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.

Another reason

Everyday I keep finding reasons to avoid Apple products. Why? Because they consider their clients like sub-humans that must be kept stupid and shackled.

“Pseudo browsers like Chrome, Edge, and FireFox on iOS also do not support any progressive web app functionality on iOS. These browsers use the webview to render pages and not their own engines. So, for now, they are also limited.”

That’s what I read in “Progressive Web Application Development by Example” by Chris Love from Packt Publishing.

From from I understand it seems that the owner of an iPhone cannot install a “proper browser” in iOS. Apple forbids the rightful owner to use its own device as he likes, more specifically they forbid to install a browser that implements its own rendering engine.

I think I will never buy such devices: I want to have full control on my own devices.

For sure I will keep explaing this deficiencies and telling people to avoid Apple’s products.