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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 20/09/2026

I'm Sewer56. It's 56 days until Edgy the Hedgy (Game) turns 21.

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 19/09/2026

I haven't felt this stimulated in a while. Good to take on some more challenging stuff every once in a while.

⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 17/09/2026

The unfortunate reality is that the best way to stay alive on the internet is to not piss off anyone 🥲 I pray every night that I don't-

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 17/09/2026

A lot of software out there is just straight up... crap. Even before AI. But folks accept it just because they don't know any better; unfortunately. Industry normalized shipping entire bloated 0.5GB web browsers for simple calculator apps. Just because web devs are cheaper. #corporate

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 24/03/2026

You can't. This is Denuvo. Denuvo requires online activation. Usually every 2 weeks. If you don't like it, check the store page before future purchases.

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🐾 The little trick lies in UTF-8 encoding~ 🐾 Bytes `0x00-0x7F` (ASCII) are always single-byte UTF8. Bytes `0x00-0x7F` cannot be follow-up bytes. That means our lovely friends `\r` (0x0D) and `\n` (0x0A) can be easily be found by searching their single byte directly. 😉

🐾 Tiny crate! crlf-to-lf-inplace 🐾 CRLF -> LF conversion, in-place. No allocations. <100 lines. Forgot to post last month~ Couldn't find a crate like this (allocation bad >.<), so I did it myself. 📦 crates.io/crates/crlf-to-lf-inplace 🔧 github.com/Sewer56/crlf-to-lf-inplace Thanks for reading~ 💜

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Scary times ahead. OpenAI contract around 'all lawful use' doesn't feel like a very strong guarantee when in control of humans not very good at upholding it. When does an surveillance-military-enabled AI do an automated drone strike on my house because I criticized an official?

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 22/02/2026

In school you may have been taught something called SohCahToa (or similar). This is just an application of that 😉

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🐾 paws at your string handles 🐾 Your `Box<str>`: 16 bytes Your `Vec<String>`: 24 bytes My `StringId<u16>`: 2 bytes Parity reads. 8x cheaper refs. nya~ Anime: Sometimes I Need to Store a Lot of Strings Efficiently, So I Built lite-strtab! sewer56.dev/blog/2026/02... #rustlang

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Sometimes I Need to Store a Lot of Strings Efficiently, So I Built lite-strtab - Sewer's Front Page

This post is about a very specific problem.

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Chess.com @chess.com · 20/02/2026

after 1600 years, a NEW high level chess opening was just discovered! 🤯 1⃣ f3 - start a pawn chain on your kingside 2⃣ g4 - extend the pawn chain and attack early! After that the game is basically over. Try it out!

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 25/01/2026

bsky.app/profile/sewe... While we're at it, I also patched Orcs Must Die 2!! Allows for: - Custom Resolution [normally impossible] - D3D9Ex (better alt+tab etc.) - Aspect Ratio Fix (again) - Custom FoV - Custom FPS Limit, VSync Override www.nexusmods.com/orcsmustdie2... github.com/Sewer56/omd2...

OMD2 at 64:9 (7680x1080), with fully working FoV, and ~200 frames.

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 25/01/2026

Made a Small Patch for Orcs Must Die 3. Fixes FoV on ultrawide, and allows for centering the HUD. www.nexusmods.com/orcsmustdie3... github.com/Sewer56/omd3...

After. FoV is fixed, and HUD can be centered.

Before. HUD is way off to the side, and screen is vertically zoomed in (Vert-)

⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 23/11/2025

sewer56.dev/blog/2025/11... A quick blog post with some cool stats on Reloaded-II mods I collected a while back. Sample size 2197. Ever curious about the file size/count stats of mods at scale? Here's the basic numbers.

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 17/11/2025

Quick post about an experiment from 2 months ago; trying to optimise LLMs on superfast (>1000t/s) chips with Multi(Read/Write/Edit) tools. sewer56.dev/blog/2025/09... Written entirely by me, of course. Don't usually talk about AI: grifters and slop, but figured I'd share; it'd be a waste otherwise

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Batching Tool Calls: Racing Against Cerebras Rate Limits & Too Fast Text Generation - Sewer's Front Page

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 17/11/2025

Back in July I tried out NixOS, and have been daily driving it since. Here's a weird reason you don't want to store your config in /etc/nixos if you're using home-manager. sewer56.dev/blog/2025/11... tl;dr `nix shell` will cause your configs to disappear because /etc/nixos is not remapped.

