Matthew SkeltonTunnel the entire internet through the "name" field on your airmiles account.
jonny (good kind)@matthewskelton
This is maybe the best blog post I have ever read
This is maybe the best blog post I have ever read
@jonny I know, right? 😁
Bruce Heerssen 
@matthewskelton
That is, hands down, the best useless project I've read about in a very long time. Thanks for sharing!
That is, hands down, the best useless project I've read about in a very long time. Thanks for sharing!
@bruce welcome 😁
ralf tauscher 
@bruce @matthewskelton +1 wonderful
noodleYou may also be interested in an LLM in a font.
Jeff GriggIn the late 1970s, we made a "chat," or really "scrolling billboard" app on a TOPS-20 system (36-bit mainframe) that "communicated" by changing the current program's name. One could see the "messages" by using a "process monitoring" application that showed the currently running applications.
We were criticized for the rather large amount of CPU time we consumed, doing this. 🙄
@JeffGrigg @bruce good work 💪🏼
Andrew F.
Joshua Thayer@matthewskelton Not quite as absurd, but this post reminds me of the old GAE proxy technique that used to work great back in the Old Days - https://bryceboe.com/2012/03/12/bypassing-gogos-inflight-internet-authentication/
Bypassing Gogo’s Inflight Internet Authentication
Two weeks ago I attended SIGCSE 2012 in Raleigh, NC. The plane on my return flight had Internet access through Gogo’s Inflight Internet. While I think it’s incredibly awesome that Internet access is readily available to those who travel by plane, I personally feel it is not worth …
Mister Wanko@matthewskelton this reminds me of when Dan Kaminsky was using DNS to break out of the hotel wifi.
Aarkon@MisterWanko @matthewskelton I think I have heard about that hack, but do you know of there some readup on it somewhere? My Google foo betrays me here.
@Aarkon @matthewskelton it was an article about Dan when he was first interviewed for finding DNS flaws and then coming up with solutions... he was in Vegas hotel. Let me try.
Kaminsky on How He Discovered DNS Flaw and More
Dan Kaminsky is understandably swamped today, given the unexpected early release of information about the critical DNS flaw he discovered that potentially affects the security of every website on the internet. But he found some time to speak with Threat Level about how he discovered the vulnerability that has system administrators scrambling to patch before […]
@MisterWanko @matthewskelton I'll happily read that, thanks!
@Aarkon @matthewskelton an earlier reference: https://boingboing.net/2004/06/21/tunneling-ssh-over-d.html
niu tech@MisterWanko @matthewskelton It's called IP over DNS tunneling, check out Iodine: https://code.kryo.se/iodine/
@niutech @matthewskelton yes, that's what he was doing!
I miss that guy.
Gary Blosser@matthewskelton This is something I would be expecting as an article in POC||GTFO 🤣
Ramon Fincken 🇺🇦@matthewskelton why need internet on a plane as we now have git versioncontrol
Ivor Hewitt@matthewskelton "reflected that this had been both the most and least productive flight of my life." 🤣👍
Thomas Sturm@matthewskelton Not just a great way to exploit airline WiFi, but the blog post is an extremely well written example of tech documentation.
Bookmarking this one for future uses... being able to tunnel HTTP through unusual pipes might come in handy in our Bladerunneresque dystopian future.
@tsturm like running an LLM in a font file 🤪
"perhaps this silly hack is in fact a billion dollar idea!? This also means that you can use your font to chat with your font."
@matthewskelton These kind of unusual hacks (LLM in everything, HTTP over everything) give me hope for our nerdy future. :)
@tsturm nerds nerding 🤘🏼
@matthewskelton I generally find it important to have a programming side project that is on the face of it utterly useless.
Any project that has even remote chances of being useful or lucrative automatically limits creativity. There's always this little voice in your head that wants to make it "successful".
But if it's clearly a stupid idea and just exists as a toy project, I can explore anything that comes to mind. It helps my mind to stretch.
@tsturm ... And that's when serendipity bestows her favour 🪄
Jeff MOVED > @tsturm @matthewskelton This right here is something I forgot in middle age and am trying to get back to.
@jeffhorton @matthewskelton Yeah, it's easy to get caught in this productivity trap... Suddenly all my side projects are like work.
I intentionally stepped back from creating pretend-startups and I'm much happier now. 😊
@tsturm @jeffhorton @matthewskelton Fascinating how you can read "productivity trap" two ways, one being what you mean (where the trap is always trying to be productive and not caring about fun anymore), while the other one is the opposite, like falling for something that kills your productivity.
zakzak@matthewskelton Which Limp Bizkit are we talking about here?
naught101@matthewskelton this is so dumb, +1
Also, your writing is very enjoyable
@naught101 thank you, but the airmiles post was by someone else 👍🏼
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis@matthewskelton "Depending on network conditions on the plane I might be able to hit speeds of several bytes per second." 🤣🤣🤣 Migod this is a thing of beauty.
@siderea the sheer ingenuity 🤩
@matthewskelton Seriously. And also hilariously.