Tootfinder

Made another tool. Link Check will resolve any shortlink, including ones from LinkedIn.

This lets you see where a link leads you without clicking it, and helps you bypass any tracking that the shortlink engages in.

Since many QR codes make use of shortlinks, this is a good companion for understanding where QR codes take you.

https://toolbox.axbom.com/linkcheck/

19:10 fixed a spelling mistake

Dommage de ne pas avoir mis l'url :
- on ne peut pas vérifier le QR code
- on doit utiliser une application
#sncf

Purdue University's student newspaper The Exponent took 3,000 "solidarity" issues to Indiana University, after IU cut the Indiana Daily Student's print edition (Brian Rosenzweig/The Herald-Times)
https://www…

Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.

#protip dla migrujących #Signal
Na obu telefonach zaktualizuj aplikację do najnowszej wersji, bo inaczej po zeskanowania kodu QR wyskoczy błąd. Niestety appka nie podsuwa prostego rozwiązania "zaktualizuj mnie" tylko musisz się domyślić. Żona przez tydzień nie mogła zmigrować, bo na s…

Sorry, for a minute there you may have arrived at my QR code decoder. Fixed the link now.

The SjŸforsvaret (Royal Norwegian Navy) has large QR codes on the sides of their vessels, so when ships return to port they can scan the navy in...

QR-Code zum "Kokstaxi": "Keine Gefahr steigender Nachfrage"
Bunte Sticker und QR-Codes: In Großstädten liefern Dealer Rauschgift direkt an die Straßenecke. Die Polizei kennt die Strategie, sieht aber keine neue Qualität.

Jetzt unterschreiben: https://www.change.org/p/der-lammerskopf-darf-nicht-aus-der-windenergieplanung-gestrich…

Några minns kanske att jag kritiserade hur Bris hanterar QR-koder på mjölkpaket tidigare i år, med kortlänkar och beroende till en byrå. Nu har byrån gått i konkurs och Bris-sajten går inte att nå. Vilket blir exempel, snabbare än jag anade, på hur dumt det var för Bris att göra sig beroende av en subdomän hos sin byrå. Har nog aldrig känt ett större behov av att ropa “Vad var det jag sa!?” 😬

Deras kampanj har nämligen fortsatt till åtminstone för ett par veckor sedan. Nu är alla QR-ko…

"QR-Codes barrierefrei gestalten" von Domingos de Oliveira: #QR

In case you're trying to export your E-mail accounts from Thunderbird Desktop to Thunderbird Mobile, there's a bug with the QR code you need to set your Thunderbird Desktop Theme to Light in order for the QR Code reader built into Thunderbird Mobile to read some of them (yes, really).
I just struggled 20 minutes with this 😂

Kann mir jemand, der schon #wero nutzt, einen QR Code schicken, mit dem Mal Geld anfordern kann? Gerne mit irgendwelchen Beträgen voreingestellt.
Url dahinter würde mir auch ausreichen.
Ich möchte gerne analysieren, wie die qr codes aufgebaut sind.

Wer geht heute um 15 Uhr mit zu #FFF in #Würzburg?
Treffpunkt: QR Code Platz (Eichhornstraße)
https://fff-wue.de/

Not sure if it'll be useful, but looks good 🤔
Too bad I can't add a Share/Download (image) button due to CORS issue (avatar image and header image). Possibly can fallback to just pure solid-color version but doesn't look as pretty 😆
For context, Mastodon Android app has this https://bl…

Wild. Per Post an "Sehr geehrte Kunden der Volksbank", ohne Name oder Adresse, ein Farbdruck eines angeblichen Schreibens der Volksbank mit Aufforderung, per QR-Code Kundendaten zu aktualisieren. Verschickt als Infobrief. Es scheint sich zu lohnen.

Jag kanske inte ska ropa hej. Något verkar ha ändrats i deras DNS den här morgonen. Jag snubblade över det av en slump(!), tro det eller ej. Kanske har de bara tillfälligt klantat till det så att det kommer tillbaka om några timmar.

Spännande ändå. Och faktiskt helt galet att jag upptäckte det. Satt och pillade med ett eget verktyg för att visa kortlänks-destinationer utan att behöva klicka på kortlänken. Kom ihåg QR-kodlänken och testade med den. Fick felmeddelande direkt. Trodde verk…

Binary Eye
#QRcode #Fdroid #Android

Da mein gestriger Post zum analogen Vodafone-Scamversuch unerwartet hohe Aufmerksamkeit erhält, folgen heute einige Infos für Interessierte:
1. Bild des Schreibens. Die Schwärzungen habe ich nachträglich hinzugefügt, um meine persönlichen Informationen nicht öffentlich zu machen.
2. Der QR-Code ist ein Shortlink zur Domain vod.af, gefolgt von den Buchstaben uiqxbs. Die Domain ist von Vodafone, aber wohin der komplette Shortlink führt, habe ich nicht ausprobiert.

