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0 pointsMobiusHorizons4y ago0 comments

There is an inherent skepticism about typing your password into a web form even/especially if it says it is not sent to the server. My read of this comment was on the one hand telling security conscious people how to achieve the same goal in a way that does not leave the computer, and on the other hand putting a lower bound on the complexity of the value provided by the site.

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darkwater4y ago

https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode

This doesn't look "simpler" after a quick look, and it's a hard dependency of the GP solution.

(I completely agree on the local-only guarantee that this one provides, though)

alias_neo4y ago

I think the point of simplicity here is that you apt/yum/yay/whatever install qrencode and then go to town.

You're on your own machine, you know the exact spec used to generate the QR, and while you're at it, you can use the same tool to generate TOTP QR codes and WireGuard configurations and a bunch of other things like links to websites or automations for Tasker (et al).

The world is your oyster when you know what and how the "magic" works, and while you're at it, you aren't risking pasting your WiFi passwords into some random website.

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