Affective Computing is “computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotion or other affective phenomena”(Picard, 2000). This research field concentrates on developing computer systems that could receive and recognize the user’s feelings, and ultimately experience and express their own set of feelings, for the benefit of a better and more natural Human-Computer interaction.
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Free Jailbreak For iPhone 10.3.3 and 11.4
Jailbreak your iPhone with iOS 10.3.3 or iOS 11.4 the easy and FREE way! Enough is enough! Stop paying shady developers for risky services!
Smart Meters: Menace 2 Society
Smart Meters pose a menace to society: they spy on you and burn your brain cells. Beware, they might even help you save money! JK
What is a smart meter? A Smart Meter is the next generation of a gas and electricity meter. They’re being installed by energy suppliers in every home worldwide: USA, UK, France, etc. Smart meters come with an in-home display screen that shows you exactly how much energy you’re using in pounds and pence, in near real time and will bring an end to estimated bills.
Redis vs APCu 2018
Redis VS APCu Object Cache performance test 2018: is it relevant anyway? Redis is fast, but APCu is faster. Unfortunately, APCu is being pushed on the side of the road as an Object cache, and here is why.
There are 3 categories of caching systems on the server side: Memory code caching, Memory object caching, and Disk file caching. Objects can be anything though, including files. By file I mean any file: the generated HTML code that makes a page, a CSS, an image…
Social Media, Fake News and Low Self-Esteem
Social media spread Fake News and contribute to social issues such as a lower self-esteem among its young population of users. Why?
Freedom of expression is a right everyone should have and exercise. It’s especially true as it is a bedrock of American democracy, as defined in the first amendment of the constitution. The spread of internet certainly comes with a lot of benefits such as unlimited access to information and unparalleled communication options (when it’s not censored). The mix of the two has given birth to a monster called social media. Social media is just a hype terminology to describe a content sharing platform with free access. Because it’s “free” to use, their success is humongous and they count billions of users around the world.
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Redis VS Memcached 2018
This post is about performance between Redis VS Memcached, which are in-memory, networked object cache software.
There are 3 categories of caching systems on the server side: Memory code caching, Memory object caching, and Disk file caching. Objects can be anything though, including files. By file I mean any file: the generated HTML code that makes a page, a CSS, an image…
2018 Comparison of Popular Archive Utility
2018 comparison of popular archive / backup / compression utility: tar / ZIP / gzip / RAR / 7-zip
How To Access Super Admin Privileges in Windows
Whether it’s for fun or productivity, accessing the Super Admin account on Windows has always been easy. Not because it’s not secure, but because Administrators often forgot what they were hired for: administering and securing the systems.
It’s yet easy to block a user from accessing Super Admin rights. Setting up tight rights for applications, files and folders is the ABC of the job. However, history has proven that it’s pretty rare that you couldn’t obtain these rights by a mean or another.
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Resolve SSL Vulnerabilities Detected by testssl
You checked your site SSL configuration with testssl.sh (see Test Your SSL Configuration with testssl) and it returned some SSL vulnerabilities? Here are some recipes to help you make sense of it all. You will most likely need the Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator to protect your site with an up-to-date, correct SSL configuration.
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How To Test SSL Configurations With testssl.sh
Is your current SSL Configuration secure enough? Is you https site rejecting old clients? Here comes a great tool called testssl.sh. It’s a bash script, developed by drwetter on Github, to test SSL Configurations
Enabling SSL for your site is a great idea overall. However, navigate around the multitude of SSL Configurations available for Apache and nginx is quite daunting. What’s best? What’s most secure? Are you privileging compatibility against security? testssl will help you decide what’s best for your site.
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