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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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

@wordplay@lemmy.ml @Vocabulary@lemmy.ml

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OCTADE | news://alt.flashback | https://soc.octade.net

#Coffee #CowboyCoffee #MorningMudd

Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).

Likes: Interested in WORK PRODUCT, inspiration, faith, truth, beauty, nature, self-improvement, encouragement, edification, praiseworthy things, how-tos, beautiful things, artwork, fluid poems, and general human kindness and achievement. See my profile hashtags for technical subjects of interest.

Disclaimer: If I follow your account it does not imply agreement with your views.

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

I heavily curate my mastodon feed for a pleasant and engaging experience but the amount of American accounts that just straight up post angry and mean pictures of text about their local political issues and bypass all the filters is insane.

I'm thinking again about getting rid of a bunch of my electronics junk to make room for hobbies i enjoy more these days. Some of this electronics stuff has been following me around since college and it's a burden

I'm not one of the baddies, but I might have to ask:

"Am I the old man shaking fist at cloud?"

I sometimes catch myself mumbling grumpily at the 'cloud' and SaaS parts of yon Internet. Hosting and VPS services can make me especially grumpy and fist-thumpy when they break.

#grumpy #grump #grumble #grrr #grouse #grouch

@Caiotekit

My friend has a great quote that I think about during these times:

"Family, it's not just a word, it's a sentence."

My gopher is working again on SDF! I added the text files from my Hairy Larry Writes blog in the writes directory.

You have to use lynx or some other gopher client. Here's the address for lynx.

gopher://sdf.org/1/users/hairylarry

@bob@beamship.mpaq.org @noondlyt@hellions.cloud

Does anyone have any experience with or opinions on Movim? (https://movim.eu/)

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

Such a large number of texts being ciphered with the same key presents fodder for a fund of attacks. Key re-use is dangerous in such a scenario.

A master key is can be combined with a unique sub key or salt for each message for individual key derivation per message. The unique sub keys can be encrypted with the master key for additional security. Such keys and salts must be RNG sourced.

@lcamtuf I feel like we need to somehow combine the cyber and quantum words after seeing that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfehGfSTu70

#slop #FakeFood #nutrition

Sometimes a squirrel comes along that really likes me. This is my current buddy squirrel. She’s always up there watching me. She doesn’t have a name, I think this will be my Queen Maxima. I’ll ask her today what she thinks about it

Alt...

A female fox squirrel sploots up on a pepper tree branch. One front paw rests on a jutting tree nub like shes revving a motorcycle, vroom vroom. Green fronds hang around her shading her from the sun

Usenet is accessible via TOR and open access servers that don't require registration or identifying information.

The writer can write and discuss using a pseudonym or pen name without fear of retaliation from employers, government, friends, and family. This encourages some people to share their innermost thoughts they would otherwise not express. Of course it also encourages trolls, but there are plenty of trolls everywhere else.

Usenet is text-centric so unlike the fediverse there is not a stream of distracting images.

Even after all these years I still prefer reading and posting Usenet newsgroups over all other forms of so-called, 'social media'.

#Usenet #NewsGroups #NNTP #NetworkNews #NetNews #Anonymous #Anonymity #Writers #Writing

@Caiotekit I love making pumpkin soup, last time I used coconut cream and garam masala, smells so good. And you get to toast the seeds to snack on while it cooks.

Pride and joy of my garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1430574/pride-and-joy-of-my-garden/ #fun #gardening #GardeningFun

Alt...

Pride and joy of my garden

Do yourself a favor and turn off all notifications.

You’re welcome.

#MentalHealth

time for more coffee... ☕ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ☮️

https://github.com/go-while/go-pugleaf

Pugleaf sports a web portal and built-in administrative tools.

#Usenet #RocksolidLight #Retro #NNTP #NetworkNews

I figured out several ways to run DarkMX on a headless server without GUI. This allows me to install it on a remote server without any desktop environment and run the software as a daemon without the GUI.

