their own preferences for tab width... ending up in an identation abomination

Can you give an example where a person's personal tab width breaks things? One tab per logical indent, and then spaces for alignment. How does this break anything? I know for a fact it doesn't or else people like me wouldn't advocate for it. What breaks indenting is mixing tabs and spaces for indents, and obviously that's foolish. You can't blame that mistake for causing an "abomination" when it's something that would violate any code style specification, whether using spaces or tabs. You yourself could set your IDE to emit only 2 spaces when you hit Tab, and that would also violate your code style spec if you mix those indents into a file with 4-space indents, and that has nothing to do with tabs at all.

Doing stupid things in the code that violates the code style are stupid things that violate the code style. No matter what whitespace you use. But having a personal setting to see 8 spaces per tab isn't one of them if you only use tabs for logical indenting and not for alignment.

All tabs or all spaces for indents result in the exact same thing: good looking code. But tabs then have further advantages. Easier outdenting, better accessibility, etc. The only benefit to forcing spaces is that some random program you use for code comparison or whatever might default to something other than 4 columns for a Tab and your code looks a little wide until you change your settings. That's nothing compared to the advantages of tabs. Turns out that "benefit" of spaces is actually a drawback because no one is allowed to view the indents as anything but whatever column width you personally think it should be.

Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment. It's perfect. Lets people visually indent as much as they want in their settings, but manually aligned things stay manually aligned. Forcing indents to always be... whatever number of spaces you personally like is dumb.

Plus then you can outdent with a single Backspace in every text editor ever.

Am I stupid? How is this in any way confusing?

I kept re-reading this line and it made no sense. All I need to do to claim ownership of a project is merge a pull-request? Do I own Laravel because I've gotten a pull request merged? (emphasis mine)

Merging a pull request and having a pull request merged are two completely different things, and one very much requires you to own the project or have contributor rights to it. Which is exactly what the scammer is looking for proof of.

How was the author confused by this? Or am I somehow the dummy here?

Yeah, they deleted all of those "sink" posts that one person made.

Testing...

......

I'm commenting from Thunder now. It's significantly improved since I last used it! I'll have to give it a chance.

I'm going to mess with some markdown...

^superscriptNormal_subscript

Reddit style^superscript

Damn, those don't work at all.

Ah, a nice, fat horizontal rule. Excellent! EDIT: ironically, after submitting the comment, I couldn't see it because the comment highlight background is the same color as the horizontal rule. I originally was looking at the preview. This is what I get as soon as I submit:

Nice! It's a shame there's no toolbar button to make a spoiler, though.

! Reddit style spoiler !<

Doesnt work, as expected. Sync makes these work, which it shouldn't

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Heading 6

4 through 6 all look the same. I wish apps would decorate the headings to make them obvious and not just vary the font size.

Oh shit, it even has comment drafts! I just hit Back by accident and thought I lost everything. Still, a warning or confirmation would be nice. Plus the option to just discard the comment.

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

Nice! You can bullet a whole list in one click. Even Sync can't do that.

Image upload works fine.

Multiline

Quotes

Work?

Yes! With one tap! Another thing Sync sucked at.

I'll have to try Thunder out some more. So far it's pretty good.

His last message was 2023-11-03. That's a few days shy of 4 months.

Basically, yes. No word from the Dev in 4 months.

I tried Thunder several months ago, and it was... not good. I'll try it again, but I'm not going to get my hopes up.

Coincidentally, someone in some other post said, "Voyager is better than Sync" so I gave it a real try. It sucks in comparison to Sync. It doesn't support Lemmy spoilers in any way, nor horizontal rules, and has a dozen other shortcomings. Some major.

Even with the bugs, Sync is still a great app with a ton of killer features.

Basmati is long grain, and it most definitely does not suck.

I don't get it. I make perfect rice every time in a cheap pot from Walmart. It's so easy.

My trick is simmering the rice the normal way on low heat for 15 minutes (after bringing it to a boil, of course) and then taking it off the heat and wrapping the pot in a towel for... ever. Seriously. It only needs 5 more minutes of steaming, but I can leave it sitting there for 20-25 minutes and still have perfect, hot rice when the rest of my food is done. Not a single grain will be stuck to the pan. I use an ordinary both towel.

Meanwhile, I used to have a rice cooker and the rice stuck to the bottom every time. It was cheap, but still. It failed at it's one job.

While it's true the PS1 couldn't do floating point math, it did NOT have a z-buffer at all.

https://www.ncesc.com/gaming-faq/does-ps1-have-z-buffer/

"America says other country hacks more than America."

Turns out Sync fucks with what you type in order for it to get spoilers to work, so you can't even show a Sync user the proper syntax!

Check this out:

Ironically, that isn't valid Lemmy markdown. Sync should be supporting Lemmy markdown, not Reddit markdown. Here's what your comment looks like on the website:

This is^superscript and you can also do_subscript.

Source:

    
This is^superscript^ and you can also do~subscript~.


  

Here's what it should look like:

Instead, you get this:

Personally I don't like Lemmy's syntax for spoilers, but Sync should still support it!

Source:

    
::: spoiler hidden or nsfw stuff
a bunch of spoilers here
:::

  

I'm surprised that actually even works in Sync. It didn't used to. However, Sync doesn't show my code block accurately, which is funny as fuck! No app should be editing my code block. Sync is replacing my text with reddit markdown in order for it to display properly. And even when I put that markdown in a code block, it still converts it to reddit style! It also strips out the warning text!

Here is what I actually typed:

And here's what Sync shows:

What a lazy ass way of doing it. It removes an important feature: the warning text, and won't even let me show Sync users how to do a proper spoiler!

Oh, WTF. Sync butchered my comment when editing it! I had to fix it back on desktop.

Sync is not fine. It's full of bugs that the dev is ignoring.

I enjoyed Botanicula. It's a cute point-and-click adventure game.

That game is fucking hard. Only play it if you like cursing a lot.

I've heard that it's an impossible task. That to actual measure quantum gravity you'd need tiny masses closer than the Planck length to each other.

I find it weird you called it "groupthought" when the word is "groupthink", and you even linked to the groupthink article.

You agreed to the terms of service. It's all there in the fine print. All your data is their data.

Too easily filtered. You need to make plausible posts with subtle errors.