Antonia  
Oct 18 at 10:11amWeb
Show threadAntonia  Oct 18
Now I'm imagining @q sending this chart to the German government requesting the government to tag themselves
Show threadFionaOct 18
@antonia I recently learned in Zeitzeichen (they have some links to sources in the description) that some people have at least serious doubts if the Voynich Manuscript ever was understood, or if it was only created to look like it could be. ​​
Rätselhafte Schrift aus dem Mittelalter: Das Voynich-Manuskript

Dieses handschriftliche Rätsel ist und bleibt ein Mysterium: Am 7.10.1915 wird das geheimnisvolle Voynich-Manuskript der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. Doch was steht darin?

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Show threadAntonia  Oct 18
@airtower well someone put some thought into it at some point
Show threadFionaOct 18
@antonia That definitely! ​​
Show threadГригорий КлюшниковOct 18
I've lost count of how many times I've seen people point at a data matrix code or some other kind of square 2D barcode that is not QR and confidently refer to it as a "QR code"
Show threadArina Artemis  Oct 18
@antonia Ohh, so that’s how these funky codes on Barcelona bus stops are called!
Show threadLucas WerkmeisterOct 18
@antonia reading about CueCat’s inventor was a wild ride, thank you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Hutton_Pulitzer
J. Hutton Pulitzer - Wikipedia

Show threadLukas 🎢🇨🇭Oct 18
@antonia schau @cycletux, Aztec ist ein QR Code! *duckundweg! 🤪
Show threadCatgirl momOct 18
@antonia NaviLens is technically 3D though
Show threadAntonia  Oct 18
@Nocta_Senestra a qr code is also 3d by that metric
Show threadCatgirl momOct 18
@antonia fair enough :')
Show threadprey ⏿Oct 18
@antonia i used to be able to sight read navilens!! (they just encode a fairly short hex code, the corners are alignment, the center is size, and a decent chunk of the rest is error correction which you can ignore)
Show thread[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSODOct 18
@antonia i actually was at a quasi-museum that used AZTEC codes and called them QR codes
Show threadNeville ParkOct 18
@antonia I think I still have a "declawed" CueCat lying around that works as a general-purpose barcode scanner!
Show threadHadley BeemanOct 18

@antonia I love this.

(Hat tip to @Edent for sending it my way)

Show threadKaizo Hellhound  Oct 30
@antonia since when was HCCB commonly understood? i can't find any complete reverse-engineered documentation on it or reimplementations of it, they're all missing the error-correction
Show threadFriedrich Delgado ✔️🎀Oct 30

@antonia My kids recently refered to an EAN-9 barcode as a QR code, because they simply didn't know the word "barcode".

Also I think I've read somewhere that it's even doubtful that the Voynich Manuscript is even from the middle ages.

Show thread23n27Oct 31
@antonia This annoys me more than it should because how is ISO 24778 (Aztec code) not a canonical standard?!
Show thread Δ-44203.1 'Carbon' Nov 5

mx @antonia, "Δ-44203 is a QR code".

alt text, because something eats it whenever this one tries to submit it: "the shell of Δ-44203 is marked with the carbo symbol, the text "delta 44203" and a barcode encoding the number 44203."

Show threadVincent SparksJan 23
@antonia a DataMark also fits in the top left quadrant. even if you are as pure as can be you must still accept things that are not QR codes