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Re:Guest WiFi using a QR code by Fatnino on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @01:31PM (#32073224)
Visitor: what's your wifi password?

Me: it's the entire alphabet in order.

Visitor: I don't want to type 20+ obnoxious letters.

Me: can I interest you in a QR code?

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Re:Guest WiFi using a QR code by LeifCarrotson on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @01:51PM (#32073472)
It's remarkable how something as trivial as typing 26 characters is onerous on our glassy slabs, but image processing to resolve a high-resolution two-dimensional barcode in a video stream is easy.
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Re:Guest WiFi using a QR code by yakshaving_jgt on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:22PM (#32075152)
Computers are fast and they usually don't complain when you make them do work.
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Re:Guest WiFi using a QR code by account42 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @07:47AM (#32081364)
On the contrary, I've known some that get quite loud.
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