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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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please list and/or tell me about every ActivityPub software which is excellent for running a single-user instance!

boosts desired!

a friend that always complained about how linux users are obnoxious with the way they're trying to convince them to come over

says that it's now windows 11 users being obnoxious trying to argue why 'windows 11 is not so bad'.
the turns are tabling mentlegen 🏓

I'm on a bit of a crusade. I think there are lots of people (on my family FB feed) who have forgotten why they PERSONALLY should care about climate change. I mean to remind them.

Why do you care? How does it affect you now? How do you believe it will affect you in the future?

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Naw, FTW is the way. ;)

This is the way.

[for your address book]

https://soc.octade.net/cryptography/

A Fediverse group for sharing and discussing #ciphers, #codes #cryptography and #encryption and related applications and #research.

#crypto #cypher #cypherpunks #confidentiality #privacy #groups #fedigroups #fediverse

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Artistic image of a sheet of paper with binary ones and zeroes and a reddish padlock in the upper right-hand corner..

[for your address book]

A Fediverse group for sharing your papers and preprints.

https://soc.octade.net/papers/

#Papers #Writing #Preprints #Authors #Research #Reading #groups #fedigroups #fediverse

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cartoon drawing of a feather quill standing in a inkwell

Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology

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Hexlish Alphabet logo. The word HEXLISH in rainbow colors on a black background with a hexagonal dot above the letter I. Beneat the logo in yellow reads the phrase, "English Text Compression & Encoding."

Yep, its official. When i get my job, I'm paying for a whole year of youTube premium, because I'm damn tired of having to hit the skip ad button.

How many times can I edit a post before I get unfollowed?: A Michelle story.

Wilful failure to BBQ is a felony in the south.

Why change to Linux when you can just give up on computers altogether?

A new study has found that nobody is currently OK

Oh my gosh. My mom is back in the hospital again so I had to leave the critters unsupervised. Before I left I hung a small suet cage with fancy stuff from Wild Birds. Woodpecker’s delight. Some hours later when I returned home the entire suet cage is gone. Not fallen to the ground but GONE. Who did this?! 🤔🫤

Nothing makes me lose faith in humanity faster than social media comments. Especially anything related to space. It's like people try their hardest to say the stupidest shit possible. Probably also the algorithm trying to ragebait me by surfacing them above reasonable comments.

Bitcoin is pure, pure evil

Bitcoin’s energy use per dollar generated now exceeds that of mining copper or gold

Bitcoin mining significantly increases PM2.5 pollution, the tiny airborne particles linked to respiratory and heart disease.

Each bitcoin mining rig has a short shelf life of about 1.3 years. Once outdated, they’re dumped

Bitcoin mining needs massive water cooling systems

https://gulfnews.com/your-money/cryptocurrency/cryptos-dirty-secret-how-mining-it-is-hurting-the-planet-and-farms-1.500299583

In the linked paper, Carl D. Franklin digs deep into the history of the tetragrammaton and debunks some of the myths commonly accepted as fact. The paper is part of a series and well worth the read for anyone interested in textual criticism or translation.

PDF: https://www.cbcg.org/franklin/debunking2.pdf

"Is it true that the name Jehovah borrowed its vowels from Adonai?"

A lot of religious and textual myths have resulting in mass misconceptions about biblical textual history and meaning. Some of the myths misrepresent the tetragrammaton, or the name of God. This eventually led to the creation of the artificial name, Yahweh, which is not a Hebrew word, and is in fact a cleverly disguised classical Latin name for Jove. The author defrocks the Galatinus origin myth, proving the name JEHOVAH was in use long before Galatinus.

The sacred name mythos is popular in some Christian and Jewish sects as well as among the Hebrew Roots movement. This paper exposes some of the false history and baseless assertions about the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton. As it turns out, the early Masoretes and the Reformers as well as some early Catholics had gotten it right - JEHOVAH is the correctly preserved pronunciation of the name of God. The name was never 'lost' and it has been known all through recorded history, if even only by a few.

#Bible #MasoreticText #Translation #Theology #History #Philology #Myths #SacredNames #NominaSacra #Judaism #Christianity #Hebrew #TiberianHebrew

"If you want to sell someone something, you first have to convince them that they need it. This rationalization is the likely source of a fundamental myth of the American public school system: that before the proliferation of compulsory, tax-payer funded schooling, Americans were ignorant and mostly illiterate."

