Today I shill an old project of mine, unrelated to Nostr: https://github.com/dtonon/papiro

Papiro is a very simple tool for storing any data in physical form by printing qrcodes on one or more pages. I created it a couple of years ago for a personal need; maybe it can be useful to you too to improve your backup strategy. Try it :)

Why QR Codes on paper?Because paper seems the most resilient and cost-effective storage medium on earth, at least for low volume data, and QR Codes have an interesting error-checking system. So it is a nice backup solution to pair with digital ones.

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I have been wondering.. why not using just a toml print and parsing it with OCR?

It would be a custom OCR to optimise it for specifically this format, as already existing OCRs are "too smart" as they expect more than just a TOML.

For the QR Code, any scanner is already optimised to the specifics of a QR Code. QR Codes always look & work the same. No custom engine needed.

now I want an animated QR that I can scan to show me a cat 🤔

Nice idea!

I thought about this possibility (exporting a gif) but this would have overly complicated the retrieval process with a custom smarphone application. Like this: https://github.com/divan/txqr

Maybe for the 2024 version :)

This is pretty cool!

nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl only shows me PSBT, a cat would be next level tho :)

The perfect decoy feature!

This Divan dude's photo looks familiar. I must have browsed his GitHub profile for some reason. Can't remember

Is it possible to etch a QR into glass? That would be more fire resistant and wouldn't age at all.

at this point you might as well embed the visual data as well with something like this

https://qrbtf.com/gallery

Sounds like an amazing idea, but I'm sick & tired of most people assuming QR Codes are the only real thing out there.

In reality, there are many different codes out there & Aztec is the overall best!

It is TONS more reliable than QR Codes, especially printed out, in the wild.

Error correction works much smoother, etc. It is also more efficient, if I remember correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Code