A graveyard full of dead links. How spooky.

I mean, given the different but not random patterns to them, I wouldn't be surprised if someone thought them to be a writing system. They're not entirely far off from one, just one designed for computers.

I'm sure funeral homes won't forget to renew the domains. Should have just encoded text.

A qr code can hold data itself, like 3 kb. Using it for text and pictures is kind of redundant though since you could also just carve the picture and text on the tombstone.

Using it for an URL to be able to store more data seems like a bad idea for other reasons. The oldest still active URL is 35 years. Who knows what happens once the owner dies or just decides to stop maintaining it.

Also, for the relatives. Having to maintain the online page seems like a burden and an obstacle to letting go.

We finally managed to crack the code! It's an ancient dialect that hasn't been spoken for millennia and we don't know what it means, but at least we can decipher the image now!

We believe it was a religious enchantment of sorts. It reads: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Is the actual obituary encoded into the qr (doesn't it look like it)? Or is it just a link to an ai slop site that will be offline in 3 months?

Edit:

It's a link.

http://www.qr-memories.com/timothytuttiett

Edit 2:

Their pricing is criminal. £200 for just the QR code.

Edit3: This is cringe but obviously something people want. I wonder if there is some way to do this for free/reasonable price in a way that isn't a total scam?

I think everyone is missing a key point. They won't last 2000 years, or even 100. Tech aside, nature will wear them off long before then.

What future?

Scanning public QR codes, yikes.

"One prominent theory suggests they may be a sigil used in the worship of the deity 'missingno'."

A subscription service etched in literal stone targeted at the emotionally vulnerable. Not even death will stop these techbros exploiting corpses for money.

If the QR codes on gravestones aren’t Rickrolls then what’s the point of dying anymore.

I once made and posted an absurdist/Kafkaesque drawing (not exactly drawing as I heavily edited my drawing on a GIMP-like mobile image editor to include lots of textual elements mimicking and mocking the writing style from most Western LLMs) imagining the dystopian concept of a techbro-sounding ads for a "smart coffin" ("kadve®").The coffin, made of carbon fiber, replaces the tombstone plaque with a hollow QR Code followed by the deceased's subscription plan ("kadAIver Premium+"), paid by the deceased's consciousness digitalized to a computer in "opt-out" conditions ("opt-out available only for Premium+ plans") who'd be kept working postmortem to a corporation like a disincarnated Sisyphus.Although I was imagining the QR code as a link to a necromantic "LLM-powered" simulacra, it was a QR code nevertheless, a QR code on a coffin, and I was imagining such a scenario in the not-so-far future, except... oh, dammit...! Now I understand the kind of struggle experienced by The Onion et al, trying to be more absurdist than the absurd reality. lol!microblogmemes@lemmy.world

Future archeologists: "What do all those xyz mean"? (xyz = deprecated universe net protocol code, but nobody knows it anymore, because xyz also means a gazillion of other things)

All fun and games until the funeral misspells your ghost.cx domain

To be fair, Apple doesn't actually exist. His believers just attack you if you copy His Ideas and refuse to pay the tithe.

Oh, I'm definitely adding a malware code to my tombstone.

At least a link to a jump scare site if nothing else.

The Talos Principle

If there's ads at the link, it could at least contribute to their financial legacy, if not wealth in the afterlife

I don't know how everyone else missed the obvious solution here.

Simply immortalize your obituary and image as an NFT, linked with the QR code. Not only is it saved forever on the blockchain, but also visitors can dynamically track ownership of your soul.

They probably would figure out qr codes. Someone would put text underneath QR codes and relate it to the patterns.

It would be like Rosetta Stone and how it's used to translate Egyptian heiroghlyphs. Future people might be confused as to why we have qr codes when we have writing

Like, why?

It's not like today's children actually know what a save icon actually represents....

A sticker with a QR code staying on a gravestone for 2000 years? And if the rain doesn't peel it off the sun will make sure it's burnt beyond any scanner.

And then some asshole in the mould of Erich von Daniken, Graham Hancock will make a career selling books to the credulous proclaiming the signs are from aliens or ancients under the North Pole.

let's go to cemeteries and deface the QR codes to have them point towards this post, funniest guerilla marketing campaign ever

Is the same as this:

They weren't "fertility idols" they were toys. But thousands of years from now barbie will get the same treatment after they find some collector's shine in an old basement.