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They teased you when you were young, because you didn't fit in. But you've grown up now, and you were never an ugly duckling; it turns out you were a horrible goose.

Make them pay. :goose_027:

Inspired by a recent podcast, I read this article on digital minimalism. Interestingly, I think I'm already much of the way there: very little interaction with corporate social media, no difficulty leaving the phone at home when going to a concert, for example, no desire to use technology when I'm meeting people or at a conference - even a technology conference.
I'm reasonably selective about what podcasts or radio to listen to, what fora to engage in, what to read online, etc., although there are probably some that I could remove without loss of substantial value.
I prioritize creation over consumption in general.
calnewport.com/on-digital-mini…
#Digital Minimalism #SocialMedia

On Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport

The Curmudgeonly Optimist People are sometimes confused about my personal relationship with digital communication technologies. On the one hand, I’m a computer scientist who studies and improves these tools. ... Read more
Study Hacks (Cal Newport)
#digital #socialmedia
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Cleverson
Cleverson
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I like the concept, and try to implement what I can of it as well.

Ještě jsem se s vámi chtěla podělit o jednu perličku z Lidlu. 2.10.2024 koupeno velké retro GRANKO v akci za 89,90 a tento týden nabízejí taky GRANKO za 89,90, ale ne retro a pouze pokud máte LIDL PLUS. Hlavně ta cena pokud tu appku nemáte...Tak jako kde to jsme???
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brabitom
brabitom
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Samozřejmě. To je kouzlo internetových diskuzí. V těch je odpověď na vše. 😁

So, I, a half-Canadian/half-German/half-Chinese/all-bad-at-math woman go out to dinner with my Chinese personal trainer after working out and we wind up eating Lebanese food made by Syrians in the middle of China in a pop-up restaurant that has a Palestinian flag and a sticker on the door in support of Palestine.

While listening to German music.

I love living in Wuhan!

TV Bra: inside the world's first TV station for and by people with learning disabilities:
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0grk…

TV BRA: Inside the world’s first TV station for and by people with learning disabilities

All the reporters at Norway's TV BRA are disabled or autistic.
William Kremer (BBC News)

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Meta releases Spirit LM, a multimodal (speech text) model. #Multimodal #LLM #AI #ML ai.meta.com/blog/fair-news-seg…

Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR

Today, Meta FAIR is releasing several new research artifacts in support of our goal of achieving advanced machine intelligence (AMI) while also supporting open science and reproducibility.
ai.meta.com
#AI #ML #llm #multimodal

No sé si lo he dicho alguna vez, pero estoy harto de la barba y de afeitarme. De tener la piel cada vez más áspera por culpa de la cuchilla. De que haya pelos que intentan salir y no pueden, creando quistes e infectando la zona. Qué puto asco, acabaría con ella para siempre, ganaría en salud cutánea y ahorraría en cuchillas y lociones.
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José Manuel Delicado
José Manuel Delicado
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@modulux no sé tío, no me veo. Me gusta tocarme la cara y encontrar piel. Supongo que esto ya va con los gustos de cada uno.
@modulux
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modulux
modulux
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Yo tampoco me veo, jeje. No, en serio; depende mucho del gusto de cada cual. A mi me gustan las barbas pero entiendo que si te da mal rollo tener pelos por ahí pues es una mierda.

Some random thoughts, but I sometimes feel there are two different and mutually exclusive strands of techno-optimism about computers. I'm referring here to people who want to use computers to liberate, not to the claim that this has already been achieved.

On one hand, what we could call the Smalltalk strand. Don't get hang up on the name: it might as well be Lisp or Unix or free software or Emacs strand. This is the most radical position, and holds that computers are 1) sui generis (their own thing), 2) and the full potential of computing is the common heritage of humanity. So this is the view of infinite customisability, of trusting that users can, should and will write their own software and tweaks.