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A Weird Reason Not to Store your Nix Config in /etc/nixos - Sewer's Front Page

Why /etc/nixos can cause symlink issues in nix-shell and how moving your config to a user directory solves the problem

⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 24/08/2025

mrrp,., mrrp,,, mrrrow :3

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 24/08/2025

I have never before seen a website require a $7 monthly paid subscription to enable 2FA-

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 03/08/2025

Arrow Lake 275HX ``` cargo bench -p dxt-lossless-transform-bc1 --bench transform_standard --features bench ``` Linux E-Core: 50GiB/s Windows (Any Core): 25GiB/s Linux P-Core: 3.3GiB/s WTF? This doesn't make any sense- and I'm not hallucinating, I doublechecked!! github.com/Sewer56/dxt-...

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Matt "Kupo" Roszak 🌻🍉 Wishlist Find Matt's Cats! @kupogames.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 18/07/2025

My mods in an official Sonic post? Way past cool! 💙 Sonic Riders deserves all the love.

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Muno @bymuno.com · 21/04/2025

How does ROLLBACK NETCODE work, why is it so difficult to program, and why is it the gold standard for fighting games? A whirlwind tour of different solutions #pixelart #gamedev #AnimationVERSUS The setup: you have a video game with couch co-op and want to add online multiplayer. Easy, right...? 🧵

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Muno @bymuno.com · 21/04/2025

Unfortunately, servers are too expensive for starving indie devs (e.g. Nintendo), so it's worth exploring other options.

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 21/04/2025

Here's how this setup looks like for reference. I do work from here (remotely), and my non-work code stuff right after. Maybe I'll game on this one day 😅, I'm always coding soooo much; ahahaha, so often that's a pipe dream! Oh and I'll eventually need some wall decor that's not certificates.

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 21/04/2025

No GPU (yet); but today marks the first day in 11 years that I'm running current gen hardware on my PC. - 9950X3D w/ Arctic Liquid Freezer III - 96GB DDR5 6000MHz, CL30 - x870e Nova Wifi MB - 4TB 9100 Pro NVMe - G95NC (7680x2160@240Hz) - Flux Pro Case - Kanto Ora Speakers - G502X Plus Arch btw

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 16/04/2025

POV you watch a 'Finale 4 Skip' video and @notnite.com appears in a screenshot.

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 13/04/2025

bsky.app/profile/sewe... Single feed's probably overrated anyway, don't want to mix memes with IRL images when you're showing your family. Or it could be 'cope' from my end, who knows :v

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 13/04/2025

Question of the day: Is there no good way to view photos/videos remotely on Android? Notes in thread. My setup: pCloud <-> NAS (Home) <-- PC / Phone When in my house I NAS via FTP/NFS; when outside I talk with pCloud, which is bisynced with NAS (local RasPi 4B, rclone bisync, 5 min cron job).

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 09/04/2025

Ended up getting the Kanto Ora speakers. Really happy with those on the other hand, work like gold. Monitor needed a small raise, due to height with stand, but it works out.

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 09/04/2025

To be fair, a Big Rigs tier solution for Big Rigs is as Big Rigs as it Big RIgs.

⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 08/04/2025

bsky.app/profile/sewe... In the end I refunded the speaker, and bought a regular set of speakers; as god intended. If I ever need anything 'more', I'd wire up to a wiim pro-like device, so I can get both a good DAC and the 'smart' stuff at the same time.

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 06/04/2025

bsky.app/profile/sewe... And to endlessly keep adding insult to injury. I can't even get a good listening experience with Tidal. You can't 'Tidal Connect' to the device from PC or Web for some reason. Not via Sonos or via Alexa (US Only?). Spotify works well, but it's 320Kbit/s limited. Bleh!

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⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 06/04/2025

bsky.app/profile/sewe... Living beside a motorway without a noise barrier isn't very good either 😅. It's a trade-off between constant car noise vs unventilated room.

⠋ Sewer56 ⣠ @sewer56.dev · 06/04/2025

In order to stop using headphones as much (earwax), I bought a Sonos Era 100 speaker. Speaker is good, but damn I wish I could use it... as a speaker. 20 million ways to play audio and NOT A SINGLE GOOD ONE for your PC. It's 2025 and we can't transfer a mere 1.4Mbit/s for lossless CD audio?????