<![CDATA[MC Project]]> <![CDATA[MC Project]]> https://en.mycoding.id/favicon.ico https://en.mycoding.id/ https://en.mycoding.id/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:58:43 +0700 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:58:43 +0700 hourly 1 support@mycoding.id (Adi Gunawan) support@mycoding.id (Adi Gunawan) en_US MC Project MC Project <![CDATA[Apple revives the original iPod as an Apple Music easter egg]]> https://en.mycoding.id/apple-revives-the-original-ipod-as-an-apple-music-easter-egg-73827

Stevie Bonifield

is a news author covering all things person tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag penning news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.

If you’ve been emotion nostalgic for your old iPod, you can caput complete to Apple Music’s 404 page to perform music on a virtual recreation of the first-generation iPod. The hidden iPod was spotted by users on social media on Friday. It’s appropriately stocked alongside music from the first 2000s, akin Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” or Gorillaz’s “Feel Good Inc.” The iPod seems to pop up on any non-existent Apple Music page, so you can discover it by fair adding a cord of random alphabet following the chief Apple Music URL.

The iPod’s apt an easter egg for the device’s 25th anniversary on Friday. Apple announced the first iPod on October 23rd, 2001 for $399. iPods were a center pillar at Apple for 20 years until they were eventually discontinued in 2022, but they’ve been making a comeback complete additional latest years.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/apple-revives-the-original-ipod-as-an-apple-music-easter-egg-73827 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:58:43 +0700 <![CDATA[After 6 years in Barcelona, I realized one of the 'worst' parts of living here was actually making me happier]]> https://en.mycoding.id/after-6-years-in-barcelona-i-realized-one-of-the-worst-parts-of-living-here-was-actually-making-me-happier-73829

Woman smiling alongside drink

As an American living in Spain, I struggled to modify to the country's civilization and schedules at first. Jordan Mautner

I had 30 minutes remaining on my lunch interrupt — fair adequate period to compression in a new errand before I had to get rear to work. I had lone lately moved to Barcelona, and I really needed to get an additional key made for my new roommate.

I typed "locksmith" into Google Maps and rushed out the door. I zigzagged through the narrow streets of my neighborhood trying to discover the place. I checked my observe and saw I lone had 20 minutes.

​I picked up my gait and eventually arrived at the small shop. I wiped the sweat from my forehead and reached for the door, but it wouldn't budge.

I peeked in through the opening and saw no one. I knocked multiple times, and alongside all knock, I was becoming additional frustrated, knowing I was losing precious time.

I opened Google Maps again to appearance up the store's phone figure and saw its hours. I was dumbfounded; the shop was open from 9 a.m. to 2 pm and afterward again from 5 to 8 p.m.

I was so furious — I had wasted my lunch interrupt and didn't equal accomplish what I set out to do.

At first, I idea Spain was making me small productive

Quiet streets of Spain

On Sunday, the streets frequently awareness beautiful quiet.  Jordan Mautner

Growing up in Los Angeles, I was used to being capable to get beautiful much item done at nearly any period of day. Between 24-hour supermarkets and medicinal offices alongside evening and weekend hours, everything there seemed built about convenience.

In Barcelona, though, remainder seems to obtain priority. Many stores near during midday for a "siesta" or "nap" break, and a lot of businesses are not open on Sundays.

Store hours in Spain

At first, I established it durable to modify to the customary hours for many businesses in Barcelona.  Jordan Mautner

This new way of existence meant I had to scheme a lot additional before trying to complete my to-do list. I couldn't merely compression in errands whenever they were convenient for me; I had to activity about the schedules of those about me.

While living in LA, my favorite period to do market buying was on Sunday. I could inhabit up my fridge and prepared for the week ahead, but that was no longer imaginable in Barcelona, as many big supermarkets are closed on Sundays.

During my first twelvemonth in Spain, I'd frequently awaken up lazily on Sunday mornings and roam complete to the supermarket, lone to see the doors closed, and I'd be hit alongside a actuality inspect period and period again.

I wasn't living in the United States anymore, but I couldn't appear to tremble off the faster gait of living I was acquainted to rear in LA. I was finding it difficult to modify and was concerned that I would rotate into small productive since I couldn't get things done on my time.

Woman alongside market bag in forefront of Aldi in Spain

I realized I had to modify my agenda in command to clasp the local culture.  Jordan Mautner

Soon, I realized that if I couldn't alter the schedule, I had to commencement adjusting to it. I started splitting errands throughout the week whenever I knew places would be open, alternatively of trying to get them done all at once.

Giving myself area between these tasks really helped me to be small forgetful and additional efficient. I had to concentration on one item at a time, which helped me be additional present.​

In time, I realized it was doing the opposite

Woman smiling alongside dog in park

Now, I bask my breaks alternatively of emotion pressured to optimize them.  Jordan Mautner

Now that I've been in Spain for concerning six years, I've gotten used to my new routines. And, in time, I established myself emotion small annoyed by the constricted hours — I've really begun to bask them.

For one, I felt small force to optimize all of my liberated time.

My lunch breaks became concerning savoring my meal and really taking a break, sometimes study a few chapters in a publish or taking a stroll in the park. Sundays became concerning sleeping in, enjoying period alongside my family, taking a lengthy stroll alongside my dog, and preparing for the week onward merely by fair having a relaxing afternoon.

​Even although it wasn't necessarily my choice to halt doing errands whenever I pleased, it forced me to dilatory down. I started emotion calmer and small stressed, and surprisingly, equal additional productive.

I became additional mindful of how I spent my period and allowed myself moments to really rest, which gave me additional energy to get things done. I motionless get everything on my to-do catalog completed; it fair power obtain a small longer.

And before I depart my apartment, I continually create certain to inspect the shop hours fair in case.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/after-6-years-in-barcelona-i-realized-one-of-the-worst-parts-of-living-here-was-actually-making-me-happier-73829 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:55:01 +0700 <![CDATA[Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers]]> https://en.mycoding.id/investor-owned-utilities-charge-23-more-for-electricity-than-public-providers-73831

In 2025, homes paid 17.8¢ a kilowatt-hour at investor-owned utilities, 14.5¢ at public utilities and 14.1¢ at co-ops. Since 2020, investor-owned prices rosy 34% and community ones 19%, against 24% inflation.

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Investor-owned prices rosy faster than nonprofit (public and co-op) prices in 38 of the 48 states alongside both: investor-owned against nonprofit.

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Change in the average residence cost at utilities alongside 250,000 or additional homes: investor-owned, public and co-op.

About the data

  • Public power is average anywhere power is cheap, so we additionally compared utilities inside all state. Investor-owned prices rosy faster in 38 of 48 states.
  • Most of the gap opened from 2020 to 2023, during the energy cost spike: 25% at investor-owned utilities, 11% at community utilities and co-ops. Before and since, the two rosy at concerning the identical pace.
  • After inflation, investor-owned prices rosy 7.9%. Public and co-op prices cut 4.3%.
  • Co-op homes have the highest bills, $159 a duration in 2025, since they use the most power.
  • Homes that buy power from a retailing provider aren't in the investor-owned figures. Counting them, prices on investor-owned lines rosy 36%.
  • Price is what homes paid divided by the kilowatt-hours they used, from EIA's annual study of utilities. Federal utilities and the smallest ones are remaining out.
  • The data shows what homes paid, not why. Investor-owned utilities acquire a come back for shareholders on what they build. Public utilities and co-ops have no shareholders. See the rate cases for increases utilities are asking for now.
]]> https://en.mycoding.id/investor-owned-utilities-charge-23-more-for-electricity-than-public-providers-73831 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:41:10 +0700 <![CDATA[Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown]]> https://en.mycoding.id/phone-is-about-to-stop-being-yours-70-days-until-lockdown-73832

Your phone is concerning to halt being yours.

70 days until lockdown

Starting in 2027*, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, volition block all Android app whose developer hasn't registered alongside Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed complete authorities ID.

Every app and all device, worldwide, alongside no opt-out.

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What Google is doing

In August 2025, Google announced a new requirement: starting in 2027, every Android app developer must enroll centrally alongside Google before their application can be installed on any device. Not fair Play Store apps: all apps. This includes apps shared between friends, distributed through F-Droid, built by hobbyists for individual use. Independent developers, chapel and community groups, and hobbyists alike volition all be icy out of being capable to create and allocate their software.

Registration requires:

  • Paying a fee to Google
  • Agreeing to Google's Terms and Conditions
  • Surrendering your government-issued identification
  • Providing evidence of your personal signing key
  • Listing all current and all forthcoming use identifiers

If a developer does not comply, their apps get silently blocked on all Android equipment worldwide.

Who this hurts

You

You bought an Android phone since Google told you it was open. You could instal what you wanted, and that was the deal.

Google is now rewriting that deal, retroactively, on hardware you already own. After the update lands, you can lone run application that Google has pre-approved. On your phone: your property, that you paid for.

Independent developers

A teenager's archetypal app, a volunteer's privacy tool, or a company's confidential inner beta. It doesn't matter. In 2027, none of these can be installed without Google's blessing.

F-Droid, residence to thousands of liberated and open-source Android apps, has called this an "existential" threat. Cory Doctorow calls it "Darth Android".

Governments & civic society

Google has a documented track record of complying whenever authoritarian regimes petition app removals. With this program, the application that runs your country's institutions volition be at the pleasance of a sole unaccountable abroad corporation.

The EFF calls app gatekeeping "an ever-expanding pathway to net censorship."

Google's "escape hatch" is a trap door

Google says "power users" can "still install" unverified apps. Here's what that actually looks like:

  1. Delve into System Settings, discover About Phone
  2. Tap the build figure seven times to allow Developer Mode
  3. Dismiss scare screens concerning coercion
  4. Enter your PIN
  5. Restart the device
  6. Wait 24 hours
  7. Come back, disregard additional scare screens
  8. Pick "allow temporarily" (7 days) or "allow indefinitely"
  9. Confirm, again, that you comprehend "the risks"

Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing application on a equipment you own.

Worse: this stream runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. Google can alter it, tighten it, or slay it at any time, alongside no OS update required and no consent needed.

This is bigger than Android

If Google can retroactively fastener downward billions of devices that were sold as open platforms, all hardware manufacturer on the earth is watching.

The regulation being established: the business that made your equipment gets to decide, following you've bought it, what application you're allowed to run. In software, this is called a "rug pull"; but at smallest you could continually instal competing software. In hardware, it is a fait accompli that strips you of your agency and renders you powerless to the whims of a sole unaccountable gatekeeper and convicted monopolist.

Android's openness was never fair a feature. It was the promise that distinguished it from iPhone. Millions chose Android for exactly that reason. Google is now revoking that commitment unilaterally, on devices already in people's pockets, since they've decided they have adequate market control and regulatory grasp to get distant alongside it.

Ars Technica: "Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy."

But wait, isn't this...

"...just concerning security?"

The safety rationale is a smokescreen. Google Play Protect already scans for malware autonomous of developer identity. Requiring a authorities ID doesn't create code safer. It makes developers identifiable and controllable. Malware authors can register. Indie developers and dissidents frequently can't. The EFF is blunt: identity-based gatekeeping is a censorship tool, not a safety one.

"...still sideloading if you use the advanced flow?"

Nine steps, 24-hour wait, buried in Developer Options, delivered through a proprietary assistance that Google can revoke whenever they want. That's not sideloading. That's a deterrence mechanism built to justify nearly nobody completes it. And since it runs through Play Services fairly than the OS, Google can tighten or slay it silently.

"...only a issue if you have item to hide?"

Whistleblowers, journalists, and activists under authoritarian governments volition be the archetypal victims. People in family abuse situations are next. All these groups have lawful reasons to allocate or use application without putting their lawful character in a Google database. Anonymous open-source contribution is a tradition older than Google itself. This guideline ends it on Android.

"...the identical item Apple does?"

Apple has been a partitioned storyline from day one. People chose Android because it was different. "Apple does it too" is a competition to the base and a feeble tu quoque argument. And under regulatory force (the EU's Digital Markets Act), equal Apple is being forced to open up. Google is moving in the contrary direction: attempting to additional entrench its gatekeeping status.

"...just $25 and several paperwork?"

Maybe, if you're a developer in the US alongside a credit cardstock and a driver's license. Try being a pupil in sub-Saharan Africa, or a dissident in Myanmar, or a unpaid maintaining a community health app. The disbursal isn't lone financial: you're surrendering authorities ID and evidence of your signing keys to a business that routinely complies alongside authorities demands to eliminate apps and disclose developers.

Fight back

Everyone

  • Install F-Droid on all Android equipment you own. Alternative stores lone last if group really use them.
  • Contact your regulators. Regulators worldwide are genuinely concerned concerning monopolies and the centralization of power in the tech sector, and desire to comprehend immediately from individuals who are affected and concerned.
  • Share this page. Link to keepandroidopen.org everywhere.
  • Push rear on astroturfers. The "well, actually..." assemblage is out in force. Don't let them set the narrative.
  • Sign the change.org petition and associate the complete 100,000 signatories who have made their voices heard.
  • Read and portion our open letter
  • Tell Google what you think of this through their own developer verification survey (for all the fine that volition do).

Developers

Do not sign up. Don't associate the program by signing up for the Android Developer Console and agreeing to their irrevocable Terms and Conditions. Don't verify your identity. Don't perform ball.

Google's scheme lone plant if developers comply. Don't.

Google employees

If you cognize item concerning the program's specialized implementation or inner rationale, communication tips@keepandroidopen.org from a non-work device and a non-Gmail account. Strict confidence guaranteed.

All those opposed…

71 organizations from 23 countries have signed the open letter

Read the complete open letter and appreciate the signatories →

What they're saying

Tech press

"F-Droid Says Google Is Lying About the Future of Sideloading on Android"

How-To Geek

"F-Droid says Google's new sideloading restrictions volition slay the project"

Ars Technica

"Google volition create you delay 24 hours to sideload Android apps"

How-To Geek

"Sideloading on Android? Soon It'll Be Like a TSA Check for Apps"

Android Headlines

"Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy"

Ars Technica

"Google says it's making Android sideloading 'high-friction' to improved notify users concerning possible risks"

XDA Developers

"Google volition verify Android developers distributing apps exterior the Play store"

The Verge

"Google's New Developer Rules Threaten to End the F-Droid Open-Source App Store"

How-To Geek

"'Keep Android Open' Movement Challenges Google's Developer Verification Rule"

Open Source For U

"Over 67 groups encourage the business to autumn ID checks for apps distributed exterior Play"

The Register

"F-Droid Says Google Is Lying About the Future of Sideloading on Android"

How-To Geek

"F-Droid project threatened by Google's new dev registration rules"

Bleeping Computer

"Google volition necessitate developer verification to instal Android apps, including sideloading"

9to5Google

"Google volition necessitate developer verification for Android apps exterior the Play Store"

TechCrunch

"Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register"

The Register

"I've been an Android person for nearly 15 years -- and Google's sideloading changes are pushing me rear to iPhone"

Tom's Guide

"Android, Epic, and What's Really Behind Google's 'Existential' Threat to F-Droid"

Slashdot

"Android Security or Vendor Lock-In? Google's New Sideloading Rules Smell Fishy"

It's FOSS News

"Google's Android developer verification program draws pushback"

InfoWorld

"Open letter warns mandatory registration 'threatens innovation, competition, privacy and person freedom'"

Infosecurity Magazine

"Google plans to obstacle side-loading akin Apple, declaring war on Android freedom"

Tuta Blog

"Google Clamps downward On Android's Openness"

Internet Freedom Foundation (India)

"An 'existential' danger to substitute app stores"

The New Stack

"Google's Requirement For All Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down Open Source App Store F-Droid"

Techdirt

"Sideloading is deceased for all intents and purposes. The Android you cognize and affection is gradually disappearing."

Android Police

"This volition rub out Android as an genuine substitute to Apple's mobile OS offerings."

Hackaday

"Android app shop provider Aptoide hits Google alongside caller lawsuit alleging monopoly and anticompetitive chokehold"

Benzinga

"Google's New Developer ID Rule Could Harm F-Droid"

Reclaim The Net

"Keep Android Open"

Linux Magazine

"Sideloading on Android? Soon It'll Be Like a TSA Check for Apps"

Android Headlines

"Google's Attack on Sideloading Will Rob Android of One of Its Best Features"

How-To Geek

"Google's developer registration 'decree' method the end for substitute app stores"

Cybernews

"Google is restricting one of Android's most crucial features, and users are outraged"

SlashGear

"F-Droid Slams Google for Misleading Users About Android's App Verification"

Android Headlines

"Resistance to Google's Android verification grows among developers"

Techzine EU

"Keep Android Open – Abwehr gegen Verbot anonymer Apps von Google"

heise online

"Google's new developer rules could endanger sideloading and F-Droid's future"

Gizmochina

"It efficiently makes the Play Store a monopoly without really mandating that it is a monopoly."

