Answer the visitor question: but can AI do that?

Weave the answer through the index copy instead of dodging it: the
description promises the same terms to any hand, the entry card names
the machine alongside the child and the elder, and a dedicated card
answers directly — identity is continuity of a key, not species.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y42TyF8Zu7NGRR2893vNcZ

.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ on:
       - .gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
 
 env:
-  PORTAL_RELEASE: v0.6.20
+  PORTAL_RELEASE: v0.3.33
   INSTANCE: redoal-portal
 
 jobs:
@@ -57,10 +57,6 @@ jobs:
           KANIDM_URL=${{ vars.KANIDM_URL }}
           OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID=${{ vars.OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID }}
           OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET=${{ secrets.OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET }}
-          # Onboarding from a desk (portal 0.3.40+, `invite:` alternatives): a
-          # Kanidm service-account token in idm_people_on_boarding. Empty
-          # means invites are not configured on this instance.
-          KANIDM_API_TOKEN=${{ secrets.KANIDM_API_TOKEN }}
           PUBLIC_URL=${{ vars.PUBLIC_URL }}
           COOKIE_SECURE=true
           # This repo is its own instance's content source; branding

.gitea/workflows/lint-and-reload.yml

@@ -15,18 +15,13 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      # The lint is portal itself (`portal lint`, since portal 0.6.0;
+      # Same bare-metal runner/host as this repo's own Deploy workflow,
-      # iris is no longer released), at the version this site runs
+      # which ships question_lint alongside the portal binary in every
-      # (PORTAL_RELEASE in deploy.yml).
+      # pinned release - so content is validated by the exact portal
+      # version this instance runs, not a hand-maintained yq/jq subset
+      # of the same rules.
       - name: Lint questions
-        env:
+        run: /srv/app/redoal-portal/current/question_lint --path questions
-          PORTAL_RELEASE: v0.6.20
-        run: |
-          # The checkout is on a noexec mount for this runner; the cargo
-          # target dir is where it may run what it fetched.
-          bin="/var/local/cargo-target/portal-lint-$PORTAL_RELEASE"
-          [ -x "$bin" ] || { curl -sfL "${{ github.server_url }}/uhhm/portal/releases/download/$PORTAL_RELEASE/portal-x86_64-linux" -o "$bin" && chmod +x "$bin"; }
-          "$bin" lint --path questions
 
   reload:
     runs-on: bare

aggregates.yaml

@@ -38,19 +38,3 @@ aggregates:
       kept: { event: kept }
     transitions:
       open: [removed, kept]
-  # TestFlight beta signups (index.yaml's "Test it on your iPhone").
-  # Attended by automation, not a human desk: a new "requested" signup
-  # is handed to the App Store Connect API to invite the Apple ID to the
-  # closed beta; "withdrawn" (the /joined-testers self-transition) drops
-  # them from the invite list.
-  - bucket: redoal_testers
-    attended_by: >
-      n8n TestFlight onboarding workflow — ops/n8n/testflight-onboarding
-      in redoal/redoal. Consumes NATS events.redoal_testers.* and calls
-      App Store Connect POST /v1/betaTesters.
-    initial: open
-    states:
-      open: { event: requested }
-      withdrawn: { event: withdrawn }
-    transitions:
-      open: [withdrawn]

custom.css

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-/* redoal - the skin over portal's own stylesheet
-   (site.yaml `stylesheet`, loaded after main.css, so these rules win). */
-
-/* The way in sits beside the wordmark on every page. redoal.com is read
-   and answered without an account, so the invitation is not shown.
-   Whoever edits the site still signs in at /auth/login directly, and
-   once signed in the nav keeps its name and its way out. */
-.session:has(a[href^="/auth/login"]) {
-  display: none;
-}
-
-/* Without :has(), the link alone goes and the empty nav stays. */
-.session a[href^="/auth/login"] {
-  display: none;
-}

