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Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':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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I wrote this as a ha-ha-but-seriously-yes:

You should only use software you wrote for yourself, never let anyone else touch it. Other Peoples' Code is the work of the devil.

phunnee!

https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/minicrypt

#cryptography

I have been away from the Internet for at least a couple months. I came to quickly check my feeds and I am sad to have found report of the passing away of a very cool hacker, Thom Miller, known by the handle, Retro Guy. According to his wife Kaylen Miller, Thom died about two weeks ago from pancreatic cancer. He had a years-long struggle with cancer and multiple therapies and surgeries. During all the time of his illness he continued to hack away providing network access and software updates absolutely free to his user base. He was a strong believer in the value of open and decentralized communication for all. His software is simple and awesome, and useful for censorship-resistant communication. (https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light)

Thom, known as Retro Guy, created the Rocksolid Light NNTP forums and server software. He served the hacker community as a free speech advocate and provider of free speech communication networking. He refused to censor opinions that he found offensive or stupid on the principle of the golden rule. He endured a lot of annoyances to provide service for many. Thom maintained the software for years giving web-based NNTP access to countless users. Thom was always helpful and patient with users needing assistance, even when he was feeling ill and suffering. He pushed through his pain to serve others with something he believed was a necessary tool and blessing for the general public.

I am sad to learn of Thom's passing. He will be missed and remembered. I will remember him by continuing to run his software.

More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=1024&group=rocksolid.nodes.help#1024

More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=560&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#560

More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=561&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#561

More:
https://www.novabbs.com/interests/article-flat.php?id=25410&group=alt.obituaries

#obituary #rocksolidlight #usenet #nntp #freespeech #cancer #condolences #networknews #retroguy #novabbs #bbs

~ Henry Kissinger

#quotes

@infostorm@a.gup.pe

IDK. You might ask the maintainer, "Mr. NNTP".

This is cool.

It is a Fediverse server you can use with a newsreader client like Thunderbird.

Demo: https://illuminant.asjo.org/
Profile: https://illuminant.asjo.org/user/asjo
Source: https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/

#NNTP #Illuminant #Fediverse #Software #Usenet #CoolCode

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @usenet@a.gup.pe @usenet@lemmy.ml

This former post elaborates on how the advertising cycle mentally enslaves people to pseudoscience and political agitprop:

https://soc.octade.net/octade/p/1740365507.346848

See:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/qnnfz2/quantum_computers_are_fake_they_will_not_break/

The Wind and the Lion | Full Movie with Sean Connery
https://youtu.be/D-In3mEfBxg

This movie was filmed before the normalization of brainless Hollywood portrayals of all foreigners as mindless drones. It showed an era of mutual respect and honor codes between adversaries instead of jingoistic 'light of the world' self-worship.

No spoilers. It is too good for that.

#WorthIt #SeanConnery #ClassicFilm #FullMovie #Movies #Film #Cinema #History #TeddyRoosevelt #Berbers

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @movies@a.gup.pe @classics@a.gup.pe @film@a.gup.pe

Alt...

Bearded Berber Sultan with black and red head dress, portrayed by Sean Conner in the movie, The Wind and the Lion.

https://soc.octade.net/octade/p/1740365507.346848

master: welcome to my Smart Home

student: wow. how is the light controlled?

master: with this on-off switch

student: i don't see a motor to close the blinds

master: there is none

student: where is the server located?

master: it is not needed

student: excuse me but what is "Smart" about all of this?

master: everything.

in this moment, the student was enlightened

Most events advertised by media and government are fiction. What you see on the Internet and TV is not real. What experts, foundations, agencies, governments, and nonprofits say is never the truth. None of it is real. It is all agitprop. It is all agenda-driven manipulation. None of it has ever been real. There is always an angle or agenda behind the way the information is presented. Those images and sounds and slogans and speeches are NOT reality. It is a false reality offered for you to buy into.

Reality is between you and your neighbor. How you treat your neighbor ... whether or not you treat your neighbor as equal in dignity and rights ... or whether or not you use your fears of government stories as an excuse to hate and abuse your neighbor ... which is why they give you their stories in the first place. By stoking division they can rule you, fleece you, control you, and profit from you.

In the Game of Thrones the Tyrion character was used to tell us who rules:

"What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? No. It’s stories. There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it. And who has a better story than Bran the Broken? The boy who fell from a high tower and lived… He's our memory. The keeper of all our stories. The wars, weddings, births, massacres, famines, our triumphs, our defeats, our past. Who better to lead us into the future?"

When you believe someone's stories, that person rules over you. The person who crafts the stories that you take for reality has control of your mind and your life. Whoever crafts your reality is your master. They keep ramping up the anxiety to stunt critical thinking and invoke emotional responses and emotional investment in narratives crafted to steer people into doing their bidding.

