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I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

support@mycoding.id (Riki Setiawan) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:30:55 +0700

As among the managers of the Digital Dissident Devroom, I invitation you to be part of a conversation we cannot oversee to ignore.

Around the world, group are being silenced, monitored, and denied admission to information. Free application can assistance alter that, but lone if we build it together. We need tools group can rely and authority to communicate safely, disclose the truth, and oppose censorship.

This devroom brings together developers, researchers, activists, and everyone committed to digital freedom. We desire genuine solutions, honest lessons, and collaboration throughout projects, not merchandise pitches.

If you accept innovation should assist people, not authority them, associate us. Bring your ideas, experience, and questions. Let’s build the tools that assistance keep liberty alive.

Our concentration complements another devrooms, including Decentralized Internet and Privacy, which explores the broader decentralized ecosystem. While they concentration on technologies, we concentration on the group under danger and the complete sequence of tools that can defend them.

How to use to conversation at the dev room?

Go to FOSDEM’s authoritative CFP portal from here and login or register.
Click on “Submit a proposal”
Then inhabit in the form and choose “Digital Dissident” as a track.
Done!
Please note that by doing this you additionally obtain the FOSDEM Code of Conduct.

Define: Digital Dissident Developer Room

Privacy and anonymity tools all have a residence at FOSDEM: the network, security, decentralised and messaging rooms, and assorted main-track and lightning talks. Someone living under an authoritarian administration (Russia, Iran, China, Belarus, Myanmar and others) never uses a sole tool, though. Their day-to-day safety depends on a chain of tools that has to clasp up end to end:

reaching the network at all (censorship circumvention),
communicating without leaking metadata,
collecting, verifying and storing evidence safely,
publishing or leaking it without exposing the author,
doing all this on devices and infrastructure that are themselves a risk.

The weakest nexus decides the outcome. Talks concerning one tool rarely shield how it fits alongside the others, anywhere the seams are, or what breaks at the hand-offs (for example, a circumvention transport that is fingerprinted, or a messenger whose shove notifications tie your character to a Google or Apple account). Nobody currently owns that cross-project view.

What this devroom does. It brings developers of circumvention, anonymity, messaging, publishing and whistleblowing tools into one room. It is deliberately not concerning any sole project. Each meeting is judged on how fine it advances the toolchain: interoperability, shared danger models, shared nonaccomplishment data, and shared engineering practice.

Why now. Censorship in Russia, Iran and China has grown much additional sophisticated. It now includes national allow-lists and whitelist-only net shutdowns, TLS and QUIC fingerprinting, profound packet inspection alongside energetic probing, throttling of particular protocols, mobile net shutdowns, app-store elimination of circumvention tools, and mandatory state-run messengers and “sovereign internet” routing. Anti-censorship developers have responded alongside pluggable transports, domain fronting alternatives, mixnets, decentralised and email-based messaging, and new obfuscation protocols. Progress is accelerated but fragmented. At FOSDEM 2026 the applicable talks were scattered: Vitaly Repin’s “The Russian Censorship Circumvention, Tom’s Traps, and Jerry’s VPN: A 5-Year Journey” (Saturday, H.1302, Network track) drew a ample audience, during NymVPN and Delta Chat’s multi-relay messaging (both Sunday, Decentralized Internet and Privacy devroom) and another connected talks ran in another rooms. A sole devroom lets that spectators and those speakers encounter in one place.

Relationship to the existing “Decentralized Internet and Privacy” devroom. That area covers decentralised innovation broadly (P2P protocols, browsers, code collaboration, key infrastructure), and censorship or anonymity is lone a part of it. Digital Dissident is different: the organising regulation is a user under threat and the end-to-end sequence that protects them, not a innovation class. We desire to activity with, not against, that room, and volition coordinate schedules so the two don’t overlap, and volition item overflow speakers to whichever area fits.

Themes (details in the CfP below):

Censorship circumvention and transport: obfuscation, fingerprint resistance, active-probing defence, extend distribution, resilience to protocol whitelisting and complete shutdowns.
Metadata-resistant communication: mixnets, bulb routing, decentralised and federated messengers, store-and-forward and offline-first (mesh, sneakernet, Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Direct).
Secure reporting and publishing: whistleblowing platforms, origin protection, document sanitisation, provenance and authenticity, censorship-resistant hosting.
Devices and operational security: hardened mobile and desktop systems, amnesic systems, capture and border-crossing scenarios, forensic resistance.
Usability and danger modelling for at-risk users: onboarding under duress, harmless defaults, training, measuring what really plant in the field.
Measurement and adversary analysis: how censors detect and block, open data on blocking events, reproducible censorship research.
Digital sovereignty from Big Tech (secondary theme): reducing dependence on centralised platforms, app stores, shove infrastructure, haze and character providers, the two for individuals and for civil-society organisations.

Structure. A mix of formats to keep a complete area busy throughout the entire session:

20 to 30 infinitesimal specialized talks
A decision open conversation on interoperability gaps and shared next steps

Programme quality. Organisers volition assessment all submissions on specialized deserve and fit to the toolchain framing, and volition aim for a balance of projects, regions and speakers (established projects, new projects, researchers, group from affected communities). Every conversation should contain an definitive danger example and an honest document of limitations.

Projects and communities we average to invite (no commitments yet): Nym (mixnet), Delta Chat / chatmail, SimpleX, the Fediverse (ActivityPub implementations and case operators), Nostr, Psiphon and another circumvention and VPN providers, affirmative Tor-ecosystem, Reticulum and mesh-networking projects, whistleblowing and secure-submission platforms, and censorship-measurement researchers. Several of these projects presented at FOSDEM 2026.

Code of Conduct. We volition prosecute the FOSDEM Code of Conduct. In addition, talks that depict circumvention or anonymity should evade operational particulars that would endanger particular users in the field.

Important Dates

Sat, 24 October 2026: Call for Participation opens
Mon, 30 November 2026, 23:59 UTC: Call for Participation ends
Wed, 2 December 2026: Speakers notified
Fri, 4 December 2026: Deadline for speakers to confirm
Mon, 7 December 2026: Schedule published
The twenty-sixth type of FOSDEM volition obtain location on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st January 2027 at the customary location, ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.

Fuck Nuance (2015)

support@mycoding.id (Riki Setiawan) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:26:08 +0700

About nine months ago, my coworker Steve Vaisey told me he was curious in organizing a meeting at the American Sociological Association Meetings concerning the idea of “nuance” in sociological theory, and in particular concerning how there seemed to be a lot of petition for the stuff. He asked me if I’d be curious in submitting a document called item akin “Against Nuance”. I replied that if you were going to do item akin that, you should fair go onward and call it “Fuck Nuance” and be done alongside it. “OK then”, stated Steve, “I’ll put that downward as the title”.

Having inadvertently border myself to that mast akin several accident-prone Ulysses, I presented the document final week in Chicago. Here’s the draft.

My husband and I moved abroad in our 50s after deciding there was no perfect time to relocate

support@mycoding.id (Samantha Grindell Pettyjohn) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:18:01 +0700

Leslie Hodgin and her hubby moved to the Netherlands in January 2026. Leslie Hodgin

This narrative is according to an discussion alongside Leslie Hodgin, a 55-year-old promotion adviser who moved from the US to the Netherlands alongside her husband, John Lyman, 52. It has been edited for dimension and clarity.

Until 2026, I was living in Richmond, Virginia, alongside my hubby and our cat.

My dad was in the Army, so I grew up all complete the world, but Richmond is my adopted home. I lived there for concerning 10 years.

During that time, I got an recommendation to move to Seoul, South Korea, for my promotion job. My husband, John, and I were courtship at the time. We got wed one week before moving to Seoul for two years.

After the agreement ended, we returned to the States. I affection Richmond, but it did awareness small following I had been in Korea.

Some events happened in the two of our families that made us desire to move abroad again sooner fairly than later. My dad died. My husband's mom died. We had a brace of beloved allies continue away. It was all extremely quick. And it made me think, "What are we waiting for? We don't have promises for tomorrow. Now is the time."

We don't have kids, so that wasn't holding us back. We had several prosperity in the financial institution to move, which I cognize is a privilege. It was like, "Let's fair go and live our lives. We shouldn't fair keep expecting for someday since there may not be someday."

Moving to the Netherlands

John had gone to alumnus academy in the Netherlands, so we'd visited before. Through my activity in advertising, I additionally had a fairly ample network of group living there.

There's a visa for Americans called the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty (DAFT) that allows freelancers and entrepreneurs to live in the Netherlands. It made the nation appear akin a awesome choice for us.

The brace moved in January 2026. Leslie Hodgin

My hubby plant for himself, so it was easier for him to choice up and go anywhere. I started my own consulting endeavor and remaining my agency. I knew there was an promotion community in the Netherlands, and I planned to freelance if my consulting endeavor wasn't doing well.

My husband's dad is in his 90s, and my mom fair turned 80. Moving far from them was likely the hardest part of the decision. I have a small guilt for that, but they're enthusiastic for us. I've promised my mom that I'll be residence for any big family and crucial events.

That's a difficult item to do, but we felt it was correct for us not to put our lives on hold.

Downsizing our lives

We moved in January. We did it in six months. We'd sold our home concerning a twelvemonth before moving and were living in an apartment.

We decided to market nearly everything we owned to keep expenses as low as possible. We shipped a half-crate over, which is fairly small, so we had to get rid of a lot of stuff. We made near to $12,000 marketing everything and used it to pay for the visas and assistance alongside several of the moving costs.

When we moved, we had nine suitcases, including a ample part of art. It was the largest oversize item that would fit on an airplane, and we had a particular museum-packing business group it. And our cat, of course, came on the aircraft alongside us.

