Mastodawn

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!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Just a QR Code

Kevin Russell 4d ago

Thank you. 💐

Lockpick Extreme 4d ago

@gabe_sky thanks for making the world a little better place Gabe

Jim Patterson 🇨🇦4d ago

@gabe_sky
I was caught in a QR scheme a while back - a ransomware attack. The QR code was in fact free (for a while) and offered a feature that you could change the URL after it was generated, which it did by directing the QR code back to its own site, and letting you change the URL it redirected to.
... and that enabled the "ransom". After a couple of weeks it would not redirect any more unless you paid their license fee, so no longer free.

Papa Maccus Primus 3d ago

@SheamusPatt @gabe_sky Was it made by Adobe?

@gabe_sky A readable website! That's a rare specimen these days.

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4d ago

@gabe_sky Big fan of single page "websites" that folk can download to use locally, this is one of mine (ugly code, still being tinkered with) https://thegeoff.net/hazprint/

Druid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿4d ago

@_thegeoff @gabe_sky Very handy. 😊

@MiBro54517 4d ago

@_thegeoff @gabe_sky
As a chemistry teacher I very much approve.
Thank you!

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4d ago

@MiBro @gabe_sky One of my many lockdown projects, started as a newbie high school science tech in December 2019 and got told to do my job from home 3 months later 😂

Space Hobo 4d ago

@_thegeoff @gabe_sky Neat!

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4d ago

@spacehobo @gabe_sky Something I advise every 6th year cohort, despite our lasers (for good reason) not being that hazardous.

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4d ago

@spacehobo @gabe_sky You can use <i>basic HTML</i> in the text fields too.

Alex 🔧🔮🌎🪿

@_thegeoff @spacehobo @gabe_sky
Very useful!

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿2d ago

@MisterMadge @spacehobo @gabe_sky It's designed to be for printing, but yeah, I could generate a QR code that links to the page with the symbols/text/links intact, if that would be particularly useful?

Alex 🔧🔮🌎🪿

@_thegeoff
Nah... I was trying to make the most useless warning sign I could think of.

@spacehobo @_thegeoff @gabe_sky I like it

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4d ago

@Cyborus @spacehobo @gabe_sky 12345? That's the kind of security code an idiot puts on their luggage?!

@_thegeoff @spacehobo @gabe_sky I feel like this is a hitchhiker's reference, but I haven't read it in a long time, so I'm not confident

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4d ago

@Cyborus @spacehobo @gabe_sky Close! Spaceballs. Similar vibe, not *quite* as clever.

@_thegeoff @spacehobo @gabe_sky Ahhhh right! I have seen that too! but also a long time ago

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4d ago

@Cyborus @spacehobo @gabe_sky The Schwartz is strong with this one ;)

Jim Salter 4d ago

@_thegeoff @Cyborus @spacehobo @gabe_sky it was also the PIN used to "secure" the audio recordings traffic crosswalk systems played across the USA.

Except that one was only 1234.

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4d ago

@jimsalter @Cyborus @spacehobo @gabe_sky What are the odds 🤣

Jim Salter 4d ago

@_thegeoff @Cyborus @spacehobo @gabe_sky Out of order?! Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!

Pascal 🇪🇺 🇺🇦4d ago

@jimsalter
Ir was clever to cut off the inherently insecure digit "5".
@_thegeoff @Cyborus @spacehobo @gabe_sky

Jim Salter 3d ago

@pascal @_thegeoff @Cyborus @spacehobo @gabe_sky

@spacehobo @_thegeoff @gabe_sky

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4d ago

@Cyborus @spacehobo @gabe_sky When the user finds an application the programmer did not intend, but advances it without breaking it, the user becomes the master. (Something something Dark Side.)

Dr. Doro (she/her)3d ago

@_thegeoff @gabe_sky I'll print that for my laser lab XD

Damon L. Wakes 4d ago

@_thegeoff @gabe_sky Wonderful.

merlin / alex glow 2d ago

@_thegeoff @gabe_sky Haha hell yeah

David, not "Dave"2d ago

@_thegeoff @gabe_sky

If it helps, now or later, since it is a "single page" application, Codeberg offers web pages for projects. It's not the wiki, the web pages are a repo branch themselves.

Have a peek at this demo...

