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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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โš„๏ธŽ 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.

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  • You can ask for help with prompting at the 'sister' community Casual Perchance, which is for more casual discussions.
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submitted 1 week ago by tehwabb1t@lemmy.world to c/perchance@lemmy.world
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Hi all, just a quick question, Why does a file with just:

...turn into a 613,141-character bloated blob with embedded:

๐Ÿง  NLP fallback engines, ๐ŸŒ Cloudflare callouts, ๐Ÿงพ Regex dictionaries, ๐Ÿงฉ Tag/ID trackers, ๐Ÿค– Language corpus logic, ๐Ÿ“š Word class classifiers (Plural, Ordinal, Comparative)

Is this intentional for runtime fallback purposes, or just bundled by default for safety? Genuinely curious if there's a flag to trim it down. Don't get me wrong i love the site and unique prompt building and design, It just feels a bit odd seeing all that baked into a blank export โ€” especially when it includes tracking and a slimline corpus.

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[โ€“] perchance@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cloudflare callouts

Good catch, thanks. Cloudflare seems to inject its DDoS/analytics stuff into any HTML page returned by the server, regardless of Content-Disposition header which seems like a bug on their end. I'm just manually stripping for now. You'll need to edit your generator to clear the download cache.

As for the others, yeah, it embeds the whole perchance engine, since it can't know in advance (in the general case, at least) whether your code will use any particular perchance engine feature at runtime (JavaScript is a very dynamic language). The v2 engine will be a lot more efficient both in terms of size and speed, but that's unfortunately not going to land any time soon.

[โ€“] tehwabb1t@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks for the tip ๐Ÿ˜ yeah its nothing too troublesome if you view the code just when you create a local project and download its bloated and linked, but saving your project raw helps, see this audio player i made,

  • [https://perchance.org/kustom-lo-fi-music-player](Lo-Fi player),

its nice and simple and using the platform is a perfect sandbox to tryout concepts like this Multi suite i was working on

and i modified the Ai Chat section [https://perchance.org/perchance-org-ai-chat-v2](Ai Chat Main).

So its great for awesome projects to sandbox and appreciate the platform.

.sorry for all the redits, the urls above just would not display and kept redirecting here, anyways i made this too.. just copy n paste

https://perchance.org/per-ception

[โ€“] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -1 points 1 week ago

Oh look another AI instance to block.