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DevTools -> network -> Change the throttling to "offline"
Offline is not an option in Firefox, just progressively worse connection options.
You could also just see that no network requests are sent when you type.
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#212qrencode -t utf8 'WIFI:T:WPA;S:network;P:password;;'
I wouldn’t ask if it wasn’t the top comment, on the current #1 front page story, but Can someone please explain this command, and why it is presumably given as a criticism of this submission?
As other comments have pointed out, the tech stack used here is excessive for what it is trying to do. The author has said it was a project to learn some specific technologies. There is a lot of mirth for overcomplicated contraptions mucking up otherwise simple tasks (and rightfully so, IMO), hence the retort of a one-line console command.
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#213I can also recommend drawing it instead of printing if you hate printers with the same passion as me. Record to beat for drawing a working QR code is 3 tries and I think about three hours (for an SSID of 13 bytes (5 unicode characters) and 19-character password). I did it mostly out of curiosity how hard it would actually be (spoiler: medium difficulty).
You’re my new hero. Did you use graphing paper? Have you hashed by hand as well? http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and...
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My first though was "Why would I ever enter my wifi credentials into a web form?", but perhaps there are people who would...
To be fair it’s fairly easy to check that it didn’t send any data over the wire
Yeah, 99% of the society also knows how to do that.
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#216A nice addition would be either (1) support other languages or (2 - simpler) the ability to edit the field titles (e.g. change from "Network name" to "Nome da rede").
It is open source, you can simply CTRL+F and replace those if your case requires. Or you can create a dropdown somewhere with those variables to replace the placeholder texts etc.
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#217Really neat! I whipped up a single file HTML version [1] with a demo [2] using only a CDN-hosted QR library. Thanks for the distraction!
[1] https://gist.github.com/ianobermiller/9f17f1022bc75c2228d742...
[2] https://bl.ocks.org/ianobermiller/raw/9f17f1022bc75c2228d742...
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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
> 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?" Why post your learning project on HN then? You advertise and get free critique. Double win in my book. What's wrong with that?
Many of these are not critiques, but rather not-so-subtle implications that the author must either not know what they’re doing or is trying to show off.
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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.
Would be nice if the code was in an image I could save.
Just pushed a small change to make it use images instead of a canvas so you can save the image (at least with the browsers I tested with)