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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • It takes at least a month to ship things from China to the US. I’ve got a post in my history going over the math.

    If the ports are empty now, that means ships stopped sailing a month ago. If they sail today, they’ll be here mid to late June. If none have sailed in-between, it’s going to be a while before any do. And I’m not sure any ships will be sailing soon because no deals have been reached.

    Lots of companies bought extra supply in the months leading up to Lie-beration Day, so they can hold for a bit. The only question is how long will they, compared to how long Chinese shipping will resume?




  • It can literally resurrect 10 year old computers.

    I’ve got a 14-year-old Toshiba that I used in college that runs a weird variant of Ubuntu called Kumander (it’s designed specifically to look and feel like Windows 7, which I think is properly nostalgic for the hardware). As long as you don’t expect the battery to last more than an hour (which about par for the course for a laptop from then) it’s perfectly serviceable as a SOHO-type machine.

    Also it can double as a self-defense weapon cause it weighs like 10 lbs.


  • This is exactly how YouTube’s DMCA takedown system works, and how media companies have been abusing it since it’s inception. Someone claims copyright on your video, and Google immediately takes it down. You then can contest the claim and Youtube will put it back up. But the claimant can contest your contest, and Google will then tell you that you can’t have it up and have to settle in court with the claimant. Oh, and you get a strike to boot.

    The whole process is automated, because there’s so much content now it’s impractical for every single takedown request to be addressed by a human. And because there is no punishment for bad-faith takedown requests, there is no incentive for the claimants to ensure their IP is really being infringed.