They sold most of their belongings before moving. Leslie Hodgin

We live in a two-bedroom apartment. It's an old, old building, but the flat is newly renovated and has a patio.

We do awareness fortunate that we established a place since there is a accommodation shortage, and it's fairly difficult to discover housing, particularly if you're American or from another nation and you don't have Dutch income. We had to pay six months' rent upfront to safe our rental.

Life in Europe

It motionless feels surreal that we live here. My hubby and I volition frequently appearance at all another and say, "Oh my God, I can't accept that we're here." I never desire to endure that feeling.

Business seems to be going really well. I additionally already knew several friends, but I've met so many amazing group through social media and made several awesome allies alongside our neighbors.

They affection existence in the Netherlands. Leslie Hodgin

We affection the awareness of community. I value the social agreement that group oversee all another in the Netherlands, from the opportunities the authorities provides to the regard and rely they display all another in general.

Recently, there was Open Monumentendag, or Open Monuments Day, alongside complete a thousand monuments, churches, houses, farms, and historic places throughout the Netherlands open to the community for free. They do that all year, and it feels so special. It seems akin all another weekend there's a festival.

There are continually challenges. I'm extremely dilatory to choice up the language. Most group conversation English, but I awareness akin I need to be better.

Moving additionally expenses a lot additional than you scheme for. Even if you've tried to pad all the numbers, it motionless expenses additional than anticipated. Because our activity was fairly dilatory before in the year, we were like, "Gosh, what have we done?"

Our cost of living is fairly akin to what it was in the US. We don't have a car, so we don't have that expense. We would be paying twice the rent in New York City for this identical apartment.

A caller start

I awareness living again. I felt a small stagnant in Richmond following living overseas, and moving has opened a lot of doors for my creativity.

On social media, I've documented trying one new item a week. It's gotten us out to encounter group and have several engaging experiences.

It's a new chapter. Leslie Hodgin

There's a hazard in moving abroad. You have to get yourself complete the hump, and you have to be brave.

Believe in yourself. If there's item you desire to try, akin moving overseas, going on a solo trip, or taking a cooking class, obtain a chance on yourself. You're never going to regret trying it if it doesn't activity out. If you don't always put yourself out there, you're going to appearance rear in 20 years and be like, "That would have been great. Why didn't I provision that a shot?"

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

support@mycoding.id (Riki Setiawan) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:15:38 +0700

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Sabre Wulf Remastered

support@mycoding.id (Riki Setiawan) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:15:16 +0700

Commodore 64 · Genesis Project

Ultimate's 1984 jungle maze, redrawn and reprogrammed for the Commodore 64.

C64 PAL
1 player
Joystick in port 2
D64 disk image

The game

Lost in the jungle

256 screens of jungle. One way out.
Find the four pieces of the amulet and display them to the guardian.
Stab the small stuff. Run from the big stuff.
Flowers provision different powers for a while. Some good, several not.
Linger on one display and a bushfire comes for you.
The Sabre Wulf hunts the south. Your sabre won't contact it.

Story, controls and rules

Beware of the Wulf.

Screenshots

From the disk

Captured in VICE from the publish disk. Graphics by JonEgg.

Artwork

Jon's pictures

Jon Eggelton (JonEgg) re-imagined the Sabre Wulf loading display in 2017. He drew the remaster's heading display too.

Sabre Wulf Re-imagined JonEgg, 2017. View on C64GFX · CSDb

Sabre Wulf Remastered Title screen, by JonEgg.

Mockup

If it came in a box*

SABRE WULF REMASTERED · G*P

Sabre Wulf RemasteredGenesis Project

Explore the jungle

* The box and disk are a mockup. There is no boxed edition: Sabre Wulf Remastered volition lone be accessible as a digital download.

This Switch 2 sequel accessory was a few millimeters away from being good

support@mycoding.id (Cameron Faulkner) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0700

The Crkd Nitro Deck was a preservation grace for the first Nintendo Switch. The slide-on $59.99 accessory brought Hall consequence sticks to drift-plagued consoles — no need to open up your Joy-Con for a complex repair. The Nitro Deck 2, made for the two the first Switch and the larger Switch 2, continues the tradition of having improved sticks than what Nintendo puts in equal the newest Joy-Con (though these aren’t Hall consequence or TMR). But it doesn’t awareness as essential, and there’s one item I really can’t remain concerning it.

It’s too difficult to use the Nitro Deck 2’s ABXY visage buttons without the correct rod getting in the way. The stick-to-button institution is a big stage downward from the first Nitro Deck (and particularly bad compared alongside the symmetrical Steam Deck-like rod layout in the video output-ready Nitro Deck Plus). I’m amazed Crkd’s squad idea this was an improvement. My patience alongside the run-based gameplay in Echo Weaver is already tested enough, and trying to quickly hammer inputs on the Deck 2 lone adds to the frustration.

Your penchant may differ, but I akin having a small breathing area between the correct rod and the visage buttons. Some companies choose to area them out or, in the case of the Switch 2’s Joy-Con, create the rod small adequate to authorize my thumb to hover complete it so I can media the buttons. The Deck 2 makes me modify my thumb’s viewpoint of method exterior of what’s comfortable. It’s fair a few millimeters off.

The original’s better slide-in scheme was traded for a vice-grip scheme to justify compatibility alongside the two the newer and older Switch consoles. The Deck 2 has a twisting scheme on the rear that you can loosen, tighten, or lock. It’s clever, although the tradeoff for broader compatibility is a scheme that feels inherently small secure. Crkd is asking Switch 2 owners to put a ton of belief in this scheme staying tight about their $500 consoles. My Switch 2 didn’t awareness wobbly during testing, but I’d fairly not have to think concerning its safety at all whenever I’m gaming. I would have preferred a slide-in scheme for the Deck 2 made expressly for the Switch 2.

It’s disappointing that Crkd’s Joy-Con-replacing resolution isn’t as fine since I akin several things concerning it additional than the original. For instance, the accessory has adjustable strain on the two sticks, so they can break rear to their first stance faster or slower than the default speed. Also, the accessory’s bulkier scheme makes the console additional comfortable in my medium-size hands to use in handheld mode. It additionally has a bunch of customizable buttons: four on its rear and an additional near the triggers.

Not many akin accessories are out there yet, and the another one I tried (the abxylute N6) wasn’t all that good, either. I scheme to test Mobapad’s latest obtain on Joy-Con soon, and it seems promising. Alternatively, you can add a bunch of comfort to your Switch 2 in handheld manner alongside either the Dbrand Killswitch 2 or the Mechanism Basecase. And alongside the prosperity remaining over, you could buy a good wireless Switch 2 controller alongside long-lasting sticks and improved rumble.

Photography by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge

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A Mathematician Reads the AI Future

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:31:21 +0700

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AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:28:26 +0700

Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley prof and Fields medalist, no longer grades his students’ homework.

After seeing how many of his students used AI to consistently obtain top scores, he felt there was “no point” in paying readers to class for correctness in homework, as AI use is now unavoidable.

Borcherds revealed this in a sit-down discussion Tuesday, following OpenAI’s notice that AI agents apparently solved one of mathematics’ most difficult unsolved problems, the Navier-Stokes beingness and smoothness problem.

“If AI continues to enhance at current rate, then, in a few years, there’ll be nothing individual mathematicians can do that AI can’t do better,” Borcherds said.

Borcherds stated he currently grades on completion if a pupil hands in their homework. He admitted that it is “not a extremely fine system,” but at the moment, he has no alternative.

Borcherds stated he no longer knows whether to advance students to go into the math department, as it seemed five years ago that being a mathematician was among the safest careers from the AI boom.

“I have no idea what to advise. I equal asked ChatGPT this exact question, and equal ChatGPT stated it didn’t have any idea what was going to happen,” Borcherds said.

He described a plentiful amount of “inertia” in the scholarly scheme and stated he wouldn’t be amazed if things stayed the identical in the math division for a brace years notwithstanding AI developments.

He drew a difference to bodily document journals, which publish equal although they have been “utterly pointless” for two decades.

“There have been plentifulness of specialized breakthroughs in the former — hand weaving was put out of endeavor by looms, and horses were put out of endeavor by motor cars, and so on,” Borcherds said. “This is the archetypal period item akin this has happened in mathematics, though.”

The Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate asks that department contain a declaration concerning way expectations including the use of AI tools for coursework in way syllabi, according to an email from Anne Marie Richard, assistant vice provost for undergraduate learning and chief scholarly innovation officer. However, she stated the straightforward policies on AI use can change dramatically alongside way flat and concentration area.

Campus has tried multiple AI finding tools, including Turnitin and Rumi, but have resolute that these tools aren’t adequate adequate to be standardized on campus.

AI guideline for classes is up to the discretion of faculty, but there is a expanding repository of example AI use statements accessible in the AI Hub, the evidence directory for AI tools, training and policies, for department to use in their syllabi, according to Richard.

Bentley's Kyiv deadlership among the strongest, despite the war

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:22:25 +0700

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Now you can watch Instagram Reels on your Apple TV

support@mycoding.id (Terrence O’brien) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:20:17 +0700

Terrence O'Brien

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for complete 18 years and knows a item or two concerning synths.

Instagram is continuing its enlargement into living rooms alongside Instagram for TV, for Apple TV. The business archetypal started testing a type of the phase focused on Reels, live streams, and another video content, blown up for a bigger display in December of final year. Then, in June, it launched a slew of new features for the app, which is accessible for Amazon’s Fire TV, Samsung Smart TVs, and Google TV.

