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> More than 200 years ago, bison roamed freely across Illinois, but as the industrial revolution reshaped the landscape, the bison disappeared.

yeah they just decided to "leave" lol why can't they just admit we literally killed them all
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Bison return to Illinois prairies after nearly 200 years https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/bison-return-to-illinois-prairies-after-nearly-200-years/
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Langer Post, #Sharkey -Erfahrungen eines Mastodonten

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#sharkey @monkee

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* GeoGas: monitor price data from Spanish gas stations 🛡️

Google Status: unchanged. We're still being blamed for an allegedly malicious file that doesn't even exist on the server. Reevaluation requests still failing (taking more than 24h each).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome: and turn off that allegedly Safe Browsing in your browsers, if you can. Seems to be fake.


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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So yeah, USB ports in Windows have a memory of what you jammed in them and the list can become extensive. I just ran this nifty little utility called Device Cleaner and it found 166 non-present USB devices. I deleted them all with this utility and now my computer seems happier. It's sort of like cutting your hair I guess. You can download this from Major Geeks right here: majorgeeks.com/files/details/d…

Device Cleanup Tool

Device Cleanup Tool is a portable tool that lists all non-present devices and then allows for easy removal.
www.majorgeeks.com

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#XSF Announcement

Tomorrow the 28th #XMPP #Summit is taking place in #Brussels, #Belgium.
Start at 09:00 am (UTC+1).

If you come in person, reach out before (almost full). Else join remotely
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…

Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!

#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation

Plenty of XMPP Logo and OMEMO (fish) Stickers

XMPP Summit 28 | XMPP - The universal messaging standard

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
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#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #fosdem #chat #messaging #belgium #xsf #brussels #summit

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Apparently in Italian there is a word for:

"Men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unrequested advice to the workers."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell


Bolognese slang term for elderly men watching construction sites

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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Elektroautos gelten als sauberste Alternative zum Verbrenner. Dabei wird ein noch klimafreundlicheres Fahrzeug oft vergessen: das E-Bike. Studien zeigen: E-Bikes sparen mehr Ressourcen, verursachen deutlich geringere CO2-Emissionen und beschleunigen die Verkehrswende stärker als die Elektrifizierung des Autoverkehrs.

E-Bikes ersetzen fast jede zweite Autofahrt.

squirrel-news.net/de/news/waru…


Warum E-Bikes für die Verkehrswende noch wichtiger sind als Elektroautos - Squirrel News

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#MilionChvilek svolává demošku. Kdybyste se náhodou v neděli v 15:00 nudili... pro mimopražský je to asi na prd a narychlo, ale třeba by někdo výletil...

Každým boostem zachráníte jednu micinku! :)

#Praha - #Staromák - #demonstrace na podporu prezidenta.

