornamental border.

Bad patents already do enough damage. PERA makes it easier to get them and harder to challenge them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/pera-remains-serious-threat-efforts-against-bad-patents

Not enough substance
Too much faux admiration
Potemkin pillage

#dalyhaikuprompt Admiration
#haiku #poetrycommunity
#smallpoems

So there's more #AI written articles on the Internet now than there are articles produced by humans.

Thanks, dicks.