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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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Post by cubefox »

weetii wrote: post #46
netsharc wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't seem to be LLM, but reads like one. The author is German, maybe it's a language expertise thing, maybe he likes the LLM style (unrelated to his nationality). But yeah, sentences that only have 3-4 word each feel like 3rd grade writing; I couldn't read it.

Hey, I've always written like this. In school I couldn't stand subordinate clauses and long sentences because I'd lose my train of thought. But yea, I've noticed that people often find it hard to read so I'm going to work on that

Did you use an LLM to write at least part of the article?

Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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Post by Tepix »

chrismorgan wrote: post #38
Tepix wrote: post #7

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]);

Regular expressions? Ugh. Encode it properly as XML in the correct namespace, load it so, and take it from that. Or just serve the SVG file and use to embed the HTML, and include inside it. In theory you should be able to define a and use , but in practice neither Firefox nor Chromium seems to be handling that properly in a favicon, which is disappointing.

It's a hack. A one-liner. Go crazy with it. Or touch grass ;-)

Oh yeah and favicon isn't part of the DOM.

Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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Post by montebicyclelo »

Tepix wrote: post #7

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]);

"why not alternative", would be better framed as, "here's a fun variation" — because both approaches are just playing around with technology, for fun / curiosity / exploration. Storing in the pixels is a fun approach, resulting in something Rube Goldberg-esque.

Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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Post by [deleted] »

koolala wrote: post #10
sheept wrote: post #5

You can use the favicon cache as storage too, by redirecting users across domains. It's been proposed as a potential fingerprinting risk[0], and if a browser naively reuses the cache for incognito mode, it could be used to track users across browser profiles. [0]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/browser-track...

Wasn't this fixed or mostly fixed?

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Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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Post by gildas »

Retr0id wrote: post #75

> You still need a tiny bootstrap loader to decode the image. Nope, you can do it all in a single file with an html/png polyglot (and nowadays you can get better compression ratios with newer formats like webp). https://web.archive.org/web/20120801001616/http://daeken.com...

You can even make the file compatible with ZIP (and PDF) on top of that, see https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/Polyglot-HTML-ZIP-PNG/raw/... (and https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/Polyglot-HTML-ZIP-PNG)

Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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Post by SoMomentary »

weetii wrote: post #46
netsharc wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't seem to be LLM, but reads like one. The author is German, maybe it's a language expertise thing, maybe he likes the LLM style (unrelated to his nationality). But yeah, sentences that only have 3-4 word each feel like 3rd grade writing; I couldn't read it.

Hey, I've always written like this. In school I couldn't stand subordinate clauses and long sentences because I'd lose my train of thought. But yea, I've noticed that people often find it hard to read so I'm going to work on that

I actually feel the opposite of what most people are saying here. I thought your writing style was great. It felt like you respected my time as a reader and got to the fucking point.

I thought the lack of fluff was refreshing!

Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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Post by benhill70 »

esquivalience wrote: post #21

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

I like the way it's written. I often write in a similar manner and I have never used LLMs to generate an writing for me. I have written exactly this way at work.

Too me, the author is just trying to get to the point. They know people start skimming if there is too much text.

Re: I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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Post by spiesd »

GoToRO wrote: post #64
reichstein wrote: post #55

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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].

Too bad, indeed. It's well-defined in javascript (and thus, appropriate in this admittedly niche context). It's non-portable across different regex engines, yes.
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