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submitted 10 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 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 10 months ago

CSON looks like a slightly worse version of YAML to me

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

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

[-] current@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

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

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