feat(groups): remove a member, and keep gigabytes out of the tab

**Removing a member.** The owner can do it from the Members tab, and it
is two halves in the order that fails safe: the node stops serving the
group key first (an operator-signed request, so a paired browser only),
then the hub drops the membership row. The other order would leave
someone able to reach a node that still serves them.

It is a membership, not an account. The user row is never written: their
other groups, their files and their pinned identity survive, because one
group's owner must not be able to erase someone from the hub. It is also
per group — a node hosting two loses them from one — and it does not take
back the key they already unwrapped, which is what rotating the GEK is
for. The confirmation and the panel both say so.

**Downloads and streaming through the disk, in both browsers.** The audit
this started as found two ways to put gigabytes in a tab.

Firefox and Safari have no File System Access API, so every download
there was collected in memory. A service worker fixes it: the page keeps
the writable half of a transferred stream, the worker answers a made-up
URL with the readable half and a Content-Disposition header, and the
browser writes it to disk as it arrives, with real backpressure. The
worker caches nothing and falls through on every request that is not one
of these downloads. A zip announces no Content-Length, since the archive
is larger than the files in it and a length we miss truncates the file.

Video was worse and affected both browsers. The node pushed ffmpeg's
whole output as fast as it was produced while the player consumed a
segment at a time, so the queue held the film — and appending all of it
hit the SourceBuffer's cap, where the handler logged the error and
dropped the segment, leaving a hole in the middle of the film with
nothing to show for it. Streaming is credit-based now, 24 segments of
256 KB in flight, verified against the live node: three credits, three
segments, then silence until more are granted. The player evicts what is
more than a minute behind the playhead and retries a refused segment
rather than dropping it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+"""
+Removing someone from a group.
+
+The distinction these pin is the one that matters: removing a member from a
+group is not deleting their account. It takes away one membership row, and
+leaves the person, their other groups and everything they have uploaded exactly
+where they were.
+"""
+
+import base64
+import hashlib
+
+import pytest
+from sqlalchemy import select
+
+from meshbay_hub.db.models import Group, GroupMember, User
+
+
+def _auth_key(password: str, username: str) -> str:
+    salt = hashlib.sha256(f"meshbay:auth:v1:{username}".encode()).digest()
+    return base64.b64encode(
+        hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac("sha512", password.encode(), salt, 600_000, 32)).decode()
+
+
+async def _user(client, username, password="a-long-enough-passphrase"):
+    await client.post("/v1/users/register", json={
+        "username": username, "email": f"{username}@example.com",
+        "auth_key": _auth_key(password, username)})
+    r = await client.post("/v1/users/login", json={
+        "username": username, "auth_key": _auth_key(password, username)})
+    return {"Authorization": f"Bearer {r.json()['access_token']}"}
+
+
+async def _group_with_member(client, owner, member_name, name="crew"):
+    g = await client.post("/v1/groups", json={"name": name}, headers=owner)
+    gid = g.json()["group_id"]
+    await client.post(f"/v1/groups/{gid}/members/{member_name}", json={},
+                      headers=owner)
+    return gid
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_the_owner_removes_a_member(client, db_session):
+    owner = await _user(client, "chief")
+    await _user(client, "hanger_on")
+    gid = await _group_with_member(client, owner, "hanger_on")
+
+    r = await client.delete(f"/v1/groups/{gid}/members/hanger_on", headers=owner)
+    assert r.status_code == 200, r.text
+
+    rows = (await db_session.execute(
+        select(GroupMember).where(GroupMember.group_id == gid))).scalars().all()
+    assert [m.user_id for m in rows] != [], "the owner lost their own membership"
+    names = {(await db_session.get(User, m.user_id)).username for m in rows}
+    assert names == {"chief"}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_removing_a_member_is_not_deleting_an_account(client, db_session):
+    """
+    The account survives untouched, with its other groups. Anything else would
+    make one group's owner able to erase someone from the whole hub.
+    """
+    owner = await _user(client, "boss")
+    member = await _user(client, "member_x")
+    elsewhere = await _user(client, "other_owner")
+
+    gid = await _group_with_member(client, owner, "member_x")
+    other = await _group_with_member(client, elsewhere, "member_x", name="elsewhere")
+
+    await client.delete(f"/v1/groups/{gid}/members/member_x", headers=owner)
+
+    user = (await db_session.execute(
+        select(User).where(User.username == "member_x"))).scalar_one()
+    assert user.status == "active", "the account was touched"
+
+    me = await client.get("/v1/users/me", headers=member)
+    assert me.status_code == 200, "they can no longer sign in"
+
+    still = await db_session.get(GroupMember, (other, user.id))
+    assert still is not None, "removing them from one group emptied another"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_a_member_cannot_remove_anyone(client):
+    owner = await _user(client, "owner_y")
+    member = await _user(client, "member_y")
+    await _user(client, "victim_y")
+    gid = await _group_with_member(client, owner, "member_y")
+    await client.post(f"/v1/groups/{gid}/members/victim_y", json={}, headers=owner)
+
+    r = await client.delete(f"/v1/groups/{gid}/members/victim_y", headers=member)
+    assert r.status_code == 403
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_the_owner_cannot_be_removed_from_their_own_group(client):
+    """Otherwise the group is left with nobody who can invite or remove."""
+    owner = await _user(client, "owner_z")
+    gid = await _group_with_member(client, owner, "owner_z")
+
+    r = await client.delete(f"/v1/groups/{gid}/members/owner_z", headers=owner)
+    assert r.status_code == 409
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_removing_someone_who_is_not_a_member_says_so(client):
+    owner = await _user(client, "owner_w")
+    await _user(client, "stranger")
+    g = await client.post("/v1/groups", json={"name": "closed"}, headers=owner)
+    gid = g.json()["group_id"]
+
+    r = await client.delete(f"/v1/groups/{gid}/members/stranger", headers=owner)
+    assert r.status_code == 404