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Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by banana_giraffe » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 9:49 PM UTC

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #143

banana_giraffe wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't speak for the poster, but sometimes the fun is in using tools you know. I don't know VanillaJS that well, so I took a stab at the same concept: https://q726kbxun.github.io/qrcodes/ Not nearly as pretty, since I know even less about making pages pretty, but still, a fun little stab at making such a site.

I'd say that a tiny amount of CSS would make that basically perfect for the task, except that it's honestly already perfect for the task now. Though it looks like you replace semicolon a second time instead of colon in clean.

Ahh, right you are! All fixed.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by jacobmischka » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 9:53 PM UTC

41b696ef1113 wrote: post #148

avel wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DevTools -> network -> Change the throttling to "offline"

Offline is not an option in Firefox, just progressively worse connection options.

It's a bit less convenient, but I think you can accomplish the same using a `*` request blocking rule: https://i.imgur.com/SYgAxuW.png

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by hnov » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 9:56 PM UTC

My iPhone has a pre-defined "Make QR Code" "Starter Shortcut" that you can invoke by typing "Make QR Code" in Home screen search. It basically generates a QR code of the same WIFI:S:$SSID;P:$PASSWORD;; format as wificard.io.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Joining_a_Wi%E2%80%91F...

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by collsni » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 9:59 PM UTC

Hey I almost gave my ssid and pw over to this guy. That's an interesting phishing technique

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by collsni » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 9:59 PM UTC

I almost gave my SSID and password over to this guy, that's an interesting fishing technique.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by jacobmischka » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 9:59 PM UTC

qifita wrote: post #14

This can be done locally in the browser with qifi: https://github.com/evgeni/qifi

This app also does this locally in the browser.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by bigiain » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 10:06 PM UTC

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #144

Zash wrote: post #34

qrencode -t utf8 'WIFI:T:WPA;S:network;P:password;;'

wow ok, so you expect me to have a computer (?!) with: - a keyboard? - access to a terminal??!?!?! - ability to install qrencode??? - knowledge of copy and paste!?!?! - some way to edit the command you posted to my specific username and password?! franky this is ridiculous when i could just make a repo that uses make, docker, yarn, npx, nginx, react, and jest /s

No no no!

You’re supposed to deploy qrencode in a kubernates cluster on Oracle cloud to run it, and then go to your WiFi base station and change your SSID to “network” and it’s password to “password”

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by renewiltord » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #46

Asking as a person who understands the fundamentals of all of the technologies involved but is horrified by much of what goes on in the minds of today's web developers and designers, what motivates the decision to make this repo use make, docker, yarn, npx, nginx, react, and jest rather than a bit of static HTML and css and something like qrjs2.js or VanillaQR.js with a simple canvas or datauri update in onInput?

The same reason I take a massive V8 engine attached to a massive truck bed one mile over to my friend’s place to watch England lose at the Euros. Turns out that sometimes, even when tool X isn’t the best at the job, it’s way better for me to use what’s at hand.

This is what a lot of people have trouble understanding: sometimes the best tool for the job is the tool you’re best in.

Evidence? No one has made this static website you’re talking about. It doesn’t exist. This one does. The imperfect app that exists beats the perfect app that is vapor.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by plandis » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

jacobmischka wrote: post #150

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wow ok, so you expect me to have a computer (?!) with: - a keyboard? - access to a terminal??!?!?! - ability to install qrencode??? - knowledge of copy and paste!?!?! - some way to edit the command you posted to my specific username and password?! franky this is ridiculous when i could just make a repo that uses make, docker, yarn, npx, nginx, react, and jest /s

This is a staggeringly passive aggressive comment, who hurt you?

I disagree and I found both the command line and ui versions interesting, kudos to both OP and the CLI poster :)

As stupid as it sounds I didn’t realize there was a wifi scheme for a uri-like syntax on phones

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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Post by bigiain » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 10:09 PM UTC

mdaniel wrote: post #141

floatingatoll wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you type this in from memory?!

In fairness, the string doesn't seem insaneo: T:=Type S:=SSID P:=Password then only the leading and trailing chars need to be "remembered", plus whatever the escape character is for that password string (or maybe even the SSID -- I'm not super clear on what characters can be in an SSID)

> I'm not super clear on what characters can be in an SSID)

I hear “%s%s%s%s%p” is the preferred SSID these days…