The other version is the Apple strand: again don't get hang up on the name. This is an optimistic but less radical position that computers are universally able to substitute every other machine, but that they should behave like the machines they substitute for the sake of simplicity and ease of use. So while the Smalltalk strand looks at computers as their own special thing that brings new affordances, the Apple strand focuses on making computers useful for specific tasks, with an appropriate UI.

I think both are legitimate views. My sympathies are more with the Smalltalk strand, and I find it frustrating when it is seen as elitist or exclusionary, because our precise point is everyone can program, and that software should be optimised for modifiability. On the other hand, the Apple strand gets accused of dumbing down, which I also think is not warranted.

What I?m trying to get at is we can work on both visions, though inevitably there are points of divergence. Computers should be general purpose, flexible and customisable. People should be able to modify their own systems to suit their needs. But also, computers should be manageable and easily understood, and it should be possible for people to use them.

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Anke
Anke
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I think people who have already learned to program may over-estimate how much "everyone" is interested in learning to program.
I agree that pretty much everyone could learn it if they put in enough work, but a lot of people would rather do something else with their time and have computers "just work".
Speaking as a programmer, that's why I've stuck with Windows so far instead of getting into Linux more than necessary...

What's your favourite punctuation?

#FunPolls

  • Semicolon (;) (36%, 22 votes)
  • En dash (–) (26%, 16 votes)
  • Question mark (?) (13%, 8 votes)
  • Exlamation mark (!) (24%, 15 votes)
61 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

#funpolls

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MicroBlog Castellano
MicroBlog Castellano
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Well, in Spanish we don't use the en-dash, we use the longer em-dash. Unluckily, word processors don't manage Spanish em-dashes as they should – as parenthetical signs used around words and surrounded by spaces, as quotes are used in English, but to tell exactly the opposite: that a text is not said by a character, but part of narration.
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modulux
modulux
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I always thought the punctuation for dialogue stuff was the hyphen. Good to learn something new. These days lots of Spanish people seem to use something closer to the English dialogue rules, only sometimes with the (« and »).

We have reached peak absurdity

#Covid #Covid19

sign at the entrance to a hospital in the US saying Stop, please do not enter our hospital if you're feeling unwell
#covid #COVID19

Zitra nas ceka velky Unreleased den. Dva nove Unreleasy jejichz Unrelease oslavime vypustenim noveho webu. (driv to nejde, neb tam s nimi flexime)

Jako znamka toho, ze to s umelci myslime vazne jsme se placli pres kapsu a natocili reklamni video.

Je pekne.

Nalakame na nej Justina? Uvidime.

#music #video #art #startup

#music #art #video #startup

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I wrote a pure python gradle wrapper this afternoon :3

github.com/obfusk/gradlew.py

(for those who prefer not to have a binary blob wrapper.jar in their repos and would like to ensure checkums match those published on gradle.org)


GitHub - obfusk/gradlew.py: gradlew.py - pure python gradle wrapper

gradlew.py - pure python gradle wrapper. Contribute to obfusk/gradlew.py development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

Turns out I should not have worried about whether automatic mirroring of git repositories would work smoothly. After a year, only 4 out of 593 repositories had issues. 2 I was able to fix, one had a protocol error (I am assuimng their git server has issues), one has an SSL error. That's 31 GB of code, via #forgejo.
#forgejo

That is not OK. comicsands.com/tiktok-nyc-rest…

NYC Restaurant Accused Of Eating Half Of Customer's Cake: VIDEO

Koh Mochizuki (Comic Sands)
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
IzzyOnDroid ✅
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We've got all kind of "funny security rules". But, not being allowed to cut the cake yourself FOR SAFETY REASONS? At a STEAKHOUSE? How do they serve the steaks I wonder…

Veo mucha reflexión sobre Bluesky y personas que se van allí. Os dejo la mía, es muy simple.
Yo no necesito que el fediverso sea enorme. No me importa si llega a ese punto, entiendo que es el objetivo y será mejor que un Bluesky o lo que hay ahora mismo, pero yo no lo necesito ni tengo prisa porque ocurra.
Yo uso la tecnología que me parece más sana a nivel ético y estoy con un grupo de personas que me gusta mucho. Ya está, no necesito más.
Iba a poner un mensaje del palo "no gastéis vuestras energías en analizar redes centralizadas" pero entiendo que es un tema interesante y podemos hacer muchas cosas a la vez. Pero yo en lo particular no lo haré. Quien quiera interactuar conmigo en redes sociales ya sabe dónde estoy, lo digo siempre que tengo opción aunque predique en el desierto.

