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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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[–] sep 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I see you get downvoted a lot. But as a norwegian that repeatedly have run into the norwegian problem when trying to use some program... i see you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What’s the weather like in False?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It's practically nonexistent

[–] sep 3 points 9 months ago
[–] milliams 10 points 9 months ago

YAML 1.2 was released 15 years ago and fixed this issue. The problem is not YAML but the libraries people are using to parse it being a decade and a half out of date.