Seminars
11 talks and workshops
Talks
A Talk and Tasting About Cider From All Over the UK
reality404
Tasting seminar featuring unusual cider with discussion designed to challenge conventional understanding of the beverage.
Demoscene Preservation Society - Copy That Floppy!
Curt Cool/Depth ^ Nah-Kolor
Overview of efforts to coordinate the preservation, archiving and catalogization of old and new demoscene productions, with guidance on archiving disks and contributing to preservation initiatives.
Demoscene for UNESCO World Heritage
melkor/haujobb
Update on UNESCO initiative to designate demoscene as first digital culture on the list of intangible world cultural heritage, with ongoing efforts in Finland, Germany, and Switzerland.
Designing a Better Amiga Power Supply
Jens Schönfeld
Audience: Amiga users and hardware upgradersTechnical examination of original PSU designs, examining statistically-significant failure rate in 30-year-old machines, covering common weakness and demonstrating that power supply design is an art of its own.
GDPR: Gold Standard or Disaster of the Century?
netpoet
Review of GDPR implementation nearly two years after adoption, examining how the GDPR has been received, what areas the EU Commission has identified for needs of alteration, and exploring potential improvements to the legislation.
How Can We Regain Digital Sovereignty?
kudrix
Presentation of two initiatives addressing digital control: Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) projects and a concept for a secure platform considering supply chain security, secure chip manufacturing and reconfigurable hardware.
Implementing a Physically Based Shading Model Without Locking Yourself In
Zavie/Ctrl-Alt-Test
Technical discussion of BRDF models and implementation that allows to experiment with different models, can work in a variety of cases, and remains compatible with size coding constraints.
Modern 64k Intro Compression
ferris/logicoma
Overview of Squishy executable compressor, used by top groups in 7 productions at revision 2019, with deep-dive into internals and guidance for developing custom compressors.
More Beers From Brussels, Because You Know You Want It
FRaNKy
Audience: Beer enthusiastsSecond seminar exploring layout and beers of Brussels, covering Belgium's capital city and its cultural significance including landmarks like the Atomium.
Repair Café - How to Reanimate Your Dead Hardware
cyrusdreams
Audience: Hardware repair enthusiastsExamination of common defects of hardware and how to detect them, covering capacitor failure, battery issues, and repair feasibility assessment for vintage equipment.
Why a Yet Another Digital-Audio-Workstation Software Project?
BeRo
Audience: Musicians and programmersDiscussion of an extreme modular DAW featuring GPU-based UI rendering and diphone-based singing vocal synthesis with a corresponding pianoroll-based lyrics editor using MBROLA voice databases.