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		lifthrasiir on Sept 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Q1K3 - An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript QR code can only contain up to 2953 arbitrary octets, which is way smaller than the imposed 13 KB limit.

Cthulhu_ on Sept 14, 2021 [–]

Standard QR codes maybe, but you can make bigger ones and there's QR-like systems that use colors and the like as well to store more data.

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