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This is a rolling blog post about my experience with Arch Linux. This content may help somebody. Mar. 7 - 2025 I have found an error in the package dwarffortress. I installed the package using pacman as always. However, when I executed the program, I got the following error: /usr/bin/dwarffortress: line 15: 13472 Segmentation fault (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:}${DF_DIR}" $DF_DIR/dwarfort "$@" After printing the output of journalctl -r, I got the following output:...

In secure multi-party computation (MPC), each protocol has an underlying domain of computation in which the secure operations are performed. Such domains of computation are algebraic structures such as fields or rings. Some common examples for those domains are finite fields of order $q$, with $q$ prime, and rings of the form $\mathbb{Z}_{2^k}$. A special case is the field $\mathbb{Z}_2$, which is the one that we refer to as binary domain....