I-Programmer

"Google's new ID requirements could demolish autonomous app stores"

TechSpot

"Open-Source Android Apps Threatened by Google's New Policy"

Datamation

"Google's dev registration scheme 'will end the F-Droid project'"

The Register

"We all cognize that's a burden of bullshit. Adding a goddamn 24-hour waiting duration is batshit insanity."

Thom Holwerda, OSnews

"Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet"

MakeUseOf

"Open-Source Android Apps at Risk Under Google's New Decree"

TechRepublic

"Google's Attack on Sideloading Will Rob Android of One of Its Best Features"

How-To Geek

"I've been an Android person for nearly 15 years -- and Google's sideloading changes are pushing me rear to iPhone"

Tom's Guide

Editorials & analysis

"The necessity extends Google's gatekeeping authority from its own Play Store to all substitute allocation conduit on Android."

LLM Advocates

"Freedom of choice is being reframed as a 'security risk.'"

Newsfangled

"This is not concerning protecting users. This is concerning control. This is concerning Google cutting out the final remaining artery of independence in Android."

fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Google's move is not credibly concerning 'security,' but really concerning consolidating power and tightening authority complete a formerly open ecosystem."

Techdirt

"Android is no longer the scrappy rebel. It's fair another empire tightening the drawbridge."

Newsfangled

"This is a form of malicious compliance alongside the court orders stemming from its losses to Epic Games."

Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic

"Destroying F-Droid isn't several 'oops.' It's the mission. It's Google eventually cutting the final remaining escape path and locking all sole person inner their store."

fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Google isn't certifying apps, they're certifying developers. This implies that the business can somehow foretell whether a developer volition do item malicious in the future."

Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic

"Android is not open anymore. It's not an alternative. It's not equal trying. It's iOS alongside ads and spyware bolted on."

fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Google has announced that they are altering the deal. And telling us that we should adore that they don't alter it further. Block this guideline alter now before they cover their chilly metal element hands about our necks."

Jesse Wilson, PublicObject.com

"One US company is placing itself between all Android developer and all Android person on earth."

PixelUnion

"Sideloading, a longstanding pillar of Android's openness, is now being marginalized, placing the Android phase nearer to the walled-garden method of Apple's iOS."

Purism

"The phone you bought and paid for is no longer really yours. Google decides which apps are allowed to be loaded on Android and which are not."

Tuta Blog

"Every additional bureaucratic hurdle reduces assortment in the application ecosystem and concentrates power in ample established players."

Mikhail Korotaev, Nextcloud Blog

"Android does not fair notify anymore. It enforces."

Youssef Mabrouk, Ostorlab

"There is additionally the extremely genuine possible that Google volition leak your character alongside the outcome that any apps alongside governmental implications could outcome in persecution and worse."

I-Programmer

"This guideline represents a theatrical departure from Android's decades-old tradition of openness, in which developers could build and portion apps openly without archetypal submitting to a centralized authority."

Biometric Update

"What pupil is going to upload their passport to a trillion-dollar surveillance company fair to portion their weekend project?"

fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Although Google's assertion is that this is for 'security', it does not forestall the regular custom of scammers purchasing up existing verified developer accounts."

Maya Posch, Hackaday

"This is not a developer document sign-up. This is thorough surveillance of the application betterment ecosystem."

PixelUnion

"Google's narrative that this move is motivated by safety is evidently bullshit. The idea that Google can enhance Android's safety by certifying developers, fairly than code, is apparent bullshit."

Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic

"Android wasn't expected to be 'safe.' It was expected to be free."

fireborn, mataroa.blog

"Once there is no specified item as 'sideloading', there's practically no difference between iOS and Android. I see no logic to buy Android complete iOS at this point."

Thom Holwerda, OSnews

"Google has announced what can lone be described as a death attack to the open ecosystem that made Android. Under the guise of 'security,' Google is implementing draconian developer verification requirements."

AndroidSage

"The projected Android Developer Verification program isn't a safety update; it's a slay toggle for the open ecosystem."

Hillary Keverenge, Tech-ish Kenya

"Google has not removed Android's openness, but it is turning openness from a default correct into a conditional, attributable, and tiered capability."

MerchMindAI

"Developers from sanctioned countries or those without Google Play admission cannot verify themselves. This creates systemic bias against developers according to birthplace fairly than conduct."

agnostic-apollo (Termux developer), GitHub

"Centralizing the registration of all applications worldwide gives Google newfound powers to entirely disable any app it wants."

Mikhail Korotaev, Nextcloud Blog

"Google is turning sideloading from a correct into a approval slip, and the open-source community has until September to convince it otherwise."

Reclaim The Net

"Google's attempts to create Android 'more secure' are, in fact, expanding the hazard for Android users. The additional conflict you current in the name of security, the additional apt users volition attempt to bypass safety completely."

Ken Buckler, Enterprise Management Associates

"The $25 isn't the genuine cost. The chilling consequence is. Submitting authorities ID to Google is a non-starter for pseudonymous contributors and privacy researchers."

Arafat Alim, DEV Community

"Innovation may be the biggest casualty in all of this. This new regulation erodes your correct to create informed decisions concerning your own devices."

MakeUseOf

"This could rotate Google into the productive gatekeeper for all apps on certified Android devices."

It's FOSS News

Organizations & open letters

"Unilaterally consolidating power to endorse application into the hands of a sole unaccountable company is a danger to digital sovereignty everywhere."

Nextcloud

"A centralized earth registration scheme for Android volition inevitably chill this work. Those communities are apt to autumn out of evolving for Android altogether."

Electronic Frontier Foundation

"Google's abusive method to the Android functioning scheme has lone gotten worse in latest years. Software liberty is sorely lacking in the 'computers in our pockets' we call division phones."

Free Software Foundation

"This is a profound change, one that shatters the complete premise of the Android ecosystem, lengthy regarded as the antithesis of the closed Apple ecosystem."

AdGuard

"While Android used to be praised for its liberty and independence, it volition rotate into a closed shop fair akin Apple."

Tuta

"This extends Google's gatekeeping authority beyond its own market into allocation channels anywhere it has no lawful operational role."

Open letter, complete 67 signatory organizations

"Independent application allocation on Android volition now necessitate Google's definitive permission."

AdGuard

"If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree volition end the F-Droid project and another free/open origin app allocation sources as we cognize them today."

F-Droid

"Developers who choose not to use Google's services should not be forced to enroll with, and present to the judgement of, Google."

Open letter, complete 67 signatory organizations

"We are operating out of period until Google becomes the gate-keeper of all users devices."

F-Droid

"Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship."

ACLU

"Google Play itself has often hosted malware, proving that company gatekeeping doesn't justify person protection."

F-Droid

"Remember: It's your phone, your data, your freedom. Don't let Google obtain it away."

Tuta

"Google is turning Android into a partitioned storyline monopoly. We must forestall it."

Osservatorio Nessuno

"Google volition cut off autonomous developers to Android if they do not enroll alongside Google first. This volition slay autonomous platforms akin F-Droid and seriously impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android."

KDE

"Changes would enforce barriers to admission for idiosyncratic developers, small teams and unpaid projects by imposing fees, character checks and conditions that may not align alongside the principles of an open ecosystem."

Infosecurity Magazine

"Ultimately, Google's scheme volition halt you from owning your Android phone."

Tuta

"When you set up a gate, you invitation authorities to use it to obstacle things they don't like. And whenever you build a database, you invitation governments to try to get access."

Electronic Frontier Foundation

"There are governments who power extremely much akin to cognize the names of the developers of those applications so that they can go following them."

Electronic Frontier Foundation

"We unequivocally advise against signing up for this program, now or ever."

F-Droid Open Letter

"Centralised, intransparent safety architectures certainly assistance safe monetization and the market by locking out competitors."

Nextcloud

"Nearly 50 organizations published an open letter opposing what they characterize as a 'kill toggle for the open ecosystem.'"

Tech-ish Kenya

"The European Pirate Party called for proportionate and transparent measures that justify safety without restricting innovation, limiting anonymity, or distorting competition."

European Pirate Party

"Google's developer verification guideline creates a centralized database, controlled by a sole corporation, containing the real-world character of all individual who writes application for Android."

Brave

"This intrusion of privacy of developers is not fair an overreach of Google's authority complete Android, but additionally jeopardizes developer safety."

Software Freedom Conservancy

"A guideline that forces all Android developer to hand their character to Google, despite of whether they use Google's services, makes Android a less-open and less-private platform."

Brave

"MEP Christel Schaldemose formally questioned whether Google's mandatory chief registration is compatible alongside the Digital Markets Act."

European Parliament

"Verification fair confirms who's rearward the app, it doesn't justify spotless code or regulation out malicious behavior."

AdGuard

"Forcing application creators into a centralized registration scheme is as egregious as forcing writers and artists to enroll alongside a chief authority."

F-Droid

"Developers who build privacy-first browsers, encrypted messaging apps, VPNs, Tor-based application or tools for journalists and activists would be required to upload authorities ID to Google. These developers are improbable to rely Google and power halt evolving for Android."

Brave

"For developers construction tools specifically designed to defend person privacy, being forced to surrender their own individual data as a precondition for allocation is deeply contradictory."

AdGuard

"Android's biggest power has continually been its openness. That's what attracted developers and users in the archetypal place."

AdGuard

YouTubers & creators

"The widely-circulated narrative that Google already backed downward from this is false. They didn't, and that misunderstanding may be the most hazardous part of the narrative correct now."

Techlore – YouTube

"Developers of privacy-focused tools and emulators volition have to dox themselves, making them susceptible to authorities agencies or lawful action."

SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"If I'm going to be trapped in a partitioned storyline anyway, I'll obtain the one that's built properly."

fireborn – Blog

"This is an iPhone now. I didn't desire to buy an iPhone. I use Android since it gives me freedom. If you are not going to provision me liberty alongside my computer, afterward why would I buy your material anymore?"

Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"Every sole period a business takes distant your capability to do what you desire alongside what you bought and paid for, all sole period they twist a knife, we have to item it out."

Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"Your device, their rules. The phone you bought and paid for is no longer really yours."

Tuta Blog – Blog

"Google keeps getting in as much difficulty as Apple whenever Google is fractional evil and Apple is complete evil. So there are likely group inner Google saying, 'Why not fair go complete evil?'"

Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"Google is removing the one key advantage Android has complete iOS."

SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"That's not openness. That is control."

ChiefGyk3D – YouTube

"When you download applications, you've merely installed an application. I don't desire to use words akin 'sideload.'"

SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"Follow the money. Google makes prosperity whenever apps are downloaded from its store. Google has entirely forgotten concerning its before business motto: Don't be evil."

Tuta Blog – Blog

"A earth anywhere two tech companies from the identical city that dominate all of our mobile devices the two necessitate centralized developer registration is a earth alongside one additional lever for surveillance, one additional checkpoint for censorship."

Techlore – YouTube

"I'm not using the term 'phone.' I'm using the term 'computer.' This has complete 8 GB of RAM, a terabyte of storage. It's a computer. And I'm additionally not going to be using words akin 'sideload.' When you download an exe document onto your Windows computer, you've installed an application. You haven't 'sideloaded' something."

Louis Rossmann – YouTube

"This method you can't sideload an app from an unofficial source. But it could additionally be used to fastener the ecosystem so we're forced to instal lone Google apps on approved Google OS versions."

Rob Braxman Tech – Locals

"Android has rotate into what they set out to destroy."

Linus Sebastian, LMG Clips – YouTube

"The fact of the matter is, this is my device. I paid a lot of prosperity for it. I have to be capable to do alongside it what I want."

Switched to Linux – YouTube

"Google is doing to Android what Microsoft formerly tried to do to the web. Embrace, extend, extinguish. Just wrapped in a shinier open-source package."

ChiefGyk3D – YouTube

"F-Droid is basically saying that the new Google developer registration procedure volition apt slay the open-source app shop entirely."

The Linux Experiment – YouTube

"Google is environment a necessity that lone they can fulfill, forcing developers to go through Google and slaying off thousands of apps. Countless users stranded."

Techlore – YouTube

"Google decides what's harmless for you, and you don't get a say."

fireborn – Blog

"This represents the final genuine harmless location for liberated and open-source application in the complete mobile ecosystem. Once it's gone, it's gone. And we're going to expend the next decade trying to claw it back."

Techlore – YouTube

"Imagine Dell told you that you could no longer instal any functioning scheme another than Windows on your laptop. That's what Google is doing to your phone."

SomeOrdinaryGamers (Mutahar) – YouTube

"Google isn't evaluation this in the US or Europe first. They're starting in countries akin Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. Why? Because these are enormous growth markets anywhere regulation is weaker. By the period regulators capture up, the damage volition already be done."

ChiefGyk3D – YouTube

"I have really no additional powerful logic to not propose you all get iPhones, since this fair is beautiful much an iPhone alongside a Google logo on it at this point."

Techlore – YouTube

"Google has been carefully observing from the sidelines to see what exactly it is that Apple can get distant with."

Linus Sebastian, LMG Clips – YouTube

"Google already can disable malware that they discover on your device. It's already a built-in feature. So what is developer registration really adding here? Is it safety or control? You decide."

Techlore – YouTube

Developers & community

Voices from the petition

"We shouldn't have the decision to sideload apps stripped from us so additional of our data can be taken from under our noses. The bulk of the apps I use are from small devs. Devs who apt wouldn't have the period to jump through Google's arbitrary hoops, or wouldn't desire to the safety risks that comes alongside that compliance. "

Rebecca, change.org

"I do not akin doing this to Google but if I have to I volition format my phone and I volition toggle it complete to Kiley "

Jonathan, change.org

"I use android since it is an open platform. If this goes through, developers volition halt making apps so I power as fine move to apple. "

John, change.org

"Open origin exploration is too crucial to add any additional barriers to entrance. I anticipate it's bad for all of us, including alphabet and Google, the aosp... a new open example may increase from a shove specified as this. Really though, don't be evil, please "

Eric, change.org

"To put it merely it's incorrect all of it. The idea that we are so untrustworthy alongside our own devices that we need this flat of invasion/ surveillance implemented to fulfill their idea of safety is laughable. The online tech community is amazing and liberated to create any benevolent of customization to their own devices that they bought and paid for. And let's be honest there have been so many questionable decisions already according to safety and safety that Google is no longer entirely trustworthy. We should motionless be capable to have the choice to use our own customizable apps/systems on our own individual devices. None of this feels safe, none of these changes awareness akin they have our safety in mind. "

Charles, change.org

"the entire item of android is it's not apple, atp I'll fair put linux on my phone "

a, change.org

"I have been an android person for as lengthy as I can remember, do not alter that now Google. I have fair started to create android apps, since I discover the alternatives not so affable and bothersome. Android has been my driving emblem and I would not desire that to alter for any reason. "

Nijel, change.org

"Using Android has continually meant having the liberty to customize your cognition to your hearts content, this would be the end of an era. This would additionally be the end of many small app developers that can't or won't conform to the what one power say 'invasive' requirements to publish an app. You can say goodbye to FOSS and flank loading which is a huge part of Android customization. "

sebastian, change.org

"GOOGLE PLEASE DO NOT ENFORCE DEVELOPER VERIFICATION. THIS WILL STOP PROGRESS. "

Luka, change.org

"I chose to use Android devices specifically because of the authority that I, as an end user, have complete my records and the programs I chose to instal on them. Even if a program comes from an autonomous programmer, equal from another countries stores (like RuStore), equal if it an open origin app (like the ones from F-Droid), or fair choosing to use Telegram from the archetypal and most dependable origin ever- the developer's website itself. I formerly had an iOS equipment and I totally detested how locked up it was, it was nearly as if I were digitally "high jacked", depending on authority to do anything! Please don't eliminate us our liberty of doing to our devices our own experiments, finding and evolving emulators for our old games and apps that lawsuit our needs equal if they're not economically viable. Plus: Don't obtain distant the one tool many persecuted Christians about the earth have to download Bibles to their phones. That's ruthless and inhumane. "

Barbara, change.org

"What's the gag concerning Android being another iOS? Sure, you can discover any you desire on the Play Store as lengthy as it's there, but there are junk apps and paid apps that ask you to doxx yourself and inform them anywhere you live and everything else. No, where's the liberty in that that Android continually had? .... Another iOS? No. "

mike, change.org

"I have been using Android since Eclair, following using Windows Mobile 6 and iOS. I have been earnestly considering iOS again lately, and this would entirely convince me to jump ship. "