I'm not at all confident about hosting Procrastodon on an 8 GB instance. We are already at 6.5 GB and I haven't even migrated my followers over. It hardly knows about any users or posts; it's basically the most pathetically tiny instance you could imagine at this point. But if I go up even one more VPS size, I may as well get a dedicated server. Maybe it'll be fine, but I don't want to migrate myself and others there, and then discover that the server just doesn't handle that kind of load.
I was already getting read timeouts (with a five-seconed timeout) when using FediFetcher on a local Procrastodon user account.
@quanin I think you were running on 8 GB. How's that working out for you? Did you do anything to optimise that?
@James H
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aaron
aaron
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Yeah, you probably will need something better for a multiuser instance. Either that or change the backend.

Pohoda, ľudia budú v pohode, nič viac si neprajem.

A byproduct of accessibility. This week I have observed it for a second time: a child was playing with a ticket machine on the public transport here. Those can talk so that a blind person can purchase the ticket independently. Before you begin, you have to choose the language for the spoken instructions and each choice is pronounced in the corresponding language, so English for English, deutsch for German etc. The kids are, either by themselves or with the help of their parents, flicking between the available languages, trying to repeat the foreign words. QDos to the Austrian child ppronouncing the word "Cestina", also the one saying "Mom, do the Italiano thing again" - priceless. I think we have found the new favorite educational toy in this place. #Accessibility #A11y #UniversalDesign #Blind
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #universaldesign

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Summer Dawn and Company
Summer Dawn and Company
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Quick, tell someone to manufacture toy transit machines. It's no different that the pretend cash registers we had back in the day.
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Paweł Masarczyk
Paweł Masarczyk
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@RandomFire Oh yeah, I have played with one of those and also the telephone box, even had a plastic toy magnetic card and some pretend coins for those. It would have to be a pretty good simulation, though, so that the accessibility features are preserved.
@Summer Dawn and Company

Hello everyone. My name is Masaki from Japan. I am blind. I am a physical therapist teaching and researching at a university in Japan.

Tak mamutovo má už díky @archos taky v4.3.0!❤️ Líbí se mi to. Hlavně pole pro odesílání je teď mnohem zřejmější. Věřím, že lidi budou méně zapomínat přepínat jazyk.
@Archos
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Smoon
Smoon
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Právě jsem v nové verzi odhalil další fajn věc. Když na jméno účtu najedete myší, rozbalí se přímo na místě medajlonek. Sice to asi nebude mít moc užitnou hodnotu, ale je to hezké. 😃
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En unos minutos comenzará la presentación del Informe Político de Antonio Maíllo en la Coordinadora Federal de Izquierda Unida.

📌 Puedes escuchar la ponencia de comienzo del órgano en este enlace: youtube.com/live/8nLFb5FquIY


🔻Coordinadora Federal del 20 de octubre de 2024

II Coordinadora Federal de la XIII Asamblea. El Coordinador General Antonio Maíllo presenta su informe político para abrir el debate del órgano.
YouTube

Good news and bad news.
#Conversations_im 2.17.0 has support for emoji reactions 🎉
Since @Codeberg appears to be under constant DDoS attacks they have added pretty strict rate limits that the @fdroidorg build server keeps running into. 😞
Another build cycle just failed and it's unclear when 2.17.0 will be available on F-Droid.
Maybe Codeberg and F-Droid can back channel an allow list or something? 🙏
A chat bubble in the Conversations app with the message 'hi all. I'm trying to take a screenshot for Mastodon. Can I get some reactions on this message?!' and a bunch of reactions to said message.
#conversations_im @F-Droid @Codeberg.org

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Benjamin
Benjamin
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That's cool! Does it need some special for muc? I see it works in direct chats but not our muc.
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Daniel Gultsch
Daniel Gultsch
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@blindcoder Message Reactions need support for "Occupant IDs" on the server that hosts the MUC.

