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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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⚄︎ Perchance

This is a Lemmy Community for perchance.org, a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.

Feel free to ask for help, share your generators, and start friendly discussions at your leisure :)

This community is mainly for discussions between those who are building generators. For discussions about using generators, especially the popular AI ones, the community-led Casual Perchance forum is likely a more appropriate venue.

See this post for the Complete Guide to Posting Here on the Community!

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1. Please follow the Lemmy.World instance rules.

2. Be kind and friendly.

  • Please be kind to others on this community (and also in general), and remember that for many people Perchance is their first experience with coding. We have members for whom English is not their first language, so please be take that into account too :)

3. Be thankful to those who try to help you.

  • If you ask a question and someone has made a effort to help you out, please remember to be thankful! Even if they don't manage to help you solve your problem - remember that they're spending time out of their day to try to help a stranger :)

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5. Refrain from requesting Prompts for the AI Tools.

  • We would like to ask to refrain from posting here needing help specifically with prompting/achieving certain results with the AI plugins (text-to-image-plugin and ai-text-plugin) e.g. "What is the good prompt for X?", "How to achieve X with Y generator?"
  • See Perchance AI FAQ for FAQ about the AI tools.
  • You can ask for help with prompting at the 'sister' community Casual Perchance, which is for more casual discussions.
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  • Please Search through the Community Posts here (and on Reddit) before posting to see if what you will post has similar post/already been posted.

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[Bug Report] Comments plugin does not validate password hash when posting a comment (self.perchance)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by perplexity to c/perchance
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Comments plugin does not properly validate password hash. When addMessage endpoint is called, one can change loginData.username value to any existing username and impersonate any existing person in chat. While no important user data is stolen, this can certainly confuse people in the comment box. It is not reproducible consistently though, I wasn't able to find out what exactly is causing this behavior. If you can't reproduce, you can let me know and I will record a video.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

@[email protected] pinging dev.

[–] perchance 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It is not reproducible consistently though

Please link to an example comment where you have replicated this, even just once (i.e. commenting using a username that you don't own). My guess is that when you refresh the page, you'll see that it didn't actually submit the comment under the username - i.e. you "tricked yourself", but didn't trick other users. But if I'm wrong here, then I'd definitely like to know about it! Either way, thanks for your report & concern.

[–] perplexity 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, this is not the case. Everyone is able to see it. See chat in General room of this throw away generator: https://perchance.org/username-bug-demo

[–] perchance 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, wow, thanks!! Some stuff was getting cached in a way that it very obviously shouldn't have been 😬 Can you please test again just to triple-check it's fixed? (I've already double-checked the code..)

[–] perplexity 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Gave it a quick test just now, seems to be working properly. Thank you!