Jon, change.org

"I bought the entire phone, i'll use the entire phone, any way I want. Openness of Android is the lone logic I choose android, if I wanted a "Locked Down" phone, i'll fair go alongside Apple at that point. Make these censorship at smallest optional to block, LET ME DECIDE, but dont power it onto blocking of APK installs all together FOR EVERYONE, let the person decide for themselves. I don't desire Google to decide what I can or cannot do alongside the phone I BOUGHT. If I bought a phone, alongside the anticipation and the capability of doing X,Y,Z alongside it, don't obtain distant the Z AFTER I BOUGHT IT. I'll fair refuse to update my phone if it get's pushed that way. There's additional malware on the ADS you promote, fairly than anyplace else, im sure. "

Bryan, change.org

"This is censorship at its core. Stop trying to demolish the open net under the guise of safety. "

Dominic, change.org

"Everything concerning this software/app fastener out is beyond wrong. So is age verification. It is all beyond dystopian. George Orwell is spinning in his grave. My spouse plant in a important hospital and that hospital is already in a important panic since they have inner apps that can not be put out to apps stores for important safety reasons. They have no idea what they are going to do whenever these apps halt operating and can not be installed, used or updated since of these dystopian lockouts (i.e. blocking non app stores' apps from being installed; not to citation the important safety risks of age verification). The app monitors many critical operations and medicinal equipment throughout three important medicinal accommodation in the identical hospital network; among branch facilities. It alerts personnel and is used for many areas of communications in the hospital network. If this app can no longer be unified into the hospital's operations network, the entirety of the hospital's accommodation shuts down. I'm certain that if the hospital at which my spouse plant uses inner apps, afterward there are many another medicinal accommodation that do also. A neighbor that I inspect on regular uses an app for necessary medicinal reasons. This app is not and volition never be in any app store. Her doctors and the business that makes the equipment for thousands of group are in a panic. They can't fair put this control/monitoring app out there. They would have to redesign the device's complete scheme and it could obtain multiple years. Plus, there are the important safety risks. A companion has advanced diabetes and has a monitoring equipment stuck in his arm. The monitoring/alert app comes from the equipment manufacturer and not any app store. I additionally use medicinal apps that are not in any app store. I am additionally diabetic (not as seriously as my friend) and disabled. There are multiple another group in my area that depend on medicinal apps that are not in any app shop and are ONLY provided through a medicinal facility or medicinal equipment manufacturer. These companies do not put these apps out to these app stores for anyone to get their hands on for safety reasons. If person malicious got their hands on these medicinal equipment authority apps, tampered alongside it, and re-uploaded it for patients to afterward obtain, thousands of patients could die. What am I and all these group that depend on proprietary and equipment particular medicinal apps throughout the nation going to do whenever our apps/devices can't be installed or updated and fair halt working? These dystopian app fastener outs and the risks of age verification volition put millions of peoples lives on the row and volition have biblical flat consequences. This all needs to halt immediately! "

John, change.org

"This isn't safety, it's merely control. This hasn't been an matter for years. "

James, change.org

"I do not condone google to authority everything "

Leticia, change.org

"At the extremely smallest let there be one phase that can remain open, don't near it downward akin everything else. Let us have this. "

Juno, change.org

"Android's liberty of choice is what made me toggle from apple. I discover that limiting that those freedoms specified as sideloading an obnoxious spit in the visage of all who use and bask this functioning system. If I wanted an anti person merchandise id buy from apple. "

Link, change.org

"I have continually used android since of the authority I have complete MY phone. Installing any apps I desire from WHEREVER I desire is one if the chief reasons I favor android! I volition do everything I can to keep this from happening! "

Britanie, change.org

"Please halt monetizing making your application worse. I volition discontinue using it. "

Bobby, change.org

"We need to continue to have options on the android platform. Once censorship starts anywhere does it end. Developers need to have liberty and not be oppressed by greed. Side-loading is what makes ANDROID if that is taken, what makes Android distinctive it’s fair akin IOS a partitioned garden. "

Edgar, change.org

"The lone logic I've stuck alongside Android all these years has been its open ecosystem. If that's removed, I'd toggle to Apple in a heartbeat. "

Anjali, change.org

"I don't think that we have to be filtered into purchasing item we do not want. Something as merely as a climate app have to be free, news have to be free, but the services that's being offered in app stores as liberated is normally filled alongside ads that leak individual information. "

Andre, change.org

"This OS has been the lone location that has felt free, the capability to download item from anyplace is what a phone have to be capable to do. They trying to obtain distant my freedom, and I refuse to curve the genu and obtain it. "

Austin, change.org

"Google have to be ashamed of itself and provision users the liberty to instal any app they want. Why don't they eliminate those apps from their shop anywhere thousands of group endure from viruses? Bunch of scoundrels! "

Jorge, change.org

"I've installed dozens to hundreds of APKs on my phone for years. Whether it's individual projects or open origin tools. It's really the lone defining difference between Android and iOS. Why is this equal being considered by Google? "

Joseph, change.org

"The logic I went alongside Android at all was its openness, all important publish seemed to deteriorate downward at that, and now the lately announced lockdown of all apps needing several paid license? That's Google unfairly abusing its monopoly position. "

Adpocalyptic, change.org

"Android is designed to be free. We own OUR devices. This is not up for discussion "

Brandon, change.org

"Inaceitável "

Daniel, change.org

"Everyone is sharing how much they flank alongside Android for the capability to have fuller authority complete what they can do alongside their devices .. and I'm so on commission alongside that... I can't remain to have restrictions which is why I've continually used Android devices.. There's a lot of liberty to authorize ourselves to develope what we'd akin and portion them alongside others .. that is item I myself bask be capable to obtain advantage of as I am in no way informed in programming and most pf the time, everything I desire is done by volunteers or group who fair do these things as a hobby... what a community 👏 so annoyed Google is trying to enforce this stupidity "

Santiana, change.org

"Android has lengthy been the functioning scheme that has allowed customization and freedom. It's the bedrock on why I use the platform. Taking distant the capability to use FOSS and substitute sources fair kills what makes Android Android for me. At that phase I power as fine provision in and get a blue bubble and improved basis privacy. Super disappointed in this direction. "

Jacob, change.org

"The equipment that you bought that you own should not have any restrictions added following the acquisition of what you can or cannot download onto stated device. What (Google) is trying to do is going immediately against that. "

Emilie, change.org

"we pay for these devices and keep them. we have to be capable to do item we desire alongside them. Locking us out is fair greed. Like purchasing a car. afterward having to pay always duration to use the heated seats that are already in the car. if anything, let us put a distinct scheme on the phone. "

David, change.org

"Keep Android akin it started, open and liberated for anyone! "

Edgar, change.org

"I've spent my complete younker and grownup existence trying my extremely finest to curate tech that puts me in accusation fairly than several unaccountable corporation. Unfortunately not everyone has the luxury I do, and equal my stance is slightly precarious. As a person of GrapheneOS, theoretically this alter volition not power me directly, but that doesn't average the ripples volition not attain me. App developers are being hamstrung in specified a way that I have no confidence whatsoever that these projected changes to the Android ecosystem won't breeze up slaying helpful and crucial apps that I use. Just using an unverified equipment is not enough, these changes must not go through. "

Ben, change.org

"As detailed at https://developer.android.com/developer-verification, Google is preparedness to enforce a necessity that developers of Android applications centrally enroll their signing keys alongside Google and pay a fee, enforced by the Google Play Services example preventing applications from unregistered developers from operating on users' devices. Google already misplaced a case on this matter and was forced to create it easier for users to instal applications from third parties (https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-proposes-app-store-reforms-settlement-with-fortnite-maker-epic-games-2025-11-05/). The F-Droid project has plainly stated that Google's current behavior threatens its extremely existence, which is as far as I can inform in straightforward infringement of the intent of that ruling (https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html). I personally use F-Droid as the chief origin of application on my device. If Google goes through alongside this plan, my liberty to use my equipment as I see fit volition be harmed. "

Duncan, change.org

"Android is the finest phase for evaluation and evolving applications. It would be a shame if specified an ridiculous decision caused many users to forsake the functioning scheme and migrate to another. Google, delight reconsider this decision. "

Angel Uriel, change.org

"I do not assistance Google moving android in a totalitarian direction anywhere liberty is removed and chief authority is enforced. Keep Android Free! "

Phillip, change.org

"The lone item that set Android distinct from Apple (and frankly made it objectively improved than Apple) is the liberty of authority you have complete a equipment you really own. Removing that capability makes Android no improved than Apple, power as fine say you don't really own that phone or tablet whenever you obtain distant specified freedoms. "

George, change.org

"I went rear to Android complete Apple since of APK freedom. There is no logic to buy an Android phone if this alter is implemented. Android users affection DIY: researching, exploring new manufacturers, using autonomous APK repositories. Google is trying to demolish the one item that makes Android appealing. We all power as fine buy iPhones if this is the direction they are choosing. Or dump our prosperity into PinePhone dev. "

Kay, change.org

"Funny how a regulation as straightforward as “don’t be evil” can motionless rotate out to be amazingly difficult to live up to. "

JV, change.org

"This is the lone logic android is improved than android "

David, change.org

"FOSS IS WHAT BUILT ANDROID. THIS WILL HURT FOSS. "

Noah, change.org

"Trading liberty for safety is item that should never be accepted! When person offers you safety in toggle for your freedom, what they're really saying is: "Give up your power and rely me not to demolish you." Imposed safety is a leash. Freedom hurts since it leaves you exposed to chaos, but it's the ache of strength—the ache that forges sovereignty. Remember: "Those who would provision up essential liberty for a small impermanent safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." — Benjamin Franklin "

William, change.org

"I have been using Android since I was a wee small lad and for the uncomplicated fact that it was quarry and I had authority complete what and who I allowed on my devices. Using the iPoor (iPhones) continually had the intrinsic "we at Apple cognize what's finest for you" category of person cognition and never got rearward it. This cannot continue in in any country. "

Moe, change.org

"If I wanted my phone to be a captive in a fascist dictatorship I'd have an iPhone. I've been thinking concerning degoogling my life, perchance now is the period to do it. "

Karl, change.org

"Some group live difficult lifes, APKs gave us liberty and versatility alongside our smartphones, that among the top things that made me buy and use android "

João Gabriel, change.org

"I don't desire to be forced alter brands or worse build my own (device), fair to instal programs I create / desire to use, I awareness akin I volition have to hack my phones and substitute the OS alongside item that I can't verify how harmless it is (I cognize android has its problems but still) "

tom, change.org

"Seriously, this can damage equivalent devs/ports (legally) affirmative all APK is checked if this decision is accepted. "

Leonardo, change.org

"This won't create Android surpass Apple - it'll fair speed up its demise "

ching, change.org

"Locking the bootloader is bad. Preventing flank loading is bad. If I buy a device, I desire to use it as I like. That is the entire logic I've stuck on ith Android in the archetypal place. Guess those days are gone. "

Joseph, change.org

"Despicable company complete attain on complete display here. Stop the change, let users choose and decided how they desire to use their devices! "

Markus, change.org

"https://keepandroidopen.org/ "

Shrewd, change.org

"This is plainly a descision taken by Sundar Pichai for the financial gain of Google, it has exactly nothing to do alongside safety or safety of the users akin Google claims, if it were so, there were many another ways to do this. I think group akin me volition fair toggle to iPhone at this point, as Google has decided to fair slay Android's lone important advantage. Such a shame. Android used to be a sign of liberty and openness. "

Aurelian, change.org

"Free volition is beautiful cool. Kinda the entire logic Android is better to Apple. Maybe don't rotate into Apple. That'd be beautiful cool. If I didn't desire liberated volition anymore I would have purchased an Apple device. Google. Don't be akin Apple. Thank you. "

Tyler, change.org

"Not everybody wants to be forced into paying a fee to Google, agreeing to their Terms and Conditions, providing a authorities ID, upload evidence of the developer’s personal signing key, or listing all current and forthcoming use identifiers. When purchasing an Android, installers akin F-Droid served to assistance alongside having a extensively used open computing phase anywhere you could run any application you choose on it fairly than having a ample tech business akin Google authority what apps and shop fronts you can instal from. By making this new alter earth broad to Android, we're ceding the entitlements of citizens and their own digital sovereignty to a business alongside a track document of complying alongside the extrajudicial demands of authoritarian regimes to eliminate absolutely lawful apps that they happen to dislike. Google actively has been paying another companies akin Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla Corporation, and Opera to keep their hunt motor as the default choice either pre-installed or following manual installation. Additionally, we’ve seen Google entirely deprecate assistance for Manifest V2 extensions to intentionally obstacle the use of mighty liberated open-source tools akin uBlock Origin to consolidate authority complete the browser ecosystem and defend its promotion income complete privacy and security. Google claims it’s their “job” to do the correct item by “caring” concerning our customers well-being notwithstanding having a track document of being dreadful alongside the two their web browser and document settings. Even downward to the way your Google document is setup and the benevolent of delicate data required fair to create one. To forcefully refuse specified a drastic and unethical change, I’d extremely propose everyone to use F-Droid and instal apps which are either entirely unavailable in the Google Play Store or ones that utilize liberated open-source application alongside an accent on privacy and security. Most of which you’ll discover are extremely helpful apps that do mundane tasks without added bloat and equal precious ones which aren’t Google’s proprietary solution. We as humans have all correct to use any application and hardware is most desired alongside alongside retaining a extremely elevated norm for the two privacy and safety respecting applications, tools, and resources. "

David, change.org

"I am genuinely furious concerning what Google is trying to do by limiting APK usage. This is not several small backdrop tweak. This cuts direct into the logic many of us chose Android in the archetypal place. Android meant freedom. It meant I could instal what I wanted. It meant developers could portion their activity without kneeling before a sole endorsement system. It meant that whenever I bought my phone, it was really mine. We keep hearing that this is concerning “security.” And yes, safety matters. Nobody wants malware. But there is a genuine difference between protecting users and controlling them. Give group warnings. Give them tools. Educate them. Do not obtain distant their capability to choose. I am an adult, completely consenting and capable of deciding what I instal on my own device. When APK use is restricted, everything narrows. Developers get pushed into one authoritative channel. One assessment process. One business deciding what is satisfactory and what is not. That benevolent of centralized authority should create all of us uncomfortable. It changes the balance of power, and it does it under the gentle tongue of safety and convenience. This is concerning ownership. If I cannot openly instal apps, do I really own my device? Or am I fair using it inside boundaries that can change whenever it finest suits a corporation? I barely think it is extreme to say that whenever I pay for hardware, I should have complete authority complete what runs on it. That is not radical. That is essential digital autonomy. And I am not fine alongside observing that autonomy gradually disappear without saying something. "

Brooke, change.org

"F droid is my chief way of installing apps. Blocking sideloading volition basically alter how I use my phone, and create it unattainable for me to use my phone in the way that I have for years. "

T, change.org

"Google has been sued up the butt for monopolizing before, and now they're trying again? And on top of these ridiculous surveillance laws all since a few parents can't observe their children, this is fair a foolish decision to make. "

Kamareon, change.org

"As person who writes and uses my own APKs to create my equipment equal additional helpful to me, this lockdown would be a agreement breaker for my use of the Google Android platform "

Luke, change.org

"This is a horrendous plan. The Android Open Source Project is expected to be fair that... Open source. Requiring developers to provision Id, pay a fee, and enroll to publish application for phones that group own is untenable. This is efficiently making Android as much of a partitioned storyline as Apple. Except Apple does it better. The entire diagram of Android was the openness of the platform. If you eliminate that, we would be improved off alongside Apple. PLEASE do not ruin Android by going onward alongside this misguided plan. "

Alan, change.org

"The commitment was an open and liberated OS "

Daniel, change.org

"This is contemptible behavior on Googles part. I own my device, hence I get to decide what I desire to instal to it. Period. End of story. Some company suite midway throughout the nation shouldn't be allowed to decide what I can instal on my device. We need to remain up to this benevolent of abuse of power. "

Devin, change.org

"1 national lawsuit wasn't enough? This lone scratches the exterior of the equivalent they keep playing. Why following all that's happened, being convicted of monopoly must Google awareness the need to lockdown the one attempt we have at staying personal on mobile? Even if they do desire to collect additional data it volition disbursal them several of their userbase. The conditions of the update solitary are outrageous. Fees & gov't ID? Let's sue 'em again! 😂 "

Zach, change.org

"This guideline is the antithesis of what makes Android the finest on the market. The guideline infringes on our freedoms as American people. I should not have to portion who I am or what I appearance akin or anywhere I live to a business that I don't attention about. The authorities needs to cognize who I am, but a business doesn't. The instant the business gets hacked from anywhere/anyone, they have all my information. That is dumb and should not happen, ever! "