Now Meta is bringing the app to Apple TV, although there’s been small fanfare. MacRumors spotted an updated Instagram app in the App Store that added Apple TV to its catalog of compatible platforms on October 23rd. Archived versions of the app leaf from as lately as October 18th listed lone the iPad and iOS.

The app volition apt be an crucial part of Instagram’s scheme going onward as it tries to shove into longer-form, episodic content, and prosperity in on the expanding fame of microdramas.

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Apollo says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry

support@mycoding.id (Truman Dickerson) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:02:08 +0700

One of the world's largest funding firms isn't bullish on AI. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

One of the world's largest funding firms says that lone tech companies are getting a portion of the AI pie.

In an financial inspection published on Saturday, Apollo Global Management stated that during the Magnificent Seven — a collection of established tech companies that includes Nvidia and Meta — are seeing income growth during the AI boom, this growth isn't being shared by another industries.

"Mainstream company America is pulling rear and starting to perspective token spending not as a origin of growth but as a disbursal center that weighs on margins," Torsten Slok, a partner and chief economist at Apollo, stated in the report. "The innovation has delivered zero financial payoff to company America exterior of tech."

In a sequence of graphs, Slok measured three chief metrics that have boomed for tech companies but not for regular companies: income per worker, gain margins, and efficiency growth.

Since 2022, income per employee figures have skyrocketed for tech companies — rising from $550,000 to nearly $800,000 today. Meanwhile, that fig hasn't changed much for everyone alternatively in the S&P 500, lingering about $550,000 for the final seven years.

Similarly, during gain margins soared among tech companies since 2022, they've stagnated at concerning 10% for everyone else.

And throughout the economy, AI hasn't yet dramatically risen efficiency growth as several AI optimists have predicted.

Apollo's investigation portends a dreary shade complete a US economics throwing enormous amounts of batter toward AI tools and companies, whose leaders have promised that an "age of abundance," anywhere group won't have to activity as much, volition shortly be upon us.

"The inquiry looking onward is whether, equal as models rotate into commoditized, mainstream company America can rotate increasingly cheap intellect into higher income growth and higher gain margins," Slok said.

"That may be harder than it sounds," he added.

The rise and fall of Route 66

support@mycoding.id (Abby Narishkin,Bethany Johnson) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:00:01 +0700

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In the 1940s and '50s, Route 66 was one of America's most famous highways, driving endeavor to small towns from Chicago to Santa Monica. But today, the highway and its group have been mostly forgotten. Ghost towns, bare motels, and abandoned gas stations row its path. Chief equal Abby Narishkin grew up alongside the road. In ritual of its 100th anniversary, she drove downward the old path herself to sojourn the group and businesses motionless keeping this Americana bequest alive.

Anthropic Wanted to Replace Engineers. Instead, They Shot Their Own Customers

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:34:44 +0700

AI labs built a gun to fire SWEs, and the projectile went direct through their own customers.

For three years the throw from the big AI example labs has been beautifully simple. Software engineers are the most costly workforce on Earth. Companies expend staggering sums on them. So build an AI application engineer, market it to those companies, and collect the salaries they no longer have to pay. Fire the human, rent the robot. The labs pocket the difference.

It’s a beautiful story. It’s the narrative that justified all backing round, all data center, all breathless capitalist letter concerning “replacing cognition work.” And it has a gap in it so big you could fly a fleet of GPUs through it.

Here is what the application endeavor really was: a toll booth. Not a factory, a toll booth.

Adobe didn’t get affluent since Photoshop was made of magic. It got affluent since construction item as fine as Photoshop was hard. It took hundreds of costly people, years of activity and piles of capital, and nearly nobody could oversee to try. So Adobe sat at the booth and collected a monthly fee from all decorator on the planet, forever. That recurring income paid the engineers, paid the shareholders, and, in the AI labs’ expansive plan, was expected to pay them.

That’s the entire chain. Users pay the toll booth. The toll booth pays application engineers. The AI labs convince the toll booth to blaze the engineers and pay the labs instead. Every dollar in the AI endeavor scheme flows through that booth.

The issue is the AI labs didn’t market their robot engineer lone to Adobe. They sold it to everyone, for twenty bucks a month!

So what happened? Exactly what you’d anticipate if you idea concerning it for longer than one earnings call. A hobbyist built a Photoshop alternative complete a weekend. AI is reverse-engineering enormous projects and releasing them as open source. Basically slaying the endeavor models of the group who wanted to substitute all their workers alongside AI. The item that made application valuable, the fact that it was difficult, has been dissolved in an acidic bathing of cheap tokens.

And fair in case you didn’t cognize a liberated copy doesn’t pay anyone. When a decorator swaps a $60 Adobe subscription for a weekend project on GitHub, that prosperity doesn’t migrate to the AI lab. It evaporates. The toll booth loses its toll, and the hobbyist who killed it makes exactly zero dollars, since he gave it away. I discover it comic that the big companies never realized that their top advantage was their overhead needed to vie alongside them. They exactly made it uncomplicated for one individual to vie alongside them.

The labs weren’t replacing engineers inner the toll booth. They were handing out dynamite to everyone position exterior it.

Now let’s conversation concerning that twenty dollars, since it is not a price. It’s a promotion expense.

By many accounts, the heaviest users of these coding plans scorch through compute value many times what they pay. A $200 “premium” scheme plant out to $2,400 a year. That is small than a sole duration of a elder engineer’s pay at Google. The labs are, in effect, renting out a superhuman engineer for the disbursal of a gym membership, and losing prosperity on the deal.

Meanwhile the invoice for the infrastructure is astronomical. Amazon, Alphabet and Meta solitary planned approximately fractional a trillion dollars of chief spending for 2026, much of it for AI data centers. Every one of those dollars is a bet that someday, somebody, location is going to pay genuine prosperity for intelligence.

The subsidy was expected to be a extend to that day. Instead it’s paying for the demolition of the extremely customers who were expected to be waiting on the another side. It’s brilliant! Destroy the companies that would be your chief users to display your usefulness. 😂

So what should they do? The apparent answer is the one they can’t take.

If the AI labs had any awareness of self-preservation, they would have locked downward the models entirely, priced them at $150,000 a twelvemonth per “AI employee,” and sold them lone to Fortune 500 companies. Then Google and Adobe pay up since it’s motionless slightly cheaper than hiring, and the weekend hobbyist gets priced out before he can copy anything. The toll booths survive. The labs get paid. Intelligence goes rear to being expensive, which is to say, valuable.

But they can’t since on February 24, 2023 Mark Zuckerberg and the open-source community blew up the cartel. Once Meta open-sourced Llama and Chinese labs followed suit, the “artificial scarcity” dam broke. You can’t run a cartel whenever the guy downward the street is giving distant the diamonds for free.

Open-weight models, many of them released for liberated out of China, are already fine adequate to copy software, and they can never be un-downloaded. Raise prices to engineer levels and everyone fair runs a liberated example on cheap rented servers. Keep prices low and you bleed prosperity during your subsidized merchandise dismantles your client base.

Cheap kills the customers. Expensive kills the demand. Pick your poison, and either way, the group holding the poison are AI labs.

AI Desktop XP

Here’s a local AI app which runs those open-source AI models on your iPhone or MacBook for free! It equal looks akin Windows XP. 😂

It’s the asteroid-mining problem. Fly a missile to an asteroid made of gold, bring it home, and you don’t rotate into the richest individual alive. You collision the cost of gold, and your missile never pays for itself.

None of this is new. History is complete of group who made item precious abundant and afterward wondered anywhere the prosperity went.

Spanish silver. Spain shipped mountains of argent out of the Americas. Silver misplaced its value, prices throughout Europe soared for a century, and the crown that owned the mines went bankrupt again and again.
De Beers. For concerning a century, De Beers kept diamonds costly by controlling supply, which is exactly the scheme the AI labs would need. Then lab-grown diamonds showed up, and the scarcity narrative collapsed. Swap “lab-grown diamonds” for “open-weight models” and you have the AI pricing issue in one sentence.

This is the inquiry I desire all AI administrator to answer, slowly, without the term “agentic.”

Your scheme was to collect the salaries of application engineers from the companies that employed them. Those companies made their prosperity by charging tolls on application that was difficult to build. You made application uncomplicated to build. You gave that power to everyone for small than the cost of a pizza a week. And now the toll booths are on fire, the engineers are getting laid off, and the prosperity that was expected to stream to you is evaporating into a thousand liberated clones.

So who, exactly, is the customer? The hobbyist paying $20 during costing you far more? The toll booths you’re occupied burning down? The enterprises whose own application margins you fair torched?

The AI industry didn’t fair build a tool to substitute engineers. It built a device that turns precious things into liberated things, and afterward pointed it at the businesses it needed to remain alive. That isn’t a revolution. It’s a extremely costly way of shooting yourself in the ft and sending the invoice to your investors.

OpenAI and Anthropic are stuck since they don't market pickaxes (Nvidia), they don't have a enormous distinct endeavor to defend (Meta), and they aren't vertically integrating. They are fair mining the asteroid, dumping the argent onto the market for $20, and observing the cost of their own merchandise plummet to zero.

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Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

support@mycoding.id (Doris Putra) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:05:39 +0700

Each bubble is an S&P 500 company, its area proportional to its market capitalization , grouped by sector. Inside it, one rod fig stands for employees, so a bubble crowded with small figures is value small per employee and a big bubble alongside a fistful of figures is value a lot. Every fig is the identical size, so how densely a bubble is filled shows its workforce per dollar of market cap.

