and the above should've been on the #taggart thread instead of here, but we've already established that i suck at keeping all my updates to a single thread...
anyway, first issue closed! #lofty worked great, giving me uniform support for *takes a deep breath* #Aac #Aiff #Ape #Flac #Mpeg #Mp4 #Mpc #Opus #Vorbis #Speex #Wav #WavPack
up next: using https://docs.rs/unicode-width/latest/unicode_width/ to get me some tidy columns - length of some release titles is just delightfully absurd!
The closure of #Technicolor marks the end of an era for #cinema and visual effects, with over 10,000 layoffs devastating the lives of #artists worldwide. Its subsidiaries #MPC, #TheMill, #Mikros Animation, and Technicolor #Games, were overwhelmed by this decision, leaving projects unfinished and the industry in turmoil. The consequences will be felt for years, resulting in a loss of talent and prolonged instability for the #VFX sector.
https://www.technicolor.com/
Sad to hear the shutdown of #MPC #VFX. I had friends working in the Toronto and London offices. It’s an unfortunate end of an era. But the writings been on the wall for a while, with how #Technicolor ran these companies.
Hoping our friends and colleagues find new places of employment.
Just a heads-up that at the end of March there is a "crypto week" in Sofia, Bulgaria, with a ton of co-located cryptography-related events. I will also give a talk on Shufflecake at OSCW.
https://shufflecake.net/#20250301-talk-oscw
In chronological order:
- ZCash Dev Summit https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-dev-summit-in-sofia-bulgaria-on-march-22-2025/49589
- ZKProof 7 https://zkproof.org/events/zkproof-7-sofia/
- HACS Workshop https://www.hacs-workshop.org/index.html
- RWPQC https://rwpqc.sandboxaq.com/
- FHE Conference https://fhe.org/conferences/conference-2025/
- ZK Hack Meetup https://lu.ma/0stmji9i
- RWMPC https://www.mpcalliance.org/rwmpc-2025
- OSCW https://opensourcecryptowork.shop/2025/
- RWC https://rwc.iacr.org/2025/
Feel free to comment if I missed anything.
I will be around, planning of attending at least ZKProof, ZK Hack Meetup, RWPQC, OSCW and RWC.
New talk!
Shufflecake will be presented at the Open Source Cryptography Workshop 2025 in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 2025-03-25. OSCW is co-located with Real-World Crypto 2025 and a plethora of other crypto events. Stay tuned!
Ce soir et demain soir. L’histoire d’un cid est au bateau feu à Dunkerque !!! Mise en scène, jean Bellorini avec Cindy Almeida de Brito, François Deblock, Karyll Elgrichi, Federico Vanni
claviers Clément Griffault percussions Benoit Prisset
collaboration artistique Mélodie-Amy Wallet
composition musicale Clément Griffault et Benoît Prisset
scénographie Véronique Chazal
#theatre #mpc #slingerland #corneille #lecid #radiohead #michelberger #robertshumann
A very bad new in the #VFX #movie world #TechniColor #MPC #TheMill, #3D #cgi #animation #film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJKtby2jO40
Technicolor To File For Administration In UK & Begins Receivership Process In France With Iconic Film Company On The Brink
#News #MPC #Technicolor
https://deadline.com/2025/02/technicolor-administration-receivership-job-losses-1236299805/
Ce soir 20h30 et demain 19h30
LA COURSIVE, LA ROCHELLE …….
HISTOIRE D’UN CID, mise en scène Jean Bellorini - avec Cindy Almeida de Brito, François Deblock, Karyll Elgrichi, Federico Vanni
claviers Clément Griffault percussions, machines Benoit Prisset
collaboration artistique Mélodie-Amy Wallet composition musicale Clément Griffault et Benoît Prisset scénographie Véronique Chazal
Native Instruments launches Native Kontrol Standard (NKS) Hardware Partner Program https://rekkerd.org/native-instruments-launches-native-kontrol-standard-nks-hardware-partner-program/
Registration for the 2025 Workshop on Real World Multiparty Computation (RWMPC 2025) is now open!
RWMPC 2025 will bring together MPC practitioners and enthusiasts to discuss how MPC is being deployed and used today to solve real world problems. The workshop program will consist of invited and contributed talks on MPC-related topics such as real-world deployments, use cases, standards, security, formal verification, legal/policy implications, and more.
Register here: https://lu.ma/ou4ax1mm
Call for Contributed Talks: https://www.mpcalliance.org/s/RWMPC-2025-Call-for-Contributed-Talks.pdf
RWMPC 2025 homepage: https://www.mpcalliance.org/rwmpc-2025
RWMPC 2025 is organized and hosted by the MPC Alliance in cooperation with the IACR.
the #canvas in #ratatui is flawless. watch it go! in the video above, it renders samples with better resolution than my #akai #mpc, as i record and cut em - while the beat doesn't stop!
shout out @ratatui_rs for this great library
I wrote a bit about how I setup my music player here with hopefully enough information to replicate it!
https://jo-chestnut.neocities.org/music-setup
It looks like the attached screenshot.
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I also wrote a while back about analyzing my entire music
collection by year here https://jo-chestnut.neocities.org/mp3-year-analysis using exiftools and a ruby script. Last.fm has a similar measure for things you've listened to broken down by decade, so I kinda wanted to bucket it that way, just to see it a little differently. That's the second screenshot, made in numbers.app from exported csv data using the base data from that analysis.
New #boombap beat I've been slowly piecing together.
#beatmaker #boombap #hiphop #sp404 #mpc #samplebasedhiphop #dj #music #musicproducer #portland #portlandartist
for liboprf i try to implement the robust multiparty multiplication from Genarro,Rabin,Rabin '98. I struggle with implementing a check (the paper calls VSPS property). I asked the original authors 2 months ago, but they don't reply - i guess they're busy. I wrote up the relevant part of the paper, and my confusion and questions in this simple text (best viewed with a fixed with font!): https://ctrlc.hu/~stef/vsps_check.mail.txt - any help would be appreciated.
#crypto #multiparty #mpc #oprf