QR codes are not meant for humans to read, they are meant for machines to read. Why do they want to make QR codes round or make them heart-shaped when they could just embrace the brutalist geometric QR code?

  • spiderhamster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I get that adding a QR code adds a tracking/metrics component to an organizations resources but as a user it pisses me off. Just put a human-readable URL there so I know what to do. I can remember www.poblanopete.com easier than I scan and load a page on my phone.

    My town has a poster downtown that says “Scan here to see a map of this downtown area”. WTF? Why not just put a fucking map there with an arrow that says “You are here?”. It at least makes me laugh every time I see it.

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 months ago

      I’m fairly pro qr code, at least over urls. Its just easier to scan and go to a website over sit and type out or worse take a picture and convince myself to go to it later to hand jam it.

      But not just printing the map is so silly lol

      • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        idk what mobile OS you have but on iOS you can actually long press text in an image and it’ll OCR it into an actual text element you can copy/paste, like so:

        I would imagine Android would have something similar but idk

        • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 months ago

          No! Not as far as I can see and I couldn’t find any foss software supported on my phone for it. That is a cool feature!