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You can’t circumcise the QR code man!
I like your username
Does it really scan when both timing patterns (zebra stripes between the three corner “squares”) are interrupted?
Edit: Not even Google Lens can scan it. (Edit edit: worked fine with screenshot.) Next time, avoid the red regions when putting logos etc. on mid-size (3+1 “squares”) QR codes:
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🟥🟩🟩🟥You can rotate the code of course but not flip it.
I’m not sure if a hardware barcode scanner would like it but Google Lens can read it just fine.
Google Lens is indeed one of the best, and it failed for me with direct image upload (incl. transparency). It worked with a screenshot so maybe the size threw it off.
Not even Google Lens can scan it
Might be you, I just used lens to check the QR code man and it detected it just fine on my pixel 8.
I recommend using a dedicated qr scanner instead of google lens, because even if it can scan qr codes, it isn’t optimised for it. Sometimes it can’t even detect a medium-sized qr code in a screenshot, and it looks like they haven’t even implemented the full standard.
Here’s a pretty good qr-reader I can recommend: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blogspot.aeioulabs.barcode
Not open source, which is a red flag for me. There are QR scanner&generator apps on F-Droid, and you can check the source code that they do NOT send the scan result to some server and do NOT sneakily take a pic of you with the front camera.
Here is what you should do for security around QR codes.
In cases when privacy isn’t important (here, Google can match my Google and Lemmy usernames, and I leave a public comment), you can use Google Lens (in browser!) and crop the area of focus, and unlike most QR readers that only apply a linear transform (perspective correction), it works for QR codes on bent surfaces.
I have been using the one I use for 10 years, but the one you sent looks pretty good too. Being open source is a green flag for me too, when I started using mine there were no good open-source qr-readers, that’s why I went with this one.
Cursed image
My QR Code Scanner app can recognize Qr codes in all sizes and from many angles but it won’t ever scan the ones without border, like if I’m on dark mode on some websites
That’s because the border is part of the code, otherwise it can’t ‘see’ the three boxes that it uses for orientation.
iPhone can figure it out without the border ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Second one feels naked
uwu
whats this?
I know it’s a shitpost but it’s not really how that meme format is supposed to work
Well, at least it worked.
It feels constricted, almost suffocating.
It’s like putting a glass of water right on the edge of the table. Give it some space ffs.
It’s the same with text.
Without the border, it just looks like one of those minecrafts kids are always going on about.
Is it a Rick Roll? It’s a Rick Roll, isn’t it?
checks anyway
Oh, it’s not a Rick Roll!
Yep.
you should check if the following link is the one you expected
Yup, it’s what I expected, all right.
Hey, I use the same QR scanner app!
For anyone else interested, it’s called “QR Scanner” by SECUSO
I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling, gotta make you, understand
Surprise, it’s a Rick Roll after all!
It is not weird. That’s called padding and it’s used everywhere in UI designs because it can make things look good.
Makes my hips look good as well 😏
The bottom is giving “Here’s Johnny!”
I spent 20 years in graphic design shit and wish I’d thought of something as cool as “quiet zone”.
I’ve seen at least one company press kit in rules on how to display their logo refer to it as “respect distance”.
I’ve usually used “clear space” because that’s common with spaces around logos but i like respect distance. though I don’t know what people in general would think of it after social distancing being associated with a terrible period of our lives.
Personally I’m going to start saying “quiet zone” instead white space. I’ll probably get dumb looks anyway.
Not quite the same but “bleed” is pretty cool!
I’ve never given it a single thought.
I don’t mind in this case
QR Codes won’t work without the white margin.
Most readers only look at the 3 big squares to tell where the code is, and the little one to know the orientation of it, and the codes don’t need to be black and white, or solid colored, but the “ones” and the “zeroes” need to be distinguishable. Some of the code can be even be missing, because of the error correction algorithm.
Ok, what’s your point and how is this related to my comment?
You said that „QR Codes won’t work without the white margin.”. I said that they don’t even need all of the code to work, and that they don’t need margins.
QR codes need the margin. That is how a QR code is structured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qr_code#Standards
No, it’s just a good to have. I have made this art-piece as a demonstration (it’s a link to this post):
And here’s me reading it without a problem:
dude. this is pretty cool.
Nice profile picture!