Only companies alongside at smallest workforce and a market cap of at least are shown ( of the S&P 500), affirmative a few big companies alongside small employees, specified as Palantir and Welltower, drawn as one half-size figure. Employee counts are full-time personnel from all company's latest annual report, so they lag up to a year. Click a business for its details; scroll or compression to zoom in on the small ones.

A Few Thoughts on Intensity

support@mycoding.id (Doris Putra) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:37:49 +0700

I have written concerning the elements of exceptional startups. This article is slightly different. I desire to portion what I think is the most crucial trait of a prosperous startup. By trait I average a traditional trait - a way of doing things. A business personality.

I accept the most crucial trait of exceptional startups is intensity.

Not intelligence, charisma, or positivity, although these three traits are required.

Why do I accept this?

The archetypal logic I accept this is observation. I have been a part of 3 exceptional startups, and all of them had a civilization of intensity, alongside the most serious being the most successful. I have additionally observed this throughout dozens of another startups - those who end up breaking out run alongside a extremely elevated flat of intensity.

The second logic I accept this is logic. If you regard how unattainable the startup journey is, it stands to logic that lone through power can item be created out of lean air that grows to be value billions of dollars in fair a few years. Startups are deceased by default. And yet a small figure of them conquer that certain death to build item enduring. Certainly specified ample outcomes don’t arrive concerning through happenstance - it is through the focused, serious attempt of a collection of group that item akin that can happen.

John Collison’s tweet resonates, although he uses tenacity and passion to depict item similar:

The third logic I accept this is since of what I have learned by studying several of startups most prosperous founders and operators. A few examples:

Steve Jobs was described as serious by Pixar’s CFO in the first days:
Warren Buffett formerly said: “Intensity is the cost of excellence.”
Frank Slootman’s quote:

Paul Graham describing the Airbnb founders:

Jason Lemkin’s observation:

The Elon Musk existence former had a apparent theme of power as a center controller of Elon’s success, alongside dozens of examples in the book.
Sam Altman’s view:

Walt Disney description:

Worth noting: the group complete have distinct personalities. Yes, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are abrasive, frequently accused of being ass holes. But few group would say that concerning Brian Chesky, Sam Altman, and John Collison. Yet they are all intense, equal although all has a distinct personality.

When I shared this study concerning power on LinkedIn, multiple group asked me to portion additional concerning what I meant, so I volition end alongside that.

Intense is an adjective meant to communicate a elevated or extreme flat of something. This method that power is a layer throughout all another characteristics. A power multiplier - a measure of extremism.

Not all fires are intense, but we cognize an serious blaze whenever we awareness and see it.
Not all activity ethic is intense, but we cognize an serious activity ethic whenever we see it.
Not all communication is intense, but we cognize serious communication whenever we comprehend it.
Not all missions are intense, but we cognize serious missions whenever we comprehend and live them.

Perhaps the finest summary of what I average by power is Frank Slootman’s achievement culture:

Raise the norm bar
Increase the speed
Narrow the focus

Doing all of these things to an serious degree is what I average by intensity.

Most startups attention concerning quality, but not intensely. They desire to addition speed, but not intensely. They think concentration is important, but they don’t concentration intensely.

Most group desire to live, but not intensely.

But without intensity, awesome startups (and I would argue, awesome lives) cannot be built.

Mengamankan Ponsel dari Ancaman Digital

support@mycoding.id (Mc Project) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:30:38 +0700

Mengamankan Ponsel dari Ancaman Digital

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Mengenal Rootkit dan Bootkit di Sistem Operasi

support@mycoding.id (Mc Project) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:30:35 +0700

Mengenal Rootkit dan Bootkit di Sistem Operasi

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Mengenal Koleksi Data dalam Python

support@mycoding.id (Mc Project) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:30:28 +0700

Mengenal Koleksi Data dalam Python

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Reliance Consumer Products Ltd: Management Trainee Interview Guide

support@mycoding.id (Board Infinity) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:30:19 +0700

As an Emerge Management Trainee (MT) at Reliance Consumer Products Limited (RCPL), you study how a fast-growing Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) endeavor sells and makes its products before you own a part of it. Within nine months, you district in a function specified as Area Sales Manager or Brand Manager, alongside a territory, brand, provision sequence or area to answer for.

This guide is for evidence candidates preparing for RCPL Emerge in the 2026-27 placement season. It covers the program structure, the skills selectors display for, the two choice routes, 28 discussion questions alongside example answers, the topics to expert and a four-week preparedness plan.

1. About the Management Trainee Role

Emerge hires you into a function on day one and afterward deliberately pulls you out of it. You expend three months in revenue and three in manufacturing before a live project in your own function. Later decisions on pricing, stock, hiring or launches afterward remainder on first-hand cognition of the market and the plant.

Your regular contacts alter alongside all stint. First arrive distributors, retailers and frontline revenue teams, afterward manufacturing and norm personnel on the factory floor, and eventually your functional squad and a guidance panel. RCPL is the person brands endeavor of the Reliance group, so peruse this overview of Reliance Industries Limited and its retail, energy and digital businesses before your interview.

2. Required Skills and Qualifications

Educational Qualifications

RCPL recruits for Emerge lone through evidence placement, so eligibility is set at the university flat fairly than through open applications.

Skills Overview

RCPL describes the group it wants in four words: keen thinkers, owners, builders and ground-ready. The array translates all one into what it looks akin on the job.

3. Day-to-Day Responsibilities

Your week depends on which stint you are in. Months 1-3 are spent mostly in the market, months 4-6 on the factory floor, and months 7-9 on a live project in your own function.

Learning Sales in the Market

Every trainee starts here, any their function. Expect first mornings riding alongside alongside provider salesmen on their routes, visiting kirana stores, booking orders, checking whether Campa or Sosyo is chilled and visible, and hearing why a retailer prefers a rival. You volition additionally sit alongside distributors to comprehend stock, credit and claims, the economics that decide whether a brand reaches the rack at all.

Working the Plant Floor

From duration four you move into manufacturing, covering production, norm and operations. In custom that method shadowing change teams, learning how a row is set up and changed over, observing norm checks on raw matter and completed goods, and understanding why a misplaced hr of output matters. The aim is simple: cognize how the products are made before you plan, market or market them.

Delivering a Functional Project

The final three months come back you to your own function for a live endeavor project, a genuine sales, brand, provision sequence or HR issue the endeavor needs solved. You range it, collect data, test ideas and current results to a guidance panel. That panel confirms your landing role, so this is the stint anywhere your achievement is formally judged.

4. Key Competencies for Success

RCPL describes how it plant through five values: Inclusiveness, Agility, Curiosity, Experimentation and Empowerment. Candidates who apparent the skills bar frequently appearance alike on paper. These values are anywhere top performers distinct themselves, the two in the discussion and in the archetypal year.

5. Interview Process at Reliance Consumer Products Limited

RCPL runs two admission routes alongside one standard. The full-time path leads to an Emerge Trainee offer. The summer path is an 8-week Emerge internship, and a powerful internship can change into a full-time offer. Both routes commencement alongside overview shortlisting and an aptitude test and end alongside a individual interview.

The difference is the third round. Internship candidates visage a Group Discussion (GD), during full-time candidates go through the Crucible, a hands-on appraisal centre built about genuine endeavor simulations. The full-time sequence is shown below.

Profile Shortlisting

Your CV (curriculum vitae), submitted through the Placement Committee, is screened by the recruiting team. Projects, internships or ventures anywhere you built item new, owned an outcome or worked on the dirt remain out, since they map immediately to the overview RCPL says it hires for.

Aptitude Test

Campus aptitude tests of this benevolent typically shield quantitative aptitude, data interpretation, logical reasoning and verbal capability under period pressure. Speed alongside percentages, ratios and tables matters most, since the identical skills come back in the Crucible and on the job.

Crucible Assessment Centre

RCPL describes the Crucible as small an exam and additional a sensation of the activity itself. Business simulations at appraisal centres normally merge data analysis, collection issue solving and a presentation. Assessors observe how you construction the problem, use numbers, activity alongside others and attain a apparent perspective under period pressure.

Personal Interview

A final conversation, typically alongside a panel of endeavor and HR leaders, that tests your motivation for RCPL, your grip on your chosen function and your preparedness for months in the market and the plant. Expect follow-ups on your CV and on how you approached the before rounds.

Strong candidates frequently endure out by answering akin consultants who have never remaining the classroom. If your Crucible or discussion answers are complete of frameworks but transport no numbers, no apparent advice and no sign that you are comfortable spending three months alongside distributors and three on a factory floor, you indication the contrary of the sharp, ground-ready overview RCPL hires for.

6. Interview Questions

Use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) for behavioural questions. In case questions, guide alongside your advice before explaining the logic, and say all calculation stage aloud.

RCPL panels prioritise three things: a apparent item of view, numbers that assistance it, and evidence that you comprehend how products really attain consumers.

Behavioral and Company-Fit Questions

Role-Specific Questions: Sales, Manufacturing and Functional Project

Product, Market and Case Questions

7. Topics and Areas of Focus

These areas map immediately to what the aptitude test, Crucible and individual discussion probe. Master them in this order, starting alongside how products attain the shelf.

To see how a equal FMCG business tests the identical ground-level revenue sense, peruse the Tata Consumer Products Unlock Big Sales Trainee discussion guide.

8. Preparation Plan

Freshers: concentration on organized answers, using STAR for experiences and a apparent matter tree for cases, and build your stories from internships, university projects and fests. Candidates alongside activity experience: prepared three to five effect stories alongside measurable outcomes, since panels investigation for ownership and results, not a catalog of duties.

Week 1

Company and Programme

Learn the RCPL brands, values and Emerge structure.

Week 2

Market and Plant Basics

Build sales, allocation and manufacturing fundamentals.

