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  • tb_@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRadical Rule
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    5 days ago

    That’s a very big QR code for a not very long link, what does it redirect through?

    Edit: seems they used a high redundancy (error correction) for their QR code. Normally I get suspicious of large codes like this, but it seems whoever made this wasn’t taking any chances the message wouldn’t come through.

    A picture displaying the four levels of QR code error correction
    The percentages refer to how much of the code may be obscured/distorted whilst remaining machine-readable






  • TL;DR:

    Team GB long claimed Lloyd Hildebrand’s silver medal, but because the British citizen competed under French colors, his win is now being credited to France.

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    The International Olympic Committee agreed this week to reassign credit for Lloyd Hildebrand’s silver medal in the men’s cycling 25 km race at the 1900 Olympics from Britain to France.

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    A French historian recently raised Hildebrand’s case to the International Olympic Committee, saying the athlete lived nearly his entire life in France and was closely tied to a sports club there – and not to one in Britain.