Doesn’t Temu direct ship to the customer? What if they ship in plain unmarked packaging and keep changing the address of the sender? Is the EU customs peeps just going to start inspecting every single package from China looking for items from Temu? That sounds like a logistical nightmare. This sounds like old school thinking where you can stop whole containers full of stuff from a single supplier.
At some point it's a diplomatic incident and will affect EU-Chinese relationships. Even the Chinese government doesn't want to fuck it up for all Chinese companies just because one of them feels like the rules don't apply to them. It's not like the only goods flowing from China to the EU are cheap trash.
They'll put them on naughty list that will be enforced by financial institutions, i.e. it will be an infraction for credit card operators to process such a payment. Financial operators have well oiled compliance facilities and the payment won't clear. If Temu won't get the money, they won't ship the parcel. And if they won't ship, then there will be a bit less carcinogens in EU. Good stuff.
Just in a poxy country like the UK it's millions of parcels a day delivered across multiple ports mostly inside containers.... It's simply not feasible to check it all, it would cost a ton of money to have enough checkers and not slow down deliveries.
That's a failure of the state to control its borders.
> it would cost a ton of money
That's why the EU is imposing a €3 fixed customs duty per item (and later another €2 handling fee) effective July 1 (should have been much sooner in my opinion) for small packages (under €150), in addition to the VAT.
"When we are able to source hardware components at a lower cost, these new “limited” servers will have particularly attractive conditions."
Limited used as a "cheaper" instead of pricier service is counterintuitive to me.
"All dedicated servers and cloud plans at all locations are affected by this adjustment. However, web hosting products, managed servers, servers from the Server Auction, IPs, storage products, Load Balancers, Volumes, Snapshots, and Object Storage are not affected."
My main issue was the ability to paste images when using ClaudeCode via ssh on a remote machine, so I solved it by having Claude write a quick bridge that fetches the image in your clipboard, rsync it to the server and paste the correct image path in your clipboard: https://github.com/mdrzn/claude-screenshot-uploader
$20 a month for the cheapest plan "save up to 5M tokens", wouldn't it be better to purchase another Claude $20 account instead? Since you'd get WAY MORE than 5M tokens?
Rather than simply guessing the password, Claude helped dig through the old files and identify an older wallet.dat file that appeared to predate the password change. The user also reportedly had an old mnemonic phrase, which helped unlock the wallet once the correct file was found.
BTCRecover, a known wallet recovery tool, is designed for cases where users already know most of a wallet password or seed but need help testing variations. Its documentation says it supports Bitcoin Core wallet recovery, among several other wallet types.
So, it didn't actually do anything to Bitcoin. He had the answer the entire time on his machine, it's just that Claude helped him search through his files.
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