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steve_taylor
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Sounds like a cheap way to get my hands on some floppies.
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afiori
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you are right a stack of printed qr codes is better
heftig
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No, that's too easily machine-read. Print it in a fancy calligraphy font or one with ambiguous characters.
newswasboring
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That's too convenient, cameras can read many qr codes at a time. Encode the binary on some punch cards.
eptcyka
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Pretty sure cameras can be used to read punchcards too.
alex_suzuki
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This sounds like a fun project. Somebody already did it, apparently:
https://hackaday.com/2012/07/30/reading-punch-cards-with-an-...
sunaookami
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Reminds me of Lavabit where the US wanted the encryption keys and they printed them out in a 4 point font :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Legacy
throwaway456754
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They don't have to be cheap.
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