#Politika #Macinka #Turek #prezident #Babiš

Milí přátelé, všichni víte, jaká je situace. Je třeba říci už dost. Nehorázné vydírání prezidenta ze strany Petra Macinky je absolutně nepřijatelné! Něco takového do demokratické kultury opravdu nepatří. Pokud tohle dnes mlčky projde, zítra už nebude existovat žádná hranice. Nejde přitom jen o jednoho člověka. Jde o nebezpečný precedens: o to, zda si kdokoli může osobními nátlakovými hrami vynucovat politická rozhodnutí, která mají přímý dopad na bezpečnost České republiky. Naše bezpečí není hračkou pana Macinky – ani nikoho jiného ze současné vlády. Je čas postavit se za bezpečnost naší země. Je čas dát najevo, že STOJÍME ZA PREZIDENTEM. A je čas ukázat, že nás je hodně. Potkáme se proto již tuto neděli 1. února v 15:00 na STAROMÁKU, kde zveřejníme naše požadavky i další postup. Ano, je možné, že bude Staromák praskat ve švech. Ano, je možné, že se na něj nevejdeme. Jistě však chápete, že za 5 dní není možné zorganizovat akci úplně pro všechny. Tohle však není konec, nýbrž začátek. Ne všichni totiž mohou tak rychle přijet do Prahy. Pokud se na Staromák nevejdeme, budou následovat další akce v regionech - aby tak bylo vidět, že to není jen Praha, ale skutečně CELÁ REPUBLIKA. A pokud to bude i nadále potřeba - pokud si politici nepřestanou brát naši zemi jako rukojmí - najdeme pro setkání signatářů výzvy STOJÍME ZA PREZIDENTEM takové místo, kam by se mohli vejít všichni. Úplně všichni. V tuhle chvíli je nás už neuvěřitelných 340 000 tisíc! Podpisy dál rychle přibývají. A každý má obrovský smysl. Proč? Protože tohle není situace, ve které je možné stát stranou či nezúčastněně mlčet. Tohle je chvíle, kdy se občané musí postavit za pravidla, která drží tuhle zemi pohromadě. Tady je v sázce víc než partikulární zájmy pár politiků. Tady je v sázce budoucnost nás všech. Pojďme dát najevo, že nám na naší zemi záleží. Pojďme dát najevo, že v této kritické chvíli STOJÍME ZA PREZIDENTEM. Zúčastněte se prosím osobně, anebo online na dálku (pošleme Vám před akcí odkaz). Ale nenechte si to ujít. Myslí si, že je nás málo. Myslí si, že nás odradí zima. Myslí si, že mohou cokoliv. Pojďme jim ukázat, že se mýlí. Vidíme se v neděli v 15:00 na Staromáku. Těšíme se na Vás! A moc Vám děkujeme za šíření. Srdečně, Mikuláš Minář Předseda Milionu chvilek pro demokracii P. S. To, čím nyní můžete pomoci úplně nejvíc, je rozšířit výzvu na podporu prezidenta ke všem svým přátelům. Čím více nás totiž bude, tím větší bude naše společná síle - a celkový dopad v příštích měsících a letech.
#Politika #MilionChvilek #Demonstrace #praha #babis #turek #prezident #staromak #Macinka

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1:08:15 oh. If commenting on other people's habits is odd, then dude's just explained part of why people have reacted so weirdly to me over the years.

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I am VERY concerned for these girls... - Therapist Plays Doki Doki Literature Club - 1

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/eurobradyJoin the Community! https://discord.gg/GChs8TBnZw#ddlc #dokidokiliteratureclubplus #gaming #therapist #letsplay #r...
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Mx Verda

I'm grateful for this experience showing me I trust my actions, and I behave with integrity however I can.
I'm grateful for this experience giving me insight into how I can affect others and how I did affect other people when I acted like that.
I'm grateful I can avoid acting like that now.
I'm grateful I wrote down exactly what happened as it happened in the Cat in a Flat booking chat.
I'm grateful I didn't compromise my needs more than I felt was fair.
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Mx Verda

When someone treats you badly and refuses to change their behaviour, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to block them.
If you feel reasonably sure they may continue to act carelessly toward other people, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to report their messages.
You exist too. You're allowed to curate your environment to be more tolerable to you.

You are not their parent (probably) nor carer (probably), and NO ONE is getting paid enough to be mistreated.

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With voice profiles you can change the character of the voice in two strong ways:
1.
Global / class-based shaping
• Push vowel formants up/down in a non-uniform way (biggest "gender/age" cue after pitch)
• Adjust bandwidths to go from "clean/bright" to "thicker/more muffled"
• Tame harshness in fricatives by slightly scaling aspiration/frication amplitudes
• Adjust defaults like glottalOpenQuotient, outputGain, etc. (since the hook now runs after defaults)
2. Small targeted overrides
When one vowel (usually /i/, /u/, schwa-ish things) sticks out, you can override just that phoneme without forking the whole pack.
That combination is exactly how you get:
• female: higher pitch + raised vowel space (CF1–CF3 more than CF4–CF6), maybe a touch more “open quotient” / breathiness, careful with fricatives
• child: even higher pitch + even more raised formants, but usually less “heavy” low-frequency energy
• deep male: lower pitch + slightly lower vowel space, maybe tighter bandwidths, more “chest” feel (within what your params can simulate)
And now, lunch time over. changes in repo.