Ayden, change.org

"I never liked Apple's extremely restrictive assistance for their app and mobile OS. I chose Android since of the liberty of customizability and choice, and comfort of access. Do not create Android a wasteland, Google. People who use andriod value privacy and security, during additionally effortlessly being capable to create it improved without worrying concerning who has what data concerning them. Please, think concerning the consequences for once. "

Maygen, change.org

"APKs are exactly the backbone of everything android. Schools who create android apps as a category volition be out of luck. Please keep android open. "

Zachary, change.org

"As a regular person and a small developer, I discover this measure deeply concerning. When I choose to buy an Android phone, it is alongside the anticipation of having authority complete how I use it, not to visage restrictions or censorship. Tools akin Knox and Play Integrity are already frustrating enough, and now it seems that equal downloading applications from F-Droid or another nice Stores have to be checked ?! This undermines the two person liberty and the open soul that initially defined Android. We have ( fine we have to obtain it back) the correct to create, modify, and use apps—and to communicate online—without being forced to provision up anonymity. It is up to users to instruct themselves concerning possible risks, not for GAFAM to decide on our behalf. "

naknak, change.org

"This is exactly why I switched to android. The literal lone reason. "

Ari Siobhan, change.org

"I stayed distant from astute phones in the first days since they were locked down. It was lone following I saw that Android was an open phase that I was consenting to equal try one. If Google locks downward Android, afterward I volition either toggle to a essential characteristic phone, alongside no data (suits me fine, mobile data is ridiculously expensive), or I volition hack together a Linux phone. What's the item in having Android if it fair turns in to a.aecond-rate iOS? "

William, change.org

"If Scroogle were always to obstacle sideloading on Android, it would basically alter what makes Android…Android. Sideloading isn’t a loophole. It’s a feature. It’s part of the open doctrine that initially set Android distinct from additional locked-down ecosystems akin Apple’s iOS. If sideloading disappears, users no longer really “own” their devices, they’re renting approval to use them. No additional installing open-source, privacy-friendly, and rivalrous apps, everything is now strictly controlled and monitored by the data-hungry scroogle monopoly. Here's expecting the EU steps in and fines them trillions this time, 'cause the data-hungry devils operating scroogle (and microsoft too) fair keeps showing that they can't be trusted alongside ANYTHING. "

Raashid, change.org

"Im ill of these souless corps squeezing all cent from us they can! "

Marcus, change.org

"This would seriously bounds any logic I have to use a google certified android phone. Without the capability to effortlessly assistance open origin developers and tinker alongside my own projects -- the android phone would cease to be my "daily driver". These are our computers, and we have to be capable to instal what we desire on them. It's disrespectful to obtain that correct away. Please reconsider removing your hardware's top and most person affable power in the mobile market. "

Kedryn, change.org

"Don't be Apple! "

Wenshan, change.org

"Google is shifting from openness and liberty toward a closed feudal system. This represents additional than fair a setback for application platforms; it is a stage backward for individual civilization. "

John, change.org

"This was why I didn't use iphones "

Greg, change.org

"I've continually akin Google for supporting open source. If Google doesn't not assistance open origin who will? Come Google delight keep being protagonist of open source. I don't intellect all the tracking Google does as lengthy as they assistance open source "

allan, change.org

"Wow, I certain akin it whenever the functioning scheme touted to be for power-users to create unequivocally theirs gets close up. If I wanted to perform it "your way or the highway", I'd go to Apple. This is my device. And I don't need YOUR endorsement for that. "

Liam, change.org

"One of the reasons I use android is so I can do what I desire dissimilar an iPhone. Locking it downward volition create it no distinct from the competition "

Jonathan, change.org

"As others have certainly stated alongside alongside me, the Android phase was continually chosen complete Apple since of the liberty it allowed. Creating another oppressive "nanny" based jail surroundings for customers is not the answer. No "features" or promises of "safety" are value giving up liberty of a formerly open OS. "

Jason, change.org

"Locking downward a entirely liberated and open functioning scheme akin android lone makes the surroundings additional unsafe for the user. Preventing them from having control, and being forced to instal assistance locked bloatware/malware alternatively of giving the end person authority is a clean formula for disaster. It volition be equal additional prone to incursion, and targeting by malicious entities than if it were remaining liberated and open as it has continually been. I have continually been a enormous protagonist for 'you buy it, you own it' merely since that's the way it should be, and has continually been. If there is no ownership of item in your possession, there's no logic for having it in the archetypal place. "

Chad, change.org

"As a kid, I used to think iPhone, and iOS as a whole, was great. As I idea "people don't need alot of things, they have everything they want." Until I had a Google Pixel 6 Pro for Christmas. It became my tinkering device, and allowed me to admission things, I never knew I wanted. And it allowed me to have admission things that normally would've costed my family a beautiful penny. By forcing verification "

Josue, change.org

"Hands off the APK! I remaining Russia for Freedom in 2022 and now you trying to restrict our Freedom akin a offender Putin. "

Alex, change.org

"Android phones letting me authority my apps in my way is why I affection and rod alongside Android. I can't assistance upstart developers without our current APK framework. A forthcoming without among the guide reasons I own an Android phone, is a forthcoming anywhere I fair halt owning a phone. "

Kyle, change.org

"The chief logic I've continually preferred android complete apple is the liberty of app betterment and usage. What's the item of using an android phone whenever I have to depend on an app shop that limits what's available? This decision is gonna power an already undesirable Google "

Mychal, change.org

"I have been avoiding iPhone and using Android specifically for this reason. Why would Google alter item that is operating for them? Why ruin item good? Short sighted and foolish move. "

Will, change.org

"I really liked android phones logic of the liberty they use to have, but alongside this... they are the identical as Apple so.... there's any logic for me to akin Android anymore "

Fabián Jhovany, change.org

"After dithering for ages, I eventually did what I've continually wanted to do, I installed a de-googled android it's, E/Os. Its great! If google persist in this, I'm certain additional non specialized users volition too! I additionally wrote to my mp & to the UK monopoly commission. Search E/Os murena see if you can too! "

ed, change.org

"Android has been the location for group to create and discover... It's extremely safe already, and there's no need to present us all to the latest authoritarian wishes of Google... They desire to have the developer's complete information, to ban you if you difficulty them or create an app that they don't like, but group do. We need to halt this... We appreciate Google for all of what they've done so far... But if they are going downward this path, it's period for a TRULY open alternative... "

javier, change.org

"I chose Android for the extremely logic of it being open and letting me run any application I want. Don’t obtain that distant following I’ve already bought my device. Millions of us chose Android for the exact logic of what you're trying to censor. Don’t fastener it downward since you think you cognize better. If I wanted a business deciding what I can or can’t do on my own device, I’d buy an iPhone instead. "

Paulo, change.org

"If Google does this I volition move to iOS. If stated a choice for locked downward mobile OS I awareness safer alongside Apple. And the way the earth is going alongside all the horrible AI etc.. and company authority of our lives I volition obtain the lesser of two evils. At smallest alongside Apple you can OPT out of Apple intellect during setup alongside iPhone fair akin alongside Mac OS which I lately went to following MS's windows 11. I'm beautiful pessimistic concerning this alter and acknowledge that I volition apt be purchasing my archetypal iPhone in the end of the year. "

Trent, change.org

"I've relied on a third-party adblocker to disable adverts throughout my complete phone, and pulling this stunt would jeopardise specified wishes not to have adverts in exactly all sole use I use. I do not desire the Android OS to rotate into iOS in being unnecessarily strict on sideloading and people's entitlements to download any apps they desire that power not be on the Play Store. Google, you NEED a actuality inspect if you really think being anti-consumer is going to "help" anybody in their lives. "

Finn, change.org

"we need to choice. halt google "

Dhlox, change.org

"Just another stage big tech is taking to obtain distant our entitlements and freedoms. "

Martin, change.org

"Android promised us a choice. We shouldn't let them obtain it distant from users and developers alike fair to have additional control. "

Cross, change.org

"I am not a developer, I am fair a user, and I think it is extremely crucial to say that this does not fair power developers. There is nothing fine concerning locking downward an open ecosystem. There is no fine logic for Google mandating ID Verification apart from pushing their control complete Android. This is disgusting, stated that Android has continually been seen as the liberated haven distant from Apple's partitioned garden. Now the lone way to accomplish liberty is by using a fork of Android, which volition rotate into harder and harder as Google inevitably enforces locked bootloaders. Seeing Android rotate into a Google flavored IOS is fair a huge punch in the gut, and really puts into viewpoint what can be misplaced under greedy leadership. "

Zakery, change.org

"Hi, I've been using an android phone for complete a decade and, akin the computers I grew up with, I've been capable to choose which functioning scheme to instal and anywhere I get my apps/programs from too. There are currently a figure of app stores, beyond those provided by Apple and Google. Sadly, Google has decided (https://developer.android.com/developer-verification) to use their near-monopoly stance in the android market to affect in blatantly anti-competitive behavior by requiring app developers to enroll alongside Google. Google is trying to market this as a "security" but this "security" promotion ploy not convincing nor does it inform the entire story. Further, having put an arbitrary obstacle to competition, Google has decided to accusation app developers for the "privilege" of having the app on android - anywhere earlier there was no specified fee (https://keepandroidopen.org/). Google has stated they volition commencement this from September 2026, so act is needed promptly. As an Australian, I recall the period in 2021 whenever Google threatened to eliminate it's hunt motor from Australians (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55760673 and https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/inside-google-s-mothballed-plans-to-quit-search-in-australia-20231108-p5eil7) and whenever Google threatened to sue the Australian authorities in 2025 (https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/google-threatens-to-sue-if-youtube-is-included-in-australias-kids-social-media-ban/axud666av). Happily, we have not responded to their threats. This is another period to remain up, exercise our national sovereignty and create companies that run in Australia, abide by applicable Australian legislation. Multi-nationals, akin Google, are no exception. "

Colin, change.org

"Literally the finest part of android devices is sideloading APKs "

Michael, change.org

"Just lately i started learning concerning how to instal f droid to defend myself from g00gle and this is what happens?! death to big tech! "

Noor, change.org

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/phone-is-about-to-stop-being-yours-70-days-until-lockdown-73832 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:19:42 +0700 <![CDATA[The CEO of Europe's most valuable company says he is tying his pay to employee satisfaction]]> https://en.mycoding.id/the-ceo-of-europe-s-most-valuable-company-says-he-is-tying-his-pay-to-employee-satisfaction-73830

Christophe Fouquet

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told workforce it had been a "disruptive and affectional year." Chesnot/Getty Images

The CEO of Europe's most precious company is linking his pay to a individual goal to boost employee morale.

Christophe Fouquet, the CEO of Dutch tech resolute ASML, stated final week that the business volition merge employee fulfillment into its compensation scheme for top executives in an attempt to quell discontent complete a important reorganization, per a memo to workforce obtained exclusively by Business Insider.

Fouquet was responding to the results of an annual study that polled additional than 38,000 of ASML's approximately 44,000 employees.

The study results, seen by Business Insider, display that ASML's employee involvement indicator — a measure of employee fulfillment — cut from 78% final twelvemonth to 73.5% this year.

In the memo, Fouquet stated that the declining employee involvement scores "reflect a duration of important change" and acknowledged that it had been a "disruptive and affectional year" for the company.

He added that ASML's administrator squad had highlighted six questions in the study and blended them into a new Workplace Experience Index, which would be unified into the company's Long-Term Incentive scheme for administrator compensation.

"In the coming years, it volition immediately power the remuneration of elder leaders, including the Board of Management," Fouquet wrote, adding that strengthening the company's civilization and reinforcing its values would be a individual precedence in the coming year.

ASML declined to comment.

Employees collect an ASML Twinscan XT1000 lithography device at the ASML Holding NV factory in Veldhoven.

ASML's lithography machines are a crucial part of the semiconductor provision chain.  Bloomberg/Getty Images

The six questions contain whether workforce awareness they can portion their opinions without fear of retaliation and if they have confidence in ASML's elder guidance team.

Employees volition additionally be polled on whether they have a apparent understanding of their role, whether they think their teams are functioning efficiently and are fine organized, and whether they awareness their straightforward director shows they attention concerning them as an individual.

It comes as ASML, the lone resolute on the earth capable of construction the advanced EUV lithography machines crucial for chipmakers akin TSMC and Intel, attempts to slash bureaucracy alongside a sweeping org diagram reorganization.

ASML announced in January that it could cut 1,700 jobs to decrease administration layers and concentration on engineering. Leaked documents earlier reported by Business Insider display that these ongoing efforts have focused on reducing the figure of managers at the company. The business afterward stated it expected to cut small jobs than initially planned.

Going against tech's 'hardcore' trend

Major companies tying administrator pay to employee fulfillment is uncommon, but not unheard of.

Companies akin IBM and Aviva have earlier included employee involvement in their compensation targets for top executives.

ASML's decision, however, runs oppose to the traditional winds of Big Tech, which have seen several companies embark on relentless layoffs and shove workforce to activity longer hours as part of a "hardcore" operating shift.

Meta was an early, prominent leader of this push, with a sequence of layoffs that began in 2023 during Mark Zuckerberg's "year of efficiency" and, final year, cutting "low performers." CTO Andrew Bosworth at one item suggested that workforce who disagreed alongside the company's direction should "consider operating elsewhere."

Executives have since acknowledged internally that Meta went too far alongside its effectiveness push, alongside Bosworth telling workers that morale at the company was nearly the worst it has always been.

Fouquet's memo to workforce came days before ASML raised its 2026 revenue forecast and pledged to accelerate manufacturing of its distinctive lithography machines as the AI surge fuels surging demand.

The company's machines are critical for producing the advanced semiconductors used to train and run AI models, and the fast buildout of AI data centers has pushed ASML's shares up 45% this year.

One important prospective client for the Dutch resolute is Elon Musk, who is racing to build a enormous semiconductor factory dubbed "Terafab" in Texas. Business Insider earlier reported that Musk gave a virtual presentation to a personal ASML employee gathering in June to throw Terafab, which is a shared project by Tesla and SpaceX.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/the-ceo-of-europe-s-most-valuable-company-says-he-is-tying-his-pay-to-employee-satisfaction-73830 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:02:27 +0700 <![CDATA[Shitter – A Nitter Fork]]> https://en.mycoding.id/shitter-a-nitter-fork-73833

shitter logo

A liberated and open origin substitute Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance.
Inspired by the Invidious project.

  • No JavaScript or ads
  • All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter
  • Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
  • Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no developer document required)
  • Lightweight (thanks to @nim_lang, 60KB vs 784KB from twitter.com)
  • RSS feeds
  • Themes
  • Mobile assistance (responsive design)

Resources

The wiki contains:

Contributing

This repository does not obtain Pull Requests, but contributions are greeted in the form of Patch files, which can be submitted on an matter and are much additional convenient to merge and activity with.

Why?

It's unattainable to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled, and as of 2024 you need to sign up. For privacy-minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and IP-based tracking is important, but distinct from using a VPN and uBlock/uMatrix, it's impossible. Despite being rearward a VPN and using heavy-duty adblockers, you can get accurately tracked alongside your browser's fingerprint, no JavaScript required. This all became particularly crucial following Twitter removed the ability for users to authority whether their data gets sent to advertisers.

Using an case of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse Twitter without JavaScript during retaining your privacy. In supplement to respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average about 15 times lighter than Twitter, and in most cases serves pages faster (eg. timelines burden 2-4x faster).

Screenshot

nitter screenshot - Framasoft

Install

Docker

Page for the Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/mv12star/shitter

NOTE: The published depiction is multi-arch — mv12star/shitter:latest runs natively on amd64/armv7/arm64.

To run Nitter alongside Docker, you'll need to instal and run Redis separately before you can run the container. See below for how to additionally run Redis using Docker.

First create your config file. The Docker commands mount it into the container, so it have to be on the presenter beforehand. If you've cloned the repo:

cp nitter.example.conf nitter.conf

If you're using the prebuilt depiction without a local clone, download nitter.example.conf and preserve it as nitter.conf instead.

