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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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So there's more #AI written articles on the Internet now than there are articles produced by humans.

Thanks, dicks.

I'm making consistent progress on Snacc! You can now export and erase data.

Eeeeeeeeeeeee!

This morning I woke up with "You Remind Me" by Gryffin and Stanaj playing in my head:

https://song.link/y/o1vEZCgAIYU

#AMSongInMyHead #Gryffin #Stanaj #EDM #Music

Protecting young people’s online safety is incredibly important, but to do so by forcing invasive ID checks, criminalizing AI tools, and banning teens from legitimate digital spaces is not a good way out of this. Tell Congress to oppose the GUARD Act today. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/surveillance-mandate-disguised-child-safety-why-guard-act-wont-keep-us-safe

Jazz Buskers - Freddy's Blues

New release on HairyLarryLand

Jazz vocal standards plus Freddy's Blues, a little piece of musical theater.

Guest star Terrell Montgomery on bass.

Free downloads and streaming.

https://archive.org/details/freddys-blues

#jazz #blues #vocals

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Album art for Freddy's Blues by Jazz Buskers shows an antique teddy bear.

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Terrell Montgomery playing bass.

Can someone explain to me what's the point of bots on the fediverse that just retoot your post if it has a certain hashtag?

Like can't people just search on or follow that hashtag vs following said bot? What's the difference/benefit?

No Cloudflare. No 2FA nonsense. No cloud surveillance. Your box. Your rules.

https://hestiacp.com/

#HestiaCP #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Webmasters #Weblords

We’re back with our biggest #BlackFriday deal - save 62% on Tuta Legend!

This one’s too good to miss 👇

https://tuta.com/black-friday

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Black Friday at Tuta: 62% OFF.

i love when my body makes a noise i’ve never heard before. like girl what organ was that. who’s in there.

New #ebook @gutenberg_org: Life of John Brown by Michael Gold https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77258

#Art #MesopotamianArt

Tablets from Lagaba, a town near Babylon, from around 1730 BCE. From left to right: a court order to bring an alleged thief to court; a contract to adopt two children; a family feud; a brother writing to his sister complaining she never writes back; a label to divide barley; and a tablet listing eight silver vaginas, belonging to a wooden goddess statue.

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Six stone tablets with cuneiform text on them, mounted on metal stands.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115544059139918704

Mozilla keeps telling it's optional etc but at the same time they keep stuffing it in people's face @mozilla

I'm not sure how much more clear we need to be we don't want #AI bs in every product

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I want an AI Window and all this other AI crap in my browser as much as I want cesium-137 in my shrimp.

 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/
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@Tutanota hello👋🏻 I am a longway tutamail user. Please make attached files visible when printing the mail timestamp (ctrl+p move).

If you follow people here, then unfollow them when they follow you back to boost your follower numbers you’re gonna have a bad time.

what’s one Linux feature you swear by but no one else talks about?

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thank you Rob Savoye for assigning your copyright to the FSF! More at: https://u.fsf.org/463 #Librephone #CopyrightAssignments

chili good

Karma happens, just not under your direction or timing.

You know, that new Chili’s ad sounds great… But the nearest one is over 50 miles away. Not quite worth the Uber trip. Lol… But I love the way they poked fun at McDonald’s with their newest meal offering.

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

[for your address book]

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#groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro

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Which features would you want in such a network and its terminal interface?

I've been kind of hemming and hawing about building a PC for a while now. It would be nice to have a nice work/gaming station, for the very modest performance that I need, but as soon as you start looking into it, specs get wild and the price starts to climb, and at the end of the day, I'm not a computer nerd, I'm just an angry person who hates corpo tech.

And then the Steam Machine got announced.

There's a lot of things on paper that are red flags, primarily that it sounds like it's not the most user-serviceable device.

But Valve has a good track record at this point on the hardware front, and it would be so easy to just get that little black cube that runs linux right out of the box and be done with it.

Fortunately I'll have plenty of time to think about it.

#Linux #SteamMachine #Valve

TIL #dunkindonuts Midnight dark roast tastes like burning mud.

As a self-confessed loose leaf #tea snob (and junkie!), I do like dark roast #coffee. But given the opportunity to have this Dunk's dark roast again I think I'd rather just go for burning mud.

Sigh.

Is this a Whiskers Wednesday pic or a Nosevember pic?

#WhiskersWednesday #Nosevember #aDailyViolet

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Portrait of a small grey rabbit with her whiskers catching the light.

#spammers

@micr0@fuzzies.wtf @micr0@wetdry.world

Arrested for Telling a Cop to Shut UP-James Freeman is Suing to Rename This Texas City

https://youtu.be/zyLnHzg4Xrg

#Corruption #Cops #Police #Thugs #Tyranny #Government #Law #Legal #Courts #Lawsuit #Constitution

You are
Not without
Hope:
You are
Strong
Enough to
Carry your
Heart.

#poetry

THIS IS A TEST 💥
Can you see this photo in its entirety or only like a third of it with the rest white? I’m not sure how to correct the issue but I hope it’s not too widespread and am curious to know.

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A male Allen’s hummingbird faces the camera from a twig, gorget a vivid red, right wing partially outstretched and tail fanned to the right. Cloudy light filters through the leaves giving a dramatic lighting.

This part

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THE BILLIONAIRES INVESTING IN SPACE DON'T WANT STAR TREK THEY WANT DUNE.

Hey y'all. Here's a hypothetical scenario for you. If someone broke up with their ex and still maintained a good friendship with that ex, would you still pursue a relationship with that person if you were interested in them? Or would you see them being friends with their ex as a bad thing and not trust that the romantic feelings were in the past and that you had nothing to worry about? Would you see the ex as a threat? Or do you believe that trust should be given freely until you have a good reason not to?