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  >utility

f'.... utility is the bane of existence...

i can now embed an obfuscated <script> in a barely-discernible QR code that exists solely on the spectroscopic output of an arbitrary noise

the stegacoustic opportunities also have practical phylactologic applications, outside of inane google easteregg hunts to find tail-end dwellers

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No, we've been able to do that since 1995, when the <script> tag was first invented. (Shortly after 1994, when we got the QR code.) But a QR code would definitely be audible as a series of quiet beeps, unless you exploited auditory masking.

  >But a QR code would definitely be audible as a series of quiet beeps, unless you exploited auditory masking.

The article we are discussing, and just a cursory google search, may interest you.

https://antfu.me/posts/ai-qrcode

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