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by atoav 1825 days ago
Becaus sometimes you need your solution to be used be the public, voluntarily. If they have to install an extra app to read your "looks-like-QR-code-but-not-quite" thing, then you have at least an increased risk of not getting the adoption you want to get.

This is not a realistic choice for many projects.
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dolmen 1825 days ago
Do you mean that humans will have to decode Base45?

If not, there is a software layer anyway. Adding another skin to the onion is not the best way to compress data.

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cellularmitosis 1825 days ago
The issue is that there are two layers of software: the SDK, and the software which you write which uses the SDK.

If the crash is happening in the SDK (on binary QR codes), then your only option is to ditch binary QR and implement a workaround.

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