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QR-Swastika-Avoider
- lobito25 3mo ago[flagged]
- kotberg 3mo ago[flagged]
- rationalist 3mo agoI'm not sure I've ever noticed a swastika in a QR code before, but I guess better safe than sorry.
- bombcar 3mo agoIf this exists then logically the inverse can be made …
- disillusioned 3mo agoSurprised Grok hasn't already incorporated an "ensure Swastikas are buried in any QR codes we generate" skill into the model...
- pseudohadamard 3mo agoWas thinking the same thing, although I'd go for penis-shaped QR codes before swastikas, because dick jokes never get old.
- bombcar 3mo agoQueeR codes is right there - run with it!
- jdalgetty 3mo agoI bet we wont be able to stop seeing them after reading this.
- keane 3mo agoLike the FedEx arrow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
- Razengan 3mo agoWhy 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 3mo agoBecause 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 3mo agoYeah 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 3mo agothose 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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- Razengan 3mo agoThere was a time when pentagrams and tattoos of SATAN were edgy and controversial Now it's "ehh" Only silly people still use them unironically and only silly people get offended by them.
- simonw 3mo agoI don't think it's silly to get offended by a swastika tattoo.
- snypher 3mo agoI'd like to see one that stops accidental generation of strings like 'nakba'.
- GlacierFox 3mo agoRight on! I generated one the other day that said 'Oct7'. I'll put it on a hat for you if you like.
- weregiraffe 3mo agoI'd like to see one that stops the accidental generation of muslim death cults.
- jojobas 3mo agoNow do swastika enforcer.
- nayuki 3mo agoI 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 3mo agoor just draw one and let error correction handle the rest
- daneel_w 3mo agoArticle 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 3mo agoIt isn't hurting Hindus to run code that ensures a QR code doesn't include that sequence of squares.
- daneel_w 3mo agoThe unilateral West-first perspective is a problem.
- moi2388 3mo agoNot really. Not having a swastika is not a problem in the slightest. Indians can also perfectly fine create versions which do include them if they’d prefer that.
- mdp2021 3mo ago> It isn't hurting Hindus No, it's hurting all sensible people.
- kgwxd 3mo agoPretty sure the author doesn't intend to enforce the entire world to run QR generation through this code. I'm not stoked Roblox doesn't let me type my real name and phone number into chat. But I can still go to the playground, and say whatever I want. Those 900+ mill people might appreciate a QR-Swastika-Maximizer. Maybe you should author and host one for them. Be the good you want in the world.
- gfalcao 3mo agobrilliant
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- bitlax 3mo ago[flagged]
- pomtom 3mo agoHow 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
- disillusioned 3mo agoFor 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.
- pseudohadamard 3mo agoAlso, the Hakenkreuz is a pub in Schweinewalde, Saxony, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tpEXvWUeIw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tpEXvWUeIw (in German).
- mdp2021 3mo ago> the percentage of population aware Very much not a good reason - in fact, a very bad reason. Conformist, destructive, declining, orwellian... You are not to speak like the ignorant.
- adt 3mo ago[flagged]
- gumby 3mo agoYou need the flipped chirality which in extensive use and is a Unicode code point.
- ButlerianJihad 3mo agoInterestingly, a recent news story on several buildings in Northwest Texas that incorporated swastikas in their design, interviewed some experts who explained that it was specifically the "tilted cross" design that was used in Nazi symbolism, and the non-tilted versions are more likely to be benign, Native American or Asian usages. https://youtu.be/8uH3gIzqnVM?si=24KFsG85FRJ29Y05 https://youtu.be/8uH3gIzqnVM?si=24KFsG85FRJ29Y05 And of course this app gets it wrong, and avoids the benign uses, because it is quite impossible to render a "tilted swastika" image on a QR code! Absurd!
- weregiraffe 3mo agoOooooh, magic symbol scares me.
- daft_pink 3mo agoMakes me wonder if it’s possible to add images to QR codes. Not a swastika of course but if you can remove something, can you add it?
- mitioshi 3mo agoWhat a redditor thing to write, haha We need a crate that suggests something inappropriate in QRs instead
- TRiG_Ireland 3mo agoI can see this being a useful feature for some people in some situations. It's a pity it doesn't detect an angled one, which is the variant the Nazis mostly used. The conversation here is depressingly juvenile.