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Reminder to all #OpenStreetMap-contributors who are also active on the #fediverse: you can verify your OSM-account. Instructions here: openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%…

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zeh
zeh
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why would i want to do this? really, i'd like to understand.

why do you want to have your activities mapped out and linked to one another? why this obsession with establishing the one identity?

i can only think of reasons around branding, marketing and sales. to establish your credentials as a "contributor", as a "doer", as a "leader", to better position yourself in the supermarket shelves. fuck that shit.

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Pietervdvn
Pietervdvn
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@zeh Well, you summed up the reasons pretty well.

We are a community. Sometimes, I'd like to get to know the people from OSM too in an informal context (e.g. here) or would like to discover that someone I meet here, is also active on OSM.

But ofc, you might have reasons not too link some identies together. That is completely fine, you know...

@zeh

LB: Poco se está hablando de que la misma lógica que ha propiciado la debacle demócrata está detrás de la estrategia (e hipótesis) de Más Madrid/Sumar: tratar de atraer votantes de derecha moderada dando por descontados los votos de las clases populares.

El resultado aquí es igual de penoso (pero no tan espectacular, de momento): nunca han conseguido ensanchar su base electoral, y en los barrios populares crece paulatinamente la abstención, debido a la desafección y el descontento.

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Arredro
Arredro
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@modulux Desde el primer día, la máxima del errejonismo ha sido apelar/atraer a los que no están, rehuyendo de los lugares comunes de la izquierda. Y lo llevan repitiendo machaconamente desde hace 10 años, a lo largo de los diferentes partidos políticos por los que han pasado.
@modulux
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modulux
modulux
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Vale, pero a mi el proyecto de Errejón no me parece equiparable con Sumar. Venía de Más Traición, que por lo menos yo lo veo como otra formación, por mucho que fuera portavoz del grupo.

@Tutanota Is drag and drop still supported on macOS? Everytime I try to do so, I get some random file with weird name like “Mqk_Fd1——5” (name changed because I am not sure what it is). When I open it in text editor, it has the same name inside 😄
@Tuta
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Tuta
Tuta
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It's supported, could you report the issue to us via email?

🍿 Sneak Peek 🍿

Labels are coming to Tuta Mail! 🎉

Enjoy your weekend everyone. ❤️

in reply to 100welkon

Tuta
Tuta
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@100welkon Thanks for sharing! We are constantly working to improve it :)
@100welkon

We're always encouraged to caption/describe images we upload onto the Fediverse. Sometimes I'm guilty of not doing this when I feel that it's not needed, but still I benefit from other people doing it. The original reason for the captions was to help the blind, but I discovered sometimes people can't (or needn't) see the images for another reason. My server has very limited storage space, and to keep GoToSocial running I had to put strict size limits on remote media. My server won't download large images etc., but I can still read their descriptions in my timeline. Some people have limited bandwidth and different kinds of limitations; this feature helps make the Fediverse better for everyone, helping to democratize the network (eg. by helping small servers like mine to survive), or make it more friendly for people in countries where Internet is expensive and limited. The list goes on...

Si estáis en Madrid y no os agobian las manis, venid esta tarde a Neptuno a las 17.30, que necesitamos ser muchas en la mani antirracista y antifascista.

Los nazis han convocado también esta tarde, cuentas más seamos, mejor.

Nabízíme práci! V @ceskodigital plánujeme víc zamakat na systémové lince #digitalizace Česka a hledáme někoho, kdo nám s tím pomůže. Název role je „Digital Policy Analyst“, přibližně řečeno potřebujeme někoho s výbornou znalostí digitalizace veřejné správy. Nabízíme práci s dopadem, motivovaný a hodnotově postavený tým, na nezisk rozumné peníze. Doporučte nebo sdílejte dál, díky! app.cesko.digital/opportunitie…

Digital Policy Analyst | Česko.Digital

Uživatelsky přívětivé digitální služby státu, kurzy digitálních kompetencí pro neziskovky, digi příručka pro sociální služby nebo Festival kreativní byrokracie a hlavně miliony lidí, které jsme pozitivně ovlivnili nebo inspirovali.
app.cesko.digital
#digitalizace @Česko.Digital

Hmm, I was born 101 years after Winnipeg Manitoba became a city? Neat! November 8th: 1873: Winnipeg was incorporated as a city
in reply to Martin from Toronto

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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Wishing you a belated happy birthday. Or, maybe I’m just 364 days early for the next one.

A happy birthday to @DerryLawlor I hope you have a fantastic day.
@Derry Lawlor

#dobréRáno
#dobrerano

well I guess this is a good feature for when phones get stolen or out of our control etc. 404media.co/police-freak-out-a…
Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out. Law enforcement believe the activity, which makes it harder to then unlock the phones, may be due to a potential update in iOS 18 which tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have not been in contact with a cellular network for some time, according to a document obtained by 404 Media.

Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out

Law enforcement believe the activity, which makes it harder to then unlock the phones, may be due to a potential update in iOS 18 which tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have not been in contact with a cellular network for some time, according t…
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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Bubu
Bubu
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here's more information now: naehrdine.blogspot.com/2024/11…

Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot

Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot iOS 18 introduced a new inactivity reboot security feature. What does it protect from and how d...
jiska (Blogger)
in reply to Bubu

David Amador
David Amador
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@Bubu very cool. It’s confirmed then. Thanks for sharing
@Bubu

A very very happy birthday to Lulu, my darling true. I know that your special day is going to be filled with lots of love and surprises. @lulu_bear
@Lulu Hartgen

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BT Speak Tutorial Series Now Available on YouTube & BlazieTech.com groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

BT Speak Tutorial Series Now Available on YouTube & BlazieTech.com

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Release of Sao Mai Braille 24.11.5 groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

Release of Sao Mai Braille 24.11.5

groups.io

Four years ago I finally got my US visa after a hilariously silly and slow process. And I have still to go there...

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/09…


a US visa in 937 days

Here's the complete timeline of events. From my first denial to travel to the US until I eventually received a tourist visa. And then I can't go anyway. December 5-11, 2016 I spent a week on Hawaii with Mozilla - my employer at the time.
daniel.haxx.se
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Andreas Scherbaum
Andreas Scherbaum
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And maybe one doesn't want to go there anytime soon. Certainly canceled a planned vacation.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

André
André
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I've been waiting on my US visa for a little bit more than 937 days, it's an immigrant one so it takes longer anyway. It's very bureaucratic. For example, I spent the whole year of 2024 going to court to re-issue my already valid birth certificate, the US embassy wants me to change a single letter so it would fit their acceptance criteria. They also automatically deny me a tourist visa because I'm married to an American. We married in Brazil on the same day as day zero in your blog post.

Well, looks like I might be free of the stomach demon for now, thank God in all reverence. I managed to eat two breakfast rolls and a decent sized plate of chicken dinner yestereday, and not a vestage of trouble. That doesn't mean I'll be taking silly risks, I still have to be careful, but I'm just so happy things are improving. Being tired I can deal with, I'm bound to get more tired as time goes on, but the stomach demon really sapped my hope and optimism. Actually feeling pretty well rested today because I was in bed by seven last night and asleep by a quarter past! So at the moment, God's in heaven, all's right with my world and I'm so, so thankful.
in reply to Lulu Hartgen

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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I’m so glad you’re feeling a bit better. I hope this day is a good one for you. I wish you a very happy birthday.

Mi hija pequeña (13 años) se queja de algo que es de máxima importancia en estos días, pero que si te lo planteas de verdad, no es nada sencillo de resolver.

Me dijo, hablando del profesorado del instituto “todo el mundo dice que tenemos que utilizar fuentes de información contrastadas, pero les preguntas cómo saber cuáles son y nunca te dan una respuesta clara”.

Y no es sencillo hacer una guía paso a paso para adolescentes ¿conocéis algo que ayude? Si no, voy a juntar algo de mi cosecha.

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#Gaza #Palestine

Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page, marking a major shift in how Israel’s aggression on the besieged enclave is being documented on the world’s largest online encyclopaedia.

In a related move, the platform’s editors recently voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League “generally unreliable” on the subject, adding it to their list of banned and partially banned sources.

middleeastmonitor.com/20241108…

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️

‘It’s not close’ - Israel committing genocide concludes Wikipedia ending editorial debate

Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page, marking a major shift in how Israel’s aggression on the besieged enclave is being documented on the world's...
Middle East Monitor
#palestine #Gaza

What’s New in Jieshuo 20241108: Offline OCR Overhaul & AI Enhancements accessibleandroid.com/whats-ne…

What's New in Jieshuo 20241108: Offline OCR Overhaul & AI Enhancements - Accessible Android

Jieshuo (formerly known as Commentary Screen Reader or CSR), the popular Android screen reader for the visually impaired, has rolled out its latest update:
Editorial Staff (Accessible Android)

self-OH: divide the derivative of your followers over time with the derivative of your dead/inactive followers over time to get your Losing Relevance function.

mine’s probably pretty high since i’m posting on fedi less than i used to, and it’s less tech posting. i’m okay with that.