Week 3

Questions and Stories

Draft STAR stories and practise cases daily.

Week 4

Mocks and Revision

Run timed mocks and fix feeble areas.

Pre-Interview Checklist

9. Career Growth & Next Roles

Emerge is designed so that performance, not your admission ticket, decides your landing role. The guidance panel confirms it at the end of duration nine, according to endeavor need and how you performed throughout all three stints.

Beyond that, progression follows the form average throughout Indian FMCG companies: bigger territories, brands or flora all few years for accordant results.

Emerge Management Trainee (Months 1-9)

You rotate through sales, manufacturing and a functional project, owning your learning fairly than endeavor results. To move up, you must display you can grip the two the market and the plant, provision a live project alongside measurable outcomes and convince the guidance panel you are prepared for a particular role. Treat all stint as part of the assessment, since the panel weighs the entire nine months, not fair the final presentation.

Landing Role (After Month 9)

Indicative roles contain Area Sales Manager in Sales and Marketing, Brand Manager in Marketing, Deputy Manager for Supply Chain and Operations, and Regional HR. Here you own genuine outcomes: a district and its distributors, a brand plan, a part of the provision sequence or the group agenda for a region. Moving up depends on hitting targets consistently and construction a squad that delivers equal whenever you are not in the room.

Expanded Role (Typically 3-5 Years In)

In most Indian FMCG companies, powerful performers next obtain on a larger region, a bigger brand or a complete factory or provision sequence area, alongside titles specified as Regional Sales Manager or Senior Brand Manager. You oversee managers, own a larger prosperity and are judged on growth and effectiveness throughout multiple teams. Progressing from current requires power throughout functions, not fair individual delivery.

The Fork (Beyond 6 Years)

Careers afterward normally split. The people-leadership way leads towards heading a zone, a category or a entire function. The expert way leads to profound ability roles specified as person insights, income management, procurement or manufacturing excellence. Choose according to whether construction teams or solving difficult problems in one domain energises you more, and commencement construction a track document in that direction early.

10. Conclusion

The sole most crucial item you can do is demonstrate you are ground-ready. RCPL hires group who are as comfortable alongside a kirana owner or a row supervisor as in a gathering room. Walk into all circular alongside genuine observations from stores and products, backed by numbers and a apparent item of view.

Two additional actions create a apparent difference. First, treat the Crucible as a rehearsal of the job: construction the problem, quantify it and commit to a recommendation. Second, cognize exactly why you chose your function and how the revenue and manufacturing stints volition create you improved at it.

This weekend, sojourn two local stores, discover three RCPL products on the shelf, note their prices and placement against the category leader, and compose one betterment idea for each. You volition use these observations in the Crucible, in your discussion and in your answer to Why RCPL.

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Membongkar Cara Berpikir Seorang Peretas

support@mycoding.id (Mc Project) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:30:16 +0700

Membongkar Cara Berpikir Seorang Peretas

Kisah Sandworm dan Sejarah Serangan Siber

support@mycoding.id (Mc Project) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:30:11 +0700

Kisah Sandworm dan Sejarah Serangan Siber

Sandworm merupakan salah satu himpunan yang sering dikaitkan dengan beragam insiden keamanan siber berskala besar. Dalam video ini, Anda akan mempelajari latar belakang himpunan tersebut, kronologi beberapa serangan yang pernah dilaporkan, termasuk NotPetya, serta dampaknya terhadap organisasi, infrastruktur, dan keamanan digital secara global. Materi ini disajikan untuk tujuan edukasi dengan membahas sejarah, strategi, dan pelajaran yang dapat diambil dari beragam insiden siber. Memahami kasus-kasus nyata seperti Sandworm membantu menaikkan kesadaran terhadap intimidasi digital sekaligus menguatkan pemahaman tentang pentingnya cybersecurity, pengelolaan risiko, dan perlindungan mekanisme informasi. 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

I've worked as an interior designer for over 20 years. Here are 8 decorating 'rules' worth breaking.

support@mycoding.id (Katie Caradec) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:12:01 +0700

Many inner scheme "rules" have to be challenged and sometimes equal broken. alvarez/Getty Images

In my years working in inner design, I've had many clients method me looking for conclusive "rules" for decorating their homes.

They desire to cognize how to make their residence appearance good and function better, assuming there is a set of guidelines to assistance them get there.

Certainly, there are construction codes, safety requirements, and circulation considerations that must be met. However, much of what we think of as scheme and decorating is guided by rules of thumb, finest practices, and equal traditional assumptions.

The longer I custom scheme — complete 20 years now — the additional I study that there are extremely few set rules to follow. Although several can be a fine starting place, they frequently ignore the group who really live in the area we're designing.

Here are a few scheme "rules" I think are value breaking and why.

If you're remodeling your kitchen, you certainly need several open shelving.

Open shelving can be difficult to maintain. Kirpal Kooner/Getty Images

Open any refuge magazine, and you volition apt see open shelving as a notable galley feature.

Open shelving is beautiful, frequently breaking up a partition of cabinetry, making a galley awareness lighter and additional open during creating a location to display dishes, glassware, cookbooks, or another collected individual effects.

Although I, too, am drawn to open shelves, I inquiry whether it's the correct choice for all client. Those beautifully styled shelves necessitate you to decide what stays visible, keep several flat of order, and agreement alongside additional powder and galley grime.

For several people, that's no issue — or equal enjoyable. For others, it's one additional item to maintain.

Before my clients create this scheme choice, we conversation through what would really live on those shelves and whether they desire the duty of keeping them looking the way they imagine.

After all, a trend can display you a new possibility, but it can't inform you whether that possible fits your life.

Your inner manner should equivalent your home's architecture.

Your home's exterior doesn't necessarily need to equivalent its inner style. Lisa5201/Getty Images

I have many clients who create this assumption: If my residence has a traditional architectural character, my new galley or washroom must additionally have additional traditional elements — think Shaker cabinetry, crown molding, and bronzy hardware.

Although I concur that architectural continuity can create cohesion, the architecture of your residence is context, not a mandate.

When person doesn't acknowledge alongside their home's traditional character, I think it's crucial to regard the individual. I have seen many contemporary interiors set inside traditional homes, and the juxtaposition can be breathtaking.

If your residence isn't working, you need additional space.

Rearranging furnishings can assistance create a area awareness additional functional. John Keeble/Getty Images

When a area feels cramped or isn't functioning well, I frequently see clients immediately assume they must add quadrate footage.

Sometimes an supplement is the correct answer, but frequently the issue lies in how the existing area is being used.

For example, I had a client who was considering an supplement to their kitchen. As we studied the existing area together, it became apparent that the galley already had plentifulness of room, but the current layout wasn't making fine use of it.

Rather than expanding the footprint of their home, we focused on reorganizing the area they already have so it functions improved for them.

Before assuming additional area is needed, acknowledge anywhere the conflict is coming from: difficulty moving through a room, belongings that heap up in unwanted places, or things stored far from anywhere they're used.

It's unattainable to resolve a issue you don't completely understand.

Some furnishings is too nice for mundane use.

Try not to buy costly furnishings that you're too concerned concerning using. miodrag ignjatovic/Getty Images

If you've always invested in beautiful or expensive furniture, you may have concerned concerning how you'll defend it from getting "ruined" by regular life.

But here's the rub (pun intended): When protecting furnishings starts interfering alongside really living in your home, we may have a problem.

Think concerning the pale couch featured in the aspirational residence decor imagery in magazines or on social media. It's beautiful. It's pristine.

However, all Friday night, it needs to be covered alongside a covering before anyone settles in to observe TV alongside a pane of red vino and a part of chocolate. At several point, the needs of the furnishings began to obtain precedence complete those of the individual using it.

Here is the truth: Furniture is meant to be used, and a residence is meant to be lived in.

Your galley trash can have to be next to the sink.

Ultimately, applicable function makes several representative scheme rules value breaking. Robin Gentry /Getty Images

This is a beautiful norm kitchen-planning rule of thumb: Put discarded gathering near to the area anywhere food prep and cleanup happen.

However, this is according to an assumption concerning how group use their kitchens. Sometimes, there are improved layouts depending on your situation.

For example, many of my clients compost most food scraps. One specified client keeps a small compost receptacle on her counter, which is convenient during food prep and clean-up. Between composting and recycling, her regular landfill refuse gets extremely small use.

Once we uncovered how small this client uses the accepted trash can in her kitchen, we decided to relocate it elsewhere, freeing up precious cupboard area near the descend and dishwasher.

This may not prosecute the scheme "rule," but it's a additional applicable institution for her space.

Empty spaces have to be filled.

Filling up area isn't continually a fine thing. The Good Brigade/Getty Images

Sometimes an bare wall, shelf, or border of a area can create a area awareness unfinished, and our natural inclination is to inhabit it.

However, is bare area really a issue that needs to be solved? No … at smallest not immediately.

I frequently advance my clients to test alongside leaving item bare as part of the scheme process. It gives you an chance to live alongside the area and detect what — if item — you really need there.

You may detect a function you hadn't anticipated, eventually discover item you genuinely desire there, or acknowledge that the area plant improved without item at all.

If a area isn't working, it needs a makeover.

Small adjustments can create a big impact. Jacek Kadaj/Getty Images

If a area feels unfinished, disjointed, or fair "off," we frequently accept it needs a significant alter — new furniture, distinct finishes, or equal a remodel.

And alongside so many theatrical reveals and before-and-afters, it's no amazement we think meaningful improvements necessitate meaningful (and expensive!) interventions.

Rather than replacing everything, sometimes small, thoughtful changes can alter how a entire area feels.

