From 3c2f69a290a37a864da98988dc8b980bc4caa11a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:12:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Landing page: talking points drawn from the zine A new alternative, "Meet a network with no list and no landlord", carries seven feature cards lifted from the redoal repo's zine and intro-video script: the drawing-as-address trick, no middleman, voices at a place, signatures not names, the twenty-four-word manifest language, the no-reading entry requirement, and the honest status. The landing description opens with the cold-open line, and /shape gains a card on what a place holds in the full network. Nothing here overclaims: every card describes something the redoal repo ships and tests, and the last one says what doesn't yet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 --- questions/index.yaml | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- questions/shape.yaml | 6 ++++ 2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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: > From bb0eeb58b1d0aab6b4f4898bca598d34bc026268 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:13:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/5] Say what each card enables Every talking point now leads with the capability instead of the absence: the room answers, the seal is yours, drawing and speaking is the entry requirement. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 --- questions/index.yaml | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ questions/shape.yaml | 2 +- 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/questions/index.yaml b/questions/index.yaml index 7be3110..412e711 100644 --- a/questions/index.yaml +++ b/questions/index.yaml @@ -1,10 +1,9 @@ id: / name: What shapes us? description: > - 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 + redoal is a gesture-addressed network. Draw a line and it becomes + an address — the drawing itself, ready to use the moment your hand + lifts. 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 @@ -42,71 +41,66 @@ alternatives: type: email optional: true - - name: Meet a network with no list and no landlord + - name: Meet a network you carry in your hand 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. + The one trick, and what it enables — 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. + like two houses on the same street. The fingerprint even + draws itself back: a lo-fi sketch of the shape, straight + from the key. icon: lucide:map-pin - - name: Nobody keeps the list + - name: Your machine asks the room 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. + To find someone, your machine asks the machines around it: + "has anyone been near this shape?" Your spiral finds my + spiral directly, peer to peer. The whole directory is the + shapes people know, passed along on a napkin. 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. + and when someone stands at the same drawing right now, just + talk — live, machine to machine. icon: lucide:mic - - name: A seal, not a sign-in + - name: Sealed by your own hand 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. + Every recording and every stored stroke carries a signature + from the leaver's own machine — proof that it arrived + intact and that the same hand made the same things. The key + lives only with you: keep it and you're recognized, delete + it 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. + 240 bytes on the wire — small enough to read in full, so you + can check the dictionary instead of trusting the author. icon: lucide:book-open - - name: Nothing that reads + - name: Draw and speak, and you're in 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. + The primitives are the drawn line and the human voice. A + child, an elder, or a newcomer still learning the local + script arrives on the same terms as everyone else — that is + the whole entry requirement. 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. + A prototype and an artwork first, 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 being built now. The edges are rough, and the + edges are where the interesting questions live. icon: lucide:sprout - name: Follow the build as it lands diff --git a/questions/shape.yaml b/questions/shape.yaml index 5980349..7107b17 100644 --- a/questions/shape.yaml +++ b/questions/shape.yaml @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ alternatives: 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. + today; the voices follow. - name: Draw another description: > From 818c56dd09436216bdec1554e70532c3a80f6792 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:21:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 3/5] Drop the self-reconstruction claim decode_key's sketch is too rough to be worth advertising. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 --- questions/index.yaml | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/questions/index.yaml b/questions/index.yaml index 412e711..b128465 100644 --- a/questions/index.yaml +++ b/questions/index.yaml @@ -52,9 +52,8 @@ alternatives: 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. The fingerprint even - draws itself back: a lo-fi sketch of the shape, straight - from the key. + like two houses on the same street, and that closeness is + the whole network. icon: lucide:map-pin - name: Your machine asks the room description: > From 758b0460495198ec21c116f1e173b09a91695213 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:18:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Drop the manifest-language card and the program mention Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 --- questions/index.yaml | 23 +++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/questions/index.yaml b/questions/index.yaml index b128465..ad5dffa 100644 --- a/questions/index.yaml +++ b/questions/index.yaml @@ -44,8 +44,7 @@ alternatives: - name: Meet a network you carry in your hand description: > The one trick, and what it enables — the parts that run today, - said plainly. The longer version is the zine: printed, folded, - and left in the gallery. + said plainly. features: - name: A drawing is an address description: > @@ -77,14 +76,6 @@ alternatives: lives only with you: keep it and you're recognized, delete it 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 — small enough to read in full, so you - can check the dictionary instead of trusting the author. - icon: lucide:book-open - name: Draw and speak, and you're in description: > The primitives are the drawn line and the human voice. A @@ -94,12 +85,12 @@ alternatives: icon: lucide:hand - name: Young, and honest about it description: > - A prototype and an artwork first, 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 being built now. The edges are rough, and the - edges are where the interesting questions live. + A prototype and an artwork before it is a product. 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 being built + now. The edges are rough, and the edges are where the + interesting questions live. icon: lucide:sprout - name: Follow the build as it lands From 064c96f5ab172f9970416d9089b5806fed6f568e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:33:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 5/5] Announce the group exhibition at Podium Opens 21 October 2026, runs a month. Uses portal's event: window so it rides in the header while it runs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 --- questions/exhibition.yaml | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 questions/exhibition.yaml diff --git a/questions/exhibition.yaml b/questions/exhibition.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e79f02 --- /dev/null +++ b/questions/exhibition.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +# The group exhibition at Podium, connected to the conference: opens +# 21 October 2026 and runs for a month. Announced in every header +# while it runs (portal's event: window); afterwards a followup, and +# a "post what happened" task lands on /review. +name: Where can you see it in person? +description: > + redoal is part of the group exhibition at Podium, opening 21 October + and running for a month alongside the conference. Draw on the + screens, leave a voice at a shape, hear who came before you. +event: + starts: 2026-10-21T18:00:00+02:00 + duration: 31d + place: Podium, Oslo +alternatives: + - name: Come draw on the wall + description: > + The installation runs the same code as this site, on screens + you can stand in front of together — the network at the scale + of a room. + features: + - name: Opening 21 October + description: > + The exhibition opens on the 21st and stays up for a month, + within the conference programme. Come to the opening, or + any day after. + icon: lucide:calendar-days + - name: Draw, then listen + description: > + Draw a shape on the touch screen and arrive at a place. + Listen to the voices left there, add your own, and watch + your line find the lines drawn before it. + icon: lucide:hand + - name: Take the zine with you + description: > + The printed zine sits in the room — six short pieces on what + a network like this could mean. Fold one, hand it on. + icon: lucide:book-open