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tree@lemmy.zip to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 years ago

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tree@lemmy.zip to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 years ago
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read more: https://www.theonion.com/no-scan-do-1851166788

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    It is a privacy/security issue, not moral. A QR eatery will probably not accept cash either.

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      The issue is because it connects with a website right? I wonder if there could be a way to encode the text of the menu in the QR code itself

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        The QR code would be huge lol

        • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          The largest can fit like 500-1k words, a restaurant menu could be less than that I think

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        Yes web site is the issue.

        Cannot embed menu instead because the QR code is a URL.

        • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Why does QR code have to be URL only

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            Mostly because otherwise you’d need an app that knows how to read and display the data

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              oh, I don’t use my phone much, assumed they should be able to show some kind of plaintext from a QR code by default

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                You can. I’ve encoded text in QR codes using both an android app and a desktop program.

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