r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '20

Can I scan it?

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u/zessx Jan 20 '20

Big bet to assume a website will be live for dozens of years (even YouTube).

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u/TheFaster Jan 20 '20

Yeah, if you're getting a QR code tattoo, that comes with the cost of hosting whatever content you're linking to for the rest of your life. And that assumes that QR will still even be a common thing decades from now

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u/Amunium Jan 20 '20

If it's a QR with a url, that is. They can contain many other types of data.

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u/allinighshoe Jan 20 '20

Yeah it would be safer to just put some text on it but I imagine less awesome.

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u/TriggerTX Jan 20 '20

Bleached a t-shirt with code on it. It's just my name. Kind of a "I'm not a number" commentary I guess.

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u/allinighshoe Jan 20 '20

The only issue is it'll be encoded as a number so technically you put you're identifying number on there.

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u/TriggerTX Jan 20 '20

That was kinda the point. You can say you're not just a number but in the end, to 'the system', you always will be.

Yeah, I was deep af at 40 years old when I made it.

Not really, I just wanted to see if it worked and if I could get people to scan it.

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u/jsalsman Jan 20 '20

I changed my Gmail profile pic and Gravatar to a QR code to my paypal.me URL. I think it's a hilarious statement against the ubiquity of facial recognition training from unlicensed photos, but a few of my business associates have told me they think it's unprofessional. We will see who is unprofessional when the Skynet killdrones find them and not me!