Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@Qyriad@chaos.social @helle A sentiment I've seen a fair amount is that there is an 'optimal' formatting style (which somehow always happens to equal the author's preference, and is presented without evidence or rationale), and in that light, this unfortunately makes a lot of sense.

(I am... not a fan of code formatters. Formatting is a communication channel! Deviations can convey very important information about what something means.)

@helle @Qyriad@chaos.social Tangentially: I've encountered an interesting pattern in discussing about tabs vs. spaces with people for probably close to a decade.

It turns out that when prodding someone for a *reason* for their spaces preference, even in light of the accessibility factor, is virtually always just one reason: "because then the code looks how I intended it to look".

This applies even for people who *don't* do weird spacing tricks that require exact indentation control. It seems to actually be the sense of control over how something is presented to the reader, that lies at the root of people using spaces. Nothing else.

In some cases, people have explicitly valued their control over the presentation as being more important than the accessibility to readers. (These were usually people with rather a few more... problematic views about programming.)

@helle @Qyriad@chaos.social This is exactly my reason for insisting on using tabs everywhere (to the point I will not consider languages that mandate spaces); it's an accessibility aid.

@AnthonyJK You know, I occasionally end up at Hachyderm for one reason or another, and then I look at the other stuff on there to see if the place has improved.

And usually within 10 minutes, I am reminded of exactly why I proposed a FediBlock immediately after discovering them... 😞

@ifixcoinops (FWIW I don't see any boosts within the past few hours from you here, and I checked and I'm not hiding boosts)

@sasha I've long been pondering about this, but the big problem with that is that it pretty much requires centralizing power over who gets to eat and who doesn't into a single payment processor.

So basically the problem already experienced with current payment processors, but even worse, because a lot of folks will go "oh I already have a donation set up to the central thing so I'm good", leaving no recourse for those who cannot use that for whatever reason

@ErosBlog I would *assume* that it uses tesseract, because I think pretty much every FOSS thing with OCR does. Perhaps someone has made a Wordpress plugin for that?

@kims I would not be surprised if you *were* 1% of the monthly MA contributions, to be honest. A large proportion of donations are pretty much "passing around the same buck" between whoever has more room to spare money at the moment. This is something recipients have frequently identified as a thing that's happening, even if no exact numbers are available.

Regarding the donation log: Ko-Fi does indeed show an (anonymized) donation log, and I believe that in some subset of cases, it can show amounts (though I'm not sure what the exact settings are here). I've seen similar things on various other fundraising platforms, usually with an option for the donor whether they want to be anonymous or not. But it varies from platform to platform; they don't all reveal this.

On why more people don't accept Ko-Fi or PayPal: there's a variety of reasons, though two particularly common ones are account blocks (PayPal has a tendency of overblocking) and being forced to publicize one's deadname (for trans folks). Since Ko-Fi just uses PayPal directly behind the scenes, it's subject to the same issues.

(I'm wondering if it wouldn't be useful to do a formal survey of these things at some point. Although it would require proper care to make sure it doesn't put anyone at risk.)