QR-Swastika-Avoider

ggregsadetsky about 3 hours ago 28 commentsRead Article on crates.io

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rationalist•about 3 hours ago

I'm not sure I've ever noticed a swastika in a QR code before, but I guess better safe than sorry.

jdalgetty•about 3 hours ago

I bet we wont be able to stop seeing them after reading this.

keane•about 3 hours ago

Like the FedEx arrow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

bombcar•about 3 hours ago

If this exists then logically the inverse can be made …

disillusioned•about 2 hours ago

Surprised Grok hasn't already incorporated an "ensure Swastikas are buried in any QR codes we generate" skill into the model...

pseudohadamard•35 minutes ago

Was thinking the same thing, although I'd go for penis-shaped QR codes before swastikas, because dick jokes never get old.

gumby•about 1 hour ago

You need the flipped chirality which in extensive use and is a Unicode code point.

pomtom•about 2 hours ago

How about using the term Hakenkreuz or something similar to represent the anti-semitic meaning and stop appropriating the term Swastika? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

disillusioned•about 2 hours ago

For the very obvious reason that the percentage of population aware of what the term Hakenkreuz means is literal orders of magnitude smaller than those familiar with the term Swastika?

I mean, feel free to run a "taking Swastika back" information campaign, but also, you know, good luck.

pseudohadamard•26 minutes ago

Also, the Hakenkreuz is a pub in Schweinewalde, Saxony, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tpEXvWUeIw (in German).

snypher•about 3 hours ago

I'd like to see one that stops accidental generation of strings like 'nakba'.

GlacierFox•about 2 hours ago

Right on! I generated one the other day that said 'Oct7'. I'll put it on a hat for you if you like.

bitlax•about 3 hours ago

Maybe his next repo can obscure blacks-with-their-pants-down memes.

ButlerianJihad•about 1 hour ago

Interestingly, a recent news story on several buildings in Northwest Texas that incorporated swastikas in their design, interviewed some experts who explained that it was specifically the "tilted cross" design that was used in Nazi symbolism, and the non-tilted versions are more likely to be benign, Native American or Asian usages.

https://youtu.be/8uH3gIzqnVM?si=24KFsG85FRJ29Y05

And of course this app gets it wrong, and avoids the benign uses, because it is quite impossible to render a "tilted swastika" image on a QR code! Absurd!

gfalcao•about 3 hours ago

brilliant

Razengan•about 3 hours ago

Why not reclaim the original usage of the swastika instead of perpetuating the taint?

In Asian nations people who have never heard of the Nazis still use the swastika.

Do the version of "your parents using slang" to make it uncool

simonw•about 2 hours ago

Because you'd need to re-educate hundreds of millions of people, and it's a pretty weak message: "this symbol of hatred and genocide has other meanings, too!"

... and you'll be playing into the hands of people who want to get a swastika tattoo and then pretend they didn't mean any harm by doing so.

Razengan•about 1 hour ago

There was a time when pentagrams and tattoos of SATAN were edgy and controversial

Now it's "ehh"

Only silly people still use them unironically and only silly people get offended by them.

simonw•about 1 hour ago

I don't think it's silly to get offended by a swastika tattoo.

daneel_w•about 2 hours ago

Yeah that sounds like a really sound rationale. It's only far more than a billion people to whom the symbol has a powerful and positive meaning. Let's completely ignore that and say that the 80 year old Western perspective is a lot more important.

vlian2088•about 2 hours ago

those people are far less numerous than you seem to believe. also, the current far right is not particularly fond of tattoos.

daneel_w•about 3 hours ago

Article makes no mention of what 900+ million Hindus may feel about the whole thing. It's possible the author doesn't even know what the swastika is, or that he is willfully ignorant because "Indians and Asians live somewhere else".

simonw•about 2 hours ago

It isn't hurting Hindus to run code that ensures a QR code doesn't include that sequence of squares.

daneel_w•about 2 hours ago

The unilateral West-first perspective is a problem.

jojobas•about 3 hours ago

Now do swastika enforcer.

nayuki•about 2 hours ago

I guess one could rack through many QR Code parameters while encoding the same payload text: Version (40 sizes with capacity constraints), 4 error correction levels (with capacity constraints), 8 mask patterns, splitting text into various blocks (with capacity constraints), using different character encoding modes (if applicable to the text), putting garbage data after the terminator (violates the spec, but can be a huge boost for generating some custom patterns).

PunchyHamster•about 2 hours ago

or just draw one and let error correction handle the rest

lobito25•about 3 hours ago

Get a life