@cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 2mo ago

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@dbattistella@todon.eu I can't find anything by Jo Nagai or Martha Wells related to butterflies on https://arxiv.org Do you have the source for the actual paper? It's probably just unpublished, I think. https://biology.georgetown.edu/news-story/new-podcast-features-georgetown-entomologists-collaboration-with-precociousjapanese-butterfly-researcher/ https://www.upworthy.com/ten-year-old-butterfly-researcher-discovers-that-memories-an-be-passed-down-through-generations/

arxiv.org

arXiv.org e-Print archive

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@renetron@aus.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io A mouse will truly learn *without 3rd party input* to respond to situations, like if the cheese in the middle of the dungeon that their mouse friend ate kills the friend, they'll avoid it. LLM is not intelligence, it is a statistical generator with a huge amount of exceptions (not like synapses). I don't think the mouse and an LLM equate in the least.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@Darkasvim@fosstodon.org @alice@lgbtqia.space @evan@cosocial.ca He's probably too lazy to get a large enough user base the right way (opt in) for what ever he's doing this for. All platform bridge bots etc require that you follow them to participate in their function, it's a long established practice.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@xvf17@sfba.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social Oh, don't you worry, they understand. Games inside games, hands washing hands etc.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@xvf17@sfba.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social Eh, don't get worked up. There's lots of bad stuff out there, no use wasting time on hate. Denounce it, work against it, but hate is way too much effort only to the detriment of your well being. I'd see hate being useful to stir to action at a rally but the podcast is pretty much ether.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@evedazzle@mas.to @thevhswizard@retro.pizza Can't have business when goods are too good, innit? That's why the planned obsolescence. Good news: the less you drive, the less the car breaks. I didn't even realise that relationship is basically reverse exponential. I've driven 3 years with the same oil, <10 000 km and all the expense is fuel, a light bulb and my time keeping the car free of rodents. They tend to flock to cars that aren't driven.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@Kichae@tenforward.social @htpcnz@mastodon.social @fdroidorg@floss.social among other freer options: https://www.fairphone.com/shop/buy-the-fairphone-gen-6-1914?color=218&select=220&refurbished=0

Fairphone

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 2mo ago

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@mycotropic@beige.party @dbattistella@todon.eu I've read Books of Raksura, now on 5th. No Murderbot Diaries yet.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@bytex64@awesome.garden @thevhswizard@retro.pizza @evedazzle@mas.to I don't know what Ford did right for once but the suspension has seen minimal parts changes. Previous generation front bushings were completely gone every year, even though the engine was much lighter. True about the aging plastic parts but that got much better compared to previous gen. Probably worse again now, especially electronics. Parts integrated, expensive, harder to change etc.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 5mo ago

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@Huntn00@mastodon.world @eldersea@expressional.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org @davidgerard@circumstances.run I find the Chinese state model to steal everything from anyone they please to at least be honest. The common man even benefits from it. Not this "AI is intelligent, you can't say it's stealing for our corporation!" crap.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@bouriquet@mastodon.social @RickiTarr@beige.party @passenger@kolektiva.social Estonian is. The exceptions are letters L and N that have a soft and hard form but aren't marked in writing. Other letters all sound the same as written, no syllable differences.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I like the savage chickens pic, really sums it up nicely https://ohai.social/@redsad/116586845951238916

ohai.social

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 2mo ago

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war crimes, USA

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 2mo ago

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@natalie@prismst.one @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I'm thinking there's quite a lot of truth to the fact that almost nobody cares about the code. End users tend to complain ineffectually if they notice at all. The decision makers look at the estimates and pick the cheapest and quickest. If something is cheaper to create from scratch, no matter how many security bugs it creates... There are no processes in place to associate those aspects almost anywhere I know of. Most business code is garbage nobody sane wants to maintain.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 2mo ago

