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let’s go to cemeteries and deface the QR codes to have them point towards this post, funniest guerilla marketing campaign ever
I mean, given the different but not random patterns to them, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone thought them to be a writing system. They’re not entirely far off from one, just one designed for computers.
Yeah this is probably easy to crack, although not sure they’ll use the same URL structure, personally I’d put a text not an URL but personally I’d also like my body to be tossed in the trash, or wild, dunno but burial and cremation are either too expensive or I don’t like them but again I’d be dead
I wish sky burials were legal in the US. I wanna be picked apart by vultures dammit
I have a similar wish, except in my case it’s Brazil and I wish I could be picked apart by Great Horned Owls (jacurutus) instead.
Oh, I’m definitely adding a malware code to my tombstone.
At least a link to a jump scare site if nothing else.
To be fair, Apple doesn’t actually exist. His believers just attack you if you copy His Ideas and refuse to pay the tithe.
I read that Apple is just a successor belief to Samsung and that all the ideas wrapped up in the worship of Apple originated as Samsung worship. Like a pre-cursor dirty, sort of like dual theism to monotheism.
Future archeologists: “What do all those xyz mean”? (xyz = deprecated universe net protocol code, but nobody knows it anymore, because xyz also means a gazillion of other things)
“One prominent theory suggests they may be a sigil used in the worship of the deity ‘missingno’.”
They probably would figure out qr codes. Someone would put text underneath QR codes and relate it to the patterns.
It would be like Rosetta Stone and how it’s used to translate Egyptian heiroghlyphs. Future people might be confused as to why we have qr codes when we have writing
QRs are a lot more complex than that, though. It’s not a symbol mapping, it’s an encoding of a binary string, which then pieces of map to characters. And even if they do figure out how to decode them, they’ll just get the urls, which won’t mean anything without understanding the internet.
If human civilization loses continuity, we’re going to lose so much knowledge in the process. If another civilization proceeds us (either post collapse humans or some new species that goes down the big brain plus societal knowledge), they will truly live in a situation where there were ancients unfathomly advanced. It’s possible that some of the things we’re capable of now are forever the high point and no life on earth will ever understand that thing the same as we do now or better.
Though a lot of it will require a certain amount of advancement to even understand how advanced it is.
That said, any ink-based QR codes aren’t going to last for thousands or even hundreds of years. Engraved ones might, but the ink ones will probably depend on some advanced molecular/chemical methods to even figure out that they were once coloured black and white.
QRs are a lot more complex than that, though. It’s not a symbol mapping, it’s an encoding of a binary string, which then pieces of map to characters. And even if they do figure out how to decode them, they’ll just get the urls, which won’t mean anything without understanding the internet.
True. It probably would take them decades since it’s complicated. But they probably would associate patterns in the QR code to urls and text that come up a lot and eventually figure out how to decode QR codes. It would be funny that they would get useless url that provides next to no context.
It also interesting that the ink will probably only last few generations and well after the lives of anyone that cared about the deceased.
There are qr codes made from solid material. Like the material is black and the negative space is White
I wonder if, should they understand pieces of the url if they’ll think we were obsessed with weird minimalist poetry or something. Though I wouldn’t expect them to even get as far as seeing the urls that we see, considering any non-QR code urls will likely also fade away by then.
Looked into if they had enough qr codes they could fit them into categories based of the version patterns. It would be hard for them to figure out the url without URL below it. They probably will think it’s like brail like language or minimalist poetry as you say
A graveyard full of dead links. How spooky.
Technically, there’s nothing stopping them from just putting the full obituary text in the QR code.
But I know they’ll just use a link shortener…
I’m gonna get this one:
This will be mine:
i have one of those already. my bookmarks file on the home pc, which began life ~ early 2001 and has thousands (10s of thousands… probably) of entries. it’s been ‘de-duped’ a few times over the years, but i’ve never ran a dead-link checker on them.
I have one from 10 years ago that’s probably half dead. Websites just love changing their path structures and breaking every link and bookmark that pointed to them.
our small biz website is over twenty years old. it’s been through numerous designs, several different backends, moved servers five times… url schemes change, site organization and content changes… but every single url that once existed and no longer does today, has a redirect to the relevant existing page. every. single. one. it’s an ‘automatic’. it’s something i’ve always done dating back to the earliest of early days of http
I do the opposite. I’ll move an entire directory just because the URL looks a bit nicer and break every old link. I don’t want a billion old redirect entries bogging up the codebase. Fuck it, it’s my site
Obviously it’s your site and prerogative, but it’s not a great UX.
Good on you for doing that. When it’s 3rd party it can be out of your control. I know for software it’s not an easy choice to be locked into old schemas or going with a new one that might break things.
I have (unloaded) tabs that are years old and I’ll occasionally click on one and find a dead link. Yeesh
The Talos Principle
What future?
A subscription service etched in literal stone targeted at the emotionally vulnerable. Not even death will stop these techbros exploiting corpses for money.
Doesn’t have to be a URL. You can encode any data.
No subscription required.
Of course, it’ll erode over time.
I think you may be vastly overestimating the storage capacity of a QR code and the goodwill of any company attempting this. You’re not fitting obituaries in that, certainly not any image.
3 kilobytes more or less.
And if you want an image, well, put the image on the stone.
That’s like, the entirety of Mario on the nes in just 10 of em :)
scan next tombstone to proceed with installation
The more I read about history the more I don’t believe people were more or less superstitious than they are today. I think the way they spoke was the only difference
Half of us are OK with destroying the world because we’ll be rewarded afterwards.
We finally managed to crack the code! It’s an ancient dialect that hasn’t been spoken for millennia and we don’t know what it means, but at least we can decipher the image now!
We believe it was a religious enchantment of sorts. It reads: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
I don’t know how everyone else missed the obvious solution here.
Simply immortalize your obituary and image as an NFT, linked with the QR code. Not only is it saved forever on the blockchain, but also visitors can dynamically track ownership of your soul.
A qr code can hold data itself, like 3 kb. Using it for text and pictures is kind of redundant though since you could also just carve the picture and text on the tombstone.
Using it for an URL to be able to store more data seems like a bad idea for other reasons. The oldest still active URL is 35 years. Who knows what happens once the owner dies or just decides to stop maintaining it.
Also, for the relatives. Having to maintain the online page seems like a burden and an obstacle to letting go.
Perhaps the QR code spec defines the maximum to be 3kb but in practice that might not be ideal.
3kb is something like a 155 x 155 grid.
It would still work I guess but it would look ugly and would be harder to scan if it got dirty.
Make the tombstone an access point/server and the qr code the login to the WiFi.
The curse of the modern mummy would be a rootkit.
You Connect to the WiFi and your phone is cursed with malware.
