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A photo of a cake with 8 candles in a row. The first and fifth candle from the right are lit. The caption reads "Happy 17th Birthday"

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[โ€“] glibg10b@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a single byte, so it's represented the same in big-endian vs little-endian. Endianness defines the order of bytes, not individual bits

[โ€“] adb@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed, endianness is the order of bytes, my bad. I guess I meant LSb vs MSb