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Hyperspace: a p2p VPN solution that doesn't require a server (github.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by possiblylinux127 to c/[email protected]

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I never could get Nix working but maybe someone will

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

what:
  is:
  your:
    - problem
    - with:
      YAML
# At least you can have comments unlike in json. Who need comments in a config file anyway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Hey did you know that any JSON file is also a valid YAML file? I bet you'll love YAML a lot more now that you have this information

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nothing too major about how it's usually used, but the yaml spec does allow arbitrary code execution when parsing a file and relies on the parser to have that feature disabled: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML#Security

That's why for python, yaml.save_load() is a thing. That's fine for your local config files and may even be a feature for you, but it shouldn't be used to exchange information between services.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My general view is similar, yaml is better if it should be written by humans, json is better if it should be written and read only by a machine. but hyprspace uses json for configuration, so I don't really understand cellardoor's comment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Xml has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah I agree. Although recently I've become partial to toml... In the end I'll use what's common in the ecosystem I'm developing in

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Toml is superior to all.