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Post by 867-5309 » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 11:11 PM UTC

dividedbyzero wrote: post #138

cinntaile wrote: post #92

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He did this for fun, his motivation wasn't to find the cheapest way to host his content.

It's also not like you'd have to have a separate server/vserver for every such project, a very affordable vserver will run quite a lot of nginx containers. Plus I guess some people will have a vserver or something like that anyway (I have a small one to get around NAT at the ISP level), in which case it might be net-zero.

Post by prophesi » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 11:19 PM UTC

floatingatoll wrote: post #37

Zash wrote: post #34

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

Did you type this in from memory?!

Post by sp332 » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 11:25 PM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #160

mdaniel wrote: post #141

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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…

Post by judge2020 » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 11:30 PM UTC

remram wrote: post #125

valbaca wrote: post #88

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People love to constantly say "Want to learn to code? Make projects! projects! projects!" and then when someone makes a project as a means to learn a particular technology, now people turn up their nose and say "ew, why did you use this?" Anyway, this project provides exactly what I needed. Thanks to OP for sharing! Slick and simple

Make a project -> learn to code Share a project -> get opinions on it What's the problem?

Post by patrickwalton » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 11:34 PM UTC

koins wrote: post #197

Shameless (mostly) plug here, https://github.com/kmanc/wifi_qr . This repo of mine walks through how to use a raspberry pi with an eInk screen to automatically update passwords and the resulting QR code. Would love to see what y'all think!