For example, I had a client whose visitant washroom was remodeled multiple years ago. The materials, fixtures, and finishes were beautiful, but they didn't fairly arrive together as a whole.

Rather than replacing them, we added a sole partition of peel-and-stick wallpaper, a DIY project the client could tackle complete a weekend. It connected what was already there and made the area awareness cohesive.

Your inner decorator has improved sensation than you.

Your preferences and opinions matter whenever it comes to the scheme of your home. Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images

Because an inner decorator has expert ability and experience, homeowners assume their imaginative judgement is additional valid — or that the decorator has the "right" scheme answer, and they do not.

Designers comprehend proportion, scale, color, materials, and composition, but clients cognize additional than they provision themselves credit for. They notice whenever a color feels wrong, have powerful reactions to particular materials or furnishings, and can acknowledge what they favor equal if they don't have the scheme vocabulary to explain why.

Although a decorator can assistance you comprehend those preferences and translate them into a cohesive space, your own awareness of what feels correct have to be part of the scheme process.

After all, ability isn't concerning applying rules indiscriminately — it's concerning knowing whenever they assist the individual in forefront of you and whenever they don't.

I have a saying in my practice: "You do you!" You are the expert in how you live, what you like, and what makes you awareness at home.

Reliance Consumer Product Limited: Company Overview, History, Mission and Services

support@mycoding.id (Board Infinity) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:10:23 +0700

Reliance Consumer Products Limited, normally shortened to RCPL, is the fast-moving person products arm of the Reliance group. It builds, buys and revives mundane brands throughout gentle drinks, packaged staples, confectionery, snacks and individual care. It afterward sells them through broad commerce kirana outlets, contemporary retailing and Reliance's own shop network. The business operates in one of India's most crowded categories, anywhere Hindustan Unilever, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Tata Consumer have held rack area for decades. RCPL is a young challenger backed by among the country's largest conglomerates. It competes on keen pricing, broad allocation and nostalgic bequest brands specified as Campa. For candidates in sales, marketing, provision sequence or category management, RCPL shows how an FMCG endeavor is assembled at speed fairly than inherited. That environment shapes the questions interviewers ask and the answers they reward.

This guide covers anywhere RCPL came from, who owns it today, and the brands it uses to obtain on established FMCG players.

1. Company Overview

About Reliance Consumer Product Limited

RCPL develops and markets packaged person brands for Indian households. Its portfolio mixes brands it launched itself alongside older local and bequest names it acquired and relaunched. Instead of construction one champion brand slowly, it entered multiple categories inside a abbreviated span.

Its genitor collection additionally runs a ample retail, energy and telecom business. The Reliance Industries collection overview covers that wider construction and explains the measure RCPL can diagram on.

This makes RCPL a powerful case study for commerce marketing, provider administration and brand roles. Interviewers frequently test whether you comprehend challenger pricing, route-to-market economics and how to win rack area from entrenched rivals.

Company History

RCPL's former is short, and acquisitions shaped most of it. Interviewers may ask why Reliance bought and revived bequest brands akin Campa, Sosyo and Lotus alternatively of launching lone new ones. They may additionally ask how a retail-incubated FMCG arm handles distributors who inventory competitor brands.

Have a perspective on the build-versus-buy trade-off before you stroll in.

August 2022 Founding

At the Reliance Industries AGM, Isha Ambani announced that Reliance Retail would initiate its own FMCG endeavor offering norm products at affordable prices.

2022 Acquisition

Reliance acquired the Campa gentle beverage brand from the Pure Drinks Group. Campa was a famous Indian cola before multinational brands came to dominate the market.

December 2022 Founding

RCPL launched Independence, its own brand of packaged staples and mundane foods, starting in Gujarat.

December 2022, January 2023 Acquisition

RCPL accepted to buy a controlling interest in the listed Lotus Chocolate Company. It additionally took a fractional interest in Gujarat's Sosyo Hajoori Beverages, which makes the local fizzy beverage Sosyo.

Early 2023 Growth

RCPL acquired the confectionery brands of Ravalgaon Sugar Farm, including Pan Pasand, Mango Mood and Coffee Break. Campa was relaunched in cola, citrus and orange variants.

2023 Growth

RCPL entered individual attention alongside soap and hygiene brands Glimmer, Get Real and Puric. It additionally brought Alan's Bugles snacks to India through a alliance alongside General Mills.

2024 Expansion

RCPL launched Spinner, a sports beverage developed alongside erstwhile Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan. The initiate extended its beverage range beyond carbonated gentle drinks.

2. Mission, Vision & Values

Mission

RCPL states its intent through brand positioning fairly than a ceremonial goal line: high-quality mundane products at prices most Indian households can afford. Reliance guidance set out this aim whenever it launched the FMCG business. In an interview, display that you comprehend this value-for-money commitment and how it shapes pricing, packs and distribution.

Vision

RCPL's direction comes through in its actions: reviving homegrown brands specified as Campa and Sosyo, and construction a national portfolio that can vie alongside multinational FMCG companies. When asked anywhere RCPL is headed, mention to its brand moves and conduit scheme alternatively of reciting a slogan.

Prepare your stories against these two ideas: affordability without compromising quality, and rebuilding Indian brands against entrenched competitors. A generic FMCG answer volition not display that you comprehend RCPL specifically.

3. Products and Services

RCPL sells tagged packaged products throughout food, beverages and individual care. Many of its brands vie head-on alongside long-established names from companies akin Tata Consumer Products.

Because it launched and acquired so many brands quickly, RCPL is particularly applicable for revenue and distribution, brand management, category management, provision sequence and procurement roles.

Campa gentle drinks is RCPL's flagship beverage brand, a revived Indian cola now sold in cola, citrus and orange variants. It competes immediately alongside the carbonated drinks of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.
Sosyo local beverages gives RCPL a foothold in Gujarat through a long-standing fruit-flavoured fizzy beverage alongside a loyal local following. It is a helpful example of construction on local brand equity fairly than starting from scratch.
Spinner sports drink extends the beverage range into hydration and energy. It uses Muttiah Muralitharan's cricket affiliation to mark young, price-conscious consumers.
Independence staples and packaged foods covers mundane galley essentials specified as flour, rice, pulses, edible oils and packaged foods. It competes alongside staples brands akin Tata Sampann and Aashirvaad.
Lotus and Ravalgaon confectionery brings together Lotus chocolates and the bequest Ravalgaon sweets Pan Pasand, Mango Mood and Coffee Break. These products mark low-price encourage purchases at kirana counters.
Alan's Bugles snacks is a corn-based snack brand that RCPL brought to India through its alliance alongside General Mills. It adds a packaged savoury snack to the portfolio alongside beverages and sweets.
Glimmer, Get Real and Puric individual care covers bathing soaps and hygiene products at distinct cost points. It takes on established soap brands specified as Godrej Consumer Products' Cinthol and Hindustan Unilever's Lux.

4. Key Competitors of Reliance Consumer Product Limited

Reliance Consumer Product Limited sells into India's packaged person products market. Its brands extend carbonated beverages, packaged staples, snacks, confectionery and individual care, so it faces a distinct set of incumbents in nearly all aisle.

Competition in these categories rarely turns on business size alone. It runs on cost points per pack, attain into kirana and general-trade outlets, commerce margins offered to distributors and retailers, brand rely built complete decades, and local taste. The rivals below vie for the identical shopper in the identical category.

Coca-Cola India

Global beverage brand owner alongside bottling partners

Competes on: colas, citrus and orange fizzy drinks, anywhere Campa goes caput to caput alongside Thums Up, Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta.

Position: Strong brand recall, an entrenched cooler and bottling network, and Thums Up's homegrown cola bequest create it the benchmark Campa is measured against.

PepsiCo India

Beverages and salty snacks multinational

Competes on: gentle drinks specified as Pepsi, Mirinda and 7UP against Campa, and packaged snacks specified as Lay's and Kurkure against Reliance's snack brands.

Position: It is the lone competitor that fights Reliance in the two beverages and snacks at once, backed by dense promotion and broad rack presence.

Tata Consumer Products

Branded food, staples and beverages company

Competes on: packaged staples specified as salt, pulses and spices, anywhere Tata Salt and Tata Sampann visage Reliance's Independence range.

Position: Household rely in the Tata name and guidance in sodium chloride provision it drag in mundane staples. Candidates can difference its scheme using this Tata Consumer Products business and discussion guide.

ITC Limited (FMCG business)

Diversified conglomerate alongside packaged foods arm

Competes on: atta, snacks, biscuits and confectionery, alongside Aashirvaad, Bingo, Sunfeast and Candyman overlapping Reliance's staples, snack and toffee brands.

Position: A broad food portfolio and profound general-trade allocation let it bundle many categories into a sole retailer relationship.

Hindustan Unilever

Home and individual attention FMCG leader

Competes on: soaps, shampoos and residence care, anywhere Reliance's personal-care and detergent brands visage Lux, Lifebuoy, Sunsilk and Surf Excel.

Position: Mature brands at all cost tier and a advanced agrarian allocation example create it the hardest incumbent to displace in individual care.

AWL Agri Business (formerly Adani Wilmar)

Edible oils and galley essentials company

Competes on: edible oil, atta, grain and pulses sold under Fortune, the identical galley receptacle Independence targets.

Position: Backward integration into oil refining and commodity sourcing gives it disbursal authority in a category anywhere shoppers toggle on price.

In an interview, choice one category, specified as colas or edible oil. Compare Reliance and one competitor on pricing, allocation reach, retailer margins and brand trust. Then explain anywhere Reliance's own retailing network gives it an border and anywhere the incumbent motionless wins.

A person products endeavor touches farmers at one end, kirana owners in the center and households at the other. That makes its social footprint wide: sourcing, packaging, h2o use in beverage plants, and the health of the group purchasing its products. Before you name a particular program in an interview, inspect the latest Reliance collection CSR communication, since initiatives are frequently run and reported at collection flat fairly than under the RCPL name.

RCPL sits inner the Reliance Industries group. If you need the collection construction as background, peruse this overview of Reliance Industries Limited and its energy, retailing and digital businesses. Most of the group's social programmes run through Reliance Foundation, the group's philanthropic arm. The themes below are justified from RCPL's business. Treat them as areas to research, not as confirmed RCPL programmes.

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Rural Livelihoods & Farm Sourcing

A staples brand specified as Independence depends on grain, pulses and edible oil provision chains, so fair farmer linkages and agrarian earnings matter immediately to the business.

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Plastic Packaging Circularity

Beverages akin Campa container in PET bottles, and snacks and soaps use elastic packaging, so collection, recycling and manufacturer duty are chief concerns.

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Water Stewardship

Soft drinks and packaged h2o are water-intensive to make, so plant-level h2o effectiveness and community h2o admission are natural concentration areas.

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Nutrition & Health

A portfolio spanning staples, confectionery and beverages invites questions on nutrition, fortification and liable marketing, particularly to children.

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Kirana & Micro-Entrepreneur Support

Small neighbourhood retailers are a center revenue channel, so their digital adoption, credit admission and endeavor skills nexus closely to RCPL's own growth.

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Disaster Relief & Food Security

A business that makes and moves food, h2o and hygiene products at measure can get essentials to communities quickly following floods, cyclones or another emergencies.

6. Interview Process & Selection Rounds

RCPL hires in two chief ways. Freshers normally arrive through evidence drives, frequently run alongside the wider Reliance retailing and person recruitment calendar. Experienced professionals arrive through the Reliance careers portal, referrals and hunt partners.

The rounds below display the applicable form most candidates should expect. Sales roles lean on site and district scenarios, brand roles on market cases, and factory or provision sequence roles on specialized depth. Senior hires normally skip written tests and visage additional guidance conversations.

Application & Profile Screening

Recruiters inspect scholarly record, applicable internships and domain fit. Sales profiles are peruse for site visibility and willingness to relocate. Manufacturing profiles are peruse for plant, norm or food-safety experience. Lateral profiles are matched against category experience, specified as beverages, staples or residence and individual care.

Online Assessment or Screening Call

Campus candidates typically obtain aptitude, logical reasoning and sometimes a psychometric test. Laterals normally get a recruiter or hiring-manager call instead. That call covers current role, notice duration and the targets or numbers they have personally owned.

Functional Interview

This circular tests whether you can do the job. Sales candidates visage distributor, beat-planning and secondary-sales questions. Brand candidates get positioning and consumer-insight questions. Supply sequence and factory candidates are tested on inventory, petition planning, norm systems and row efficiency.

Business Case or Managerial Round

A elder director tests judgement on a live endeavor problem. Typical prompts contain expanding a challenger brand against Coca-Cola or HUL in one town, or fixing stock-outs throughout a provider network. For elder hires, this circular additionally probes squad guidance and cross-functional influence.

HR Round & Offer

HR checks motivation, values alignment and applicable fit, including location mobility. This matters most for revenue and factory roles, which are frequently posted exterior metros. Compensation, joining date and backdrop verification are finalised here.

Campus revenue aspirants volition discover that FMCG peers run a akin sequence. The Tata Consumer Products Unlock Big revenue trainee discussion guide shows how district and field-sales rounds are typically framed.

7. Common Interview Questions Across Roles

Any Reliance Consumer Products Limited applicant can visage these questions, any the function. Role-specific specialized questions are covered in all role's own guide.

Company-Fit & Behavioral Questions

8. Required Skills & Tools

Required skills at Reliance Consumer Products Limited change by occupation route, so this array maps them to the identical routes used in Career Opportunities below.

9. Career Opportunities at Reliance Consumer Product Limited

Careers at Reliance Consumer Product Limited are organised by functional route. Each path has its own admission roles, its own targets and its own ladder, from site revenue and brand administration to plants, provision sequence and merchandise development.

Most group associate one path as a fresher or lateral employ and build degree there first. Moves throughout routes, specified as from revenue into brand management, normally arrive at director level, formerly there is a track document to show.

Sales & Distribution

Typical titles run from Sales Officer or Territory Sales Executive to Area Sales Manager, Regional Sales Manager and Key Account Manager for contemporary trade. The activity centres on provider management, outlet safety and attack preparedness throughout broad and contemporary trade. You get promoted on this path by hitting secondary-sales and numeric-distribution targets fourth following quarter, and by expanding a territory's energetic outlet basis without inflating provider stock.

Brand Management & Marketing

Roles contain Assistant Brand Manager, Brand Manager, Senior Brand Manager and Category Head, alongside alongside person insights and commerce promotion positions. Brand teams activity on portfolios specified as Campa beverages and Independence staples. On this route, the growth indication is owning a initiate or relaunch end to end and showing measurable gains in allocation and offtake during keeping the brand's P&L on budget.

Supply Chain & Logistics

Common titles are Demand Planner, Procurement Executive, Logistics Executive, Warehouse Manager and Supply Chain Manager. This path connects flora and co-packers to distributors and keeps fast-moving SKUs in stock. People move up current by improving forecast accuracy and inhabit rates, cutting stock-outs and freight disbursal per case, and handling seasonal peaks without assistance failures.

Manufacturing & Quality

Shop-floor and lab roles contain Production Executive, Shift Engineer, QA/QC Officer, Quality Manager and, at the top, Plant Head. The activity covers row efficiency, hygiene and food-safety compliance under FSSAI norms. Promotion on this path follows spotless inner and regulatory audits, sustained gains in output or OEE, and a powerful safety document on the shifts you run.

R&D & Product Development

Typical titles are Food Technologist, Product Development Executive, Packaging Development Manager and R&D Manager. These teams activity on formulations, shelf-life evaluation and group scheme for new and reworked products. The growth indication is taking a merchandise from place test to business initiate on period and at mark cost, alongside no norm complaints following it reaches the market.

Finance, Commercial & Corporate Functions

This path covers roles specified as Commercial Analyst, Business Finance Manager, Trade Spend Controller, HR Business Partner and Legal and Regulatory Executive. These group assistance the sales, brand and factory teams alongside pricing, border and compliance decisions. People get promoted current by producing inspection that changes a genuine endeavor decision, specified as a price-pack alter or a trade-scheme redesign, and by becoming the go-to partner for a category or region.

10. Future Outlook and Strategic Plan

Reliance Consumer Product Limited positions itself as a challenger brand house. The timeline in Section 1 runs from the initiate of Independence to the relaunch of Campa and afterward the supplement of bequest names through acquisition.

The direction those milestones item to is consistent. Compete on value and reach, revive brands that already transport person memory, and build the manufacturing and allocation power that a retail-led collection did not earlier need.

Reviving bequest brands

Be prepared to explain how you would create an older brand applicable to a university pupil in Pune without losing the nostalgia it holds for parents who grew up alongside it. Campa and Sosyo are two distinct cases. One is a national cola memory, and the another is a local favorite alongside profound roots in Surat.

Value-led challenger positioning

Expect to conversation price-pack architecture, definition which group sizes and cost points get a first-time buyer to try the product. A small soft-drink flask for a roadside tea stall and a low-cost shampoo sachet for a settlement kirana call for distinct trade-offs between border and trial.

Reach beyond Reliance stores

Shelf area in Reliance outlets and on JioMart is a starting point. Most FMCG quantity in India motionless moves through autonomous kirana stores and distributors. Prepare to difference broad trade, contemporary commerce and quick-commerce apps specified as Blinkit or Zepto, including how provider margins and credit conditions power all one.

Portfolio construction through acquisitions and partnerships

The portfolio has grown by purchasing established names, specified as the Lotus chocolate endeavor and the Velvette shampoo brand, and by partnering alongside exterior makers. Be prepared to conversation concerning what makes an acquired brand value keeping, and how you would merge its distributors, packaging and pricing into a sole system.

Building FMCG capability inner a conglomerate

Running brands is a distinct site from operating stores. It covers petition forecasting for a summer beverage peak, accordant norm throughout manufacturing partners, and promotion that plant on shelves the collection does not own. Be prepared to display you can use collection resources during motionless gathering standalone brand targets.

11. Conclusion

Reliance Consumer Product Limited is a young challenger in Indian FMCG. It is built on revived bequest brands, new launches specified as Independence and the attain of the Reliance group. It competes alongside long-established rivals in beverages, staples, confectionery and individual care, so its direction depends on winning kirana shelves and reiterate purchases, not fair archetypal trials.

For person joining, that method first ownership in a endeavor that is motionless penning its playbook. Candidates aiming for site roles can rehearse alongside this guide to an FMCG revenue trainee discussion at Tata Consumer Products.

After a long, strange trip, this CEO is close to taking a psilocybin pill to market

support@mycoding.id (Truman Dickerson) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:07:08 +0700

A lot is riding on the shoulders of Kabir Nath, the CEO of Compass Pathways. Scott Semler for BI

In 2022, Kabir Nath had a cushy administrator job at a pharmaceutical firm that developed anti-psychotic medication.

Then he got a call from a scrappy upstart alongside a patent on a synthetic type of psilocybin — the energetic component in magic mushrooms. It hoped to use the compound to assistance those alongside treatment-resistant depression.

They wanted him to associate as CEO. Nath, whose begetter died by suicide, bit on their second pitch.