"Authority will always try to convince you how helpless and bereft you would be without the authority. Americans were neither illiterate nor ignorant before forced schooling. Compulsory, tax-payer funded education has not been an overall improvement for the population, despite the billions of dollars and wasted hours spent on it. To claim Americans need government schools to learn is a grab for power and control, and ignores centuries’ worth of data and lived experience."

#Education #School #Literacy

wow...
just fucking wow so apparently it was discords fault the hacker got in?
discord has proven time and time again that you should never send government IDs, even for support, to anyone.
for those who couldn't parse the hyperlink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnuyT8FgSpA
the hacker is fucked up too, but discord is even more fucked up for even allowing this to happen in the first place

The fact that there is a stairway to Heaven, but a highway to Hell, says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers.

Half baked idea time

Distributed, decentralized, social media.

The problem, imho, is servers. You can set up a mess of servers, but that still centralizes on them.

My uncooked idea is to completely decentralize to the device and build the network friend to friend up, each acting like a small dns for all its connections and so on.

Yes, storage issues. Yes connection issues, but.. for real decentralized

#halfbakedthoughts

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

I don’t remember authorizing you to help BunMum clean up the Killing Frost last night, BunDad… -Skye 💕 #SkyeLove #SundayIsBunday

(Fall end of season is what’s been keeping BunMum away the last week! Hoping to catch up with everyone soon ❤️)

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A cross rabbit greets BunDad.

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BunDad piles over thirty bags BunMum filled for yard waste pickup tomorrow am.

https://fourble.co.uk/podcasts

#fourble

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Been a day. I hate this SCOTUS. They treat people like fucking dirt.

'Libertarian' sounds like the opening to a polisci joke.

A second French government has effectively collapsed. What is going on?

welllllll....

The WEF puppets have subverted democracy all across Western governments, acting directly against the natives.
Flooding the countries with third-world savages and taxing them into poverty to pay for the economy-collapsing net-zero hoax.

But that's just my opinion.

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/09/08/a-second-french-government-has-effectively-collapsed-what-is-going-on/

Anne Marie Waters

ISLAM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Part One

"America is asleep to the danger that confronts us. Since the 1960s, there has been a concerted effort on the part of radical Islamists to infiltrate our major institutions."

Please subscribe here: https://annemariewaters.substack.com/p/islam-in-the-united-states-of-america

It just occurred to me that coffee is vegan

So how many cups a day equate to a serving of vegetables??

I did the DNA ancestry dot com thing, trying to find out about my dad’s dad who we know nothing about. I found lots of cool documents about the known parts of my family. Immigration papers, wedding documents etc. I learned Spanish so I could read those documents for the Mexican half of my family. But still a brick wall when it comes to my grandfather. I found a 1/2 first cousin in L.A., cousin Lola! The answer lays there but I don’t know in what way as she also has information holes in her family and she didn’t want another cousin 🥺 so frustrating. It just seems so strange I have gazillions of family members on there except the ones I want to learn about, I can’t figure it out

"Libertarianism is an appealing idea if you hold human agency and freedom above all else. However, it has its weaknesses. Freedom is certainly worth having, but at what cost?"

The author wrongly asserts that conservatives want to limit personal freedom and that liberals promote personal freedom. This claim is pure horseshit. Conservatives are merely liberal lite, and both crush personal liberty in deference to the worship of the state.

People mistake words for reality, and get jammed up in mental servitude to their idols.

Now take Libertarianism and its words. They are just words. They claim to believe this and that and to promote this and that. But if you look at the operations of their political party, and their different chapters among the states, you see the same bullshit we find in the Democrat and Republican parties.

Libertarians suffer from the same rings of power syndrome that afflicts people who claim other political ideologies. What they say on the surface would never be implemented in real life once they seized the political machinery. It's all just words with no substance, just like almost everything said by liberals and conservatives is just words without substance.

The author states:

"Liberals do this by limiting the ability of some to gain disproportionate power over the group and exploiting that power for their own ends. "

Conservatives obsess with obtaining economic power over others. They mobilize economic pressure to force others to submit to their will. Yet in recent years the liberals have taken this cue and added that tactic to their arsenal of tricks for forcing people and nations into submission.