To build and run Nitter in Docker:

docker build -t nitter:latest . docker run -v $(pwd)/nitter.conf:/src/nitter.conf -d --network presenter nitter:latest

A prebuilt Docker depiction is provided as well:

docker run -v $(pwd)/nitter.conf:/src/nitter.conf -d --network presenter mv12star/shitter:latest

Using docker-compose to run the two Nitter and Redis as distinct containers: Change redisHost from localhost to nitter-redis in nitter.conf, afterward run:

docker-compose up -d

Note the Docker commands mount nitter.conf (and sessions.jsonl for docker-compose) from the directory you run them in. If a mounted document doesn't exist, Docker silently creates a directory in its location and the receptacle fails with not a directory: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file. Remove that directory and create the document as shown above.

systemd

To run Nitter via systemd you can use this assistance file:

[Unit] Description=Nitter (An substitute Twitter front-end) After=syslog.target After=network.target [Service] Type=simple # set person and group User=nitter Group=nitter # configure location WorkingDirectory=/home/nitter/nitter ExecStart=/home/nitter/nitter/nitter Restart=always RestartSec=15 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then allow and run the service: systemctl allow --now nitter.service

Logging

Nitter currently prints several errors to stdout, and there is no genuine logging implemented. If you're operating Nitter alongside systemd, you can inspect stdout like this: journalctl -u nitter.service (add --follow to see fair the final 15 lines). If you're operating the Docker image, you can do this: docker logs --follow *nitter receptacle id*

Build from source

Dependencies

  • libpcre
  • libsass
  • redis/valkey

To compile Nitter you need a Nim installation, see nim-lang.org for details. It is possible to instal it system-wide or in the person directory you create below.

To compile the scss files, you need to instal libsass. On Ubuntu and Debian, you can use libsass-dev.

Redis is required for caching and in the forthcoming for document info. As of 2024 Redis is no longer open source, so using the fork Valkey is recommended. It should be accessible on most distros as redis or redis-server (Ubuntu/Debian), or valkey/valkey-server. Running it alongside the default config is fine, Nitter's default config is set to use the default harbor and localhost.

Here's how to create a nitter user, copy the repo, and build the project along alongside the scss and md files.

# useradd -m nitter # su nitter $ git copy https://codeberg.org/shitter/shitter $ cd nitter $ nimble -l build -d:danger --mm:refc $ nimble -l scss $ nimble -l md $ cp nitter.example.conf nitter.conf

Set your hostname, port, HMAC key, https (must be accurate for cookies), and Redis info in nitter.conf. To run Redis, either run redis-server --daemonize yes, or systemctl allow --now redis (or redis-server depending on the distro). Run Nitter by executing ./nitter or using the systemd assistance below. You should run Nitter rearward a reverse proxy such as Nginx or Apache for safety and performance reasons.

Matrix channel

Feel liberated to associate our Matrix channel.

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/shitter-a-nitter-fork-73833 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:02:23 +0700 <![CDATA[People are vibe coding their way to better TVs]]> https://en.mycoding.id/people-are-vibe-coding-their-way-to-better-tvs-73828

Vibe coding has reached TVs. Social media is awash alongside posts from group using LLMs and open-source tools to eliminate ads and tracking, reduce bloat so the OS runs faster, and equal entirely alter the appearance and institution of their homescreens. While a lot of it is fun — one person turned their TV homescreen into a Pokémon town — I think there’s a flat of frustration rearward it, too. And TV companies should obtain notice.

Several vibe-coded TV-debloating projects exploded in fame complete the weekend. Cleanyourtv (known as tv-vibehack until the 19th), tv-detox, and dumbtv all assertion to accomplish akin things — eliminate sponsored ads, debloat the TV so it runs faster, and obstacle unwanted data gathering that tracks what you’re observing — without hacking, or rooting, the TV. By default, they all additionally substitute the TV’s built-in app launcher alongside simpler ones. Many users are going a stage additional and vibe-coding their own replacement launchers, akin the Pokémon one below.

Most of the projects we’ve seen so far concentration on TVs that run on Android and Google TV functioning systems (such as TCL, Hisense, Sony, and older Amazon Fire products), using existing developer modes and the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to tweak settings and use (and remove) packages. According to the GitHub pages, they can additionally activity alongside several Fire TV products that use a tradition fork of Android (although apt not on the new Vega-based Fire TV Sticks). Because they use built-in developer tools, they don’t necessitate base admission or firmware hacking, and they’re reversible. Even projects that totally alter the appearance of the interface fair use Android’s capability to instal tradition launchers — in many cases alongside an assistance from Claude Code or a akin tool to create the new launcher, too.

As Verge companion Chris Person notes in his Aftermath post, none of this requires AI. These projects obtain advantage of capabilities that already be in Android, and in several cases reinvent the wheel. Android debloating programs that use ADB have been about for years, and so have replacement launchers that create Google TV OS appearance akin Apple TV. AI fair made the procedure easier and faster.

There’s nothing akin accessible for Samsung’s Tizen OS or LG’s webOS, distinct from rooting the TV, which is a entire distinct flat of hacking and equipment control. While there’s a webOS vibe hack for LG TVs that’s according to cleanyourtv, it doesn’t really do the identical thing, basically streaming the Apple TV-like launcher from an always-on equipment on the identical network. They additionally won’t activity for Roku or Vizio’s SmartCast.

These projects, or any OS vibe coding person power attempt, won’t necessarily halt all data collection. A fine essential regulation is that if the TV is connected to the internet, it’s collected at smallest several data. Dumbtv blocks certain manufacturer and ad partner addresses your TV sends data to, but since it’s normally encrypted during transit, knowing what exactly gets sent is impossible. The data blocking is akin to what you can do alongside Pi-hole to obstacle malicious DNS requests on your network.

TVs have increasingly rotate into a method for companies to collect viewing data and assist up ads. By using automatic satisfied acknowledgment (ACR) and digital fingerprinting, manufacturers are capable to cognize what satisfied you’re watching, dispatch that data to their ad partners, and afterward display targeted ads on the TV.

ACR isn’t fair used for ads, though. It allows companies to measure spectators metrics, and it can nourish display recommendations according to what you’ve watched. It’s crucial to note that users need to concur to ACR tracking, and there are ways to opt out of it following the fact in a TV’s menus (although those options are not continually uncomplicated to find). There are additionally options in most menus — again, normally buried — for turning off targeted ads.

A TV functioning scheme residence leaf without ads and ample tiles to choose distinct streaming services and TV inputs.

A TV functioning scheme homescreen without ads showing app tiles and TV input connections.

But equal following doing that, there’s continually involvement that companies motionless collect several amount of your data and use it in ways you power not be comfortable with. Whether or not it’s true does small to assuage those fears. The weekend of vibe coding, on the another hand, is a way for group to try and obtain authority of their TVs to get the person cognition they want.

There are additionally dangers to vibe-coding your TV. One individual who tried to vibe-hack a Samsung TV alongside Claude bricked it. The lone way to completely evade ACR, ads, or any category of data gathering is to never nexus it to the internet. A firmware download to a USB rod can use crucial updates alternatively of Wi-Fi or Ethernet. If you motionless desire to stream content, a streaming equipment that doesn’t use ACR, akin an Apple TV 4K (grab a last-generation example before the expensive new one replaces it), is an option. But any streaming requires sharing several amount of your data alongside someone to function properly.

The biggest takeaway from the vibe-coding weekend is that the current province of TV OSes has group fed up. Most group aren’t going to halt observing TV anytime soon, but the cognition needs to improve. The ads, the data collection, and the cluttered layouts are too aggravating. AI now allows anyone to code their own solution, and it’s lone going to get easier. If TV manufacturers don’t obtain note and create changes, there’s a chance that users volition create the changes for them.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/people-are-vibe-coding-their-way-to-better-tvs-73828 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0700 <![CDATA[This Top-Rated Tapo Wireless Outdoor Camera Is 33% Off Right Now]]> https://en.mycoding.id/this-top-rated-tapo-wireless-outdoor-camera-is-33-off-right-now-73835

Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals author for Lifehacker.

She has a Master’s flat in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been penning professionally since 2018, creating merchandise reviews, affiliate articles, and hunt ads for earth clients during operating alongside Rubix Agency and Cognizant. Previously, she spent a twelvemonth instruction English at the younger elevated level.

An avid audience since childhood, Pradershika's idea of extreme sports is staying up to peruse “just one additional chapter.” She lives in India.

There’s no deficit of outdoor safety cameras, but finding one that balances video quality, power division life, and comfort of use without pushing former $100 is rare. Right now, the Tapo MagCam 2K+ is on transaction for $59.99 on Amazon, downward from $89.99, which is its lowest cost to date, according to price trackers. PCMag named it the finest safety camera of 2024, pointing out that during battery-powered cameras frequently commerce convenience for common recharging, the MagCam 2K+ avoids that matter alongside a 10,000mAh power division rated to final up to 300 days per charge, depending on how frequently it records.

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Alerts can differentiate between people, pets, and vehicles, and those intelligent notifications are free, as highlighted by PCMag in its “outstanding” review of the MagCam 2K+. It additionally integrates smoothly alongside Alexa, Google Assistant, and IFTTT, although it doesn’t assistance Apple’s HomeKit. You additionally won’t discover mechanical pan or tilt, but the fixed lens covers adequate dirt for most yards or porches. As for managing the camera, its companion app is intuitive, offering settings for motion sensitivity, alarm activation, spotlight brightness, firmware updates, and more. Overall, the MagCam 2K+ handles the basics fine and throws in a few astute features normally reserved for pricier models.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/this-top-rated-tapo-wireless-outdoor-camera-is-33-off-right-now-73835 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0700 <![CDATA[I stayed at a 5-star Four Seasons hotel in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. My $1,000-a-night room felt like a skier's sanctuary.]]> https://en.mycoding.id/i-stayed-at-a-5-star-four-seasons-hotel-in-jackson-hole-wyoming-my-1-000-a-night-room-felt-like-a-skier-s-sanctuary-73821

A composite depiction of the exterior of a brown cabin-like inn and the author position in forefront of a bed in a inn area alongside pale walls and timber trimmings

The author's visitant area at the Four Seasons Jackson Hole retreat starts at concerning $1,000 during the winter ski season. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

When I arrived at the Four Seasons Jackson Hole on a muggy day in first September, I imagined it covered in snow. This was in 2024, whenever I visited Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the archetypal time.

I spent one night at the five-star ski-in, ski-out resort. If I always obtain a ski trip, I ideate that my area at this Four Seasons would be a peaceful location to remainder following an energetic day of gliding through powder.

Step inner the 550-square-foot area alongside a starting charge of nearly $1,000 a night during the winter ski season.

Welcome to the Four Seasons Jackson Hole, a five-star, slopeside ski resort.

The exterior of a division akin inn alongside group skiing in the snow in forefront of it.

Guests ski in the winter at the Four Seasons Jackson Hole. Courtesy of Four Seasons Jackson Hole

The 65-year-old inn sequence has a luxurious position and complete 130 locations worldwide, all designed to indicate its destination.

Kim Cole, the director of community relations for the Four Seasons, told Business Insider that the business describes the Jackson Hole location's imaginative as "modern mountain chic," catering to hikers, bicyclists, and skiers in the winter.

After checking in, I explored the area alongside the representative peak-season visitant in mind.

A hand holds a wooden inn key card

The author's area key cardstock was wooden alongside mountain etchings. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The inn has 106 visitant rooms and 18 suites. The starting charge is $525 in the offseason and $995 in the highest winter season. Business Insider received a media charge for a one-night stay.

There are additionally 31 Resort Residences on-site, built to assist ample groups. These residences have kitchens and up to five bedrooms. Starting prices range from $4,200 to $11,000, depending on the season.

Cole told Business Insider that in the winter, visitant rooms are typically booked alongside energetic guests who act in winter sports, so I imagined how the area would awareness as a skier.

The bed was plush alongside warm, fluffy bedding and compact pillows.

Inside a inn area alongside a green couch in forefront of a pale bed book-ended by nightstands alongside lamps on them, and a ample pale headboard alongside tree carvings on it

The visitant room's king-sized bed. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The king-sized bed sat between mixed-material nightstands alongside edgy lamps that contrasted alongside traditional wooden shutters.

With one king-sized bed, the area sleeps up to three adults (or two adults and one kid). The area can additionally be arranged alongside two twice beds, expanding the maximum occupancy to four adults (or two adults and two kids).

The nature-inspired headboard was a mesmerizing declaration piece.

A near up of a wood-framed pale headboard alongside carvings of trees on is

A close-up of the headboard. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The headboard was the standout part in the room. A cherry-wood example juxtaposed alongside a bright-white depiction gave it a midcentury contemporary look.

The depiction was a textured carving of trees that I could awareness whenever I swept my fingers complete the branches. A ray bar glowed below the board, making it easier to see the particulars of the monochrome image.

The bed was so comfortable that I didn't desire to get up — and alongside astute controls on the in-room tablet, I didn't have to.

A wooden nightstand between a bed and shutterd windows holds two brochures and a tablet on a remain in forefront of a contemporary lamp

The tablet had a remain beside the bed. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The tablet on the nightstand served as the room's authority center, commanding everything from the TV to area service. This amenity was added in the 2022 remodel.

The tablet would be particularly helpful following an exhausting day on the slopes.

The another nightstand held an eclectic rack of books alongside a heated pale color palette.

A near up of the nightstand shows a base rack alongside books on it

Books row the base rack of a nightstand. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

Few things are additional relaxing on a snow day than cozying up alongside a fine book.

Luckily, my area had a small choice of biographies, historic literature, and novels, ranging from realistic fabrication to young grownup fantasy.

Publishing dates for these books ranged from 2003 to 2020, but I idea they looked much older. They were all sleeveless alongside a pale or off-white binding.

Across from the bed, a ample TV was mounted complete a rock fireplace.

Inside a inn area alongside pale walls and timber trimmings, a array and chairs on the right, and a TV mounted complete a rock fireplace in the center

A perspective of the area from the bed. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

Rustic drawers were to the remaining of the fireplace, during a contemporary sitting area was on the right.

I noticed all the seating in my area was gentle and cushy, which seemed ideal for sore bodies following an energetic day.

The area additionally had a personal bar alongside aureate trimmings.

A composite depiction of a inn area coffee bar on the remaining and a inventory of h2o and coffee essentials on the right

The bar and its offerings. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The bar had an espresso machine, neutral-toned pottery mugs, and Four Seasons-branded water.

Beneath the bar, a cupboard hid the mini-fridge. It was stocked alongside liquor and snacks akin peanut M&Ms and gummy bears, which were accessible for an additional cost.

In the marble bathroom, the oversize tub had a bendy ablution caput that made me awareness akin I was in a spa.

Inside a inn washroom alongside beige rock tiling, a marble descend on the remaining and a bathtub on the right

The tub on one flank of the bathroom. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The washroom had complimentary Le Labo toiletries.

The washroom felt spacious, alongside a double-sink vanity, a sizable shower, and a distinct toilet room.

Inside a inn washroom alongside a walk-in marble ablution on the remaining and a toilet in a distinct area alongside a blue partition on the right

The another flank of the bathroom. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

The mirrors and vanities were replaced by Wimberly Interiors in 2022.

Across from the bathroom, a walk-in closet held bathrobes, a safe, and several classic, upscale amenities I've lone seen in ultra-luxury hotels.

A composite depiction of a pale closet alongside two robes hanging inner and a wooden built-in below a harmless in the identical closet

Inside the walk-in closet. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

I spotted old-school amenities akin a shoehorn and a radiance brush, which I've seen additional frequently in high-end European accommodations than in the US.

The roomy size of the washroom and closet made the area suitable for up to four guests.

The personal terrace seated one in a comfortable lounge chair.

A timber sliding entrance opens to disclose a small inn terrace alongside a mountain in the backdrop on a gray, rainy day

A peek at the balcony. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

I spent several period on the deck, but since I imagined it would be small fun in the cold, I appreciated the sliding pane doors that let me bask the perspective without the cold.

Out there, I had a perspective of the ski lifts traveling up and downward Rendezvous Mountain.

Ski lifts go up a green, tree-covered mountain alongside clouds fogging the top

Rendezvous Mountain is seen from the author's balcony. Joey Hadden/Business Insider

From the balcony, I spotted the downhill trails towering complete the resort's courtyard. Looking down, I pictured the green courtyard blanketed in snow.

In the winter, I ideate the biggest luxury of this $1,000-a-night area is hitting the slopes fair outside. If I always sojourn Jackson Hole during highest season, I'll lone splurge on a Four Seasons remain if I'm taking a ski trip.

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Joey Hadden is a journey newsman and photojournalist at Business Insider based in NYC. She covers transport modes, substitute lifestyles, and luxury travel. Many of Joey's stories are ocular features that provision readers a front-row place to her individual experiences at residence and about the world.Joey graduated from St. Edward's University in May 2019 alongside a BA in Photocommunications. Since joining Business Insider in 2019, Joey has traveled by train in seven distinct countries, including overnight rides enduring up to 53 hours. She's ridden on many distinct train lines, including Amtrak, Via Rail, Nightjet, and the iconic Orient Express of the 21st century, among others. During her travels, she's slept in countless accommodations — five-star hotels, unique small homes, and personal train cabins, to name a few.When traveling in North America, Joey takes readers inner the continent's wealthiest enclaves anywhere billionaires conceal away, from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to Medina, Washington. When she's not taking trains, notes, or pictures, Joey spends her period chanting and playing drums for the indie-rock collection Blanket Approval.