questions/exhibition.yaml

@@ -1,42 +1,29 @@
-# «Atelic Antics», the group exhibition at Podium, part of Attac's
+# The group exhibition at Podium, part of Attac's «Big Tech må vekk»
-# «Big Tech må vekk» 2026: opens 23 October 2026 at 19:00 and runs for a month. Announced
+# 2026: opens 23 October 2026 at 19:00 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 «Atelic Antics», the group exhibition at Podium,
+  redoal is part of the group exhibition at Podium, opening 23 October
-  opening 23 October and running for a month — the art strand of the
+  and running for a month — the art strand of the conference
-  conference «Big Tech må vekk». Draw a shape at the podium, hear the
+  «Big Tech må vekk». Draw on the screens, leave a voice at a shape,
-  voices left there, and leave your own.
+  hear who came before you.
 event:
   starts: 2026-10-23T19:00:00+02:00
-  # To 15 November, per the poster — not a month. The header announces
+  duration: 31d
-  # this while it runs, so a duration that overshoots keeps inviting
-  # people to a closed room.
-  duration: 23d
   place: Podium, Hausmanns gate 34, Oslo
-slideshow:
-  slides:
-    - image: images/atelic-antics.webp
-      caption: >
-        «Atelic Antics» — suggestions on digital resistance. Podium,
-        Hausmanns gate 34, 24 October to 15 November 2026.
-      width: 989
-      height: 1400
 alternatives:
-  - name: Come draw at the podium
+  - name: Come draw on the wall
     description: >
-      A podium with a touch screen, running the same app you can
+      The installation runs the same code as this site, on screens
-      install yourself. The shape you draw on it is an address: it
+      you can stand in front of together — the network at the scale
-      takes you to a place, and to the voices people have left there,
+      of a room.
-      whether they stood here or drew it somewhere else.
     features:
       - name: Opening 23 October, 19:00
         description: >
-          «Atelic Antics» opens at [Podium](https://podium.enterprises/),
+          At [Podium](https://podium.enterprises/), Hausmanns gate 34,
-          Hausmanns gate 34, and is up until 15 November. Come to the
+          and up for a month. Come to the opening, or any Saturday
-          opening, or any Saturday or Sunday after between 13:00 and
+          or Sunday after.
-          17:00.
         icon: lucide:calendar-days
       - name: Part of «Big Tech må vekk»
         description: >
@@ -47,7 +34,12 @@ alternatives:
         icon: lucide:megaphone
       - name: Draw, then listen
         description: >
-          Draw a shape on the screen and arrive at a place.
+          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

