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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

I saw this on my breakfast cereal box (in the US) and looked it up. A company called Navilens made this to help visually impaired people with things like street signs, etc... neat!

https://navilens.com

EDIT TO ADD: Haha, I forgot I am on lemmy so we're discussing the technology and licensing issues, instead of focusing on how this might improve the lives of visually impaired people.

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[-] sawdustprophet@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago

If cloud.navilens.com ever goes down, every single code they generated will be broken forever.

And this is virtually guaranteed to happen before too long, leaving tons of useless technicolor QR codes as monuments to the endeavor.

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