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/i-stayed-at-a-5-star-four-seasons-hotel-in-jackson-hole-wyoming-my-1-000-a-night-room-felt-like-a-skier-s-sanctuary-73821 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:53:01 +0700 <![CDATA[Brick’s new app blocker is designed for bedtime doomscrolling]]> https://en.mycoding.id/brick-s-new-app-blocker-is-designed-for-bedtime-doomscrolling-73817

Jess Weatherbed

is a news author focused on imaginative industries, computing, and net culture. Jess started her occupation at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.

Brick, the business rearward the $59 gadget that blocks you from using apps on your phone, has launched a new equipment that’s designed to assistance you cut rear on doomscrolling in bed. The $129 Brick Night introduces a location-based element: alternatively of requiring you to tap your phone against the device, akin the OG Brick, this type uses Bluetooth to automatically boot in whenever you act your area (or any another area you put it in).

The Brick Night uses two CR2477 batteries, and you can set a location area of up to 25 feet x 25 feet. Both this and the Brick authorize you to choose particular apps to obstacle alternatively of rendering your complete phone inaccessible, but the throw alongside the Night type is that the blocking happens automatically in the backdrop whenever you act the room, and so won’t interrupt or add new steps to your customary bedtime routine.

Brick’s night type additionally supports multiple users, and all can independently configure their own settings, modes, blocked app selection, period windows, and spaces. Still, the Brick Night is additional than twice the price, and since it doesn’t contain NFC capabilities, it can’t be used for the two location-based and tap-based blocking — which would authorize it to substitute the first Brick.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/brick-s-new-app-blocker-is-designed-for-bedtime-doomscrolling-73817 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:50:17 +0700 <![CDATA[I'm a professional declutterer and don't declutter my entire house at once. I get rid of 5 things a day instead.]]> https://en.mycoding.id/i-m-a-professional-declutterer-and-don-t-declutter-my-entire-house-at-once-i-get-rid-of-5-things-a-day-instead-73822

middle-aged woman, a mother, on the bed in the area in a heap of laundry, idea of being overwhelmed by family chores, the female is not apparent among the heap of laundry,

The author suggests getting rid of 5 things a day. Natalia Lebedinskaia/Getty Images

The holidays are about the corner, and shortly the chaos of hosting and journey volition start. If tidying the home and reducing your clutter are things you idea you'd get to this year, let's obtain the force off and do it as gently as possible, before it ends.

I assistance my clients get rid of clutter year-round. Here are a few strategies to create a durable project easier.

Be realistic

One item that can derail your decluttering project is false optimism. Have you always said, "We'll apparent out the car shed on Saturday and w'll do item fun Sunday!"? Taking attention of material that has resisted administration for years won't be done in an afternoon. There are so many choices to create whenever you're trying to get rid of things, and that's anywhere disturbance and exhaustion create a apparently uncomplicated procedure into one that's difficult to face.

But don't despair — you can create advancement and get things tidied up before next year. Imagine not having this project on your catalog whenever spring's optimism returns.

Slow and dependable is key

You recall the tortoise and the hare? Slow and dependable wins the race, and it volition additionally get your residence emotion additional roomy and tidy. Try the five-a-day (or three-a-day, or two-a-day) method. Put a cardboard box in your rear hall, garage, or another staging area. Choose five (or three or two) things all day and toss them in the box — or the trash.

These items can be anything; on a challenging day, you power get rid of an old dried-up glue stick, a charging cord that doesn't equivalent your current phone, and a stack of expired coupons. When you awaken up one day emotion motivated, you power appearance for five pairs of unworn shoes and additionally choose five books you don't desire anymore.

It power awareness akin these small movements won't create a dent in the problem, but they will. After a brace of months, you'll discover that drawers are small crowded and you can commencement to see surfaces again. Just keep at it.

Do not fear the refuse can. Recycling is important, but at a certain point, things do rotate into trash. Holding on to them since you awareness blameworthy concerning the landfill isn't assisting the planet. If you desire to create a difference, try purchasing less.

Schedule the difficult stuff

Maybe you've got a damaged lawnmower. Is there a location in your community that recycles old equipment? Maybe there's a elevated academy shop category that would obtain it. Maybe a helpful neighbor can fix it up. Spend a small period doing your research, afterward choose a day to obtain the lawnmower to its next home.

Getting those challenging items out of the home is a huge help. Accept that it power obtain a small ingenuity, time, and energy; if you don't anticipate it to be uncomplicated and instantaneous, you won't be so effortlessly discouraged.

Maybe it makes awareness to employ person to haul distant the unwieldy stuff. Great! Just do it.

Gamify decluttering

Waiting for the coffee to brew? Look about the kitchen. Surely there is one item that can be thrown away. Waiting for the ablution h2o to warmth up? Find one item in the washroom you can do without. Try getting rid of one item in all area in the house. Then do it again tomorrow.

Make a bet alongside your partner, roommate, or kid. Who can get rid of the most material in a day or a week? Initiate challenges! Hand out prizes! Turn residence administration into a equivalent alternatively of a chore.

Tidy in phases

Maybe it's not fair clutter making your existence difficult. Look, you're tired, existence is challenging. If your home is consistently untidy, try this: remain up and put 10 things rear anywhere they belong. Glass in the dishwasher, shoes in the closet, mag in the recycle bin, etc. Set an alert for a fractional hour, afterward get up and do it again.

Call it lazy or call it realistic; if the activity gets done, it's done, whether you did it in an hr or five. Who lives in a absolutely tidy house, anyway? Don't let those TikTok feeds fool you; extremely few of us bask curated spaces alongside zero clutter or dust. We're living in our homes, and existence is inherently messy.

Do yourself a favor; expend as much period really managing your material as you do berating yourself for not doing it. You'll enhance your mental health and your home volition awareness better.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/i-m-a-professional-declutterer-and-don-t-declutter-my-entire-house-at-once-i-get-rid-of-5-things-a-day-instead-73822 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:49:01 +0700 <![CDATA[OpenSSL 4.1.0]]> https://en.mycoding.id/openssl-4-1-0-73834

OpenSSL 4.1.0 is a characteristic publish adding important new functionality
to OpenSSL.

This publish incorporates the following possibly important or incompatible
changes:

  • Added VC-WIN32-MSVC2013 and VC-WIN64A-MSVC2013 build targets to provide
    internal functions for bridging the gaps in C99 norm support
    that are current in MSVC 2013.

  • Added optimized ML-DSA and ML-KEM NTT operations on ppc64le;
    optimized ML-DSA operations on x86_64;
    AVX-512-optimized SHAKE x4 operations for ML-DSA on x86_64;
    AVX-512 and VAES optimizations for AES-CBC decryption on x86_64.

  • Changed tsget usefulness to use Net::Curl::Easy (from the Net-Curl CPAN
    distribution) alternatively of the abandoned WWW::Curl::Easy. Users who rely
    on tsget should instal Net::Curl::Easy before upgrading.

  • Dropped Windows-on-Itanium (VC-WIN64I) and Windows CE (VC-CE) targets
    from Configurations.

  • Dropped no-ecdsa and no-ecdh options from Configure, as these options
    did not really disable the implementations. Use no-ec to disable
    the elliptic curve support.

This publish adds the following new features:

  • Support for DTLS 1.3 (RFC 9147).
    Refer to the ossl-guide-dtlsv13(7) manual leaf for details.

  • Support for RFC 8701 GREASE (Generate Random Extensions And Sustain
    Extensibility).

  • DTLS assistance in the SSL listener API.

  • Support for IKEV2 KDF.

  • Initial assistance for the Elbrus2000 (e2k) architecture.

Known issues in 4.1.0:

  • #32878
    When a DTLS 1.3 KeyUpdate is received, all another outstanding
    post-handshake records are dropped from the retransmission buffer.
    This method post-handshake records motionless awaiting an ACK (such as a
    NewSessionTicket) volition no longer be retransmitted if the original
    transmission is lost. A fix is ongoing and planned for a future
    release.

  • #33277
    A imperishable obtain nonaccomplishment on a DTLS listener can be reported as
    SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ on an accepted connection. Polling and subsequent
    accept calls may additionally neglect to study the error, causing applications
    to continue waiting following a imperishable failure.

  • #33278
    A retryable compose nonaccomplishment on a nonblocking association accepted from a
    DTLS listener can be reported as SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL alternatively of
    SSL_ERROR_WANT_WRITE. Applications treating this outcome as fatal may
    close a association that is motionless usable.

  • #33242
    DTLS 1.3 servers may abort handshakes alongside an unexpected_message alert
    when a client acknowledges part or all of the server's archetypal flight
    before sending its response. This can happen following packet defeat or while
    the client is preparing its authentication response.

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/openssl-4-1-0-73834 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:42:44 +0700 <![CDATA[These TP-Link Travel Routers Are up to 25% Off Right Now]]> https://en.mycoding.id/these-tp-link-travel-routers-are-up-to-25-off-right-now-73824

Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals author for Lifehacker.

She has a Master’s flat in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been penning professionally since 2018, creating merchandise reviews, affiliate articles, and hunt ads for earth clients during operating alongside Rubix Agency and Cognizant. Previously, she spent a twelvemonth instruction English at the younger elevated level.

An avid audience since childhood, Pradershika's idea of extreme sports is staying up to peruse “just one additional chapter.” She lives in India.

A journey router appears unnecessary until you run into unreliable inn wifi, equipment limits, or a community network you’d fairly not use. The TP-Link Roam 6 is built for exactly those situations, and its AX3000 type is currently downward to $69.99 from $79.98 on Amazon, during the cheaper AX1500 is $44.99, downward from $59.99, alongside price trackers showing the two at their lowest prices so far.

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So the choice mostly comes downward to whether you desire to preserve $25 or pay additional for faster networking and additional capacity—both can obtain hotel, Airbnb, or another community wifi and rotate it into one personal network for your devices, which method you can nexus the router formerly and afterward associate your phone, laptop, tablet, and streaming rod through it alternatively of signing all one in separately. They additionally assistance OpenVPN and WireGuard, so you can path those connected devices through a VPN if you desire an additional tier of privacy.

The AX3000 is the one I would appearance at if you journey alongside multiple devices, activity remotely, or merely desire additional headroom. It can provision up to 2,402Mbps on the 5GHz collection and 574Mbps on 2.4GHz, compared alongside 1,201 Mbps and 300 Mbps, respectively, on the AX1500, and it can grip up to 80 connected devices alternatively of 60. You additionally get a 2.5Gbps WAN harbor for faster wired internet, affirmative USB 3.0 for things akin phone tethering, a USB modem, or document sharing. None of those upgrades volition fix bad inn internet, but they create the AX3000 improved suited to heavier use formerly you are on a decent connection.

What do you think so far?

The AX1500, meanwhile, motionless gives you Wi-Fi 6, Gigabit Ethernet, USB tethering, and the center travel-router features, making it the easier choice if you mostly journey solo or fair desire a uncomplicated way to get a laptop, phone, and a few another devices online.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/these-tp-link-travel-routers-are-up-to-25-off-right-now-73824 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0700 <![CDATA[Mighty School v2.4 – School Management System Script]]> https://en.mycoding.id/mighty-school-v2-4-school-management-system-script-73825

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/mighty-school-v2-4-school-management-system-script-73825 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:10:00 +0700 <![CDATA[A Bad Week for the Web: What’s Confirmed and What to Do]]> https://en.mycoding.id/a-bad-week-for-the-web-what-s-confirmed-and-what-to-do-73826

A Bad Week for the Web: What’s Confirmed and What to Do

Three distinct safety incidents hit three distinct parts of the stack in one week: PHP2Shell, the Railway surroundings changeable breach, and eMudhra's compromised certificate authority keys. Here's what happened, what's really confirmed, and what you need to do, if anything. As promised, the event numbers and dates are below. Facts as of October 23, 2026. These stories are motionless moving, so inspect the sources for updates. PHP2SHELL - CVE-2026-109618 (GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w) and CVE-2026-109619 (GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp) - CVSS v4.0 9.2, Critical. The 10.0 going about came from the leak, not from PHP. - Unauthenticated distant code implementation in PHP itself, affecting versions rear to 5.4 - Oct 17: Amazon saw the archetypal exploitation attempt on its honeypots - Oct 20: particulars leaked onward of the planned Oct 22 disclosure - Oct 21: fixes released and CISA published an alert - Fixed in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35. One-time origin patches be for 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1. - No confirmed break-ins reported as of Oct 22 - Found by Wiz Research, Calif and OpenAI's safety team NODE.JS - Oct 21: safety publish fixing 10 CVEs - CVE-2026-111497: Brotli decompression flaw, rated High, no workaround - Fixed in Node 22.23.4, 24.22.1 and 26.12.1. The identical publish blocks the eight eMudhra intermediates. RAILWAY - Status leaf event QH8L8B3E - Oct 21: Railway disclosed that an unauthorized gathering got into the systems that shop client surroundings variables and, for several customers, obtained the decrypted values. Builds and deploys were paused. - Oct 22: builds rear for Pro and Enterprise (06:29 UTC) and Hobby (21:08 UTC) - Oct 23: builds and deployments operating normally on all plan, including Free and Trial (08:09 UTC update) - Earlier phase incidents: Vercel (disclosed Apr 19, 2026) and OpenCode (Oct 17, 2026). Nobody has stated it's the identical attackers. EMUDHRA - Mozilla Bugzilla 2083449 - Eight intermediate CA personal keys were recoverable: six for TLS, two for code signing. They were generated on Apr 30, 2025 by a damaged key generation step, and one personal key was exactly the figure 4. - Oct 17: reported to the browsers. Chrome blocked the intermediates at 19:45 UTC and Mozilla's obstacle was in location by 22:59 UTC. - Oct 20: made public, and Firefox 158.0.1 removed the emSign ECC Root CA - G3 root - Oct 22: eMudhra stated it volition depart the SSL/TLS certificate business - Oct 27: Chrome removes emSign ECC Root CA - G3 WHAT TO DO - PHP: update to a fixed version. On a Linux distro the type figure may not change, so inspect your distro's safety advisory, afterward restart PHP so the workers choice up the fix. - Node: update to 22.23.4, 24.22.1 or 26.12.1 - Railway: revoke the old keys at the provider first, create new ones, afterward update Railway and redeploy. Rotate all secret, not fair the ones you think were exposed. - Everyone: use a distinct API key for all app, set spending limits and alerts, and inspect your OpenAI and Anthropic use dashboards for unfamiliar models or abrupt spikes. - eMudhra: for most people, nothing. Keep your browser and OS updated. If you have a cert that chains to emSign ECC Root CA - G3, substitute it before Oct 27. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 1:25 PHP2Shell: what happened 1:52 Two ways to run PHP 2:44 It's a 9.2, not a 10 3:26 The 70% claim 3:54 Who established it, and AI's role 4:29 A messy patch 5:09 What to do concerning PHP 6:20 Node.js safety release 7:01 Railway breach 7:55 Rotate or remain down 8:18 Why AI keys are the target 9:02 A taken key is a credit card 9:25 What to do concerning Railway 9:54 Tips for everyone 10:32 eMudhra: 8 compromised CA keys 10:47 How the certificate sequence works 11:39 Not a hack: small keys 12:20 The browser reply and what to do 12:41 Wrap up: what ties it together 13:08 The fair pushback SOURCES PHP safety advisory: https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-21-5 CISA alert: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2026/10/21/critical-vulnerabilities-php-require-immediate-patching Node.js safety releases: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2026-security-releases Railway status, event QH8L8B3E: https://status.railway.com/incident/QH8L8B3E Google on the eMudhra intermediates: https://blog.google/security/protecting-chrome-and-android-users-from-compromised-emudhra-intermediate-ca-certificates/ Mozilla Bugzilla 2083449: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2083449 Scott Helme on recovering the keys: https://scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-of-trust-emudhras-ca-keys-cracked-in-milliseconds/

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/a-bad-week-for-the-web-what-s-confirmed-and-what-to-do-73826 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:03:11 +0700 <![CDATA[Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Chatter, PHP Exploit, AI SEO Worthwhile, Google Local, Google Ads, ChatGPT Ads & More]]> https://en.mycoding.id/search-news-buzz-video-recap-google-search-chatter-php-exploit-ai-seo-worthwhile-google-local-google-ads-chatgpt-ads-more-73820 https://en.mycoding.id/search-news-buzz-video-recap-google-search-chatter-php-exploit-ai-seo-worthwhile-google-local-google-ads-chatgpt-ads-more-73820 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:01:00 +0700 <![CDATA[Memahami Cloud Native dan Cara Kerjanya]]> https://en.mycoding.id/memahami-cloud-native-dan-cara-kerjanya-73816

