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If you're developing a FOSS project, be aware of cryptobros trying to PR a tea.yml into it. (connortumbleson.com)

submitted 8 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Yet another "brilliant" scheme from a cryptobro. Naturally this caused a gold-rush for scammers who outsourced random people via the gig economy to open PRs for this yml file (example)

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[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

CSON looks like a slightly worse version of YAML to me

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Parsing rules are way simpler… it was also a different time.