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   K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻 :donor: :clippy: (reverseics@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 11:06:15 JST K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻 :donor: :clippy:

   Big Endian was invented because someone really needed to know, right away, whether a number was positive or negative.

   Little Endian was invented because someone really needed to know, right away, whether a number was even or odd.

   This is how I'm going to explain "why is endianness a thing" to people that are new to binary stuff from now on.

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:, Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: and Another Linux Walt Alt like this.
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: repeated this.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 12:58:31 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @reverseics Which reminds me that I often feel like Big Endian makes the most sense…
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 13:46:50 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • RedTechEngineer
     @RedTechEngineer @reverseics Only ppc I have is with a PowerMac G4 so not Open.
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     RedTechEngineer (redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 13:46:51 JST RedTechEngineer

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan @reverseics this user OpenPOWERs
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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2025 15:02:34 JST tom jennings

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     @reverseics

     Oh young ones, read and become edumacated.

     https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt