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Brave: sharing URLs via QR codes

Although I only intended to use Brave to make Microsoft Teams work well on Debian Linux (and I do still use it for that), I've started to use Brave more broadly, and I'm increasingly impressed. In Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 3 May 2022 Category Tech Tags qr brave

Transfer your computer's clipboard to a camera-enable mobile device via QR code

A useful tip showed up for me today on Twitter: Transfer your PC clipboard to a nearby mobile device: xclip -o -s c | qrencode -o - | feh --force-aliasing -ZF - I didn't have feh installed, but that Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 1 April 2022 Category Tech Tags Linux qr camera

Privacy-friendly NFC-enabled business / contact cards

Like most people, I don't go to in-person meetings much at the moment, so what follows is a bit of a white elephant. The gist is that I saw a colleague (Rachel Roche, of the eponymous Roche Legal; Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 21 December 2021 Category Tech Tags nfc qr android ios privacy

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