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Re:Evolution of GitHub's data centers by sschueller on Sunday October 15, 2017 @07:52AM (#15476771)
Since they take a screenshot of the console they could output a qr code and read that.
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Re:Evolution of GitHub's data centers by dom0 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @09:45AM (#15477076)
Patching the font colours are probably a few lines of diff, adding a QR code to a text-mode display... way more complicated.
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Re:Evolution of GitHub's data centers by fapjacks on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:25AM (#15476843)
That's sort of what they're doing. It's just a two-bit QR code: Red, and Not Red.
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Re:Evolution of GitHub's data centers by gumoro on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:27AM (#15476849)
So, one bit ;)
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Re:Evolution of GitHub's data centers by fapjacks on Sunday October 15, 2017 @06:05PM (#15479591)
Hah! Yes, totally. Haha I wonder why I said that?
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Re:Evolution of GitHub's data centers by BraveNewCurency on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:13AM (#15480989)
There is also a "not decided yet" state. Hence, you were right, it needs two bits. :)
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