From ejabberd 23.10 this is available with a module called mod_muc_occupantid

docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configu…

There is also something for @prosodyim but I can’t tell you what version or module you need.

Modules Options - ejabberd Docs

docs.ejabberd.im
@Prosody IM @Benjamin

Food Recall: Frozen Waffles

Sensitive content

#health #Safety #FoodRecall #usnews

A person tries to build the most inaccessible website possible but still get a 100 on lighthouse. Loved this experiment! matuzo.at/blog/building-the-mo… #Accessibility #WebDev #HTML #StaticSite

Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score - Manuel Matuzovic

An experiment that proves that automatic accessibility testing is only a first step and that manual testing is vital.
Manuel Matuzovic
#Accessibility #webdev #html #staticsite

The Substance 🤯
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James Henstridge
James Henstridge
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It's good they gave the sound and foley guys prominent billing in the credits. It really enhanced the film.

En un año en Gaza han matado a más de 15000 niños. Niños como el tuyo y el mío. Niños inocentes, como el tuyo y el mio. Niños con ganas de jugar, como el tuyo y el mio. Niños que soñaban con tener un futuro, como el tuyo y el mío...
No dejemos de hablar de Palestina.
Dibujo de niña pequeña con un osito de peluche en un lado y un trozo de sandía en el otro, debajo de las palabras " Don't stop talking about Palestine

I'm currently hanging on my teamtalk server at 97.107.140.118 default ports in the social circle lounge channel, should anyone want to talk to my nerdy self. :)
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Khronos
Khronos
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And as another way to get names for your stuff there's always dynamic dns as long as you don't have too many hostnames.

I'm seriously considering getting my own domain again, something I haven't done in years. I would then associate all my servers with my domain, and where I have web servers, I can finally play around with setting up HTTPS, to make modern browsers happy. What is a good Domain Registrar to use for totally blind nerds these days? I'll likely register my domain of choice, and set my DNS records up via Akamai, since they are the most accessible control panel of literally anyone. All thoughts welcome.
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Khronos
Khronos
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I'm an #aws man so I use them for most things when I can as long as the pricing works for me.
#aws

mne tie syry chutia dosť a ten Volovec skúsim nechať vyschnúť, nejako, a ten druhý neviem ako sa volá ale na úrovni "Volovec" z desiatich na ôsmich #za_rohom
#za_rohom
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I love my Spectrum gigabit Internet connection, it's performing beautifully, so long as I don't use WiFi that is. Downstream on my laptop Wi-Fi is so jittery and all over the road speed wise that it's not even funny. I've literally watched a file download go from a burst high speed of about 350-500 Megabit per second, to literally as low as 6 or 7 megabits! If I hardwire the laptop to my router, and perform the exact same file download from the exact same location, the file comes blazing in at over 800 megabits per second rock solid stable! Uploads are unaffected, and work absolutely perfectly regardless of if I'm on Wi-Fi or not. I'm pretty sure this is simply due to Wi-Fi interference in the area, and it's a safe bet I probably can't do a thing about it, but I can honestly say I've never seen a home Internet connection perform this poorly on Wi-Fi. For logistical reasons, I can't currently run an ethernet cable between where my laptop normally sits, and where the Internet equipment is located, but I sure as hell am tempted to try something in the near future, if I can't find a solution to the poor performance on Wi-Fi on my laptop. I also need to do further testing to see if it's just my laptop or my phone as well. Early tests would seem to indicate this may be an issue unique to my laptop, but I need to do further phone download tests to verify this. But if it comes down to it, I'll be purchasing a 25 foot ethernet cable, and giving myself a hardwired connection between the Internet and my laptop, the fun part will be explaining why I need the cable set up to my tech ignorant sister. Well time will tell I guess. In the meantime I'll continue to run whatever tests I can
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Khronos
Khronos
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Wired is always best if you've got lots of data you want to transfer to and from it.
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The Cube!
The Cube!
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Wired is just better in every way for data transfer. It's science.
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Documenting Unicode bidirectional embedding and the Ahem font for my #Outreachy interns.
Hand-drawn diagram of the Unicode control characters used for bidirectional embedding, and how a sample string gets rendered on the squares-only Ahem font.
#outreachy