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@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social Native flora is native because it does not need planting. Just maybe throw a few clumps of sod with overdeveloped roots in them every few meters. That gets more of those plants started and it'll all grow right in in a few years, in the leadup years there'll be plants that are needed to enrich the top soil with missing nutrients from deeper soil.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 2mo ago

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@troed@swecyb.com I believe the most important and widespread harm of pushing LLMs is companies doing that get the most use out of this by threatening workers (AI will replace you, be more efficient or else). Everything else from theft, environmental impact, surveillance abuse and deskilling to what's in the linked comic is extra. https://www.savagechickens.com/2024/04/haagen-bot.html

savagechickens.com

Häagen-Bot

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@piiabartos@mastodontti.fi @kevpeirce@aus.social Seems like it remembers the last used settings. Useful. "Remember".

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@Coho@mountains.social Hope I'm not putting my foot in my mouth here but Anubis is created to fight AI bot scraping. https://anubis.techaro.lol/ Not sure how it would integrate with what you talk about.

anubis.techaro.lol

Anubis: Web AI Firewall Utility | Anubis

Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests to protect your website!

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@Kichae@tenforward.social @htpcnz@mastodon.social @fdroidorg@floss.social Smugness? I simply thought it's a niche product and most people might not know about it and e/OS. I'm so sorry for trying to help someone on the internet...

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@Dragofix@veganism.social Perhaps rephrase this. "EU votes to end agreement to combat illegal logging". Who the hell knows what the authors of the article were thinking phrasing it like that...

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@stephaniepixie@fandom.garden @rzeta0@mastodon.ie @catsalad@infosec.exchange That, or attempted a scratchination with optional biting.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@pip@infosec.exchange @xvf17@sfba.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social You wot? By advising people not to wind themselves up where nothing other than damaging themselves is the result, I do the job of fascists? What are you on about...

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@isol@mastodon.au @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @evedazzle@mas.to @thevhswizard@retro.pizza I bought tubeless ready slightly wider tires for my bike in hopes of improving suspension. Those should have stiffer side walls, allowing for lower tire pressure. From 37 mm to 40 mm. A gravel biker told me bottoming out rarely damages aluminum rims in practice, gotta do crazy stuff to do worse than dent them. Time to test. It has been bumpy riding hard packed gravel roads (basically asphalt with stones exposed on the surface), gonna compare.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@TeflonTrout@beige.party @evedazzle@mas.to @thevhswizard@retro.pizza The life savings I mostly refer to are everything but the engine. The engine on a modern car is mostly indestructible, given maintenance is reasonable. Gas engines might be less durable in that respect but still, it's 300 000 km typically before anything but an alternator change is in order.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@FranceskaMann@freeradical.zone @DeliaChristina@sfba.social Ever heard of Pol Pot? Kim dynasty? Stalin? The Banana Wars? They absolutely can and will unless answered in kind. To forget the past is to repeat it.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social @RickiTarr@beige.party I myself don't associate it using mnemonics, more the meaning and movement. All the stuff moving sunward moves toward completion, an end.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@MegaMichelle@a2mi.social @RickiTarr@beige.party Same except why stop? Wotansday

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@renetron@aus.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io 1/2 As I understand it, an exception (parameter) is a rule describing how to act in case a certain situation comes up. I was referring to the use of the word synapse by you, @renetron@aus.social "... trillion parameters. A little more than the number of synapses of a mouse." A synapse is something both much more specific than an exception (parameter), flexible but also more general. I don't know enough to say if using "synapse" in this context is correct.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place Iron Snek 9000 Rusts

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@dramypsyd@ohai.social Muahahahaa! In the age of all-scraping gen LLMs, poor spelling is a mark of genuine content! Your emdashes are obsolete!

