This game disappears if you pause it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3RAI8uyVw
Interesting that the perception of objects/text does not disappear immediately, there is smooth fade out.
Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
131–140 of 204 posts
Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
#132On my Chrome-descended browser, the initial screen is populated by something that appears to be some sort of downsampled grid image, resulting in black and white, but also various shades of grey. However the scrolling text is pure black and white. It also seems the canvas is persistent, so the result is that text on the canvas is leaving a shadow for me, where I can still read the shadow. Somehow the initial noise is not coming out as just black and white pixels.
Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
#133I'm wondering. Can we also come up with something the other way around? Text you cannot read, unless you take a screenshot?
Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
#134Has anyone tried a long exposure to see if the motion smears into something discernible? Obviously harder to expose a bright screen without some ND since the shutter speed is the phone's main exposure control
Here's the screen recording version of a long exposure (thanks for the nerd snipe) - https://gist.github.com/spro/7599415b0e47de65311557b3454771a...
That's what I was expecting to see. I didn't have a mount for my phone handy, to try it. The exporting of frames from a video is a good compromise though. nice one
Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
#135Reminds me a bit of the album cover of _Any Minute Now_ by Soulwax
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/AnyMinuteNow....
Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
> pasting images of seemingly random noise into a sensitive environment is a terrible idea. Only if your rendering libraries are crap.
I think they mean prompt injection rather than some malformed image to trigger a security bug in the processing library
The LLM is the image processing library in this case so you are both right :)
Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
#137https://gist.github.com/jncornett/d7cb397ce3ceff268a0ee1b86f... On iPhone: screenrecord. Take screenshots every couple seconds. Overlay images with 50% transparency (I use Procreate Pocket for this part)
On Android: Take a look at the URL, see the text in plain-text :)
Nice. I did not think to look there.
Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
#138This is good but I feel it can somehow be made better!
I like the idea of motion revealing things out of randomness and screenshots are random.
You can just take a screencast though hehe
Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
#139> let textString = `hello`
I think further obfuscation could be possible by uglifying the script and providing a SVG path that stores the text as some vector image.
Self modifying code could be useful too, to delete the SVG data once it is in the canvas.
I fully expect this to still be defeated by AI though, such is my presumption that AI is smarter than me, always. It won't care about uglification and it would just laugh to itself at my humble efforts to defeat Skynet.
Regarding practical applications, nowadays kids sell weed online quite brazenly on platforms such as Instagram. Prostitutes also sell their services on Telegram. It is only a matter of time before this type of usage gets clamped down on, so there may come a time when this approach will be needed to thwart the authorities.
Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
#140Reminds me a bit of the album cover of _Any Minute Now_ by Soulwax https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/AnyMinuteNow....
gotta squint to see it