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Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

#42

Post by _def »

I got a QR code like this on the wall with the SSID and the password written on the paper as well as a NFC tag with the wifi credentials between the paper and the wall.

I think nobody ever has scanned the QR code.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

#44

Post by fulafel »

mrfusion wrote: post #39
ThePadawan wrote: post #19

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.

Airplane mode?

The page might start a service worker and exfiltrate the data when connectivity returns even after the tab is closed.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

#45

Post by graton »

gruez wrote: post #6

On ios it works fine with the default camera app, but what about android? I'd guess support varies depending on vendor?

The native photo app supports QR codes on my Google Pixel phone.

Once it sees a QR code then it shows some text that you can touch to open the link.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

#46

Post by BugsJustFindMe »

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?

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

#47

Post by war1025 »

_def wrote: post #42

I got a QR code like this on the wall with the SSID and the password written on the paper as well as a NFC tag with the wifi credentials between the paper and the wall. I think nobody ever has scanned the QR code.

Do you mean they use the NFC tag or manually enter the username / password, or just that no one uses any of it?

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

#48

Post by rhn_mk1 »

ThePadawan wrote: post #19

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.

uMatrix kind of does this. Once you forbid everything, requests will get filtered out.

I'm not sure if this affects service workers though.

Re: Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

#49

Post by sergiomattei »

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?

Developer experience? Learning project? For fun?

If the maintainer is comfortable using that technology, let it be. No need to rain fire on it.

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