• darklands@reddthat.comOP
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    27 days ago

    Of course. But a fun (actual) showerthought nonetheless. As I remembered it earlier today, a qr-code (version 40) can hold about 3000 bytes.

    Version 40: 177x177 modules, can hold up to 7,089 numeric characters, 4,296 alphanumeric characters, 2,953 bytes of data, or 1,817 kanji characters.

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      Indeed!

      I actually encoded a 256 byte DOS assembly demo (not written by me) into a self decoding plain text batch file, and then for the hell of it encoded that into a QR code.

      Again, disclaimer, I didn’t write the original code, but it was fun to convert into a QR code.

      https://youtube.com/watch?v=LSAJTQiQ0DA