I do finally feel like I am getting kinda "good at Blender" at last

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/117445308134669945

Great project and great people!

@cwebber I boosted the announcement *solely* for the animation

Also, special shout out to @nlnet who funded this project and @tsyesika for doing all the hard work developing it!

This project resulted in several huge deliverables:
- E2EE OCapN relays!
- Support for them in Spritely Goblins, which all Goblins users can benefit from!

And to be released soon:
- A specification for a Noise E2EE netlayer for OCapN as well as the relay netlayer that composes with it
- A Guix service so guix'y people can host this easily

We're very excited about all this and are very grateful to @nlnet and @NGIZero for the support <3

@cwebber i just want to say that i appreciate the work you put into the cool little animation.

And, if you enjoy this animation (and yes I spent WAY too long on it) and you want to see how it's made, the .blend file is here: https://files.spritely.institute/videos/2026-10-15-encrypted-relay.blend

#blender #b3d #blender3d

Huge news! End-to-end-encrypted relays (via the Noise protocol) comes to Spritely Goblins and OCapN! https://spritely.institute/news/end-to-end-encrypted-relays-for-ocapn.html

Relays are federated (there is no "official relay", you can easily run your own) but also oblivious, and merely manage routing encrypted messages. A big milestone!

#spritely #ocapn #goblins #guile

End-to-end encrypted relays for OCapN https://spritely.institute/news/end-to-end-encrypted-relays-for-ocapn.html

Federated, end-to-end encrypted relaying comes to Spritely Goblins and the OCapN protocol! Relays are federated (like email or ActivityPub) but don't know anything about the contents of communication between users!

#spritely #ocapn #guile #p2p

@AbandonedAmerica

Decaying buildings are quite a bit more visually interesting than the politicians pushing us off the cliff.

You know, it's funny. 20 years ago I started photographing abandoned buildings, as I believed they were a warning sign that America was sliding off the face of a cliff. Years later, that's pretty obvious to just about everyone that we're in freefall. Not really sure what the point of a warning is any more but I still have photos so what the hell, why not post them.

Blender is looking for passionate developers to join our team!

Check out new job openings and apply at https://www.blender.org/jobs/

#b3d

what the hell happened

@cwebber My history is in both academic computer science and physics, and in both fields attribution is *paramount*. Reviewers will, correctly, hold papers back from publication if work isn't cited properly, especially if it's the reviewer's own work :)

Of course in practice some things things slip by, work is stolen between peers and between professors and students all the time, but the intention is understood and important.

This inability to cite is perhaps the first thing that bothered me about LLMs. Code isn't cited, books and articles aren't cited, websites and blogs aren't cited (in addition to stealing meaningful traffic from them while paradoxically hammering them with scraping requests). It all goes to these companies' fundamental business model, which of course boils down to capitalism's standard procedure - steal the commons, then sell it back to us.

@xinniw
There's a reason it's the essential requirement for all Creative Commons licenses
@cwebber

@cwebber attribution seems like the most basic social reciprocity available and, as you mentioned, probably the most important. "where did you get *awesome idea from*? "oh *awesom idea* came from *this person*. aren't they neat?"

@cwebber but ultimately i'm not interested in taking anyone to court. i don't have the money to burn for that, and the impact on my health would probably be unlikely to have been worth it to me. so all i get out of a license is a statement of intent. people generally are good about respecting the intent of the license, so that's worked out well so far (even if it's been mostly not applicable anyway). but these ai companies don't give a shit, and i'm at a loss of what to do about it

@cwebber Attribution is pretty much the only thing I ever cared about (and I still care about it, very much).  I also do not believe prominent people when they say they "don't care" about attribution.  Like, really?  So if someone had never credited your work your entire career and/or claimed it for themselves, you think you'd be in the same position as you are now?   Or is attribution only important when you're on your way up the ladder?

I have a *lot* of feelings on attribution, in fact.

@cwebber and the idea that the outcome of this is my work being slurped up into a training set for my contributions to be misattributed to the theft machine, and nobody knowing i exist is not ok

@cwebber :blobcatheart:

@cwebber I agree. I extremely dislike copyright (and would like it to be abolished even if that makes copyleft licenses (even more) useless), but I think that attribution and often also proper citation/references is extremely important.