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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

A QR Code encodes a string of text. In can be a URL, or anything else. Like the DOI string above, a quote, or whatever. You can't do full Unicode I think, it's 8859-1, or something like that, although there's also an Asian variant.

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

But your camera phone can already copy text. If it's a tattoo about the first paper you wrote, whatever you make needs to work for 60+ years. Text is always going to be valid, who knows when QR codes will become obsolete. 60 years ago you'd be getting a tattoo of a punch card, and that would be mostly meaningless today.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I was just addressing the fact that QR Codes were only for URLs. As for whether they'll be around in 60 years... Barcodes have proved to be fairly resilient.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

My camera phone can’t copy text :(

(Original iPhone SE, so not recent, but not ancient or a flip phone or anything)

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