Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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22 qr-codes can store the same amount of data as the Commodore 64's RAM. (reddthat.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (8 children)

And the Commodore 64 can't decode them. Even if you fed it an algorithm that could decode them, you'd be out the memory of the algorithm.

All sounds fun on paper, but I enjoy storing terabytes of data on the Internet Archive, and sticking that to a QR code, just for fun.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Of course. But a fun (actual) showerthought nonetheless. As I remembered it earlier today, a qr-code (version 40) can hold about 3000 bytes.

Version 40: 177x177 modules, can hold up to 7,089 numeric characters, 4,296 alphanumeric characters, 2,953 bytes of data, or 1,817 kanji characters.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Indeed!

I actually encoded a 256 byte DOS assembly demo (not written by me) into a self decoding plain text batch file, and then for the hell of it encoded that into a QR code.

Again, disclaimer, I didn't write the original code, but it was fun to convert into a QR code.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LSAJTQiQ0DA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=LSAJTQiQ0DA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

MattKC totally made a version of snake that fits in a QR code, his website covers it too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

totally made a version of snake that fits in a QR code

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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