Eh che stufita!

Dear Facebook,

I’ve been accessing your social service using Frost an free-as-in-freedom Android app.

Why? Because I don’t trust you. You already far too much about me. And knowing your ways of handling and selling the data you collect I’ve decided to confine you as much as possible and this means that I will never install your proprietary client to access your services.

I want to keep you confined into softwares that I can trust, such as the Firefox web browser or the Frost client.

But you keep thinking that my usage of Frost is “suspicious” and keep locking me out. I’m fed up.

Top Cryptocurrencies Rated by White Paper Complexity

«Top Cryptocurrencies Rated by White Paper Complexity» is an interesting read. It subtitle recites:

Studying the correlation between the readability of white papers and the money raised.

It seems that when you write in English the dumber the better.

While I must admit that often English allow to express yourself in a briefer yet more effective way, I want to signal the danger of excessive simplification of the language.

Of course, being simple is not being simplicistic, as in this quote, often attributed to Albert Einstein:

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

I like this saying because it compactly articulates the principle of Occam’s razor.

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Remember Autorun.inf Malware In Windows? Turns Out KDE Offers Something Similar – Slashdot

Remember Autorun.inf Malware In Windows? Turns Out KDE Offers Something Similar – Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov writes: A security researcher has published proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a vulnerability in the KDE software framework. A fix is not available at the time of writing….
Zero user interaction is required to trigger code execution

Luckily I never actually used KDE.