I think this thread answers that question 🙂. I reckon it just sounds scary to make your own QR code, especially if you don't particularly understand the process, so folks just search for someone to do it for them. This is how all those QR codes you see at restaurants and on signs work, it only needs to be generated once and then the image can be put anywhere on the internet or in meatspace (though they probably often use some kind of dynamic link for stats, too).

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What data? The URL is encoded into the QR code.

Like a barcode, the numbers don't need storing externally. The bars *are* the numbers. The QR code image *is* the URL. When you scan the code, your phone decodes the image into the link and then takes you directly there, no third party needed.

What that service might have been doing is linking the QR code to their server, which then looked up your link and forwarded them to it (after collecting the visitor's statistics and cookies). The only real advantage that would provide is allowing you to update the target link after the fact.

A URL can be encoded directly into a QR code. Once it is created you could print it, upload it to any image sharing site, or include it in an email / on a Wordpress site, etc. 👍

You could do this as a page in your browser on your own desktop. Might even be able to do it just with vibecoding. Tell AI you want a standalone web page with a text box and a button that uses a QR generator library to turn the text in the box into a QR code.

I got a pumpkin pie yesterday after missing it over Thanksgiving... all that is left is mild regret. Very mild.

Learned helplessness. I think everybody just realized how powerless we are against the elites. Americans don't want wars and genocide, but politicians on both sides continue to support warmonger. Also to say we should push for a ceasefire would mean the govt or media admitting the peace there was very temporary.

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So I guess you think that everyone should be more like you, eh? Judging from your display in this thread, I'm happy that the world mostly ignores you.

Cool, you aren't a lefty. You're still a cunt. If you can't see that this dude just communicates differently, that's a reflection of your own intelligence, not his.

Shut the fuck up and accept that people believe and communicate differently from you. Stop telling yourself that everyone who doesn't believe exactly like you is either evil or a bot. You're making your team look bad. I know that because I left the left exactly because of people like you.

I was defending you.

You might not be a bot but you definitely sound like a cunt. You and I probably mostly agree on Trump, but that's no reason to go talking like this to people who communicate differently. You're not the good guy here, asshole.