#Propaganda #Media #News #Politics #Religion #GameOfThrones

@infostorm@a.gup.pe

There is a much bigger and long-running situation. The problems didn't start on October 7th. This current crisis has been going on for 3 generations running. Palestinians have been under Israeli blockades longer than some of the people using the Internet have been alive. The small minority Christian population of the region has been living between the hammer of Israel and the hammer of the Islamist militants. Muslims who convert to Christianity face persecution and many have been forced to go into hiding. The big churches there aren't the only Christians. Smaller groups of Christians and the occasional converts from Islam to Christianity have sometimes had to 'go underground'.

Aside from that, the Christian community in Gaza dates back to the 4th century--even before Islam entered the region. Then Islam entered and eventually the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire. There is along history of the Christians of Gaza dealing with all of that, sometimes resisting, sometimes just resigning themselves to the situation.

#Bible #Christian #Christianity

Or DexMedia might also ship them to your region if you have a land line.

In my area they mail them to certain neighborhoods where the geriatric boomer brigades and the hippy generation are known to still reside. The last place I lived 4 years ago they still delivered them every year. In my new place they don't deliver to my neighborhood. For everyone else you need to order them, and they are only available for certain areas.

I surmise that the print phone books will never be completely extinct. They are critical infrastructure if the data grid goes down in some disaster. There are still millions of active copper phone lines across the country, and the way they were buried, it should be another two generations before all that copper corrodes. I have lines that are 50 years old and still in good condition. It is just sitting there, waiting in case it is ever needed.

#YellowPages #WhitePages #PhoneBooks #Telephones #Phones #RetroTech

Amen. And anything giving us a fake Jesus is also not Christian. Some sects are devoted to their own Jesus 2.0 version.

Musk worships a Spinozan deity in line with that taught by Christian occultists, Platonists, Hermetecists, Dualists, Deists, and other "Christian" blasphemers who have infiltrated the Church and many other institutions with their occult ideas. Think:

nomina sacra
word of power
manifesting your reality
key of knowledge
brotherhood of man
kabbalah
freemasonry
prosperity gospel

etc., etc.

How do you drink your coffee and/or tea?

Select all that apply!

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse

#Poll #Polls #POTD #Question #Questions #QOTD #Coffee #Tea

Every bit of attention you give him, positive or negative, only helps him continue his shenanigans and get paid to boot.

We can do no good thing without God doing it through us. Man is so puny. Yet so many think otherwise.

Don't drink out of a toilet bowl!

Brawndo. It has what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.

The Lord gives; the Lord takes away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

Dog is one of the Platonic solids.

4K-Autism Calming Sensory: Relaxing Music
https://youtu.be/yrAFXphbwgg

Abstract Liquids! V - 7! 12 Hours 4K Screensaver for Meditation. Paint in Water
https://youtu.be/L3Dp4oGkn3k?

1984 More Television Test Patterns
(mute the audio and relax)
https://youtu.be/l05OCJFjzFY

Old Test Patterns-IDs From Print - '50s-'60s
https://youtu.be/NS9uojwaN7E

https://youtu.be/IIqtuupvdWg

The same with Abraham. There was a man named Abraham who married a woman named Sarah. But the story of Abraham as written in the Bible is not about that ancient Abraham. It is taking the ancient Abraham and using him as a character to invoke an Abraham yet to come. It is about a FUTURE Abraham. Both Jesus and Paul say so ...

[Paul says] "But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an ALLEGORY: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar."

Take careful note how Paul says the story of Abraham is ALLEGORY of the followers of Christ, the New Abraham that Paul is helping Christ to create at that very time.

Hagar is Israel after the Flesh, under bondage to the Law of Mount Sinai. Sarah is the mother of the New Jerusalem, the Israel of all nations born after the Spirit. Thus Abraham was divided into two seeds, one earthly, and one spiritual, and the one would be at odds with the other, as foretold to Eve and the Serpent. So it is the spiritual seed of Abraham that enters the kingdom to come, and the fleshly seed that must be put to death:

"Ye must be born again!"

"Ye must be born of water and of spirit ..."

What flowed from the side of Jesus onto the earth? Water and blood.

"The life (spirit) of flesh is in the blood."

It has been in front of our faces all these centuries, but most have not seen because they did not heed the warnings about interpreting the scripture with vain fables and false histories:

"Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do."

"But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness."

"And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."

"Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth."

"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty."

"Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye."

(I have been drafting a homile set on this subject.)

#theViewFromMudsockHeights: “Do all families have a deep corporate interest in #genealogy? I hope so, because it is fascinating and satisfying. The subject swoops in unannounced and occupies my days every few years.“ #bible #history https://ofb.biz/sa1288