👀 #11ty #webdev Announcing a new 11ty Shortlink and QR Code Generator purl.im (https://www.adamdjbrett.com/blog/2025-12-15-eleventy-shortlinks-qr-code-purl/).

"From beef to timber, a new era of labels will reveal where your shopping comes from"
#Food #Climate #ClimateChange

From beef to timber, a new era of labels will reveal where your shopping comes from
Have you noticed new country-of-origin labels or QR codes on your shopping? Tighter labelling on items such as beef and timber mean shoppers can avoid products linked to illegal logging or deforestation.

Delighted that my watch can display the QR codes used for train travel, disappointed at the convolution in displaying the left upper wrist to a right-hand side camera, when traversing barriers.

be there or be pudding
#Seattle @…

be there or be pudding
#Seattle @…

The #EuroSkyLive name badges have a QR code that opens in Flashes.app and links you to a starter pack of attendees.
This is great! Going to steal this idea for #ATmosphereConf

We got our #flu & #Covid shots today. Woohoo.
#ProTip: if you’re getting yours at a Walgreens with an appt. and you see a sign with a QR code to check in for your shot, don’t do that if you can avoid it. It’l…

Youtube putzt sich für große Fernseher heraus
Youtube will auf Fernsehapparaten besser dastehen. KI-Upscaling, QR-Codes und bessere Suche sollen helfen.
https://www.heise.de/news/Youtube-putzt-…

Habe mich gefreut, heute in der #UniBielefeld diese Plakate zu sehen.
Die Demo ist am 5.11. ab 13 Uhr vor dem Landtag in #Düsseldorf.
Vorsicht: Der QR-Code führt zu Whatsapp.
#SchlussverkaufBildung

A tiny side-project that I can hopefully pull through: reverse engineering an audio box for kids that works with proprietary “tokens.” Like a cassette player but rigid af. Use and dispose. #hackerspace #netz39
First stop, getting info about chips and pins. A cheap USB microcontroller it i…

TIL: If you note down the value of your Rema 1000 [a Norwegian grocery store] account number from the EAN-13 barcode in their shopping app and just re-encode it as QR, the scanners in store will handle this. 😉
#Rema1000

A Simple but Effective Elaborative Query Reformulation Approach for Natural Language Recommendation
Qianfeng Wen, Yifan Liu, Justin Cui, Joshua Zhang, Anton Korikov, George-Kirollos Saad, Scott Sanner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02656

A Simple but Effective Elaborative Query Reformulation Approach for Natural Language Recommendation
Natural Language (NL) recommender systems aim to retrieve relevant items from free-form user queries and item descriptions. Existing systems often rely on dense retrieval (DR), which struggles to interpret challenging queries that express broad (e.g., "cities for youth friendly activities") or indirect (e.g., "cities for a high school graduation trip") user intents. While query reformulation (QR) has been widely adopted to improve such systems, existing QR methods tend to focus only on expandin…

Moody Urbanity - Relations 👥
情绪化城市 - 关系 👥
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

SEQR: Secure and Efficient QR-based LoRA Routing
William Fleshman, Benjamin Van Durme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18093 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18093

SEQR: Secure and Efficient QR-based LoRA Routing
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a standard technique for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models, enabling large libraries of LoRAs, each for a specific task or domain. Efficiently selecting the correct LoRA adapter for a given input remains a challenge, particularly in secure environments where supervised training of routers may raise privacy concerns. Motivated by previous approaches, we formalize the goal of unsupervised LoRA routing in terms of activation norm maximiz…

Folks using #PhanpySocialDev , there are 2 new features that need a bit of testing:
1. QR code for profiles and shortcuts settings - includes scanner (camera) too
2. Import/export accounts - the export *excludes* access tokens, so need to login again after import
They’re quite hidden, so just a heads-up 🙇‍♂️

#openalt A great start to the day with a #peertube talk. If you wish to support the Czech instance, see the screens. @…

In Android XR, there's an APK for that, and no need for a phone or PC https://www.uploadvr.com/android-xr-apk-for-that-no-need-for-pc-phone/

Pewnym świadectwem kultury technicznej są kody QR. Zwłaszcza wówczas, kiedy spotykamy albo szalenie złożone kody, świadczące o długim adresie URL, albo kody z adresem skróconym przez zewnętrzny serwis. Rzadko kto dzisiaj po prostu przygotowuje własny krótki adres bądź przekierowanie na potrzeby takiego kodu.
#QRcode

Error: password cannot be valid QR code

Sometimes my browser suddenly asks me, hey do you want to scan a QR code with your phone? It’s very safe! And then I say no.
That’s my experience with passkeys. I would love to try them, but I don’t get this UI around it.

