renzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoI have the weirdest aesthetic preferenceslemmy.worldimagemessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1749
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minus-squareWaxedWookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoThe complexity is likely a product of redundancy and error correction in the QR code rather than making it unique. You begin to run into issues with camera resolution and whatnot, but in theory those codes are likely more reliable.
minus-squareNιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-219 hours agoQR codes have built in redundancy and error correction, though. I guess if they had it turned up to the max for some reason?
minus-squareNoxy@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoyeah, qr codes have different levels of error correction that you can specify, could very be well turned up to the max or the url has a ton of tracking params appended to it for some reason
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours ago or the url has a ton of tracking params appended to it for some reason Ideally you should use a short URL that redirects to the full URL. The tracking parameters should be on the long URL, not the short one.
minus-squareNoxy@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoWhy is that ideal? Seems more prone to problems if the short URL service shuts down or suffers outages.
minus-squareWaxedWookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 hours agoYeah - that’d be my guess for an over-complicated code with minimal info.
The complexity is likely a product of redundancy and error correction in the QR code rather than making it unique. You begin to run into issues with camera resolution and whatnot, but in theory those codes are likely more reliable.
QR codes have built in redundancy and error correction, though. I guess if they had it turned up to the max for some reason?
yeah, qr codes have different levels of error correction that you can specify, could very be well turned up to the max
or the url has a ton of tracking params appended to it for some reason
Ideally you should use a short URL that redirects to the full URL. The tracking parameters should be on the long URL, not the short one.
Why is that ideal? Seems more prone to problems if the short URL service shuts down or suffers outages.
Yeah - that’d be my guess for an over-complicated code with minimal info.