{"id":4139,"date":"2022-07-07T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T17:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2022-07-10T22:55:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T22:55:30","slug":"qr-lol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/07\/qr-lol\/","title":{"rendered":"QR LOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The check-in was supposed to happen with a QR code. I don\u2019t do that, so I go to the front desk, where the dude, a bit annoyed, checks me in \u201cmanually\u201d with my ID. Two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Another customer comes in. She checks in with the QR code. She stays in front of the sign. I can tell something is wrong. She goes to the front desk and comes back a minute later with a good old clipboard and a form to fill out.<\/p>\n<p>Third customer comes in, goes directly to the front desk. She comes back with the front desk person to:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; connect to the wifi, grab the QR code, fill out the form on her phone and then, go back to the front desk. I guess to \u201cfully\u201d check in?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m leaning against the wall, amused. Do you know that QR stands for Quick Response? LMAO<\/p>\n<p>QR codes are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/QR_code#Risks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unsecured by default<\/a>. Please do not use them, do not spread them.<\/p>\n<p>You have a front desk? Use it. You want to share a URL? Make it readable\/typable (aka website.com\/hey). You are a restaurant and you want to share your menu? Simple HTML will do and be 100% viewed on all devices since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Choose simplicity, choose Life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The check-in was supposed to happen with a QR code. I don\u2019t do that, so I go to the front desk, where the dude, a bit annoyed, checks me in \u201cmanually\u201d with my ID. Two minutes. Another customer comes in. She checks in with the QR code. She stays in front of the sign. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4160,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}