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In this case, the alternative hint is in the form of roman numerals right on the back of that same stone the QR code is on(this wasnt in the original game iirc), which you can google if you can't read roman numerals, which will lead you to see it's the same year(not the complete date) you found in the HEX. If you google this year plus the plain text in the QR code, you can reach to the same solution that is in the HEX.
In short, yes, this game does contain some puzzles which will require out of the box thinking, where the box is the game itself(as in, the use of tools and resources outside of the game), but IIRC all of these instances are always optional puzzles or stars which aren't needed to complete the main game.
There are a few waus to see this:
1: although the game contains many HEX codes(as im sure you'll have now realized are also in many of the documents and email found in the terminals), none of them need to be decoded, most of them contain interesting additional infomration or complete a document/mail which is presented as corrupted, but none of this information is ever needed, it's just there as extra, and even when such info might contains hints to puzzles like in this specific case, it's often an additional hint or straight up solution to a riddle or puzzle which already has enough in game hints to be solved without external aid, or are even puzzles that are completely optional and thus do not need to be solved at all.
2: the information you can access by googling is, at its very core, knowledge you might not currently have, but who is to say that you might not already have the required knowledge? As exmple, i know how to read roman numerals on my own, i learned that in school, so i can read them just fine without having to google it, but this logic can be applied even to more basic knowledge, such as reading an analog clock, cause as weird as it might sound(at least to me), there are several people out there who, despite having learned it in school as kids, can not read the time on an analog clock cause they were always surrounded by digital ones and so their ability to read analock clocks was never truly needed and they ended up forgetting it. Should a game not feature a puzzle involving reading the hands of an analog clock cause there is a small subset of people who can't read it and would thus require to google how to do so? And this logic can be also applied to less obvious knowledge, such as the event the date in this puzzle refers to: it an historical event, and as such, I ave studied in school, yet i only ever remember the year and not the full date, but i know for a fact that the book i studied it from contained the whole date, as well as the time that is the solution of this puzzle, which i would need to google. What does this mean? That while you and me might need to google to acquire additional knowledge used in the solution of this puzzle, someone else who knows how to read roman numerals, knows how to read an analog clock, and has studied the event the date refers too and remembers its detail won't need to google any and won't need to decode the HEX, as the contents of the QR code, and more specifically the first sentence, are all this person would need to solve the puzzle, meaning that to this person all the information needed to solve the puzzle is indeed in the game, the rest is player's knowledge of the event(which they might even consider as basic as i do consider being able to read an analog clock or read roman numerals), and using a QR reader, which brings me to the next point....
3: as i orignally stated, these games often challenge and try to defy the very notion that all the needed information must be IN the game, so it stands to reason that if this game tries to break this rule/convention, it can't do so by adhering to the same rule/convention it's trying to challenge and defy, but it has to do so precisely by challenging them and defying them, thus requiring additional tools to solve these puzzles, be these additional tools a QR reader, google, or the player's onw knowledge.
And im sure there's more ways which i can't think of right now.
Applying all of the above to when the game does these types of hints and solutions, we can concluded that all the information needed to complete the game is indeed IN the game, and any time you are required to perform an action that is external to the game, be it using a real QR code scanner, googling some information, or tapping into the player's own knowledge, it's only done in puzzles that are optional, and thus not needed to complete the game.
And all of the above, including my conclusion, is exactly what this game is all about: what is knowledge? Is all that you already know all that you need to go on, or you will need to acquire new knowledge, often challenging your own views and possibly subverting them? And the answer this game and its story give is yes, you will need to challenge your views, to gain new knowledge to rely on information that is not provided to you, to break the rules, to go beyond the walls(methaphorical and real) to achieve things.
Check a guide, or try for yourself.
On va se calmer sur l'inculture...
Even better, the numbers have to be translated into Roman Numerals. Nobody has that knowledge anymore, either.
But i just read the content, and decide afterwards what to do with it.
The really bad case is, if the reader software is so vulnerable that the just read content causes security issues (in the phone itself, no need for an internet connection).