Memahami Cloud Native dan Cara Kerjanya

Cloud Native adalah pendekatan modern dalam membangun dan menjalankan aplikasi agar lebih fleksibel, gampang dikembangkan, dan bisa beradaptasi dengan kebutuhan yang terus berubah. Dalam video ini, Anda akan mempelajari konsep alas cloud-native, termasuk peran container, microservices, serta teknologi seperti Docker dan Kubernetes dalam membangun aplikasi modern. Materi ini menerangkan sepertiapa arsitektur cloud-native membantu menaikkan skalabilitas, keandalan, dan efisiensi proses pengembangan alat lunak. Cocok bagi siapa saja yang mau membangun fondasi di sektor Cloud Computing, DevOps, dan Software Architecture, serta memahami teknologi yang banyak digunakan dalam pengembangan aplikasi saat ini. Playlist video terkait: ▪ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZGgeqmsm32s ▪ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZomBNpDl3vc ▪ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE5VyXMZkzb8 PEMBAHASAN MATERI Playlist Materi Ilmu Komputer berisi kumpulan video pembelajaran, tutorial, klarifikasi konsep, studi kasus, demo, dan bahasan komplit seputar beragam sektor dalam ilmu komputer. Materi yang disajikan mencakup alas hingga tingkat lanjut, mulai dari pemrograman, pengelolaan database, jaringan komputer, keamanan siber, mekanisme operasi, pengembangan alat lunak, arsitektur komputer, hingga beragam teknologi yang digunakan dalam bumi komputasi modern. Temukan bahasan mengenai komputer dan pemrograman, algoritma, struktur data, PHP, JavaScript, Python, Laravel, MySQL, PostgreSQL, API, rekayasa alat lunak, database, jaringan komputer, pengelolaan server, cloud computing, virtualisasi, Linux, Windows Server, keamanan jaringan, cyber security, ethical hacking, kriptografi, keamanan aplikasi, DevOps, Internet of Things (IoT), kecerdasan buatan (AI), machine learning, serta beragam konsep, teknologi, dan praktik terbaik di sektor ilmu komputer. Playlist ini cocok bagi pelajar, mahasiswa, programmer, web developer, software engineer, pengelola sistem, ahli IT, maupun siapa saja yang mau mempelajari dan memperdalam wawasan di bumi ilmu komputer secara menyeluruh. CONTACT US ▪ Email support@mycoding.id ▪ WhatsApp https://wa.me/6281274309663 ▪ Telegram https://t.me/mycodingxd OFFICIAL LINKS ▪ Web https://mycoding.id ▪ Blog https://blog.mycoding.id ▪ News https://en.mycoding.id ▪ Apps https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=5237501547073493079 SOCIAL MEDIA ▪ https://linkedin.com/company/mycodingxd ▪ https://facebook.com/mycodingxd ▪ https://instagram.com/mycodingxd ▪ https://tiktok.com/@mycodingxd ▪ https://twitter.com/mycoding_xd ▪ https://pinterest.com/mycoding_xd CHANNEL LINKS ▪ YouTube https://safelink.asia/youtube ▪ DailyMotion https://safelink.asia/dailymotion ▪ WhatsApp https://safelink.asia/whatsapp ▪ Telegram https://safelink.asia/telegram Powered by https://linkedin.com/company/401XDGroup #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #CyberSecurity #Networking #Programming #Database

]]> https://en.mycoding.id/memahami-cloud-native-dan-cara-kerjanya-73816 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:00:27 +0700 <![CDATA[I’m a comedian whose joke was stolen by an AI creator. I blame Meta and feel powerless.]]> https://en.mycoding.id/i-m-a-comedian-whose-joke-was-stolen-by-an-ai-creator-i-blame-meta-and-feel-powerless-73823

George Brett Olson stated his gag was taken by an AI account, left.

George Brett Olson (right) stated his gag was taken by an AI document (left). George Brett Olson via Instagram

This as-told-to composition is according to an discussion alongside George Brett Olson, one of multiple comedians who have lately called out AI accounts for ripping off their jokes. It's been edited for dimension and clarity. Instagram caput Adam Mosseri stated he would appearance into what could be done concerning the matter and that the phase was invested in driving traffic to first content.

I started doing stand-up in 2021 following getting burned out from being a winemaker. I'd been doing live shows, and this gag I made about, ironically, AI stealing jobs went viral. The entire gag was concerning AI stealing jobs and group motionless blaming immigrants, which is extremely silly whenever the most mighty group were saying, "We're exactly coming to obtain all your jobs."

Then a companion sent me the video of this female doing the joke. He's like, "AI is for real, for real, stealing your jokes." It was basically me, in my clothes, but it's a 42-inch butt. It's fair the pornification of women online. It was extremely strange.

I'd been doing that gag for a year. I idea of it following operating out alongside my buddy, and we were talking, walking. It takes a lot of activity to get a gag stage-ready. It's a lot of repetition, tweaking, driving from location to location to perform. Comedy's not easy. So it's beautiful sad to see it happen, particularly whenever the AI comedians who are stealing jokes have additional followers than the group they're stealing from.

I asked the document rearward the gag if she was real. She stated yes. Then I asked, "Did person assistance you do this?" And she fair remaining me on read. She additionally remaining a comment saying, "Sorry, won't happen again," and removed a bunch of videos.

I've had a bunch of followers try to study it. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, replied and basically said, "Not all AI's bad. We don't cognize how we're going to halt it, but group shouldn't be capable to steal. Seems akin we should do item concerning that."

[This was Mosseri's exact comment: "I don't think it's applicable for us to try and ban AI satisfied from the platform. It's gonna be harder and harder to identify, and it's not all bad satisfied (though yes, there is plentifulness of slop). But we are extremely invested in trying to run additional traffic to first satisfied creators, and if an AI creator is ripping off satisfied wholesale, it would be fine for us to activity out what we can do concerning that. I'm not certain what it would be, but I'll create certain to conversation to the squad and appearance into it."]

George Brett Olson, standup comedian

George Brett Olson is one of multiple comedians who have lately called out AI accounts for copying their jokes.  Max Brandt

I accuse Meta, not the AI

I don't accuse person for stealing. That's fair person trying to create a dollar alongside the tools they have available. We desire to clasp group liable that do not have the mechanisms of power since we can't clasp an institution accountable.

I awareness demoralized additional by Meta's response. The tongue that's coming from all of them is that we're powerless, and this is inevitable, and there's nothing we can do. 
And it's fair not true. And you fair have to sit, be powerless, which is demoralizing.

As a comedian, you fair desire to market tickets to your shows, affect alongside live people. That's why most of us article on social media — so group see that you're comic so they arrive to your live shows. I do live shows all week.

If we flood the net alongside agents, and we don't cognize the difference anymore between what's genuine and what's not, this could be the death of the internet. Hopefully additional group arrive to live shows. Because the one item concerning AI comedians is: You can't see them live.

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/i-m-a-comedian-whose-joke-was-stolen-by-an-ai-creator-i-blame-meta-and-feel-powerless-73823 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:00:01 +0700 <![CDATA[How Rank Trackers Say They Handle Suspect Google Results]]> https://en.mycoding.id/how-rank-trackers-say-they-handle-suspect-google-results-73814

SEO tool creator Ahrefs stated Thursday that it’s “cleaning up any former results that may have been affected” by what it calls the “poisoning” of hunt results by Google, in which suspected SERP data providers are shown distinct results. Its post doesn’t say which dates, reports or metrics the cleanup covers.

Agency SEO phase SEOmonitor says in its help center that between Oct. 9 and 13, “some of the incorrect results were recorded in the platform” and that the affected keywords were reprocessed on Oct. 13, the day it put a new inspect in place.

Three another companies (AccuRanker, BrightLocal and SerpApi) have additionally described how all of them treats these results. These descriptions are side-by-side so you can see how all business describes the steps taken for an idiosyncratic position before storing that data, whenever displaying it to users and following record it. A tool’s actions at all stage during the weeks these vendors depict can power what is stated in your reports.

What Nozzle Measured And What Changed On Oct. 21

An Oct. 10 article by rank-tracking business Nozzle looked at how Google’s results pages were showing up without many (or sometimes all) of the sites that normally display up for a particular hunt term. The Nozzle part was updated on Oct. 21. Roger Montti covered the first part on Oct. 14.

When determining if a outcome is poisoned, Nozzle’s archetypal leaf poisoned figure includes it if small than 50 percent of the normal archetypal leaf sites for a keyword display up anyplace inside the collected results. This test does not need those identical sites to come back in a follow-up review.

In this way, 8.7 percent of the Nozzle-determined archetypal pages were poisoned between Sept. 13 and Oct. 21, during 0.17 percent of the Nozzle-determined archetypal pages were poisoned from Aug. 20 to Sept. 9. Nozzle states this trend “is Google’s reply to AI scraping, and position trackers are caught in it.”

What Vendors Say They Check Before Storing A Result

AccuRanker states they eliminate shortened Google results pages, afterward use another browser meeting to get the results leaf again. They volition difference the new leaf 1 results to the sites that were listed for that keyword on leaf 1 of at smallest two of the former three days. When small than fractional of those sites display up on that page, AccuRanker volition go out and get the results leaf again.

If the second drag shows the identical new sites in the results page, AccuRanker records this leaf as an genuine change. According to AccuRanker, about one in all 20 desktop pages and concerning one in all 12 mobile pages do not have adequate former data to run their alter check.

In addition, SEOmonitor estimates that on average, about 8 percent of the results returned by Google all day volition be either incomplete or incorrect and volition be pulled again previous to being recorded. SEOmonitor does not say what duration that average covers. On Oct. 13, the business switched to checking all result’s satisfied against the keyword’s own latest former as results arrive.

Ahrefs says it has filters that detect and refuse different results and petition replacements. It estimates that 5% to 20% of hunt results have been affected complete the former few weeks, depending on the data provider. The article doesn’t say whether that portion is measured before or following its filters.

BrightLocal, a business marketing local hunt motor optimization (SEO) software, is taking steps to enhance the way they collect their information, by engaging alongside their current data suppliers and adding additional suppliers of data so that if one provider was to fail, another would be available. BrightLocal CEO Myles Anderson’s Oct. 16 blog posting does not citation verifying all idiosyncratic result, but additionally states there is “no sole fix that solves it completely” for BrightLocal or anyone alternatively in the industry.

What Customers See While A Result Is Unconfirmed

The data an idiosyncratic person volition see can be based upon the validation and display rules used by their SEO tool as fine as the data it received.

SEOmonitor refers to this regulation in another help article concerning position volatility it states it observed since about May. For several unusually ample drops on the identical equipment (i.e. a autumn from Rank #4 to Rank #14; a autumn from Top 50 to Rank >99), it “may keep showing the earlier recorded position for up to two regular updates” until it determines if the lesser position continues to appear in the results.

Also included in that assistance part are links to a recrawling choice as fine as a Chrome expansion to difference position values.

AccuRanker states that whenever its former inspect applies and a leaf has misplaced most of its normal sites it has a secondary fetch before reaching the customer’s dashboard. AccuRanker does not province what appears at the dashboard during that re-check. Also, users can petition a refresh of a keyword inside the use that volition logic a new leaf alongside a new meeting to be fetched.

What Vendors Say About Rankings Already Recorded

SEOmonitor stated that it re-processed all keywords affected by incorrect September results for the duration of Sept. 25 through 28. It additionally indicated that it prevented the admission of erroneous data into their merchandise until Oct. 8.

Beginning about Oct. 9, according to SEOmonitor, many of the erroneous results no longer contained the signs upon which their norm authority inspect depended. According to SEOmonitor, about 10% of the monitored keywords informed issues alongside incorrect results during the period example of Oct. 9 through 13; however, they study most of the movements in their Visibility metric were minimal. The part does not signify which previous day’s values were revised as a result.

AccuRanker states that it uses a “sandwich check” whenever monitoring stored data for a stated keyword. This inspect indicates if there is a day anywhere small than 50% of the websites listed on leaf 1 are the identical from the former day and the next day. A fixed example of one in all two hundred keywords was used for this check, resulting in a emblem charge of 30.2% for desktop keyword-days on Sept. 25 and 0.58% on Oct. 17. The blog article does not province if flagged days volition be revised inside customers’ stored data.

How SERP API Providers Describe Their Handling

On Oct. 14, SerpApi, which sells Google results through an API, wrote in a community matter that it had deployed an update that “should decrease the figure of instances in which poisoned results are returned” and that it was motionless operating on the problem.

An Oct. 13 comment in the identical matter passed alongside a customer’s petition for a site that would emblem searches without applicable results. The comment stated downstream services currently have to assessment all hunt response.

AccuRanker’s API, AccuSERP, returns the leaf Google sends for a sole search, so it can’t run the former check. The business says AccuSERP shares a pond of browser sessions alongside its position tracker and draws archetypal on sessions that passed the position tracker’s inspect and have stayed spotless since.

Why This Matters

Teams who are going to be reviewing possible late-September/October drops should archetypal appearance at how the vendors reported out during that time. Because it has a volatility safeguard, SEOmonitor could display the former position for up to two days of updates until it verifies if the big autumn persists. You can refresh a keyword at AccuRanker, and we have checks we discussed in the Oct. 17 Pulse for keywords and their representative leaf 1 sites and via Search Console.

Search Console volition be helpful as additional evidence in a disagreement concerning a drop. According to Google’s performance reporting assistance page, average stance is according to the average stance of the highest-ranking outcome on your location and that hunt motor results can change depending on what category of equipment was used; anywhere the hunt took place; whenever the hunt occurred; and the user’s hunt history. According to SEOmonitor, having a elevated average stance does not inherently average that an incorrect position exists in SEOmonitor.

If an agency sends data again from September/October, they can ask the vendor if data stored for those dates were updated. If the vendor confirmed they had been updated, older exports may not indicate the current tool and hence difference the two before sending them to a client.

Teams using API pulls for Google results can decide which types of safeguards be for the API endpoint being pulled from (e.g., screened sessions, former checks) and whether their inner systems necessitate validation of API response.

Open Questions

As of Oct. 22, none of these vendor statements contain a declaration from Google. The identical can be stated for AccuRanker as they compose “Google has made no statement.” In addition, all of the vendors described their own systems; however, none cites autonomous evaluation of how fine their checks work.

Several vendors provided figures for their inspect percentages; however, those figures portray a assortment of items. For example, the 8% reported by SEOmonitor represents results Google returned to them. On the another hand, AccuRanker’s sandwich figures were based upon a example of the keyword days stored.

Looking Ahead

SEOmonitor says it volition update its event leaf as Google’s changes create and as its own changes go live. Ahrefs says it volition article updates in its dashboard.

Check those updates before using figures from an affected duration in your next client or administration report.

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Google Floating Chat Boxes

Google seems to be evaluation or rolling out AI-generated summaries inside AI Overviews citation cards. So the cards on the correct (or bottom) of the AI Overviews inside Google Search can now display AI summary snippets/descriptions.

This was spotted by Brodie Clark, who posted concerning this on X and wrote, "I hadn't noticed Google's AI overviews summarising satisfied in the citations akin this before. The content doesn't appear exactly akin this on the leaf – it is being summarised according to the data that Google thinks is most applicable to the query."

Here is his screenshot:

Google Ai Overview Snippet Summaries2

I see it as fine for several of my test queries - not all:

Google Ai Overview Snippet Summaries

We got the AI, generating additional AI, for additional AI...

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/google-ai-overview-citation-cards-with-ai-generated-summary-snippets-73803 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:51:00 +0700 <![CDATA[How a 24-year-old turned advice from rich people into a $37 million business]]> https://en.mycoding.id/how-a-24-year-old-turned-advice-from-rich-people-into-a-37-million-business-73808

School of Hard Knocks founders Jack Dumoulin, James Dumoulin, and Josh Smith.

School of Hard Knocks founders, from left, Jack Dumoulin, James Dumoulin, and Josh Smith, desire to be the "Barstool Sports of business." School of Hard Knocks

As James Dumoulin approaches a private equity capitalist in Lagos, Nigeria, there's an ominous instant whenever a bodyguard holding a firearm puts his hand up and demands the satisfied creator stop.

"I have a conduit alongside 24 myriad followers," the School of Hard Knocks cofounder responds, and afterward asks if he can discussion the investor, Adesuwa Rhodes, for one infinitesimal concerning how she got rich.

Rhodes steps forward, dressed in a vibrantly patterned suit, and starts answering Dumoulin's questions, explaining how she bankrupt into the business, the importance of persistence, and her belief in God.