I found a service called jammable where you can use famous voiced to do stuff. Here's a demo of Alan Reid, AKA Fred Flinstones. It's a bit creepy:

in reply to Martin from Toronto

Tamas G
Tamas G
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oh yup, that one was called Voicify, I have the Eloquence, Mac Alex, and Keynote Gold Voices up there to play with for songs too lol. A few months back they quietly changed their name to Jammable probably because the older name had another company by it too that does customer service stuff.
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What's everyone reading? Anything good to recommend?
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victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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For some more edgy stuff: “Lucid dying”, a pretty interesting latest research on near-death experiences. I mean, it’s sort of thought-provoking, not something I would readily believe in. But the data is mounting, so it was interesting to peek!
in reply to Pratik Patel

victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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Last but not least, “Lessons in Greek Language” by the South-Korean Nobel prize winner (her name escapes me as I write this). You may have read “The vegetarian”?

It’s bootlicky as hell but Ordeal is one of the best-drawn action webtoons out there. The artwork and storyboarding are next-level.
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Seirdy
Seirdy
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one chapter: the most jaw-dropping superpowered MMA-style fight you’ve ever seen in your life.

next chapter: police militarization with super suits while a ban on kimyos (superhumans) is in effect, so they can fight superhumans. fighting alongside superhumans who are breaking the law by using their powers, causing the extremely anti-kimyo Trinidad and Tobago government to realize it needs their help and halt its plans to round up and imprison kimyos who don’t serve them. is this civil disobedience or is it bootlicking?

I think it’s too oversimplified to be the former. It’s just a simple action comic with Michael Baynia infused worship of whichever nearby institution has enough firepower and resources to increase the stakes without diverging too far from the real world.

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Seirdy
Seirdy
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Again, though, the art is the best I’ve seen in an action comic. Something about it is way beyond what I’ve ever seen in most other comics.

So are any of the screenreaders doing any beta that anyone's been able to actually test where multi-line displays are connecting with screenreaders and showing the full line. I'm to the point where I'm about to pull the trigger on one of them. I am suspicious I will like Monarch more, but Slate is a lot cheaper. Canute not really an option, as it only works by itself. That's fine for most of what I want, but I'd like one that will grow and work with my computer and phone when it can. I heard multi-line options were in ios 18 but I don't see that anywhere.

We have updated our BT Speak audio tutorial and it's now divided up into 21 separate sections. Feel free to download it from our Guides and Media page.
blazietech.com/guides-and-medi….

Guides & Media | Blazie Technologies

Blazie Technologies

Updates to Canada’s Copyright Act bring consumers closer to the ‘right to repair’ your devices
theconversation.com/updates-to…

Updates to Canada’s Copyright Act bring consumers closer to the ‘right to repair’ your devices

Two new bills will amend the Copyright Act to protect consumers’ right to repair their possessions. But more work is needed, including ensuring that manufacturers make their devices repairable.
The Conversation

Black Friday this year should be the day you buy nothing. Not even gas or a coffee.
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LAUREN
LAUREN
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And then give something to someone who needs it more than you do.

FYI, starting December 1, 2024 I'll be reinventing talking tech that I did from 2011 to Woody's Weekly Wanderings, it will be on my usual icy podcast feed. Base information will be of course about all the blindness products from Humanware, but there will be lots of guests, tips, and discussion of other tech topics as well as especially braille products connect to so many different operating systems and devices.

The Help Desks were of no help today. FS says that Office on the Web doesn't work well with JAWS. They say to open the documents in the actual Office products, but I don't seem to have an option to do that. Microsoft Accessibility says to have people just send me the documents, but policy won't permit that. If anyone can help me really conveniently navigate these documents on the web with JAWS, I would send an Amazon gift card or something.

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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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are they in a teams folder? If you can send a shortcut to that folder to your one drive and brows them that way, they can open in the local editor.
Ditto for teams itself, I think, if you browse the files tab under a Team I think you can set it to open in local Word.
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COBOL Dragon, Lady Curmudgeon
COBOL Dragon, Lady Curmudgeon
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@cachondo Hmmm, I will have to try that. If that works, that could make my life much better.
@Sean Randall
in reply to Sean Randall

COBOL Dragon, Lady Curmudgeon
COBOL Dragon, Lady Curmudgeon
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@cachondo They are in Azure Devops. I actually don't know where they're stored, but now they open automatically in the associated desktop app, which is much better.
@Sean Randall

🕐Z #NowPlaying At the top of the hour why not jazz up your day with a new edition of Smooth and Easy with Kelly Sapergia. an hour of Smooth #Jazz, #Chillout and #EasyListening music. theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio 🤎🎷🐝🎧🌬️🎵
#jazz #nowplaying #tgvradio #easylistening #chillout

My water heater's app is so unreliable I just installed Home Assistant and ordered parts to plug a wifi microcontroller into its diagnostics port
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13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
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Another household member is currently proposing building a DIY, LAN-only control system for smart lightbulbs.

We don't even own any smart lightbulbs.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
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@HauntedOwlbear That's what Home Assistant is, basically; it's cloud-connected smart bulbs and home automation, but without the cloud, it just goes on a raspberry pi in your basement.

