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I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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Hmm this is cool but what are the practical use cases? It didn’t load first time round on my browser (Brave) without disabling its prevent tracking feature…

Practical use cases for stashing data in places people least expect it?

Wallet password.

New ecosystem for the kids.

That's two, at least.

Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon

#63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks largely AI-written, with some human edits: https://www.pangram.com/history/9afe7542-1085-4264-9691-2172... FWIW -- I'm not as repulsed by it as the parent comment. But I do want to substantiate that it _is_ heavily LLM-written. (If you're unfamiliar, Pangram has garnered a reputation as the leading LLM-detector, with a minimal rate of false positives; IME this has come with the tradeoff of being easy to manipul…

People do be having too much time... Is the navigation of the site also AI generated? This doesn't make any sense and proves why these AI detectors don't work

I have been writing for a long time, and using AI for as long as it was available to me, and I have noticed that I get accused of being an AI more and more - and I do not think that is because I am an AI, but because we are all being consumed with the AI mind-set, and thus the AI is taking over our thinking - so perhaps subconsciously, I am indeed formulating my thoughts in a more AI-centric manner, prompting the association across the vast distances of the internet by other human beings (- or, AI) of my conscious thought, with an artifice.

This is a banal insult, but it is also a dire warning wherever I see it - these days, people moaning about being AI may as well just be AI - automatic ignorance - but .. I do have to wonder.

Am I, AI?

Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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Instead of going via pixels, why not use a SVG favicon and directly store markup inside it and extract it? Use this favicon.svg: hello HN! use this in your to use a svg favicon: finally, use this in your to extract it and add it to your document body: fetch(favicon.href).then(r => r.text()).then(t => document.body.innerHTML += t.match(/ /)[0]);

Just because it's my windmill to tilt at: `[\s\S]` can be written shorter and more precisely as `[^]`.

ai says [^] is not portable; I did not test it. Too bad, I'll stick to [\s\S].

Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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I found the agressively staccato, clearly LLM-generated content extremely difficult to read.

Halfway through I was sure that there would be a reveal at the end of the article that the article itself was stored in the site's favicon, thus explaining the short, terse sentences. I was genuinely disappointed when I realized it wasn't. Missed opportunity!
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