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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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[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why does the tea project not have users claim ownership of GitHub profiles. That way it could be retroactively applied with no effort on the user or maintainer.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Actually, I only want to add one file, tea.yml, to your repository. Because I have a job that requires uploading the file and I also don't know what it is used for.

So you want me to merge a file you use on your job and you don't know what it does?

I see no issue. Merged!

[–] tranxuanthang@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's sad that a lot of the username come from Vietnam (my country). I remember when the Stellar airdrop announced there were people trying to buy GitHub account for 3-5$ for "their company's project". Many people do the thing that called "MMO" like that here, that doesn't realistically provide any value. They just want to get rich as fast as possible with only simple jobs such as copy and paste.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

which should prevent idiots like @onedionys from being able to figure out how to create the file.

Wow, slow down @mxcl. Calling people names is not constructive not warranted here.

Lmao fuck off

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly doesn't sound like a terrible idea on paper, but this spam outbreak could kill it before it gets off paper in a real way. Giving devs a bad taste will stay around a long while.

Edit: and of course the well-earned general attitude toward cryptocurrency as scammer playgrounds is automatically putting it way in the red too.

[–] flumph@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Dude also used a LLM to generate descriptions for the packages he's serving from his package manager. And of course, it got them wrong, creating a headache for the actual package maintainers

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online -1 points 1 year ago

Gitea? What is this?