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Re last boost: This is really sad. The one maintainer of the Slint accessible distribution of Linux, is dead. This is a hard loss. May more popular distributions work even half as hard as him in listening to blind people and making their Linux distro accessible. Join the Orca mailing list. Contribute to the Orca screen reader. Now, more than ever, as more and more "tech" people move to Linux, we need to be accounted for. Also BRLTTY really needs Grade 2 Braille input support.

I mean, look at it this way. If sighted developers don't make their stuff accessible, we blind people will use AI to beat it into submission, send a PR, and you'll have *even more* AI stuff to deal with. And y'all don't want that, do you? :P So just avoid that by making it accessible. And no please we don't need another standard. Please. I beg of you.

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Alfonso Siciliano

Hi, thank you for your feedback on accessibility and open source technologies. I always read your posts with great interest in order to improve the accessibility of FreeBSD, a UNIX and open source operating system.

At the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Dublin 2024, I showed other developers (using simulators) the challenges faced by color-blind, low-vision, and blind users. The @FreeBSDFoundation is currently sponsoring the "Vision Accessibility" project to improve accessibility for users with visual impairments.

At the Developer Summit in Zagreb 2025, I presented the new accessibility handbook docs.freebsd.org/en/books/acce… focused on the assistive technologies currently available in the system, including practical examples to help developers better understand these challenges.

I am in contact with organizations supporting people with low vision, blindness, and deafblindness to implement Braille display subsystem for FreeBSD and to develop interfaces specifically designed to be used with screen readers.

Any feedback or suggestions are very welcome.

#accessibility #FreeBSD #UNIX #openSource

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#Accessibility #opensource #freebsd #unix @FreeBSD Foundation

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America's unofficial poet laureate and "guy filling in until Woody Guthrie is reincarnated" does it again.

au.rollingstone.com/music/musi…


Bruce Springsteen Responds to Minneapolis Killings With Fiery New Protest Song

Just days after the death of Alex Pretti, Bruce Springsteen wrote the protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis,' which denounces ICE and Donald Trump.
Conor Lochrie (Rolling Stone Australia)

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I don't know who needs to hear this but open source maintainers leaving X11 behind and focusing solely on Wayland isn't some conspiracy. It's a case of focusing limited resources on what makes sense to them. Supporting old code and maintaining backwards compatibility can be great, but often hard choices have to be made when it comes to what individuals and companies have the time and energy to work on.

It sucks if you get left behind but open source owes you nothing unless you're paying for it

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somebody finally did it. open source native video compression on Android which uses the hardware and isn't just another ffmpeg wrapper. MIT licensed.

github.com/JoshAtticus/Compres…

"Compressor." now available on @IzzyOnDroid

dude needs beta testers to get it on Google Play ... see the latest release notes on Github if you want to help.

#Android #VideoCompression #FLOSS #MITlicense #IzzyOnDroid


GitHub - JoshAtticus/Compressor: Lightning fast, ad free, super lightweight native video compressor for Android

Lightning fast, ad free, super lightweight native video compressor for Android - JoshAtticus/Compressor
GitHub
#android #floss #izzyondroid #videocompression #mitlicense @IzzyOnDroid ✅

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RE: social.heise.de/@heiseonlineen…

It's truly the most mindless thing and symptomatic for the "AI" bullshitters: OSM allows you to just download all the data in nice and simple snapshots. Instead, scrapers use thousands of residential IP addresses to query the service at zero benefit over the data dumps.

The people creating these systems understand as little as the "AI" they create.

heise online English (@heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de)

OpenStreetMap is concerned: thousands of AI bots are collecting data Bots are said to be harvesting OpenStreetMap data on a large scale. This costs money and endangers the project. https://www.heise.
heise online English (Heise Medien on Mastodon)

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Bruce Springsteen hat einen Protest- und Support-Song für die Menschen in Minneapolis veröffentlicht. Darin findet er ziemlich deutliche Worte.

