because a qr code containing the ~15k characters of the paper would be a full back piece of tiny dots. Probably unreadable anyways.
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mipadaitu@lemmy.world 1 month agoPlain text can also encode plain text. Why are we complicating this?
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Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Because you can’t read the article by reading it’s number, and there isn’t enough room for the whole article on normally visible parts of the body (not to mention the cost of that tattoo).
The QR code would give you a way to copy/paste the id so you can actually give and, you know, read the thing.