423

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

submitted 7 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

94 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

CSON looks like a slightly worse version of YAML to me

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

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

this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2024

423 points (98.0% liked)

Open Source

30800 readers

983 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Cloak@lemmy.ml

kevincox@lemmy.ml

CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml

Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml