cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15238521
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)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15238521
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 know, I’m strongly in favour of attempts at novel ways to fund open-source development, because there’s still significant issues to be solved there. but
not that I mean to praise the attempt here, to be clear. it is, of course, utter and complete bullshit. that it latches on to this particular problem irks me even more.
it also leaves me wondering whether this type of problem/parasitism (at this tier of scale attempt, perhaps?) has a long lineage? previously there were things like dns alt roots, which occasionally got some under-informed/unlucky suckers, but this kind of low-effort attempt at intermediating themselves as tollmen isn’t something I know of past analogues to