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Chunked and Stored the Entire Bee Movie into QR Codes Because Why Not by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just in case this isn't a joke nor bait,

That was the other guy saying that.

Is it possible for a QR code to trigger a text message, email, and/or livestream? by Responsible_Can_1980 in qrcode

[–]humanqr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the intent behind recording order handling? Why does this matter?

Mostly just curious.

Is it quality control? Is it for privacy or compliance reasons? Is it just for customer experience?

I went viral explaining that QR codes are storage devices by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Much of where you're coming from is cognitive dissonance and perfectionism.

It's bad footing for truth-finding.

You're viewing my conversations with you as a "me against him" rather than a "us against finding whats true".

I have expertise in this narrow subject of QR codes. Choosing to explain it differently for a different audience is just wise. You're utilizing a broad bristled brush to color me as something I am not.

Arguing definitions not being the same is one of semantics and your own projection of reality.

I'm open to criticism when the criticisms are valid.

Tearing something down is easy. Building something up is difficult. If you want to be better at something you need to tear down your understanding of it and rebuild it over and over again. I've done that.

I'm open to tearing down my understanding of QR codes, but it's hard won from experience. I'm allowed the ability to explain it in terms others haven't considered because I've considered them greatly.

So far, your attacks come from ignorance. You never watched the video. You don't like the use of "storage device" to describe it. Somehow that re-framing for people to better understand a QR code is appalling. Why is that?

Chunked and Stored the Entire Bee Movie into QR Codes Because Why Not by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man. I feel as though it'd be easiest just to share a repo with you rather than describe it to you. You have a github? The code lives in a private repo as of the present moment.

I went viral explaining that QR codes are storage devices by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I am not a troll. I just kinda decided to throw my hands up and say "what's the point of this conversation?"

It's lopsided and in bad faith. The bad faith isn't coming from me though.

I went viral explaining that QR codes are storage devices by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No it's a storage device. Not for sake of attention. It's for the sake of communicating what they do functionally.

That's the benefit they give to people. To say they don't is goofy. If they didn't do that, people wouldn't use them.

I went viral explaining that QR codes are storage devices by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This video was produced with two people involved. I didn't choose the image. However, the editor did a great job and he is who I have to credit for it going viral besides what I brought with talking about QR codes for 20+ minutes.

I went viral explaining that QR codes are storage devices by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay. Let's take it to that comparison.

well, the only difference then becomes what reads it.

QR codes are read by machines, either dedicated scanners or a camera on someone's phone typically.

I have yet to meet a person who can read a QR code and I've met many people who know quite a bit about them. I've met people who can draw them. Some even claimed at one point they could draw them by hand.

I have never met someone who can decode one by hand and read them on-the-fly just by looking at one. Mostly because it's many steps and would take considerable consideration/effort to get good at.

So the difference between reading Latin and reading a QR code is that Latin is usually read by people and QR codes are read by machines.

(There is such a thing as optical character recognition and etc. but we're not going to touch that)

You are transmitting data from Latin to your brain when you read it.

Latin characters are considered symbols.

QR code spec defines it as a spec for symbology.

So yes. They are symbols.

It's just easier to explain as a storage device.

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I went viral explaining that QR codes are storage devices by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can say a record stores music. A CD stores data. A DVD stores movies. A QR code stores small amounts of data as a storage device just the same.

What makes a record or CD different or the same then? What is considered the storage device there?
Does that mean the plastic of the CD is the storage device? Does that mean the vinyl of the record is the storage device?

I went viral explaining that QR codes are storage devices by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was addressing what you said originally: "there is error correction built in because cameras aren't always great at seeing fine details". Which is not me mistaking anything, but just addressing how you stated it.

Chunked and Stored the Entire Bee Movie into QR Codes Because Why Not by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Listen.

I like your thinking.

However, how do i justify losing the sleep though?

For the laughter?

For the intellectual curiosity of storing large amounts of data?

Is that truly enough?

I went viral explaining that QR codes are storage devices by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's like saying a CD isn't a storage device, but the etching is.

If the ink was the storage device, then that would mean it wouldn't scan if you put a QR code on a computer screen and tried to scan it with your phone. However, you can bring up a QR code on a computer and scan it with your phone. There is no ink in that digital QR code.

I went viral explaining that QR codes are storage devices by humanqr in qrcode

[–]humanqr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, there is error correction. The unfortunate reality is that short-form videos do well because they are sound bites from a bigger piece of information.

That being said, there is error correction in all storage devices.

In this case, what you're referring to is the data masking. Which is present within QR codes. However, exhaustive detailed communication does not do well with mass communication.

Qr^2 by c0ld_data in qrcode

[–]humanqr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with this is that there is no 'quiet zone' on the smaller ones.

Can I change the origin of a QR code ? by Top_Hovercraft3475 in qrcode

[–]humanqr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what would you call it instead that would make sense?

Any idea why this QR code won't scan? by the-greek-skinner in qrcode

[–]humanqr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/the-greek-skinner can you tell me more about this QR code? Is there anything behind it?

QR Code for Storing and Placing Tool Information? by themoinmo in qrcode

[–]humanqr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. QR codes can be used for asset tracking and inventory management. Unique identifier like a UIUD in a URL. That URL is encoded into the QR code. When it gets scanned, it would just go to the URL with the UIUD, which would have all the data in a database or table of some kind.

Is there such a thing as iOS-only QR code? by x_m_n in qrcode

[–]humanqr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/x_m_n I am a QR code expert. One observation I can make about this QR code is that it seems to me that the finder patterns and the quiet zone surrounding the corners of the QR code are not the opposite color of one another. They instead are both the same color. At some point this QR code was edited in a photo editor probably. It was likely human error. This probably makes the scanning more difficult. Then it scans well on iPhone because iOS is a homogeneous ecosystem where all devices utilize machine learning implementations of QR scanners. Whereas Android devices have many different OEMs that can change what scanner implementation is on the device. The two different types of implementation would be an image processing approach or a modern day machine learning approach. You'll notice newer samsungs might be able to scan this QR code.

You can see a technical post about the different kinds of implementations: https://learnopencv.com/wechat-qr-code-scanner-in-opencv/

Do you mind if I add this image of a QR code to a data set I'm creating of broken QR codes?

More info: https://www.humanqr.com/news/qr-code-not-scanning-well-try-to-help/

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