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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 10 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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[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 80 points 10 months ago

It's hilarious that PR author in that example has monkey profile pic. I guess what people are saying about never trusting people with monkey pfp is true.

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