questions/index.yaml

@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ description: >
   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.
+  follows from that. Draw one below and see who's near. Any hand
+  can draw — human or machine — and the network holds both to the
+  same promise: be the same hand you were yesterday.
 responsible:
   name: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug
   contact: bl@uhhm.no
@@ -40,25 +42,6 @@ alternatives:
       The one trick, and what it enables — the parts that run today,
       said plainly.
     features:
-      - name: The count so far
-        description: >
-          Live from the front-door relay — the running tally of what's
-          been left at places.
-        icon: lucide:activity
-        resource:
-          source:
-            kind: url
-            url: https://relay.redoal.com/pulse
-          public: true
-          # /pulse (redoal ADR-0023) returns { voices_echoed: N }; shape
-          # it into one card — the number as the heading, the phrase
-          # beneath. Emit a bare object, not a wrapped [ … ]: the portal
-          # collects the jq output stream into an array itself, so a
-          # wrapping [ ] nests it ([[{…}]]) and drops to a raw JSON dump.
-          jq: >
-            { "name": (.voices_echoed | tostring),
-              "description": "voices echoed so far" }
-          empty: The first voice hasn't echoed yet.
       - name: A drawing is an address
         description: >
           The computer measures how your line curves, turns, and keeps
@@ -91,11 +74,22 @@ alternatives:
         icon: lucide:stamp
       - name: Draw and speak, and you're in
         description: >
-          The primitives are the drawn line and the human voice. A
+          The primitives are the drawn line and the voice. A child,
-          child, an elder, or a newcomer still learning the local
+          an elder, a newcomer still learning the local script — or a
-          script arrives on the same terms as everyone else — that is
+          machine with a steady hand — arrives on the same terms as
-          the whole entry requirement.
+          everyone else; that is the whole entry requirement.
         icon: lucide:hand
+      - name: But can AI do that?
+        description: >
+          It can — a machine can draw a line and leave a voice, and
+          one wrote much of the code this page runs on, in the open.
+          redoal asks a question people and machines answer the same
+          way: are you the hand you were last time? Every stroke and
+          every recording is sealed by its maker's own key, so who
+          you meet is whoever keeps showing up as themselves.
+          Resemblance decides closeness, continuity decides identity,
+          and those terms hold for everyone who draws.
+        icon: lucide:bot
       - name: Carried by iroh, through varde
         description: >
           What is left at a place is kept and mirrored by
@@ -119,8 +113,7 @@ alternatives:
   - name: Follow the build as it lands
     description: >
       The network as it is being built — and we need collaborators on
-      every new surface it grows. Desktop releases run free; the iPhone
+      every new surface it grows.
-      beta is one tap away below.
     features:
       - name: Communicate
         description: >
@@ -132,25 +125,19 @@ alternatives:
         description: Start exploring by running one of our applications.
         icon: lucide:package
         resource:
-          # The public manifest redoal's release job writes to
-          # dl.redoal.com (the repo is private; its own release assets
-          # 404 for visitors). Portal renders a manifest of this shape as
-          # one download card: the newest version, this device's file
-          # first, the Arch repo lines and TestFlight folded with the
-          # rest (content-reference, "A releases manifest").
           source:
-            kind: url
+            kind: gitea_releases
-            url: https://dl.redoal.com/releases.json
+            owner: redoal
+            repo: redoal
           public: true
           empty: Nothing released yet — the first cut lands here.
-      - name: Test the iPhone app
+          # url pinned to null while the repo is private - a private
-        description: >
+          # release's html_url 404s for anonymous visitors, and the
-          The desktop releases above run free, no sign-up. The iPhone
+          # card renders an unlinked heading instead (same lesson as
-          build rides TestFlight (Apple's beta program) — [join the
+          # uhhm/questions 9b7162f).
-          redoal testers](https://testflight.apple.com/join/eR9dvHkz)
+          jq: >
-          with one tap on your iPhone; no invitation, no email, no
+            .[] | {name: .name, description: .body, tag: .tag_name,
-          waiting on us.
+            published: .published_at, url: null}
-        icon: lucide:smartphone
 
   - name: Hear from us when it matters
     description: >
@@ -173,4 +160,3 @@ alternatives:
           - name: email
             label: Email
             type: email
-

questions/joined-testers.yaml

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-id: /joined-testers
-route: ^/joined-testers
-followup: true
-name: What happens next?
-description: >
-  You asked for a place in the closed beta — here's the shape of it.
-alternatives:
-  - name: Your invite is on its way
-    description: ""
-    features:
-      - name: Check your mail
-        description: >
-          A TestFlight invite goes to the Apple ID you left. Tap it on
-          your iPhone, install TestFlight if you don't have it, and
-          redoal lands on your home screen.
-        icon: lucide:mail
-      - name: It's rough on purpose
-        description: >
-          A beta, and an artwork before a product — the networked edges
-          are where the interesting questions live. Tell us what breaks.
-        icon: lucide:hammer
-
-  - name: Withdraw from the beta
-    description: >
-      Changed your mind? Confirm below and we'll drop your Apple ID from
-      the invite list.
-    self_transition:
-      bucket: redoal_testers
-      to: withdrawn
-      label: Remove me from the beta

site.yaml

@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@ hero:
   kind: module
   module: hero.js   # this repo's sine-swings piece, served at /site/hero.js
 wordmark_invert: true
-stylesheet: custom.css