[megapatch]

It is a modern version of displaying the current first page of a newspaper to prove something has not happened earlier than the displayed reference.

[amelius]

That's probably why QRDate has a news headline in the footer of the opening screen.

[IYasha]

Yup, I'd love the old way better. As long as it's human-readable. I hate barcodes in a way because they require tools to read. And circumstances vary a lot!

[crtasm]

I like what the Qubes developers have done with a short script adding current headlines and bitcoin block hash to their warrant canaries:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/canarie...

edit: and the script itself: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/utils/p...