[spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

[Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many]

sadly the ans-104 “specification” leaves out the nature of the
signature algorithms themselves. i believe these are copies of the
network signature algorithms, and are unfortunately specified by the
“bundlr” source code linked as canonical implementation.

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i bumped into an old political controversy
https://restorethe4th.com/issues/shotspotter/ and i was rhinking a
little about community sous/sur-veillance of gunshots. you could, for
example, encrypt the information to everyone’s private key layered on
top, so that it could only be accessed if everyone participated in
decrypting it, or whatever protects everyone’s worries.

but how would a community-built gunshot-logger function? or, with more
relevance, would i be able to build one myself? these kinds of things
have gotten a lot easier.

gunshots are loud noises that maybe sound a little similar to the slam
of a dumpster bin. not a common thing.

there’s a technology called blind source separation where a sound or
other linearly combined signal can be extracted, isolated, and mapped
from simultaneous recordings of it. this is almost certainly one of
the things shotspotter is doing.

nowadays, there are transformer models for blind source separation.

the biggest hiccup sounds like it would be running gunshot tests in
the wild. and, given the horrible false-positive rate of the deployed
technology, i’m imagining real-world gunshots sound different from
test shots. i don’t know what street weapons exist, but i imagine a
homemade silencer produces a unique noise.