questions/index.yaml

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 id: /
 name: What shapes us?
 description: >
-  redoal is a gesture-addressed network — peers find each other by
+  redoal is a gesture-addressed network — a small network that works
-  drawing similar shapes. The gesture is the address. Draw one below
+  without the things you think a network needs. Draw a line and it
-  and see who's near.
+  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

questions/shape.yaml

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         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: >