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Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #251

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If OPs experience is anything like mine, they just suck at doing their job. There's often some silly reason its stuck, or it prints wrong, or the colors are off, etc, its really just a super painful experience and I can't believe its still so bad.

Is this some meme I didn't hear about?

This video about how ink cartridges are a scam might be related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHX6tHdQGiQ

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #99

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Since OP intended to learn a bunch of technologies while developing this project I'd be amused to see a version of this based on qrencode complied to WASM.

Why is this not a neural network?

And why no blockchain?

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #250

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Saving a webpage and expecting your browser to render this the same way in a few years is only possible if you are saving the browser version with it. The command line tool will have a longer life

You could just use google to find the same thing in a few years. The project is so simple I could replicate it and have it hosted in a few hours.

"so simple" ... "in a few hours"

The project is so simple that it would be easier to rewrite it from scratch in that time frame. But the qrencode CLI allows to just avoid that.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #246
post #187

I 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).

I'm more curious about why you hate printers.

I used to hate printers too but that changed when I started using HP Instant Ink.

The printer needs to be connected to wifi all the time but on the flip side, the printer orders ink cartridges well in advance (so they get delivered in time and I have them ready when I need).

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #116

I do wish there was an option to safely disable all connectivity in a browser tab (forever) like with Javascript or camera access. Yes, saving the page, disconnecting your network connection, then deleting the page would work, but it's a real bother.

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

Note that today in Chromium-based browsers this does _not_ take a page completely offline - it only affects some specific internal HTTP request APIs, so it's still quite possible to exfiltrate data. For example, WebSockets & WebRTC aren't affected: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423246 (although it looks like there's work to start to properly support this in progress).

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #207
post #34

qrencode -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?

I don't think we should always see a reply as criticism. It makes the discussion unnecessarily contentious.

Even this reply - this is intended as conversation.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

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post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I honestly don't understand where's the fun in using docker for anything. Unless one is into masochism.

Especially to host what could be implemented as a single static HTML file.
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