Oct 15, 2026, 2:28 PMHuge 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!
Oct 15, 2026, 2:30 PMAnd, 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
Oct 15, 2026, 3:25 PMI do finally feel like I am getting kinda "good at Blender" at last
@cwebber I boosted the announcement *solely* for the animation
Oct 15, 2026, 3:31 PM@cwebber I am way too sleep deprived and uncaffeinated to even start to understand the technical details but the animation is *so cute* 😭
Oct 15, 2026, 7:27 PM@cwebber That's a pretty great feeling until the inevitable journey back down into the "actually no, I suck phase"
@cwebber this is........ amusing and relatable to me
@cwebber That is so cool. How long have you been working with Blender? It’s been on my ‘gee, wouldn’t it be nice to learn…’ list for aaaages.
Oct 16, 2026, 3:42 AM@shivjm On and off since 2002 when it was released as open source! But I hadn't really done anything with it for about a decade until a few years ago when the call of grease pencil drew me back
@cwebber Ahh. Gotcha. Well, if you do any more, I for one would love to see it.
Oct 15, 2026, 2:29 PM@cwebber i just want to say that i appreciate the work you put into the cool little animation.
Oct 15, 2026, 2:31 PM@mitch Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
@cwebber I gotta look into using OCapN in other languages
@cwebber hope you dont mind that i have no clue what this is and i just boosted it cause the animation is so cute