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by sschueller 3177 days ago
Since they take a screenshot of the console they could output a qr code and read that.
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dom0 3177 days ago
Patching the font colours are probably a few lines of diff, adding a QR code to a text-mode display... way more complicated.
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fapjacks 3177 days ago
That's sort of what they're doing. It's just a two-bit QR code: Red, and Not Red.
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gumoro 3177 days ago
So, one bit ;)
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fapjacks 3177 days ago
Hah! Yes, totally. Haha I wonder why I said that?
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BraveNewCurency 3177 days ago
There is also a "not decided yet" state. Hence, you were right, it needs two bits. :)
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