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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Honestly literally anything about QR codes. Those things are insane. Did you know there's a very obvious 01010101010101 pattern in it if you know where to look?


(look in-between the paper)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah, timing marks! There's a few of them. So neat

[–] WhySoSalty 4 points 1 day ago

...mother fucker... That's neat!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ABasilPlant 2 points 1 day ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QR_Code_Structure_Example_3.svg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

OP is talking about the alternating pattern between the two straw papers. In the SVG from Wikipedia, this corresponds to the "timing"