Bislang war von prominenten US-Musikern eher weniger Politisches zu hören zur aktuellen Situation. Deshalb ist diese Veröffentlichung durchaus bemerkenswert.

youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w


Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

Lyrics:Through the winter’s ice and coldDown Nicollet AvenueA city aflame fought fire and ice‘Neath an occupier’s bootsKing Trump’s private army from the DHS...
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Lunch time! You know what I'm gonna do during lunch? Implement a new "voice profiles" parsable YAML section that transforms phonemes into different voice profiles. Yes yes, this needs to be one phoneme table, not multiple, and it needs to not break existing packs. Let's get coding. This is how the pro engines did it.
We don't need to load another phoneme table entirely, just shift core phonemes to desired voices.
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The nice young man witnessing to me about the light of Jesus while I was trying to get some work done at the library (the library!) was not at all ready for my light of Jewish Anarchism + Buddhism tossed right back at him. We had a very nice chat (truly), but I ceded no ground and while I may pick up the Book of Mark (his suggestion) he will probably read about Emma Goldman and Howard Zinn.

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Reaper Made Easy - First stream of the year happens on Saturday, January31st, 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK.

Here we go again,; another year; more questions, more answers.

I'm perplexed, what's next?
Join Scott and Jenny K for a Q&A session covering all things REAPER, OSARA and accessible production. As usual, we'll be making sure questions from newcomers slip to the front of the queue.
Details are at reaperteacher.com.
That's also where you can send us something that you're working on to listen to during the session. Constructive feedback from objective, experienced ears can be super useful.

If you're able to help cover the time we put in to running these meet-ups, here is where to top up the kitty.
paypal.me/TGVTraining

See ya there,
Jen


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Přejděte na adresu paypal.me/TGVTraining a zadejte částku. Protože jde o PayPal, je to jednoduché a bezpečné. Nemáte účet PayPal? Nevadí.
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Scott

@zersiax A recording of each Q&A session stays up for a week so people can catch it in any time zone. We don't keep them up forever because it's good for people to be able to take their first steps, talk through any initial awkward misunderstandings and share their first projects without that being preserved forever. Leads to a little more repetition, but given how difficult archives in this format would be to search anyway, I'm pretty sure it helps newbies more than it hinders anyone else. @ZBennoui @technowitch
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Breaking: Bruce Stringsteen has just released what may become an historic protest ballad.

Streets Of Minneapolis is a beautiful brave soulful anthem destined to take a place among the great songs of the struggles for freedom.

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🔥New Music: Bruce Stringsteen | Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)🔥 And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this…
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News: Daily Beast | Springsteen Releases Scathing New Song About Trump and ICE

Bruce Springsteen just put out a new song called “Streets of Minneapolis” that both memorializes the protesters killed by ICE in that city and lambastes the Trump administration’s “lies.”

He also calls out “King Trump” in the brutal lyrics, slamming his “private army from the DHS”

“A city aflame fought fire and ice / ‘Neath an occupier’s boots.”

thedailybeast.com/obsessed/bru…


Springsteen Releases Scathing New Song About Trump and ICE

The lyrics specifically call out “Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.”
Eboni Boykin-Patterson (The Daily Beast)
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News: Hollywood Reporter | Bruce Springsteen Releases ICE Protest Song About “State Terror” in Minneapolis

Bruce Springsteen released a protest song Wednesday about what he called the “state terror” ICE committed in Minneapolis and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

“I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis,” Springsteen said Wednesday.

hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu…


Bruce Springsteen Shares Protest Song About Minneapolis ICE Killings

Springsteen said "Streets of Minneapolis" is "dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good."
Ethan Millman (The Hollywood Reporter)

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as someone who is a bona fide expert in the underlying technology of LLMs, the amount these genai CEOs executives managers and boosters simply fail is mindblowing. I cannot explain the details but these fucks have only have one idea: prompting chatbot. If they have a second idea it's prompting chatbot more.

