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by unconed 1254 days ago
As I commented below, it's incredibly striking exactly because it betrays a complete unawareness of the logic behind these systems.

These aren't just funny codes, there is a whole mindset behind it. ASCII being grouped in chunks of 32. Being able to flip between uppercase and lowercase by flipping a bit. The history of upper 8-bit codepages in DOS.

And I didn't even comment on the fact that your "byte" uses 16-bit notation.