The disappointing tea.xyz
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I got a pull request from "tea.xyz" related individual and unraveled a mess of a disappointing project.

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)

  • @[email protected]
    15•9 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
      4•9 months ago

      I greatly respect the way Vietnam has put things like stable rice prices over Western money. As far as I understand it, this allows for a society where nobody lives in abject poverty. But it also prevents people from getting rich quick by milking their own people. So if I got all of this right, it’s not surprising that some people encountered the idea of getting rich quick through the Internet and try that now.

      • chebra
        4•9 months ago

        @flying_sheep

        > nobody lives in abject poverty. But it also prevents people from getting rich quick by milking their own people

        lol… no… not at all

          • chebra
            3•9 months ago

            @flying_sheep probably yes, but if you are looking for a country where people are not living in poverty, where the state takes good care about them or where scammers can’t get rich quick, then Vietnam is unfortunately not it.

            • @[email protected]
              1•9 months ago

              Yeah, I think the only thing I really believe about it is that it was a good move to decline the world bank’s conditions for giving Vietnam a loan. Those conditions would have involved allowing international investors to buy land and speculate with food. I think having the ability to fix e.g. rice prices as a government can be very beneficial to a country.

              But I don’t want to have an illusory view of how things really are if that’s also wrong.

              • chebra
                1•9 months ago

                @flying_sheep I’m with you on that. They protect their own land and economy and it’s only now slowly opening up, they don’t want foreign influence. On the other hand, that means they have total power over their citizens. Having prices dictated by government is cool except if you are the producer. And the prices are still going up anyway, and there is a huge risk regarding rice and climate change, that could have a serious effect in 10-20 years. But come visit, there are many great things too.

                • @[email protected]
                  1•9 months ago

                  Thanks! Yeah, I’ve been there a few years ago and it was lovely. I definitely want to come again some time.