Tunnel the entire internet through the "name" field on your airmiles account.

https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/

PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights | Robert Heaton

The plane reached 10,000ft. I took out my laptop, planning to peruse the internet and maybe do a little work if I got really desperate.

Robert Heaton

@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."

https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/

llama.ttf

llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.

@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 🪄