Here’s pure nerdlyness: there’s a linux command-line qr-decoder “zbar”, and it is sufficiently impressive (plus qrcode’s error correction) that one can decode the halo gaming URL just by pointing zbarimg at the URL of the image (right-click copy image location) on this BoingBoing copy of that image (take that NFTs!) …it decodes to “www.skyqr.io/halo” should anyone care. (“Oh yeah? well I barely aimed my iPhone-13 camera at the screen and it went ahead and bought the game using my credit card, played the game, and went into sleep-mode on the couch!”)
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