Usernames removed to prevent brigading
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Prismlauncher! I remember browsing through the changelog and spotting this, made me chuckle internally.
I hate when websites have some weird rules for passwords, and show the rule when you are creating the password, but not when entering it. How am I supposed to remember the password must begin and end with a special character?
I can’t recommend password managers enough, because you will never have this issue again.
Password creation will still be annoying for sites with special rules. You just don’t have to remember them once you generated them.
I’ve literally never had an issue with password generation. Usually I generate 32 character passwords with all types of characters passwords on average expect. If a page has different rules, I just check the corresponding boxes in my password manager, and I get one that works for that site.
Just yesterday my library required a new password. The password requirements were:
- 8 to 18 characters
- uppercase
- lowercase
- number
- one of the 8 special characters listed
When borrowing from the library physically, I need to enter this password on a touchscreen keypad. So no copy and paste from a password manager.
They used to have birthdates as the assigned password for everyone. If you request a password reset, it resets to the birthdate. You have to change it on first login.
A little better than before, but doesn’t feel secure.
On the other hand, abuse is kinda difficult.
For physically loaning books, you need the library card with its RFID chip. For anything digital, there’s no incentive or possibility for abuse really.
Seems like a perfect use case for a password manager.
and when the rule is also wrong example: password must contain special charcters
the password in question contained : and ^
if those aren’t special characters idk what is
Often only a few special characters are accepted. Punctuation yes, emoji no.
“Punctuation yes, emoji no” sounds like something a grade school teacher would have embroidered on a throw pillow.
I never get bored of discovering yet another software that gets broken because someome put a dollar sign in their password…
maybe they were looking for extra special characters like 🁄 or ⶸ. Who am I kidding, RFC 1738 tells us that literally everything is unsafe and you know, we need to prepare for the inevitable occasion when the password somehow ends up inside an URL.
The characters “<” and “>” are unsafe because they are used as the delimiters around URLs in free text;
the quote mark (“”") is used to delimit URLs in some systems.
The character “#” is unsafe
The character “%” is unsafeIt ends up with
Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters
$ - _ . + ! * ’ ( ) ,
are safeIf the password is going in URLs you already have a problem.
I am going put null on my password and you aren’t stopping me
Having to alter my one generic password I use for random ass website because there’s a stupid extra rule is usually annoying me enough that I don’t register lmao.
Password manager?
I use it for important things that require actual security. Everything else gets the one password treatment.
In that case consider your accounts on “everything else” to be compromised already. It can be a pretty significant vector for identity theft for example.
I’m not dumb enough to share important private information on websites that don’t require it.
I use a mental algorithm that means my password is always different on paper, but is always deducible by me.
honestly I prefer to go the other route : if a website complains about a generic randomly generated password , especially if they have very specific rules I take it as a challenge to make a password with as much entropy as possible , preferably to the point where any reasonable hash can express less entropy
Jokes aside, I have been blocked many times by overzealous email validation. Yes, my email has a plus sign in it. This is allowed under RFC5322, so deal with it. It is better to have no validation at all than incorrect validation.
That was my best customer support interaction ever. Company did not let me register with a “new” TLD email address, as “this is not a valid email address”. I wrote them from that email address. They respondend to that email address with “this is not a valid address”. I wrote back “how are we writing, then?” and never heard back 😂
Even worse is when they strip the plus sign out after the fact and then you can’t log in anymore because you didn’t realize that’s what has happened.
Yees this has happened to me before but with passwords. They have some length limit that they clamp to so you can’t login after registering and I have to do a password reset right after signing up. Happened multiple times to me.
This is criminal. You already send me a validation email, just check for an @ and leave me be
A plus sign? That’s nothing, LOL
Quote:
If you disagree, or have any other comments, feel free to email me at
'*+-/=?^_`{|}~#$@[IPv6:2602:f977:800:0:e276:63ff:fe72:3900]– if your mail client lets you, that is.
