QR-Swastika-Avoider

33 points | by gregsadetsky 2 hours ago

26 comments

  • rationalist an hour ago

    I'm not sure I've ever noticed a swastika in a QR code before, but I guess better safe than sorry.

  • pomtom an hour ago

    How about using the term Hakenkreuz or something similar to represent the anti-semitic meaning and stop appropriating the term Swastika? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

      disillusioned an hour ago

      For the very obvious reason that the percentage of population aware of what the term Hakenkreuz means is literal orders of magnitude smaller than those familiar with the term Swastika?

      I mean, feel free to run a "taking Swastika back" information campaign, but also, you know, good luck.

  • snypher an hour ago

    I'd like to see one that stops accidental generation of strings like 'nakba'.

      GlacierFox an hour ago

      Right on! I generated one the other day that said 'Oct7'. I'll put it on a hat for you if you like.

  • bitlax an hour ago

    Maybe his next repo can obscure blacks-with-their-pants-down memes.

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  • daneel_w an hour ago

    Article makes no mention of what 900+ million Hindus may feel about the whole thing. It's possible the author doesn't even know what the swastika is, or that he is willfully ignorant because "Indians and Asians live somewhere else".

      simonw an hour ago

      It isn't hurting Hindus to run code that ensures a QR code doesn't include that sequence of squares.

        daneel_w an hour ago

        The unilateral West-first perspective is a problem.

  • gfalcao an hour ago

    brilliant

  • Razengan an hour ago

    Why not reclaim the original usage of the swastika instead of perpetuating the taint?

    In Asian nations people who have never heard of the Nazis still use the swastika.

    Do the version of "your parents using slang" to make it uncool

      simonw an hour ago

      Because you'd need to re-educate hundreds of millions of people, and it's a pretty weak message: "this symbol of hatred and genocide has other meanings, too!"

      ... and you'll be playing into the hands of people who want to get a swastika tattoo and then pretend they didn't mean any harm by doing so.

        daneel_w an hour ago

        Yeah that sounds like a really sound rationale. It's only far more than a billion people to whom the symbol has a powerful and positive meaning. Let's completely ignore that and say that the 80 year old Western perspective is a lot more important.

        vlian2088 an hour ago

        those people are far less numerous than you seem to believe. also, the current far right is not particularly fond of tattoos.

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  • jojobas an hour ago

    Now do swastika enforcer.

      nayuki 18 minutes ago

      I guess one could rack through many QR Code parameters while encoding the same payload text: Version (40 sizes with capacity constraints), 4 error correction levels (with capacity constraints), 8 mask patterns, splitting text into various blocks (with capacity constraints), using different character encoding modes (if applicable to the text), putting garbage data after the terminator (violates the spec, but can be a huge boost for generating some custom patterns).

        PunchyHamster 13 minutes ago

        or just draw one and let error correction handle the rest

  • adt an hour ago

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  • kotberg an hour ago

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  • lobito25 an hour ago

    Get a life