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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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[–] FooBarrington 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What? I love having 20 ambiguous ways to express the same data with weird and unexpected conversion rules. JSON is so much worse - if data types are explicit and obvious, how can I properly express my feelings when writing a config file?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

{"foo":true,"bar":{"baz":1}} is valid YAML; better throw it out.

[–] FooBarrington 3 points 9 months ago

I have no issues with using a strict and unambiguous subset of YAML :)