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

Open Source@lemmy.ml – 418 points – 7 months ago

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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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.

What’s the weather like in False?

It's practically nonexistent

Soggy snow!

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 The problem is not YAML but the libraries people are using to parse it being a decade and a half out of date.