I have learned this evening that WhatsApp voice messages cut you off after 30 minutes. This might help some of you long, long ramblers out there...
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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voice memos is better for that sort of stuff anyway, whatsapp does not let you switch apps to look things up and such. And yes, I did a 90-minute one once.

It's time for BEE FACTS

For every donation to this link, I will post one (1) fact about bees!

secure.actblue.com/donate/mast…


Join us!

This is a campaign for every North Carolinian, and we won't get anywhere without support from as many of our neighbors as possible.
ActBlue
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Sarah Taber
Sarah Taber
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These little green bees are sweat bees. They're called that because they love salt & might come get some from you if you're sweaty.

They're solitary, sting but not very hard, and most of them nest in bare patches of dirt next to plants.

Plant flowers & leave some bare spots!

Pic of a tiny metallic green bee on a small flower.
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Sarah Taber
Sarah Taber
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Honeybees are famous for working hard, but if you watch a hive, most of them spend a lot of time just chillin out on the honeycomb.

So when people tell you you gotta "be a good worker bee".... now you know the secret to their work ethic. Secure housing, affordable food, & naps.

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The Dynamic Island is the accessibility gift that keeps on giving. Today's bug: keyboard events not reaching a web page in Safari while the island was non-empty.

The article discusses the importance of operating systems adapting to modern hardware advancements for better performance and efficiency. It emphasizes the need for OS research and development to keep pace with hardware evolution. The speaker highlights the potential benefits of rethinking the OS-hardware relationship.

Link: usenix.org/conference/osdi21/p…
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

It's time for operating systems to rediscover hardware | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

Just heard about this new terminal, Ghostty.

Seems pretty cool.

github.com/ghostty-org

youtube.com/watch?v=RGlj4dcdWg…

Patiently awaiting an invite to the beta. :terminal:


Ghostty

A new terminal, started by @mitchellh 👻. Ghostty has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.
GitHub

Got my COVID and flu jabs and now I can't wait to fall into a feverish stupor tomorrow and actually enjoy the new season of The Rings of Power.

The article discusses how QUIC, a protocol designed for fast internet connections, faces performance challenges under certain conditions. Through experimental data, the authors conclude that QUIC is not optimal over fast networks and suggest potential improvements to enhance its speed and efficiency.

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2310.09423
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


QUIC is not Quick Enough over Fast Internet

QUIC is expected to be a game-changer in improving web application performance. In this paper, we conduct a systematic examination of QUIC's performance over high-speed networks.
arXiv.org

I think I'm becoming a big fan of Instant Pot.

Blind Reaper users: Is there anything like GoldWave's expression evaluator for Reaper, and accessible? That thing is one of my biggest ways of getting inspiration to make sounds.
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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Intriguing. I never knew about the Goldwave expression evaluator. REAPER has JSFX which allows you to write real time effects in a scripting language, which should allow you to do all of that, but it's still much more involved/tedious than just typing an expression in a text box.
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Quin
Quin
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@jcsteh It's amazing for creativity purposes, at least if you like numbers like I do. My favorite is to make up a really wacky equation, then apply a ton of filters and effects to it. Reaper has way more options for those, but just can't find an expression evaluator. JSFX sounds interesting, thanks for the sort of recommendation. :)
@Jamie Teh
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