Enrolling a device that cannot reach the admin UI meant transcribing a
200-character link with a base64 pin in it — the step the link format
exists to avoid, and the one where a pin wrong by one character fails
later as an inscrutable TLS error.
Rendered as inline SVG rather than a PNG data: URI, because the page's
CSP is default-src 'none' and means it: a data: image would need img-src
opened, markup needs nothing. One path rather than a rect per module,
since a link this long encodes to about 60x60 and two thousand elements
is a lot of DOM for a picture of a square. It is generated from the same
validated value as the href, so a rejected link produces neither.
This relaxes the stdlib-only rule, deliberately and recorded in CLAUDE.md.
The rule bought one self-contained binary with no supply chain to audit,
which one small pure-Go package barely dents; F-Droid never applied to
the server, only the app ships there. A correct QR encoder is ~500 lines
of Reed-Solomon that nobody should be hand-writing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