The other thing that Home Assistant is, is a baited trap for the terminally curious

@13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

#SwiftUI #a11y Techniques app updated with new Horizontal Scroll Views good/bad example that applies WCAG's Reflow success criterion to avoid horizontal scrolling at 320 or less screen width and adds right and left arrow buttons as single tap alternatives. apps.apple.com/app/accessibili…
Good example on iPhone 16 with display zoom enabled has 320 screen width and no horizontal scrolling and presents the buttons in a vertical stack instead. The good example on the iPhone 16 Plus with display zoom has a screen size of 375 width and horizontal scrolling is present with horizontally stacked buttons but there is also right and left arrow buttons to scroll using single taps rather than gestures.

‎Accessibility Techniques

‎iOS SwiftUI sample code demonstrating a variety of good and bad accessibility coding techniques. Demonstrates accessibility techniques for iOS SwiftUI apps using a collection of good and bad examples that can be tested with VoiceOver and other iOS …
App Store
#a11y #swiftui
in reply to Paul J. Adam

victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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I think Swift UI tables have not been fixed yet for #accessibility, is that accurate on my part?
#Accessibility
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Paul J. Adam
Paul J. Adam
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@vick21 Native Table() element will not read its row headers to VoiceOver and they only work on iPad github.com/cvs-health/ios-swif…

ios-swiftui-accessibility-techniques/iOSswiftUIa11yTechniques/Documentation/DataTables.md at main · cvs-health/ios-swiftui-accessibility-techniques

Demonstrates iOS SwiftUI Accessibility programming techniques using live good and bad examples that can be tested with VoiceOver and other AT. Includes documentation for developers explaining how t...
GitHub
@victor tsaran

Via Elie Mystal:

The temperature high was 81 degrees in New York on Wednesday NOVEMBER 6, by the way.

But America elected a climate change denier because the black lady didn’t have the right message for people who never went to college.

We are very close to watering our crops with Gatorade

Elon Musk deployed his vast resources to help Trump get elected, and now he’s poised to remake the US government to serve his interests.

But that was only possible because far too many people chose to ignore who he was to tell a more appealing story of a founder moving humanity forward. They should be held accountable.

disconnect.blog/shame-on-the-e…

#tech #elonmusk #trump #uselection #politics


Shame on the Elon enablers

Media and politicians created a monster and lost control of him
Paris Marx (Disconnect)
#Trump #politics #tech #elonmusk #uselection
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So Elon Musk has started publicly insulting the German chancellor.

We all should know what that means: Musk will be preparing to use Twitter to game the upcoming German election.

Upgraded to Sequoia today, so far everything seems to work just fine including my VM which is key.
iPhone mirroring also seems to work with VoiceOver, though AppleVis says it doesn't. Perhaps this was rectified in 15.1 though.
in reply to Andre Louis

victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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Yep, I upgraded my music machine as well. Phone mirroring was fixed in 15.1, though not completely, as you will soon find out. It’s workable though.

NY Times: President-elect Donald J. Trump spoke on Wednesday with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and during the call handed the phone to Elon Musk, the increasingly influential billionaire who has played a key role providing communications capability to Ukraine in its war with Russia. nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/poli…

Now I’m grieving. Soon(ish) it’s back to the work of #accessibility and inclusion.

Here’s what I wrote the day after the U.S. election: lflegal.com/2024/11/harris-def….


Today We Grieve

So many swirling emotions today. November 6, 2024. The day after the United States elected its first felon, a man who is transparent and loud in his cruelty, racism, and disdain for women and their bodies.
Law Office of Lainey Feingold
#Accessibility

“The Quilt Index, originally launched in 2003, is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world.” quiltindex.org/

The Quilt Index

quiltindex.org

In case anyone is still following me over on the site formerly known as Twitter, I have personally deleted my account with no regrets whatsoever. I wasn't personally affected by anything over there, but it's definitely becoming toxic as evidenced by some of the replies I've seen to other people's tweets. As well, I temporarily deactivated, but not deleted, my FB account. I definitely prefer Mastodon over those two these days.
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

Nick D Daniels
Nick D Daniels
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i have to agree there. My x accounts are still up, though i don't use them anymore. and as for facebook, well since they took down the mobile version of the sight i found it quite frustrating. Mastadon is for the win, for the moment at least.
in reply to Nick D Daniels

Kelly Sapergia
Kelly Sapergia
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@Drummerdaniels One of the things I hate about FB is how verbose the iOS app is. It speaks way too much when all I want is to hear the author's name and their message. I also don't like FB’s reliance on AI, and how controlling they are regarding content such as news items.
@Nick D Daniels
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

Nick D Daniels
Nick D Daniels
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yeah i agree. fb on the iphone is a little bit of a chatter box i do agree. as for the main version of facebook, it's just too complicated. plus the news thing only gives you 1 news item at a time, which is pretty anoying.
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