You can pipe a microphone directly to AudioWorklet, using MediaStreamAudioSourceNode. Do the following in the main scope, then you can access the mic input as the input parameter of process() in the worklet scope.
const audioCtx = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)()
const micStream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ audio: true })
const micNode = new MediaStreamAudioSourceNode(audioCtx, { mediaStream: micStream })
micNode.connect(yourAudioWorkletNode)
yourAudioWorkletNode.connect(audioCtx.destination)The field of information theory for calculating how much data can be thrown away while minimising distortion is called rate-distortion theory, and the term for compression with some intentional data loss is lossy compression. This article on JPEGs is an interesting start on some lossy compression techniques, in particular the explanation of Discrete Cosine Transforms. https://parametric.press/issue-01/unraveling-the-jpeg/
I don't know of any resources, but I moderated a community once, and did absolutely no research and everything turned out fine. There were about 15 or so core members in the community and maybe a couple of hundred members in total. My advice is to make explicit rules about what is and is not allowed in the community, and try to enforce them as evenly as possible. If you let people know what's expected and err on the side of forgiveness when it comes to rule violations, most people in the community will understand and respect that you're just doing what's n...
I saw this before the meeting happened but couldn't get off work on such short notice, but would be interested in future meetups.
I'd recommend Brave (
brew install brave-browser) over Chrome if you care about privacy at all. It's a Chromium based browser so has feature parity with Chrome, but it doesn't send your personal information to the Google hivemind. Built-in ad-blocker too, and per-site noscript making it convenient to only run JS on sites you trust.