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  1. πŸ˜‡ Be Nice!

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    • Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
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    • Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
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    • Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
  4. πŸ“½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due

    • Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
    • Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
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      βœ… Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
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      SΓ­, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
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The following artists are banned from the community.

  1. Jago
  2. Stonetoss
  3. GPrime85

It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.

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Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.

When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:

Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I swear I've had this happen even with password managers, where there's no way it's being typed incorrectly. Some possibilities:

  • They're truncating on one form but not the other
  • They're being case insensitive on one but not the other
  • They're otherwise filtering certain characters on one but not the other

None of which bode well for that company's password handling security.

[–] psud@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My electric and gas utility truncates passwords, but lets you type hundreds of chars when setting a new password

To log in, you need to intuit how much of your password they're using, if you enter too many chars it fails like in the op image

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] psud@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Step 1: create a 20 character password, store it in your password manager

Step 2: the account creation process keeps the first 16 characters

Step 3: attempt to log in with the 20 character password, fail.

I found the 16 character maximum in the password rules in their FAQ, so tried the first 16 chars of my password and it worked, so the above must be how it worked

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The text boxes shouldn't have a character limit on them for this very reason. If they need to configure a limit they should allow the form to be submitted but return an error telling it's too many characters. Truncating the user's input is really bad for the exact reason you mention.

There's a lot of sites with bad ways of handling credentials. I really hate sites that stop you from pasting in passwords.

[–] psud@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My bank used to block pasting, so I used a browser extension version of KeePass to auto type

Luckily they changed that policy when password managers became the main recommended method of handling passwords

So I no longer know my bank password, I saw it once when I accepted what KeePass generated

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

KeePass Auto-type is an amazing feature. One that many KeePass users also don't seem to know about!

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I hit the truncation thing just yesterday. People seriously have a password input clipped at like 16 characters. A big company too.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I've had that happen a couple of times too. In the most striking example, I was able to log in by typing html escape tags instead of the special characters in the password. ... ... That's a very bad sign for the website security for several obvious reasons.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Walmart's internal systems used to do this, if you used a special char in your password (such as an % or &) on newer devices you couldn't log in anymore, only solution was having HR reset your login lol

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

None of these possibilities have any effect on their password handling security since all of that is usually handled on the frontend (on your computer).

[–] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago

What? No. No matter where it happens (and it could be on either side, depending on the whims of the programmers), passwords shouldn't be fiddled with this way. They should be passed through to the password hashing algorithm unchanged. There is no reason to ever fuck with them, and doing so will reduce security.