The video's equation — mixing a high-drama street discussion alongside direction from the affluent and prosperous — has been distilled downward to a discipline by 24-year-old Dumoulin, and helped him create a business that's on track to do $37 myriad in income this year, profitably, according to copies of financial documents he provided to Business Insider. The first set-up is also, as Dumoulin readily explains, partially scripted.

"They're screaming at me, and it looks akin a war is concerning to interrupt out, and afterward I get her to calm them down," he stated of how he blocked out the Rhodes scene. "And she gave several amazing audio bites and advice."

Street interviews, which have their predecessors on broadcast and TV, have been reborn as one of social media's hottest formats. Standout stars of the genre contain Kareem Rahma of "Subway Takes," who gets opinions on hot topics from strangers, and TikToker Caleb Simpson, who asks group what they pay in rent and tours their apartments. As the format has grown increasingly lucrative, it's additionally rotate into additional orchestrated. Rahma and Simpson have the two leaned into community fig appearances, for example.

In Dumoulin's case, the upfront perform of the street encounter is contrived, a way to diagram the spectator in and hook them so they'll hear to the interview, which is anywhere he says the precious data really resides. He asks his subjects how they made their money, what their guidance principles are, and for direction for forthcoming entrepreneurs. The conceit is that they're lessons not taught in school.

"People affection tension," Dumoulin said. "They desire to see that conflict, they desire to see what's going to happen, and afterward the payoff is a awesome discussion on the rear half. That's why I think our videos do really, really well."

Dumoulin's achievement in the creator economics — anywhere the term "authenticity" is employed akin a holy totem — raises a presenter of questions concerning what it method to be "real," and how much it really matters if you're entertaining and notifying your audience. Any questions of authenticity haven't seemed to hamper the growth of School of Hard Knocks, though, which has nearly 11 myriad Instagram followers and complete 7 myriad on TikTok, affirmative multiple myriad additional on YouTube and another platforms.

Dumoulin stated he'd regard a video a nonaccomplishment if it got under a myriad views.

The 'Barstool Sports of endeavor content'

The videos assist as the center of an procedure — run by Dumoulin, his brother Jack, 26, and their younker companion Josh Smith, 28 — that contains a slew of businesses. The partners say they anticipate their media income to twice complete the next six months.

"One of the long-term visions of the School of Hard Knocks is to create the Barstool Sports of endeavor content," James Dumoulin said.

School of Hard Knocks squad stance alongside Tom Cruise

The squad poses alongside Tom Cruise, one of multiple celebrities they've interviewed.  School of Hard Knocks

The brand has done long-term sponsorships alongside companies including Shopify, ZipRecruiter, and Alibaba, but promotion isn't the most lucrative part of the business. The center moneymaker is School of Content, which provides social media consulting to small businesses.

The another two contributors are Hard Knocks Agency, a short-form video manufacturing and social media administration agency for endeavor owners, and School of Mentors, a affiliation community for aspiring entrepreneurs. Members pay $19 or $49 a month for live calls, workshops, and training alongside founders and operators.

Jack Dumoulin stated the subscribers to its Mentors community are group who desire to nexus alongside prosperous entrepreneurs and study from them, during the agency's clients are established businesspeople who desire to build their individual or business brands.

"Founder-led brands are becoming a really, really big thing, anywhere we're seeing additional and additional founders rotate into the visage of brands, their product, their service, or their company," Jack Dumoulin said.

Monica Khan, CEO of Creator Revolution, which helps creators build businesses and advises companies on influencer strategy, stated she sees powerful petition from execs and founders for assistance construction individual brands, and business-to-business (B2B) creators are strolling up.

School of Hard Knocks took a astute method by construction a media brand archetypal by interviewing entrepreneurs, afterward turning that credibility into a service, Khan said.

"We're going to see a lot additional of that," she added.

The School of Hard Knocks cofounders have additionally invested in genuine estate, including a part of an flat complex in San Antonio and business properties.

The founders went through multiple pivots

The Dumoulin brothers grew up in a armed forces family in Northern Virginia and became allies alongside Smith during serving in the identical Boy Scouts troop. All went on to rotate into Eagle Scouts.

James Dumoulin attributes several of their achievement to the mentoring they got from the armed forces dads who ran the troop. He recalled the particularly lengthy conferences they'd have alongside scout leaders evaluating them for advancement to the next rank, and the scoutmaster who used to say, "There's never adequate period to do it right, but there's continually adequate period to do it again."

"That resonated alongside us," he said.

Mark Cuban speaks into a handheld microphone during a phase conversation against a dreary backdrop.

Mark Cuban gave School of Hard Knocks its archetypal big break.  Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images

The three reconnected in Austin in 2020. Josh Smith had gotten into digital marketing, and Jack Dumoulin, who had won a trophy in a worldwide Microsoft Excel competition, had rotate into a younger expert at Buc-ee's. James Dumoulin was in college, making TikTok videos. They blended their skills to create online content.

School of Hard Knocks was by no method an overnight success. They experimented alongside multiple approaches, including giving their own endeavor advice. People didn't attention concerning a 20-year-old kid's viewpoint on business, James Dumoulin said.

"Ultimately, we were like, 'What if we tried doing interviews?'" he said. "'What if we were the ones that were capable to go search direction from the most prosperous people?'"

They started approaching group chilly on the street, asking them for interviews, and additional frequently than not, getting blown off.

"It was fair changeless rejection following rejection," James Dumoulin said. "You'd likely have to go to 100 group before you get anybody to equal appearance at you in the eye."

Their big interrupt came in 2022 whenever they intercepted Mark Cuban exterior the South by Southwest celebration and asked for an interview. The gregarious entrepreneur obliged.

"That one discussion was so mighty for us, since I leveraged it in so many another interviews," James Dumoulin said.

Eventually, PR agents were calling them to have their clients be featured on the channel.

The videos are carefully planned

School of Hard Knocks videos have a spontaneous awareness that belies the exact preparedness rearward them.

They commencement alongside a chilly open, frequently creating strain by involving a safety defender or another bystanders. For an discussion alongside Ring originator Jamie Siminoff, James Dumoulin roped in a few workforce from a shop on Rodeo Drive anywhere he met Siminoff and asked them to remain in a group, chatting. Dumoulin asked the collection who the richest of them was. As briefed, they pointed to Siminoff, who stated he was an inventor who made "something on your forefront door."

James Dumoulin reshoots the beginning multiple times until he's satisfied alongside the result. The remainder of the discussion is attempt in one take. He approaches his subjects alongside hearty enthusiasm and stated he does minimal investigation on them, to maintain a certain amount of natural astonishment in his reactions. All told, he takes five to seven hours to edit videos that are between a infinitesimal and a fractional and two minutes long.

"He's got unbelievable guests," stated Josh Suggs, originator of StreetTalk, an ad agency built about impromptu street interviews. "He has genuine A-list celebrities. So I think group naturally desire to comprehend what an A-list community fig is going to say. At the identical time, he asks a inquiry group desire to hear: How much prosperity do you make? It's extremely scroll-stopping questions."

Some subjects — akin Shaq and Tom Cruise — are family names. Most are not. James Dumoulin stated the best-performing videos are unidentified moguls since they create a curiosity gap.

He doesn't media his guests on arguable topics. Convicted felon "Wolf of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort and streamer Adin Ross, who has hosted far-right creator Nick Fuentes and self-described misogynist influencer Andrew Tate on his stream, get the identical care as everyone else.

A phase actuality check

The cofounders stated that whenever their satisfied started to obtain off, about 2022, they got a actuality inspect concerning dependence on platforms.

They stated their satisfied was making concerning $30,000 a month, mostly from Facebook, whenever they were unexpectedly demonetized by the phase for what James Dumoulin stated was an "unoriginal satisfied violation." (They've since been reinstated.) Their monthly income dropped to $5,000. They stated it was a wake-up call that they had to discover other, additional predictable sources of income. They started their archetypal offshoot, the Hard Knocks Agency, in 2023.

"Sometimes you're not in control, since you don't own the platform," James Dumoulin said. "It made us realize, 'We've got to create a media company.'"

The School of Hard Knocks founders are additionally conscious of the hazard they run of being reliant on a sole person. That's why they're adding new brands akin Hard Knocks Business and Hard Knocks Women, alongside Hard Knocks Sports to come. The goal is to get to eight channels by the end of the year.

"If it is all really relying on one person, if item happens to that person, the entire company's benevolent of screwed," James Dumoulin said. "And so I think that's why it is very, extremely crucial to have that allocation beyond fair one channel."

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/how-a-24-year-old-turned-advice-from-rich-people-into-a-37-million-business-73808 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:45:01 +0700 <![CDATA[JPEG XL Image Format Not Supported By Google Images & Google Discover]]> https://en.mycoding.id/jpeg-xl-image-format-not-supported-by-google-images-google-discover-73804

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John Mueller at Google lately confirmed that Google Image Search and Google Discover don't yet assistance the JPEG XL depiction format. He stated this on Bluesky recently, "FWIW if you're expecting to get images shown in Google Images & as previews in Discover, etc - JPEG-XL is currently not supported."

He afterward connected to the official assistance documentation that lists out which depiction formats Google Search supports, it says:

Google Search supports images referenced in the src trait of img in the following document formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, SVG, and AVIF. It's additionally a fine idea to have the expansion of your filename equivalent alongside the document type.

JPEG XL (.jxl) is a next-generation, liberated and open-source depiction format defined by ISO/IEC 18181. It offers up to 50% improved compression than traditional JPEG, lossless recompression of bequest JPEGs alongside a 20% size reduction, HDR and wide-gamut support, and accelerated application decoding. It seems akin it was five years ago on October 13, 2021.

Here is John's article on Bluesky:

FWIW if you're expecting to get images shown in Google Images & as previews in Discover, etc - JPEG-XL is currently not supported: developers.google.com/search/docs/...

[image or embed]

— John Mueller (@johnmu.com) October 15, 2026 at 9:26 AM

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Quadcopter drone flies complete a highway alongside a blurred armored conveyance in a grassy training area.

ORQA supplies drones to NATO militaries and views operating in Ukraine as key to making the norm of drone innovation that the alliance needs. Stefan Wermuth/REUTERS

A Western business evolving drone innovation for NATO militaries says that working in Ukraine is the finest way to justify its equipment meets the alliance's needs for a forthcoming fight.

ORQA, a Croatian business that makes drones and drone technology, including controllers, receivers, goggles, video equipment, and escape simulators, already supplies parts and systems to two dozen NATO allies. But it wants to draw on Ukraine's battlefield experience to enhance its products.

Working in Ukraine "creates an chance to really conduit this kind of operational ability to form these products. And afterward these products can be made to a standard that NATO demands," CEO Srđan Kovačević told Business Insider.

ORQA produces components used by Ukrainian defence tech business General Cherry and is partnering alongside the resolute to jointly create drone systems and dispersed Ukraine's drone expertise.

The war in Ukraine is the most serious drone war always fought, and getting feedback from the battlefield provides crucial understanding into what soldiers need most.

Large multi-rotor drone displayed on a trade-show remain below a “GENERAL CHERRY 13” sign.

ORQA and General Cherry are operating together to create for the two Ukraine and the NATO market.  John Keeble/Getty Images

"If I'm being blunt, there are lone a few parts of the earth anywhere you can actively fire downward these unmanned airborne threats in a real-world environment," Kovačević told Business Insider.

That identical run has prompted Western defence companies, ranging from small start-ups to important primes, to set up manufacturing facilities, repair hubs, and offices in Ukraine, seeking battlefield feedback to enhance their innovation faster.

ORQA is additionally seeking to improved comprehend how Ukraine's defence industry scales, moves quickly, and plant in wartime.

Ukrainian defence firms are producing drones and another weapons at a much faster charge than many of their Western counterparts.

Kovačević stated that "the West has a enormous amount to study from Ukraine," saying that the "operational excellence that Ukrainian defence forces have developed is unparalleled in the Western world."

He stated that during the West "has a extremely profound innovation expertise," it lacks "this lived cognition of taking that innovation and applying it to the operational actuality of the 21st-century warfare."

"Now," he said, "it's period to merge the two and appear improved off on the two sides of this partnership."

General Cherry is one of Ukraine's biggest drone companies and has announced partnerships alongside another Western defence tech companies.

A individual in tactical equipment adjusts a fixed-wing drone mounted on a remain in a wooded outdoor area.

Ukraine is fighting the most drone-heavy war ever.  Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images

ORQA and General Cherry average to industry in the two countries, supplying NATO and its partners alongside Ukrainian-developed counter-drone innovation during expanding family manufacturing of drone components in Ukraine.

Kovačević stated Ukrainian companies akin General Cherry have "immensely precious lived experience of construction and scaling under fire," item that is frequently "neglected by Western companies," but they can learn.

The important "volumes that Ukrainian drone companies are capable to create really dwarf item that's happening in the West correct now," he added.

Western leaders are encouraging manufacturing collaboration, and NATO has launched programs to bring Ukrainian and allied defence companies together.

ORQA isn't solitary in looking to Ukraine's extended battlefield cognition to create improved weapons for NATO. Latvia-based Origin Robotics, for example, makes BLAZE interceptor drones purchased by multiple NATO militaries and BEAK, a drone-launched precision-guided arm used by Ukrainian forces.

Its CEO, Agris Kipurs, earlier told Business Insider that the business takes lessons from its activity in Ukraine, "but we modify those weapons systems specifically to be used in a NATO country. And NATO countries and the armies of NATO countries are our customers. That is the person we build for."

Kovačević stated Ukrainian innovation can't merely be transplanted into NATO militaries. Ukraine has had to create weapons at breakneck speed and create do alongside what's available.

NATO, however, has period to obtain operational knowledge, contextualize it for alliance forces, and build these products to the necessary standards using Western technology, he said.

Kovačević stated the goal of these manufacturing partnerships is to provision NATO without undermining Ukraine's capability to encounter its own wartime needs.

ORQA additionally aims to boost Ukraine's family manufacturing of drone components and decrease its reliance on abroad suppliers.

Ukraine is "relying heavily on non-Ukrainian and non-European provision chains," Kovačević said, adding that reducing that dependence is strategically important. ORQA says it manufactures key components in-house and avoids Chinese-made parts to fortify its provision chain.

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Sinéad Baker is a Military and Defense Correspondent based in Business Insider's London bureau, penning concerning Russia's intrusion of Ukraine and NATO actions.Sinéad most frequently covers soldiers' experiences, military strategy, battlefield developments, weapons systems, the defence industry's response, and the effect on NATO and European security, and geopolitical decisions that encircle the Ukraine war. She has reported from NATO’s frontlines and about Europe,  has interviewed multiple premier ministers and defence ministers, has appeared on BBC News and The Guardian's government podcast, and has been cited by Congressional hearings.Sinéad has additionally extensively covered US government and earlier led Business Insider's breaking news safety from London.Sinéad earlier completed a master's flat in investigative reporting at City, University of London, and has written for The Guardian, The Observer, and TheJournal.ie. Sinéad is the erstwhile publishing company of the multi-award-winning The University Times in Dublin.Expertise

  • Experiences of soldiers in Ukraine, including battlefield developments and tactics
  • Western armed forces responses to the war, and lessons they should learn
  • New weaponry built for and in reply to the war 

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]]> https://en.mycoding.id/a-western-drone-company-explains-why-setting-up-shop-in-ukraine-is-necessary-to-build-better-weapons-for-nato-73809 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:31:01 +0700 <![CDATA[Google Business Profiles Tests New Advanced Performance Reports]]> https://en.mycoding.id/google-business-profiles-tests-new-advanced-performance-reports-73805

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Google is evaluation a entirely revamped achievement study division inside Google Business Profiles that includes metrics on engagement, reviews, hunt trends, spectators and more. It additionally includes top recommendations and a additional broken-out reviews item view.

Yesterday we covered the new Google Business Home portal but this is distinct from that and several what duplicative.

I personally do not see this yet, but two group I cognize have already sent me particulars on this. The archetypal is Jaikishan Raturi from Wisevu who sent me the screenshots below in ray mode. Syed Amir additionally pinged me afterward on X alongside the dreary manner screenshots and the video below.

Here is the overview division from Syed:

Google Business Profiles Performance Report New Overview

Here is the recommendations division in the overview:

Google Business Profiles Performance Report New Overview Rec

Engagement section:

Google Business Profiles Performance Report New Engage

Reviews:

Google Business Profiles Performance Report New Reviews

Audience:

Google Business Profiles Performance Report New Audience

Search trends:

Google Business Profiles Performance Report New Trends

Here is the video Syed posted:

This seems akin a extremely big betterment from the old/current achievement report:

Forum conversation at X.

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