The main repo:

https://codeberg.org/David64/sample_project

The pages branch of that repo:

https://codeberg.org/David64/sample_project/src/branch/pages

And the "website" for the pages branch:

https://david64.codeberg.page/sample_project/

At some point if you wanted to skip the costs, you could set up something similar with the only disadvantage being the URL:

https://justaqrcode.com/

vs say

https //gabe_sky codeberg page/justaqrcode/

HTH

sample_project

Quick repo to demo a project with a 'pages' branch for web visibility.

Codeberg.org

Prince Lucija 1d ago

@david64 @_thegeoff @gabe_sky they support custom domains too

https://BeYourOwnPlatform.site

is at

https://codeberg.org/BeYourOwnPlatform/pages

#BeYourOwnPlatform

David, not "Dave"1d ago

@prinlu @_thegeoff @gabe_sky

Yep, good point. I didn't mention it 'cause I was going for the "no cost" solution, but you're right...they support custom domains as well.

@_thegeoff @gabe_sky Decent!

Rexx Deane 🏳️‍🌈4d ago

@gabe_sky Brilliant, thank you! I have the code to do this but never have it around when I need it.

Scott Frazer 4d ago

@gabe_sky this is fabulous but it appears incapable of converting the Bee Movie Script to a QR code, so I’ll have to keep looking 😂

blainsmith 4d ago

@gabe_sky@infosec.exchange Nice! We did a similar thing with https://libera.codes/

Libera.Codes

Libera.Codes - Free, privacy-first QR Codes - no ads, no trackers!

@gabe_sky Might as well join in: https://TheUnCloud.co/ WebRTC file transfer. Most of the code is in the page but you can download the rest. Share large files outside the cloud.

UnCloud

ataractic 4d ago

@mike805 @gabe_sky That's really cool! I can't believe I wasn't aware of what WebRTC was despite having heard the term many times before. I think It's important to share such projects more, and find a way to explain it simply so it sticks in peoples minds.

For example when I want to transfer a file to somebody, i'll instantly think about whateverdrive.tld. Theuncloud is kind of hard to remember? Just my thoughts though.

Anyways, I'll save this link, thanks for sharing!

@ataractic @gabe_sky I wanted uncloud.io but it was squatted with a high price.

You can also use it for remote video feeds. Theuncloud.co/watch

@ataractic @mike805 @gabe_sky There's also justbeamit.com and file.pizza, unsure if those are direct or relayed though.

@x0 @ataractic @gabe_sky They seem direct. Those are new. When I wrote Uncloud, the existing ones did not work.

No chat or video though. Uncloud has both.

@mike805 Thanks! Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday

coldclimate 4d ago

@gabe_sky thank you

@gabe_sky KDE Plasma already does that for me but I've boosted it for people who don't have the tools and need them.

@gabe_sky niice!

I have one running here:

https://qr.stux.me

LibreQR · QR codes generator

Generate QR codes freely. Choose content, size, colors…

utzer [Pleroma]4d ago

@stux @gabe_sky ich hier... https://qr.utzer.de/

Aber erst seit jetzt.

Wäre cool, wenn das noch so spezieller QR-Vode generieren könnte, solche für WLAN oder so.

LibreQR · QR codes generator

Generate QR codes freely. Choose content, size, colors…

@stux Thanks! Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday

zeitverschreib [friendica]4d ago

@gabe_sky I'm running #LibreQR on a local #Yunohost for the same reasons.

apps.yunohost.org/app/qr

YunoHost app store | LibreQR

🇵🇸 Álvaro González 4d ago

@gabe_sky Sorry, I think I broke it... 😅

Try this result, none of my scanners recognise this.

🇵🇸 Álvaro González 3d ago

@ely @gabe_sky Interesting... I got the error in Vivaldi for Android. Firefox on Windows produces a code. Firefox itself seemingly reads it as "http://Álvaro" (though maybe it just adds a protocol prefix to everything, it's a browser after all) and Android camera says "QA Code incompatible" (but my phone is not particularly new).

@ely @kAlvaro @gabe_sky

Cool tattoo though...

jevvv🇳🇿4d ago

@gabe_sky love this! Thank you

@gabe_sky ha! I built something similar specifically for WiFi QR codes!

https://qifi.org

pure JS WiFi QR Code Generator

pure JS WiFi QR Code Generator