The political factions want power to rule, plain and simple. They will use whatever words they think are effective in manufacturing your consent to their power over you. Whether they are liberal, conservative, or libertarian, their main goal is to have the power of the state and its police and armies to regulate your life as they see fit. There is no love in what they do. You, your vote, your labor, your taxes are just a means to an end and nice-sounding policies and ideologies are bait for the trap.

Some #theological hills I am willing to die on:
1) The plenary inspiration of #scripture
2) At bare minimum, adherence to the #doctrines proclaimed by the first four Councils of the undivided #church must be upheld.
3) The #eucharist / #lordssupper ought to be celebrated *weekly*.
4) The #eucharist / #lordssupper , while symbolic, is not merely symbolic but also a true/real encounter/communion with Jesus.
5) #Baptism *must* be done in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
6) Baptism is #regenerative
7) #Liturgical #worship is essential because the #bible itself reveals the Church’s worship as liturgical.
8) The #unity of the Church is not merely a spiritual reality (i.e. invisible), but a reality that ought to be visible for all the world to see.
9) Except in the cases of #heresy or wholesale unrepentant #sin within a portion of the Church, rending the Church’s unity is sinful. (So, disagreements over adiaphora are not worthy of division -- no matter how much one love's their pet theological theory)
10) All #christians must pray for and actively work towards and for the reunification of the Church.

Repeat that meme a million times and expect protests in front of libraries. In order to protest the imagined censorship the protestors will burn down the libraries in rage, destroying all the books. Then the protestors on the other side can complain about the fire departments failing to save all the books.

A strong man can rise up and promise to save us from undocumented librarians.

And if God bonks you on the head, nobody will believe it, and nobody will care, until it is their turn to get bonked on yon noggin.

People who speak of 'God's plan' and 'God's will usually don't know what they are talking about.

It also doesn't surprise me that someone from China would want God to be against the USA, just as some evangelical in USA would want God to be against China.

Newsflash: God is against all religious partisans because they don't do what he said to do, which is respect your neighbor as yourself. He hasn't destroyed them all yet, so maybe the doomsday prophecies need to stop. Every ounce of energy used to blame others for something is an ounce of energy not used to do something constructive right now.

Tim Hortons: proof that they grow coffee beans in Canada.

#Coffee #CowboyCoffee #MorningMudd

Many men wish to confine His creation to their own mental cages.

I do not agree that Job is a work of fiction. There was an ancient man named Job. Events from his life were re-written and poetically embellished into a new story that tells the future. Think traditional histories meet Aesop's Fables meets Jehovah's long-term plans, and that is a half-decent way to describe the purpose of the Bible. The writers were seized upon by the Holy Spirit, and driven to write the words they produced. None of it was the mere product of a human mind--a greater mind was in those men moving them exactly how to manifest the future on scrolls and parchments.

God's concern is not over teaching history. His concern is the culmination of history, the end of history and the new beginning of a new history described far in advance--showing the pattern of a new reality for man to come in the far distant future. The Book of Job, like the Book of Jonah, is prophecy about the coming of Jesus of Nazareth and the birth of a new creation flowing out from the Nazarene.

In fact, the entire Old Testament is about Jesus of Nazareth:

"And the Father himself, which hath sent me, HATH BORNE WITNESS OF ME. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And ye have not his WORD abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: AND THEY ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME."

The Old Testament books were not written to instruct us in history. They were written to identify the Son of Man who would come into the world and spread the knowledge of the Father's love abroad into all the nations. Even though there are records of ancient historical people in those books, the way they are presented is so as to tell us who those people foreshadow and symbolize--the man Jesus Christ and the new kingdom he would establish for the ages ahead.

Revelation was dictated to a man named John on the Isle of Patmos. John had visions and he was told what to write in the visions. The book of Genesis was written in the same way. It was visions given to Moses, telling him what to write. The Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelation are the exact same story shown in different idioms of their respective ages.

Genesis uses a pastiche of older ancestral histories organized like lego blocks to build the future God has planned. So although based loosely upon real ancestral histories, Genesis is not meant to be read literally or as a history. It is meant to be read to foretell a far distant future--the day and age that we currently inhabit.

Revelation tells roughly the same plan but is more focused on the time nearer Christ's ministry. Revelation uses more direct symbols for the future as opposed to the Genesis use of ancestral totem patchworked as a future mosaic.

Then of course both Christ and the Father state plainly that they teach in parables.