these fucks are intellectually vacant. they have all the innovation of a 3 day constipated turd. but you can't really expect more from the type of guy who allegedly raped his own kid sister

the fundamental ideas behind LLMs can in fact do things, but you have to dig below all the layers of coprolite fossilized anti wisdom like "buy more nVidia processors" (which btw has been the received wisdom ever since nVidia gave out a bunch of free GPUs 15 years ago)

I have to reiterate that my dog has more interesting and novel ideas than sam, dario, or whoever is at Google.

these Thought Leaders have only one thought. its "more chatbots more prompts"

so now we have chatbots that require illegal powerplants that poison your neighborhood to get enough electricity to help someone convince themselves to kill their own mother! 🆒

also yes all the people building the infrastructure are just cryptocurrency grifters trying for a better grift. including Musk and Altman. watch @davidgerard episode on gas town

@David Gerard

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Pretty sure LibreOffice help-folks in forums are gaslighting the users saying that #LibreOffice Write style application problems are user error. I've got the same problems as several help-seekers in forums as recently as a few months ago, and the "helpful" forum replies just keep insisting that what the user is saying they did or didn't do is false.

I'm convinced LO Write has some bugs in this department, so it feels borderline aggressive for the help-folks to keep insisting that there can't possibly be bugs; it must be the user.

Edit: A less serious but still frustrating thing: LO helpers online repeatedly state the precedence rules for formatting text (paragraph style, character style, direct formatting, etc.) and simply lament that users can't handle such an advanced and user-friendly system.

Then they tell someone with a 400-page novel including thousands of paragraphs that, instead of suggesting LO adopt a system where styles might (if users choose) override direct and paragraph formatting, this person should quadruple-click each of their thousands of paragraphs, one by one, then press CTRL+M to remove all formatting, and finally apply the LO style.

If you have to work this hard to ignore a repeated feature request, there is something wrong.

#ui #ux #design #foss

#foss #libreoffice #UX #design #ui
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LibreOffice

Hi, can you link to the specific discussion? (There are various places to get help for LibreOffice.) Please remember that helpers on forums are volunteers, doing all they can to answer a huge amount of questions. Sorry if you didn't get the answer you wanted, but also bear in mind that they are not developers, so they can't implement feature requests. You can submit a request at bugs.documentfoundation.org but the more help the community gets to implement features, the better! Thanks 😊
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Proto Himbo European

@libreoffice Thanks. I'll try to find the discussions.
I can't find some of them (and don't have time right now; the whole issue is that I am extremely busy trying to get things done and don't have a lot of time to search forums when I run into problems, right now). Here's one.

ask.libreoffice.org/t/update-s…

I'm aware that the volunteers answering questions can't implement changes. My frustration is with those who keep telling users some verison of "you are wrong to want that."


Update selected style does not always update font size

I wrote my book in LibreOffice Writer for a few reasons. I really really don’t want to move to Word. But in this final editing phase where I’m trying to format over 400 pages using styles, it’s frustrating when I update a style and yet it doesn’t con…
Ask LibreOffice
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And all this research made me realize why building a female voice for SpeechPlayer would be tricky. It's not just like, "multiply" this by that. It can work, but would sound artificial because vowels and consonants don't all need a constant multiplier of a band to "sound female", they need specific tuning dependent on the vowel itself to shift to another formant frequency. What I'm saying is, to get a female voice, we would need a separatly tuned phonemes-female.yaml. This is why ESpeak's female voices also sound very much like a man is pitchshifted and too much on some sounds. Eloquence, ETC probably built this through multipliers too but very specific rules on how various formants get scaled.
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The senate votes on #DHS funding tomorrow and way too many of these fucks want to help fund #ICE in return for some magic beans of promises that the Gestapo will start following laws. Please call your senators and yell at them.

Sick of being told to call your senators? Get plastered drunk and swear at them. It's more fun, and they deserve it.

#dhs #ice
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