"A figure of group have stated to me in the final brace of years: 'You do acknowledge what a hazard that was,'" Nath told Business Insider concerning eventually jumping container for what was, and motionless is, a medication business without FDA approval for its product.

"I was likely the archetypal really elder administrator from traditional pharma to create the move to psychedelics," he added. "But, you know, it was the correct item to do."

Nath's individual hazard is now magnified as Compass Pathways finishes filing its final forms onward of what could be FDA endorsement as shortly as next year, and afterward a community rollout of its psilocybin pill, called COMP360.

Compass has lately added 150 new hires to its payroll, expanded its promotion division, and moved into new agency area in Jersey City in the anticipation it all plant out. "The business is expanding rapidly," Nath said.

Though a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson attained FDA endorsement alongside a type of ketamine for decline patients in 2019, it is by no method guaranteed that Compass, leveraging a additional traditional psychedelic, volition get the identical approval.

Should the FDA refuse Compass' bid, investors would hurry to dump their shares, apt sending the business into bankruptcy. The Jersey City office, which fair received a new lime green coat job, would be untenable.

If you ask Nath, it would additionally be bad news for 4 myriad patients alongside depression in the US, for whom additional traditional antidepressants akin SSRIs don't work.

"These are group who have been suffering from depression, and nothing's really working," he said.

Like another medication companies — particularly those alongside a sole merchandise — Compass' inventory has "been on fairly the adventure," Nath said, as the business progressed through assorted individual trials.

When markets closed on Friday, the portion cost hovered about $11, up $5 from final year. In 2020, whenever the business went public, shares went for $17.

From Haight Ashbury to Wall Street

Psilocybin's journey to the FDA has been a lengthy and winding one. Scott Semler for BI

Psilocybin's journey to the forefront of medicinal investigation didn't commencement alongside Compass, and it hasn't exactly gone in a direct line.

Few did additional to publicize the medication than Timothy Leary, the Harvard prof turned acidic dropout. In a address at Harvard's Cambridge evidence in 1962, he told students that taking psilocybin allows group to cognition an "internal rebirth," according to the Harvard Crimson.

In time, Leary would be fired from Harvard as he, alongside alongside a measurable part of the US population, began to test additional heavily alongside psychedelic drugs. Come 1966, the Grateful Dead were spiking their Kool-Aid alongside acid, and a conclusive subculture of long-haired, psychedelic-taking hippies had emerged.

Meanwhile, researchers were experimenting too. Studies involving LSD and psilocybin flourished during the 1960s before hitting a masonry block partition in 1970, whenever psilocybin was classified as a Schedule I substance, rendering possession illegal, equal for investigation purposes.

Work on the medication languished for years, until 2000, whenever the FDA gave scientists at Johns Hopkins University approval to behavior investigation on psilocybin.

And additional recently, psychedelics have rotate into trendy alongside the tech crowd.

From Burning Man to luxury retreats, experimenting alongside psychedelics is now average among tech founders and executives akin Elon Musk and Sam Altman, who credit the drugs alongside quieting their nerves, boosting productivity, and allowing them to improved harness their creativity.

Research, too, has flourished.

"There was really a biotech surge from 2018 through to concerning 2022," Nath said. "In that boom, exactly hundreds of psychedelic companies went public."

In 2018, Compass' proprietary psilocybin formulation received breakthrough therapy heading from the FDA. A few years later, it started evaluation the medication on people.

Nath was an administrator in 2018 at Japanese pharmaceutical elephantine Otsuka, anywhere he stated he assembled a squad to examine whether psychedelics could rotate into viable medicines following study Michael Pollan's publish "How to Change Your Mind," which explores the former and therapeutic possible of psychedelics.

COMP360

Compass isn't marketing an cognition akin to a religious awakening at Burning Man, though.

The drug-taking procedure for a tolerant enrolled in one of Compass' trials is a bit different. First, a tolerant has to have treatment-resistant depression, which is clinically defined as decline that two or additional norm narcotics have unsuccessful to treat.

Then, a clinician explains the particulars of the procedure that is concerning to unfold. After that, they're stated the psilocybin in pill form.

Kabir Nath at the company's new agency in Jersey City. Scott Semler for BI

"It's a quiescent area alongside a couch," Nath said. "They're offered a blindfold, which most patients do really wear."

As the tolerant starts to trip, a playlist of music, including traditional and new age, plays quietly in the background. The clinician, who Nath stated could be a nurse, doctor, or therapist, sits silently in the area if the tolerant wants to talk, and for safety reasons.

Most of the time, though, there isn't any talking.

"This is not psychotherapy," Nath said. "We are not directing the patient's experience."

Six hours later, following several crying, laughing, and everything in between, the tolerant goes home.

In Compass's most latest trial, results for which were published in September, fair under fractional of participants who took the medication informed at smallest a 50% decrease in depressive symptoms inside six weeks of treatment.

Next steps

After a decade of slogging through tests, archetypal on animals and afterward on humans, Compass has completed all the necessary prerequisites and is busily operating to get its final document in order.

In a declaration provided to Business Insider, an FDA spokesman was noncommittal, though.

"The FDA evaluates experimental medications, including psychedelic narcotics akin psilocybin, through a rigorous, evidence-based procedure designed to justify that any approved care is harmless and productive for the indicated use," the spokesman said.

Compass isn't the lone psychedelic medication business wading through the lengthy procedure of trialing a drug.

AtaiBeckley, another psychedelic medication business selling on the Nasdaq whose merchandise is not yet approved by the FDA, is evolving a type of DMT administered via nasal spray. It received breakthrough position in 2025, years rearward Compass.

For Compass, though, it could visage the music as shortly as the archetypal fractional of next year, whenever it expects the FDA to render its decision. The business is already getting ready.

In supplement to adding 150 new hires, Nath stated the business is preparing its revenue power to go online and is in common communication alongside doctors and healthcare providers concerning functioning in clinics anywhere therapists can oversee the medication to patients.

"This has the possible to be radically different, and again, the rapidity is item that they're extremely enthusiastic about, and the durability," Nath said, referring to psychiatrists.

Google Search Ranking Volatility Gets Heated October 24th

support@mycoding.id (Barry@Rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:07:00 +0700

This former Saturday, October 24th, we saw several important ranking volatility captured by many of the third-party Google tracking tools. There was additionally several dense chatter inside the SEO industry concerning ranking movement and Google traffic changes complete the former brace of days. The two together create me accept that there was several Google Search ranking adjustment, a Google Search updsate, released Friday and into Saturday.

This follows the unconfirmed updates I reported on October 20th & 21st and afterward before than on October 16th. And as a reminder, we had the Google September 2026 spam update commencement on Thursday, September 24, 2026 at about 12:00 pm ET and completed on October 8, 2026 at 4:37 am ET. That update had three waves of volatility, in our opinion. They include:

Before that, we had unconfirmed updated about September 23/24, volatility on September 15th, afterward the weirdness alongside September 4 through 13.

Google Tracking Tools

As a reminder, complete the former duration or so, the Google tracking tools are struggling but many stated they have mitigated the issues by now...

In any event, current is what they are showing:

Google Volatility Chart

Data Sources

AccuRanker Algoroo AWR CognitiveSEO DataForSEO Mangools Mozcast SEMRush SERPrecon Serpstat SimilarWeb Sistrix Wincher Wireboard Zutrix

Here is the tool-by-tool breakdown:

Wireboard - this study shows the total of the tools complete and parcels them on one chart:

AWR:

Serpstat:

DataForSEO SERP Volatility:

Mangools SERPWatcher:

SEO Chatter

There is chatter on WebmasterWorld and comments current on the Search Engine Roundtable:

Two days rear we had a nice small spurt from Discover and News but akin clockwork at 2 am, detect traffic was gradually killed till it reached to negligable numbers. As of now it again feels akin Google is fair not crawling / indexing and its not fair our website, News and Discover appear basically broken. Two months I used to really discover fine stories on them but now its old stories. Would affection for another webmasters who run news websites to measure in on this.

It looks akin Discover now lone sends traffic to an part for small than 6 hours at best

At smallest you guys motionless get Discover traffic. My traffic has entirely crumbled throughout the board. Right now, it's painfully apparent that norm hunt is entirely useless, no matter how fine you get cited in AI overviews. Also, I can totally verify the matter alongside outdated news and weird articles popping up in Google News.

Traffic is again extremely very depressing. Looks akin a bleak weekend ahead.

Low levels of traffic throughout all sites alongside the WWW driving zero new enquiries to our earth sites but, at the identical time, regular client enquiries and orders at normal levels nevertheless what we are noticing on our inn location is a divergence of website traffic v realworld takings.
Until a brace of months ago whenever we saw a occupied website, particularly alongside eatery list views, we would cognition a occupied evening walk-in commerce nevertheless lately this has not been occurring. We have seen low website traffic and amazingly fine walk-in business. Some are regulars, many are not, affirmative we have a new chef and list which are being appreciated.
Is anyone alternatively seeing a noticeable separation of website traffic and genuine takings akin this in their business?

I can't say much concerning walk-in customers, but I'm additionally seeing a enormous autumn throughout all the websites I monitor, starting yesterday. On top of that, rankings are bouncing all complete the place. Right now, it feels akin Google is heavily favoring community broadcasters and Springer Verlag sites (Germany's largest publishing house), as they are sitting correct at the top for basically all topic I appearance up. At this point, you have to acknowledge that since delayed August, Google has really managed to create their already mediocre hunt results equal worse.

I've been getting dense bot traffic from Singapore the final brace of days. This normally happens before a Google update.

Same, I fair blocked Singapore completely

Traffic has been awful today.

What are you all seeing?

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