I dont know if it’s just me, but this comment is breaking the rendering of Voyager
I needed to use a code block for that address as several apps had a problem when I tested escaping the back ticks in the address for the inline code. Not sure if you mean that as it renders in it’s own line or if anything else is broken
I like this issue in the form of a quiz
TIL:
🫱@🫲
is a valid e-mail address.
Nice, I was able to send an email to that.
The best email validation is just sending an email to whatever provided by the user. If user receives an email and validates it, than its validated.
Email validation for a form should at most look for
- at least one character
- followed by @
- followed by at least one character
- followed by .
- followed by at least two characters
Sending an email can take a few minutes. Form validation is instant.
So I can’t be directly
bezos@aws?
Email address spec is convoluted and this is indeed the best way. Noobs and ninja do it this way, normies try to validate before sending email
The worst sites are the ones that let you sign up with an unusual address but not log in. The worst I‘ve seen was some ticket system that rejected dfyx+theirdomain@mydomain after I clicked the link in their confirmation email.
There’s an aspect of my surname which is somewhat unusual (at least in my country). As a result I occasionally get form validation errors when entering it. Sometimes those errors are extremely inscrutable. Sometimes a form validates but something elsewhere makes unvalidated assumptions about names which then breaks in completely unpredictable names…
Does it fall into one of the falsehoods programmers believe about names? https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
Actually no. In fact, I think most people who thought for a minute would realise names like mine exist, it’s just that sometimes people working systems don’t think for a minute ;)
The number of scripts I’ve seen that would break with an O’Neill or O’Brien is too high. Worse is some people don’t get it when pointed out.
I had a website not let me enter a proton.me email address, when I changed it to my custom.fyi address, it worked fine. They wanted a three letter TLD.
No, I think they just blocked Proton email addresses. I’ve seen multiple services doing that.
Not sure if you also do aliases as well but I’ve seen an increase in websites flagging providers like addy.io as well. Extremely annoying that so many websites think they are so important that they refuse an alias.
I had a site refuse my email address for my .net domain. Like wtf, if it’s not .com it’s not a real email address? Idk what that was about.
migadu has a cool workaround.
instead of:
alias+user@domain.tldyou give:
alias@user.domain.tldthen internally it transforms it to an alias when it comes in.
Same although for a totally different reason. There are some services that really don’t like gtlds and they will say your address is invalid if it doesn’t end in .com, .net, or .org…all my serious domains are gtld…so some services have emails on meme domains because the only domains I have with traditional tlds are memes
The issue this is referring to is because the user cannot paste into a text field. And the user was not rude about it either.
So instead of fixing the actual problem, the developer went nuclear and removed the validation. A dick move in my opinion given the developer’s attitude.
~It’s more sad than funny. 🤷♂️~
I don’t know what that repo does. But, chances are the dude was just fucking tired of dealing with curseforge. Total garbage scum software.
It’s prism. A multi-launcher for Minecraft Java edition.
IMO as a developer this is a sane change. There’s no telling when the format of the first-party api key will change. They may switch from reference tokens to JWT tokens tomorrow. The validation should be using the token and seeing if it works.
If they had made the change for that reason, sure. But the actual stated cause was some pretty thing.
I’m guessing removing the validation fixed the pasting, which means it did fix the actual problem?
So the users realized their mistakes and stopped complaining……and other jokes public project maintainers tell themselves while laughing in tears
If only I had a penny each time a user told something doesn’t work when it shouldnt’ve.
Usernames removed to prevent brigading
What is this gatekeeping nonsense? We live in the free world. I don’t want that reddit “anti-brigading” crap here.
Post breaks web accessibility by withholding web connectivity: it needs a link to source.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:
- usability
- we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can’t
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
- users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can’t explore wider context of the original message
- authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
- searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
I partially agree with you. It’s bad to brigade against a random user out of the blue, but this is a useless censorship.
It’s a pull request in an open-source project, it’s not like people can’t find it in literally 3 seconds…
- usability
