I legit had someone say they trusted Google Chrome to make QR codes without trackers in them over qrencode the fully locally run FOSS command line tool in every mainstream distro, and I just ...

[symtrkl@merping.synth.download]

@JessTheUnstill Huh til my distro has a command to make more of me, that's cool. (Legit didn't know, I used some random-ass website when I made the one that became my face.)

[riverpunk@defcon.social]

@JessTheUnstill I like using DuckDuckGo for qr codes cuz it works on school PC's that I often have to use at my college clubs. `qr code <link>` drops out a png that encodes for just the link without any redirects. Proper QR codes are awesome, I hate redirect services.

I'll have to check out `qrencode` at some point too

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

@riverpunk It's a pretty handy little thing. For basic stuff it's just qrencode -o file.png https://example.com or whatever, but it's got a bunch of other flags to set things or change the size or whatever

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

@SymTrkl It doesn't make "pretty" ones, but it's functional, and you can toss it into a shell script if you ever need a lot of them.

[symtrkl@merping.synth.download]

@JessTheUnstill I am the one who makes them pretty, once it's encoded I can just chuck the fucker in Krita.

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

@SymTrkl Ahh cool. Well happy encoding then

[alxdre301@urusai.social]

@riverpunk oh that is some nice trick I learnt today

[nd3jr@social.coop]

@JessTheUnstill That is wrong on so many levels.

Also let me say that qrencode is standard issue on all my systems. For getting a URL from a borked system's manual page into my tablet so I can actually go to it it's very handy, and for that I use the -tASCIIi or -tANSI options to output the QR code right on the console.

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

@ND3JR Ooh that's a handy trick I'd not thought of before

[vonxylofon@witter.cz]

@JessTheUnstill "trusted Google Chrome" lost me there.

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

@vonxylofon So you're going to trust a trillion dollar company whose literal revenue model is tracking people and sweeping up every drop of data they can ?!?

[vonxylofon@witter.cz]

@JessTheUnstill Exactly. My point is that I don't trust Google Chrome with anything, for any reason.

[retreival9096@hachyderm.io]

@JessTheUnstill

... I hear only hackers use the command line, and I'd never trust a hacker ...

Actually, used qrencode just a couple of hours ago.

[jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange]

@Retreival9096 As you probably shouldn't. I barely trust myself