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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 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

RON (Rusty Object Notation). Its like JSON but better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you remember CSON? CoffeeScript Object Notation was a cute way to make JSON readable before CoffeeScript kinda died.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

CSON looks like a slightly worse version of YAML to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

as a rustacian i cannot thank you enough for notifying me of this