Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.
Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.
My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!
@tezoatlipoca @pikesley the fact their describing it as “a Terminal script” suggests to me they’re not in any way qualified to review it, or to know that it maybe needed to be reviewed in the first place.
Over a great many years I built up a habit of reflexively opening Hacker News when idle, because back in the day I’d probably see something good there. Now it’s just a sea of AI companies that are just a thin wrapper around Claude, and people saying how it’s completely normal to check your morals at the door when entering work.
What site should I write a small Safari extension to redirect to when I attempt to open it?
@John I’m sure I’ve heard mentioned a podcast player with SponsorBlock style crowdsourced ad skipping, can’t for the life of me remember what it was called though I’m afraid.
Fucking Acast ads. “Your customers are scrolling past your ads, using ad blockers, and paying for ad free streaming. Well fuck your customers. Fuck their dislike of ads, get some in their ear holes while they’re driving down the road and can’t skip them.”
Imagine your job is yelling "Good morning have you driven a hard bargain?" at a politician who is ignoring you a hundred metres away, fucking hell
@shadowwwind @mjg59 presumably without a centralised list of clients and their keys the client could just lie about that though.
@sundogplanets @catsalad wow, that’s the same face I’d pull eating raw rhubarb.
Big sigh of relief on finishing a dry run of the interview exercise I’ll be running tomorrow and discovering I am indeed qualified to do my own job.
@SecurityWriter there’s always a ton of YouTube videos from the various production companies involved, some of them go into a lot of depth on what it takes to make Eurovision happen.
I was briefly surprised by how well mapped the car park I took a shortcut through was while trying to find the exit, it made sense when I remembered it’s the car park for Ordnance Survey headquarters.
Me, standing atop a cherry-blossom-swept bridge, re-sheathing my katana
@gsuberland tune in tomorrow for the next episode of SEO slop or LLM slop.
It’s the time of year when I can go out for 90 minute walk at 7pm, absolutely beautiful in the woods this evening, so beautiful in fact I didn’t think to stop and take a photo so you’ll just have to believe me.
And as ever, the culprit is a systemd subsystem I didn’t even know existed an hour ago.
You know things are bad when you find yourself reading the source code for NetworkManager 8 hours into the work day.
@pikesley “Immediately after that game, United fly to Asia for two post-season matches against local opposition in Malaysia and Hong Kong.”
I know it’s not the point, but this jumped out at me. You can’t have local opposition which requires flying to other side of the world to play against.
@marioguzman @eval every now and then someone reminds me what Aqua era macOS looked like and I lament the loss of both the playfulness and the functionality.
When did become ok to use the phrase “up to 100% [positive aspect]” in advertising? Could be 100%. Could be 0%. Who knows?
Let's try something. I'm an English technology lawyer in private practice. I can help with tech contracts, software licensing (including FOSS), SaaS and the like, and data protection.
Unlike most lawyers I'm actually technically literate, in that I spent a number of years as a sysadmin before becoming a lawyer, and I've kept up my knowledge since.
I'm practical, quick, and my rates are reasonable. Maybe I could be useful to your business?
Boosts appreciated!
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