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Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? (lemmy.ml)
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There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

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YAML is complex and has security concerns most people are not aware of.

YAML is racist to Norwegians.

If you have something like country: NO (NO = Norway), YAML will turn that into country: False. Why? Implicit casting. There are a bunch of truthy strings that'll be cast automagically.

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