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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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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

CSON looks like a slightly worse version of YAML to me

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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