I'd like to see one that stops accidental generation of strings like 'nakba'.
Right on! I generated one the other day that said 'Oct7'. I'll put it on a hat for you if you like.
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#22How 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
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.
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#24Article 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".
It isn't hurting Hindus to run code that ensures a QR code doesn't include that sequence of squares.
The unilateral West-first perspective is a problem.
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#26Now do swastika enforcer.
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).
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#27Now do swastika enforcer.
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…
or just draw one and let error correction handle the rest
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#28Why 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
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.
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.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.
I don't think it's silly to get offended by a swastika tattoo.
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#30You need the flipped chirality which in extensive use and is a Unicode code point.