diff --git a/questions/index.yaml b/questions/index.yaml index 08b4864..7be3110 100644 --- a/questions/index.yaml +++ b/questions/index.yaml @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ id: / name: What shapes us? description: > - redoal is a gesture-addressed network — peers find each other by - drawing similar shapes. The gesture is the address. Draw one below - and see who's near. + redoal is a gesture-addressed network — a small network that works + without the things you think a network needs. Draw a line and it + becomes an address: not a username, not a dot-com, the drawing + itself. Similar drawings land near each other, and everything else + follows from that. Draw one below and see who's near. responsible: name: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug contact: bl@uhhm.no @@ -40,6 +42,73 @@ alternatives: type: email optional: true + - name: Meet a network with no list and no landlord + description: > + The one trick, and what falls out of it — the parts that run + today, said plainly. The longer version is the zine: printed, + folded, and left in the gallery. + features: + - name: A drawing is an address + description: > + The computer measures how your line curves, turns, and keeps + rhythm, and boils it down to a twenty-byte fingerprint. + Similar drawings get similar fingerprints — two spirals land + like two houses on the same street, a zigzag on another + street entirely. The fingerprint even draws itself back: + a lo-fi sketch of the shape, with zero network calls. + icon: lucide:map-pin + - name: Nobody keeps the list + description: > + On the internet you know, finding anyone goes through a + middleman who keeps the list of names and remembers that + you asked. Here your machine asks the machines around it, + "has anyone been near this shape?" Nothing is registered + anywhere, with anyone. + icon: lucide:users + - name: Voices stay where you left them + description: > + A drawing is a place, and places hold voices. Listen to the + recordings people left at a gesture, leave your own on top, + and if someone stands at the same drawing right now, just + talk — live, machine to machine, no company carrying the + words. + icon: lucide:mic + - name: A seal, not a sign-in + description: > + Every recording and every stored stroke is sealed with a + signature from the leaver's own machine. Not a name — there + are no names here — just proof that nothing was altered and + that the same hand made the same things. Delete the key and + you were never here. + icon: lucide:stamp + - name: Twenty-four words + description: > + Teaching these machines a new behaviour takes a language of + exactly twenty-four keywords. "When a voice starts, keep what + you hear; when it stops, leave it at this drawing" is about + 240 bytes on the wire — and the language has no word for + reading your files or phoning home. You don't have to trust + the author; you can check the dictionary. + icon: lucide:book-open + - name: Nothing that reads + description: > + No accounts, no servers, no feed, and almost no text: the + primitives are the drawn line and the human voice. A child, + an elder, or a newcomer who doesn't read the local script is + in on the same terms as everyone else — if you can draw and + you can speak, you're in. + icon: lucide:hand + - name: Young, and honest about it + description: > + A prototype and an artwork before it is a product, made for + the program «big tech skal vekk». The gesture math, the + fingerprints, the voice recordings, and the machine-to-machine + fetching are real and running; the transport that reaches + across the internet is still being built. The edges are + rough, and the edges are where the interesting questions + live. + icon: lucide:sprout + - name: Follow the build as it lands description: > The network as it is being built — and we need collaborators on diff --git a/questions/shape.yaml b/questions/shape.yaml index 7219771..5980349 100644 --- a/questions/shape.yaml +++ b/questions/shape.yaml @@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ alternatives: description: > A drawn path is a fact, not an account. There is no profile behind it unless you left an email. + - name: What arrives here next + description: > + In the full network a drawing is a place that holds voices — + recordings left by whoever came before, and live talk with + whoever is standing here now. On this site it holds echoes + for the moment; the voices follow. - name: Draw another description: >