[–] 6 points 14 hours ago

It's somewhat common to limit password lengths to avoid DoS attacks that exploit a slow key generation function.

But that limitation should on some hundreds or a few thousands characters. Sites that use limits like "16" are probably storing them as plain text.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    did calling people out for smoking stop people from smoking?

    Kinda. Also banning them from the good chairs in restaurants and stopping tobacco companies from doing publicity.

    did banning drunk driving stop people from driving drunk?

    It did reduce drinking by a lot.

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    The links like !NoStupidQuestions@lemmy.world.

    I have had a pretty bad time making those work. I have tried searching for them at the communities page, and removing the exclamation mark and pasting them on my instance (lemmy.world/c/NoStupidQuestions@lemmy.world).

    Some times one of those works, other times my instance finds nothing. And if I go directly to the home instance of the community, it doesn't bring my login.

    What is the recommended way to use those?

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