In #Zürich sind mir kürzlich neu so dünne, gestrichelte weisse Linien auf den Strassen aufgefallen, und wenn man sucht, findet man solche QR-Codes, welche auf das Trottoir geklebt sind.
Sie führen auf eine Page des Tiefbauamts, auf welcher sämtliche Unterlagen zum Tiefbauprojekt einsehbar sind. So sieht der Bürger mal, welche (digitalen) Papierstösse hier gewälzt werden.
Nur der Klebe…

These #steam "Vote for my team" phishing scams are boring, when the scammer starts ignoring your time wasting questions.
But the phishing site itself is quite clever. Fake login popup, but the shown QR code is real!
Turning your steam "2"FA app against you (if you don't verify the location and IP of the login attempt before accepting)
scan it with the steam a…

#openstreetmap folks: Is there a key/tag to denote that a restaurant only does QR code based menus? 🙈

#DNS trivia, especially for those have ever used the "It was DNS" meme. What is wrong with this (real) dig response and what is the likely cause? AI probably won't help you.

dig @1.1.1.1 foobar.gov  norecurse  nocmd  noquestion  noauthority  nostats
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1808
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, A…

Beautiful Burnout (fucking chills) https://youtu.be/aYYu1lO97SI?si=L4FH3Vqr-jXwLJd3

Bra exempel på en av mina stora samtida pet peeves: varor som görs till subjekt och tilltalar en.
https://mastodon.social/@mogwai_poet/115453315237969031

Jim Stormdancer (@mogwai_poet@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image This burger is offering me a free burger. Is it offering itself, or has it enslaved the other sentient burgers, trying to make me complicit? Do I *want* to join this burger's rewards? What kind of life do the rewards have? The QR code isn't answering any of these questions. #food

School have once more sent me an email with a PDF attachment containing an image of a QR code they want me to scan to visit a URL.

Pencil and paper? Just show us a qr code. #totp

A Monoid Ring Approach to Color Visual Cryptography
Maximilian Reif, Jens Zumbr\"agel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00763 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0076…

A Monoid Ring Approach to Color Visual Cryptography
A visual cryptography scheme is a secret sharing scheme in which the secret information is an image and the shares are printed on transparencies, so that the secret image can be recovered by simply stacking the shares on top of each other. Such schemes do therefore not require any knowledge of cryptography tools to recover the secret, and they have widespread applications, for example, when sharing QR codes or medical images. In this work we deal with visual cryptography threshold schemes for c…

The #citibank #singapore website is an absolute goldmine of #uxfail.
Want to login? Scan a QR code with the app.. Then enter an OTP code sent via SMS (because that's secure). Now you…

Suite de l’aventure avec le contrôle des habitants de Lausanne: Après 19 jours, je reçois un mail avec une “convocation” disant que je dois payer 35 francs d’avance. Le document de cette convocation ne mentionne même pas la demande, n’a pas de bulletin de versement, il y a seulement un QR code et un délais (21 janvier 2026!) qui - j’espère - me dirigera vers d’autres explications. Kafka. Il faut que je trouve maintenant un autre appareil pour photographier le QR-code.

@… Hmm… My dishwasher has a thing where you can hold the LG app up to it and it will listen for some digitally encoded message via the microphone.
Sort of like the old dialup tones.
Could we come up with some standard so you can optionally “listen” to the URL over the phone, rather than verbally parsing it?
Sort of like scanning a QR code with t…

#PhanpySocial changelog ✨
🤳 QR code for profiles and shortcuts settings
🔃 Import/export accounts
📸 Extract description from attached image metadata
🐛 Bug fixes
🔗 https://phanpy.social/
…

Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

Kolejny skarb z archiwum. Pamiętacie jak mieliśmy takie fajne rzeczy, jak "WWW WEB"?
(Też nie wiem, gdzie to jest, ale "DZPK" sugeruje #DolnyŚląsk. 2017.)
#Polska #ŁamanyAngielski

Le QR-code m’amène sur le site de Lausanne où après de click et des click, après entrant l’adresse e-mail deux fois plus le numéro de téléphone, j’ai le droit de payer par Twint. C’est ce qu’on appelle un client captif.