Homeland Season 7 Episode 5 Russia, Russia, Russia. It seems that whatever timeline you exist in, that’s what we’re always destined to obsess about. Whether the 2016 election fell for a fictional TV creation or if it elected Elizabeth Keane to the highest office in the land, it seems Homeland suggests all roads lead back to Rome… by way of Moscow. That is the big takeaway from tonight’s hour, with Saul beginning to sound the alarm about Ruskie attempts to destabilize the U....

In the three centuries between Aegon the Conqueror and Aegon ‘the artist formerly known as Jon Snow’, there are a total of nine Aegons in the Targaryen family tree. That’s standard practice for a royal name (the English got stuck in an Edward and Henry rut for a good few centuries), but clearly impractical when it comes to deathbed wishes and ancient prophecies, as we shall see. In House of the Dragon episode eight ‘The Lord of the Tides’ something catastrophic happens to the Targaryens....

“The gods have a dark wit.” So muses Paddy Considine’s King Viserys I Targaryen in last night’s sordid and steamy episode of House of the Dragon. The aging king utters this while reflecting on the irony of his strong, handsome, and noble father dying from a “burst belly” after a hunt. No sword, no dragon, and no glory. It was a cruel twist of fate. But Viserys could just as well be referring to the narrative fates being spun in House of the Dragon’s writers room....

In the pilot episode, self-professed “Gentleman Pirate” Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) proclaims, “Traditionally piracy’s a culture of abuse: floggings, keelhaulings. And my thought is why? And also: what if it weren’t like that?” Stede’s question doesn’t just get to the heart of the show, it gets to the heart of activism. Real world activists pose the question, “why is there so much suffering and what can we do to change that?...

Riverdale Season 6 Episode 22 “We should all be together for whatever’s coming.” Why do I still try to predict what will happen on Riverdale? That is the question I found myself repeatedly asking while I sat down to write this review of the show’s sixth season finale. This is not a series that operates by any logistical sense, nor do the words of critics have any impact on the head-scratching journey that it takes its viewers on....

Starfleet doesn’t always seek out new life and new civilizations; sometimes, it accidentally creates it. Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation can easily quote from various Picard monologues in the classic episode “The Measure of a Man,” but what about the Voyager episode “Author, Author?” Just like Data had to prove his sentience in TNG, the holographic Doctor fought for his rights to express himself when he released his holographic pseudo-memoir, Photons Be Free!...

This tumultuous upheaval among Marvel fandom was fallout from the very first big budget Spider-Man movie starring Tobey Maguire in 2002. In that movie, director Sam Raimi—along with undoubtedly a slew of producers and studio executives at Columbia Pictures/Sony—made the choice to give Maguire’s Peter Parker organic web fluid. The concept was a leftover from the unmade Spider-Man movie that was being prepared by director James Cameron in the period between Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and True Lies (1994)....

Hasbro has announced a most intriguing assortment in the form of Star Wars: Droids commemorative action figures. The Target-exclusive lineup specifically consists of a lone offering from the 6” scale Black Series in Boba Fett ($26.49), and three from the 3 ¾” Vintage Collection with the eponymous droids, C-3PO and R2-D2, along with yet another Boba Fett (each $15.99)—because, you know, it’s Boba Fett. Indeed, Disney+ series The Mandalorian effectively reintroduced the shady-but-beloved bounty hunter into the post-OT canon, which will soon manifest with spinoff The Book of Boba Fett, fueling any excuse for more of him....

If you are a small business owner or have just started your own business, doing a break-even analysis is important. It will help you determine if your business is sustainable or not, if the costs are too high or if the princess is too low to reach the break-even point at the right time. It will help you forecast your business’s profitability, revenue and growth. What is the Break-Even Point?...

Like any project, a data science project is a long process that requires time, good organization, and scrupulous respect for several steps. Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is one of the most important steps in this process. Therefore, in this article, we will briefly look into what exploratory data analysis is and how you can perform it with R! What is Exploratory Data Analysis? Exploratory data analysis examines and studies the characteristics of a data set before it is submitted to an application, whether exclusively business, statistical, or machine learning....

One such instance can be when you’re running low on your device storage and have to delete most of the stuff, including text messages, to free up some space. Instead of deleting them directly, you can save them somewhere first and then delete them. Another instance can be when your friend sends a hilarious text message, and you never wish to lose it, so you decide to save it on your email or notes....

Is this feature useful, or is it taking personal information from you that should otherwise be kept confidential? Let’s get detailed information about the same and know how you can enable and disable this Autofill Password feature. What is an Autofill Password? As Android Oreo 8.0 hit the market, Google developed the autofill framework that eased the process of filling passwords in various apps. Once Google saves information like your password, card information, address, etc....

In Linux, you may use cron to schedule commands to run at certain times. But what if you need commands to be run every time a file is modified, or a new file is added to a directory? That’s also easily achievable, and there are some command-line tools to perform that. Let’s get started! watchexec watchexec is a handy and standalone tool that monitors a given working directory and executes a command if it detects any changes like file updation or new file creation....

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) is one of the most popular application servers if you are WebSphere administrator then often you have to deal with performance & capacity issue. In this post, I will explain how you can use WebSphere Performance Tuning Toolkit (PTT) to monitor and find performance related issue in WAS. What is WebSphere Performance Tuning Toolkit? It’s important to understand what is PTT and how it can help you....

In this tutorial, you will learn to install Blackbox Exporter on CentOS/RHEL and understand how to use it with Prometheus and Grafana to monitor website performance and uptime. Prerequisites Prometheus and Grafana must be pre-installed. Follow this article to install Prometheus and Grafana. Blackbox Exporter Installation Let me show you how to install Blackbox exporter first. Step 1: Download Blackbox Exporter Go to the official page to download the latest Linux AMD Blackbox exporter package....

Why should you read this article? And another chance that you don’t know how to run Python scripts as you are not familiar with them. It’s definitely for you. Is this only for you? No, both who are familiar and who are not with Python can get something new in this article. Without further ado let’s jump into the article. Before going into the execution part of the tutorial, we need to have installed Python on our systems....

There are many techniques used by a hacker to attack a site, and one of the popular ones is Brute Force Attacks. As you can see, it stands out as the fifth position in the latest report by WhiteHat Security. Brute Force can happen to any other platform like WordPress, Magento, Drupal, or even the server OS. Technically, any platform/service, API, etc. which is password protected, can be a victim of brute force attacks....

In this tutorial you’ll learn: the syntax of the not equal (!=) operator and use cases,the syntax of the equal operator (==) with examples, and the use of is and is not operators to check for the identity of any two Python objects. Let’s get started. Python Not Equal Operator Syntax For any two Python objects obj1 and obj2 , the general syntax to use the not equal operator is:...

It’s an awkward piece of self-aware dialogue but also a fair, if simplistic, summation of what a slasher movie is. Like a musical or a rom-com the slasher genre is one hardwired to hit the same familiar beats each time around and, like a musical or a rom-com, audiences keep coming back for more. Horror cinema’s pilgrimage to mainstream TV in the 2000s has helped open our eyes to plenty of diverse new genre TV....

What is IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)? Infrastructure-as-a-Service, aka IaaS, is a cloud computing term. IaaS means to provide clients with basic ‘infrastructure’ with compute, network, and/or storage capabilities on-demand, through the internet, and generally on a pay-as-you-go model. IaaS allows end-users to scale resources as needed, avoiding the need for significant, upfront capital investments or needless “owned” equipment. IaaS is exceptional for applications with “spiky” workloads. Unlike PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) and even newer computing models like containers and serverless, IaaS gives you the most control over your cloud resources....