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I had a worse fucking experience somehow just last week, the QR code pointed you to their fucking instagram, that’s where the weekly lunch menu options were posted, except I have no idea how my colleagues even accessed it, because anything I clicked didn’t take me to that “story/reel” whatever the fuck it’s called, the owner of that restaurant deserves to burn in hell for eternity
Well, you forgot to install the menu-server-app. Do it, and the problem is solved.
OK listen hear me out. Perfect opportunity for guests to learn how to ssh tunnel to port forward to their local device 😅
I’ll save noobies some time.
for (( i=1; i<65536; i++ ));do for (( j=1; j<256; i++ ));do ssh -L $j$i:127.0.0.1:$i -N 192.168.1.$j & done doneWhat could go wrong?
Okay clearly this won’t work because there aren’t enough local ports to match to 16 bits of ports on potentially 255 machines, but with some slight modification I could add in a test to only increment the local port if the forward is successful and thereby create the dumbest-ass port forwarding script ever.
ip a a 127.0.0.2/8 dev lo
You have a whole /8 subnet of localhost, do it.
I like where your head is at.
We could also save some time just parsing something like…
nmap --top-ports 100 192.168.1.0/24 | grep -e "report" -e "open"We have the technology, we can be stupid.
I once got a group message from my child’s teacher, screaming in excitement that “the event at school is live!”
The link points to 192.168.x.x.
Live on the intranet!
I don’t do resturants all that often and I never saw one that had these. But I once encountered this at a clinic. I had no qr reader on my phone and no internet access at the time. So I just waited around until the receptionist came around. Turns out every person in the room ignored the qr-code as well.
Someone needs to name their catering business ‘localhost’
Fuck I despise this menu bullshit. Give me a fucking menu.
They had to put a fucking law in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo mandating that restaurants had to have physical menus with the printed prices.
Nunca me senti tao patriota. Kkkk
I live in São Paulo, had no idea. I can just ask then?
Looks like I misunderstood and is still a law project
In Rio was made into law in 2023
Hell, Sao Paulo lagging behind here
I like when there’s a qr code that allows you to order and pay without needing to wait for a waiter. A qr code where it just links to a pdf of a menu that they didn’t want to print sucks.
If it’s printed on the inside of the menu so you can order quickly when it’s busy and help take some of the pressure off the servers and maybe get your food faster? That’s cool.
When it’s just a virtual menu so they can surge price in real time? Fuck those places.
PDF is at least kind of permanent. Most restaurants that have qr code set up usually have “surge pricing” that allows them to change their prices on a whim.
Not much of a challange to have a webserver point to another pdf when some condition is fulfilled.
You can just generate a PDF on demand. There isn’t much permanent about them at all.
Give me a menu or I’ll tell you what I want and you can figure out how to put it in.
Either that or I walk.
Say “for $3.00” after your order, too. Fuck’em.
One of the nice things about having a foldable is that restaurant menus work wonderfully on them. Don’t have to worry about tiny text nor horizontal scrolling BS at all.
The only setting in which it’s actually helpful is when you go to an establishment that prioritizes drinks and the food is an afterthought (but you can still walk up to the bar and never use the QR code if you wanted).
They are, unfortunately, basically required in countries with high inflation where prices change so often that printed menus become unmanageable.
Or that want to charge people with expensive phones more than others.
I get someone made a hilarious mistake.
But why would you not even test the code before gluing them to all the tables?
Or before sending the code to be etched?
I created a QR generator website and you have no idea. I get emails from people saying they’ve printed the codes before discovering it goes to the wrong place (sometimes even to my own site!) and if I can fix it. No… check your codes before they go to print!
The funniest one I had caused me to get a huge spike of traffic on Christmas. It was so weird and left me clueless for weeks, until I got an email from somebody wishing to cancel a subscription.
I don’t sell subscriptions or anything at all!
Turns out somebody printed a QR code into a smartwatch instruction booklet that went straight to my site… The ad revenue was insane tho!
Maybe OP is lying
I think since its not so much btoken as pointing to a local file, I think they may have tested it on the one device they made it, so it worked…on that device.
They should have 100% tested it on other devices
Or perhaps hire someone who knows what they’re doing.
Might be guests just have to connect to the network first before scanning the code… Easy solution. Before you order you’ll just have to log into our WiFi and then scan our qr code.
Those exist (and are sort of annoying) but localhost literally points back to your own machine. No network setup is going to fix that (Short of running a proxy locally or messing with your hosts file. Not normal diner behaviour)
Guess I’m showing my age then. Because the intended end use device is obviously a phone, I assume they used their phone to generate the qr, send it out to etch, and test the result. I can’t use my phone for shit like that. To me that is much more a real screen type of job (generating the qr code, generating the gcode in lightburn, etc) done on a computer, instead of a tablet/phone
Some tasks belong on the medium screen, not the tiny one!
Might have been a temporary link (e.g., shortened URL) that passed tests initially but stopped working later on.
The browser says “localhost”, so it would have had to stop working by suddenly redirecting to localhost…
Good catch, I didn’t see that.
Untrustworthy Poptarts
Yea but we shouldn’t pollute the world with printed menus! websites don’t get lost, like the printed ones! downtime is amazing! /S
I prefer printed menus, you sit, you read, you eat. No scan, no using your phone or anything else. What else they gonna add? dine in but order online?
dine in but order online?
This exists. A Mexican and an Asian chain here in Zürich do this.
What else they gonna add? dine in but order online?
Is this also sarcasm?
If not, I regret to inform you have I have been in places where this is currently happening.
I was questioning, and to be true can’t believe this is happening!
And you can even pay on your phone, no need for a POS to pay your bill.
Yeaa! So you would sit, check the menu online, order online, pay online, they bring your food, you leave.
Make sure to tip 35%! Unless you’re a cheap bastard who doesn’t deserve to go out!
Would this probably work if you connect to their Wi-Fi?
EDIT: I am smart, I promise
Localhost denotes the device itself. It would work if your phone were running a web server with the cafe’s menu hosted on it
Listen, you’re in good company. I literally almost posted this and then I realized. Made my day that I wasn’t the only one.
Also, it’s amazing that someone made QR codes with a localhost URL.
I almost said yes, but no, localhost is your own device. If it was a 192.168 ip it would be different.
I’ll know it’s the future when I start seeing
http://[fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx]/link fuckups.But their subnet is 10.1.1.0/24
You’d still go to localhost, so realistically: no.
Probably.
But ugh. What’s wrong with a printed, laminated menu‽
IT technician here, without modifying the hosts file on your computer it won’t work.
You can assume that this will never work on anything other than the development box, regardless of what network you are connected to.
without modifying the hosts file on your computer it won’t work
Wouldn’t be surprised if even that didn’t work - localhost resolving to something that isn’t the local host is the sort of thing that’d get blocked by browsers as a security exploit.
Up vote for the interrobang!
I like these digital menus.
For large groups they’re so much better than all coordinating when you’re ready to order, ordering, and later working out how to split the bill.
They also let you order in your own time, no need to have someone hovering waiting for you to be ready, or not be there at all.
Though my experience is that they’re mostly used at pubs and clubs, where they replace ordering at the counter, rather than table service.
The worst thing is that they always ask for a fucking tip. Shitty companies trying to import even shittier American bullshit.
Digital menus that supplement the paper menus and in-person servers are fine.
Digital menus that are the only option and are used to surge price are garbage
Theoretically, it would be cheaper for the company if they do new menus frequently. A lot quicker too, potentially.
Being this incompetent it’s more expensive…
“Ticket closed.”
