This reminds me of car safety features, how drivers have become more complacent to offset the benefits. QR codes were made to be robust in the face of errors, but over time this has been eaten into for aesthetic purposes. Businesses commonly put a logo in the center, eating up some error correction budget. This likely has a similar effect.
Coincidentally came across this after reading a comment [1] under the recent post on _for-sale DNS records, visiting milk.com and scrolling through the owner's Mastodon
LOL! It's a sign of the times that, before I saw the year, I thought "that has to be AI generated", because this sort of outlandish silliness is exactly the type of thing that genAI excels at.
The guy that made that did a writeup on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/comments/1v52x96/
Diffusion image generation constrained to also be a valid QR code
So, technically, you can run Doom inside a QR code?
https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224882
Only needs a Rick Astley QR code (;->