First I used the X forwarding feature of SSH to pipe the GUI to a local machine. On that machine I did all the configuration inside the GUI. Then I closed the program.

Then on the remote machine I used 'xvfb' to run DarkMX as a nohup'd daemon with a dummy GUI buffer. That way I don't need to be connected to the GUI from a local machine and the application will still run. It also uses less RAM without the GUI.

There are other ways to do this, such as VNC and xpra. I just chose the quickest, dirtiest method in this case.

Why would I go to all that trouble? Well, I don't need to, but there are some people who might need to publish while maintaining strict anonymity. So they would need tools like DarkMX and TOR. For me it's just fun.

DarkMX operates over the TOR privacy preserving network. As a result the location of my peer is hidden and extremely hard to impossible for an adversary to locate. So when I publish something, such as a letter, or paper, or opinion, anyone can download it since censoring it is not viable. It ensures that my speech remains free and available to the general public. Now when I author essays, papers, homiles and such, I can publish them as file shares, and I can publish them simultaneously as a TOR hidden website with the built-in webserver feature. So readers don't need DarkMX to read my files--they can just fire up TOR Browser or use a TOR proxy with their web browser. If they want to snarf a whole directory they can install DarkMX, or use a script to snarf them via TOR.

If you are inclined to fiddle around with installing this software on a headless server, please share the techniques and tools used that suit you.

(DarkMX download site: https://darkmx.app)

#DarkMX #P2P #FileSharing #Anonymous #SelfHosting #TOR #OnionNetwork #Censorship

@selfhosted@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe infosec@a.gup.pe

"I want to be one of those women who gives the devil paralyzing panic attacks just because #God woke me up that day."

Google gets to keep Chrome. Friendly reminder: Don't use Chrome.

Alternatives: Firefox, LibreWolf, Mullvad, what else?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/02/google-chrome-monopoly-ruling

#Google #Chrome

fuck LinkedIn for trying to require me to verify my identity with my government ID in order to close my account

alt.2600
alt.2600.hackers
alt.anagrams
alt.anonymous
alt.centipede
alt.cyberpunk
alt.cypherpunks
alt.folklore.computers
alt.html
alt.rhubarb
alt.sources.crypto
alt.ygdrasil
comp.os.linux.advocacy
comp.os.linux.misc
comp.os.plan9
comp.risks
eternal-september.talk
grc.techtalk
grc.techtalk.retro
hispagatos.talk
news.software.nntp
rec.puzzles
sci.crypt
sci.crypt.random-numbers
sci.math

#Usenet #NetworkNews #NNTP #retro #social

Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks.

Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below.

Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups.

Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet.

Open source philosophy gained its steam via Usenet.

Usenet is the original free speech network.

Usenet is the original 'social network'.

NovaBBS
https://novabbs.org

Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://www.i2pn2.org/

#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @academicchatter@a.gup.pe

Ygdrasil is the first online literary journal, first published in 1993.

You might find the editor on Facebook and at Academia.edu.

#zine #zines #journals #poetry #literature #ygdrasil

Usenet Reborn [0], a terminal‑based NNTP client written in Rust (by @rek2), is now available on pkgsrc.

[0] https://sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn/
#nntp #usenet #smolweb #pkgsrc

Alt...

Screenshot of a terminal window running usenet_reborn. On the left, a column listing subscribed newsgroups, and on the right pane, a threaded view of the comp.infosystems.gopher group.

It looks like Academia.edu is blocking works that were formerly public. So much for academic freedom and public knowledge ...

Libertarians are still lynching pumpkins.

Where's the lie? Your agitprop language and vague, nebulous insinuation has no effect here. Ah, that's where the lie lies!

The whole freak show is the "Synthesis of Opposites" to achieve the predetermined plan in the middle.

Libertarianism is socialism for the rich and ryot tenure for the working class.

#Libertarians #Libertarian

Phuque ottokorekt.