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I think the llama needs a war tower, like the war elephants of old. That way the kids won't trample the hide.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org Google blog article, https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/#agents "Search in the agentic era"

I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@dramypsyd@ohai.social 💙

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 5mo ago

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@boricua_yakuza@infosec.exchange @tante@tldr.nettime.org Where do you work? State apparatus is fully into the AI craze, the companies in the capital are only looking for people "willing to use new tools" - meaning corporate LLMs. Job ads for the rest of EU don't look much better. My guess is because every position that doesn't emphasize AI is filled instantly.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 5mo ago

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@dacig@mastodon.social @reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden @jonny@neuromatch.social Important addition that laypeople are not faced with much: LLMs that are owned by huge corporations, for maximum monetary profit (with goals like theft, reducing worker bargaining power, increasing uncertainty to create reliance on those same models). There are LLMs that I don't oppose. Basically, those that don't make the little guy use Anubis https://anubis.techaro.lol/ or make any decisions about people's lives in peacetime.

anubis.techaro.lol

Anubis: Web AI Firewall Utility | Anubis

Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests to protect your website!

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 5mo ago

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@glassresistor@sfba.social @be@floss.social @ret@furry.engineer @smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz @cwebber@social.coop IMO the systems that don't notice technical debt are not needed anyhow. The ones that are important obviously need the shock now (just like wars are needed to shock sense into people). The problem in all this is that blame will be assigned to workers instead of incompetent managers.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 5mo ago

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@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy Very similar in Estonia. Yesterday / today have been the only rain this month, a whopping ~8mm total. Looks from the other comments that this is common in the whole of northernish side of Europe.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 6mo ago

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@retsel@defcon.social @LoganFive@beige.party There once was a man from Cork, he was widely known as a dork. It's quite entertaining, that which this is pertaining is useless to all as a honk. Join my boring limerick club today!

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 7mo ago

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@Brad_whitecross@aus.social Downer = dev(sec)ops? As in of the systems.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 20mo ago

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@xubuntu@floss.social Dammit, I thought this was about Wayland

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@toddz@social.linux.pizza Welp. Thank you.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io I've seen some "look, my AI" or "Claude wrote this!" It looks like it typically takes a true believer to happen upon that content, crypto or AI youtuber circles for example.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@luna@shrimp.estrogen.today @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Dick Blevins Bay would just roll off the tongue...

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 5mo ago

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@tante @hopeless An advantage of Rocky for docker containerisation seems to be a really minimal official (below 10MB) image for that, no maintenance burden. https://hub.docker.com/r/rockylinux/rockylinux Debian official image is around 30MB. If you're experienced on Debian, not much difference. May have to install the epel-release package (for instance, fail2ban is available from there , https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/#_quickstart ) which is probably not very intuitive for someone new to the RedHat side. dnf provides '*bin/grep'

hub.docker.com

rockylinux/rockylinux - Docker Image

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@renetron@aus.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io "given this input, produce this output" is what I described as an exception. Why would this not fit? I don't mean the word in a programming language context, heavy with other technical implications like it's an object that needs further handling and stuff like that... Basically a rule. Intelligent beings don't have just the rules, they can also create the rules on their own, by example of other situations and comparison, reflection etc, thus learning.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 2mo ago

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politics, opinion

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 3mo ago

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@pip@infosec.exchange @xvf17@sfba.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social Where did you get that any of us uses AI? Have you even glanced at our profiles for that matter? You come across as an LLM yourself. Nothing more frustrating than being misunderstood deliberately and repeatedly.

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@renetron@aus.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io 2/2 What I was trying to get at is that LLM parameters are not an indication of intelligence / sound learning decisions. Not directly relevant, just trying to figure out synapses and intelligence: This paper https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/371/1685/20150180/22710/Neuronal-factors-determining-high https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4685590/ states that equating the number of synapses with intelligence is debated. EDIT: clarified, added original publisher link to study

royalsocietypublishing.org

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CohenTheBlue @cohentheblue@ohai.social

· 4mo ago

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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social @RickiTarr@beige.party I just think about the sun. Sunward tighty, if you will. "The sun sets in the west!"

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