Hi,
On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 02:40:01PM -0500, K0LNY ?? wrote:
> Is there a way to load Orca with default settings, or a CLI option to
> specify the synth, such as espeak?
No, there isn't such a option IMHO. But maybe the following works:
1. Press Alt+F2 to run a command.
2. Insert the
Hi Samuel,
> Am 18.02.2024 um 19:41 schrieb Samuel Thibault :
>
>
> Sebastien reminds me that you need to take care, when installing the
> version from experimental, to also install other brltty packages such as
> brltty-x11, otherwise apt may want to remove them. You can also use:
Yes, some
Hi Samuel,
On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 01:32:35AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>With Trixie supporting only merged-usr systems, we have to move files to
>/usr in the packages themselves. I have uploaded to experimental version
>6.6-4+exp1 of brltty that does so, it works for me but better get more
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 08:40:07AM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote:
>Neils, I think what you are about to find is that individual preference
>generally dominates accessibility concerns here.
Yes.
All what I wrote is the prefered way I like to work because it is the most
simplest way for me. This does
Hi Nils,
On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 11:54:24AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
>In my case, my tool is not interactive. It generates text output and either
>emits all of it on standard out or pipes it to a pager. It is closer to a
>tool like ls than mutt in spirit. As far as I know, my tool cannot
Hi Samuel,
On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 09:57:25PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Jason J.G. White, le mar. 14 nov. 2023 08:56:27 -0500, a ecrit:
>> On 14/11/23 08:35, Christian Schoepplein wrote:
>>
>> After installing the two gir packages with the fix from your personal
&
On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 08:56:27AM -0500, Jason J.G. White wrote:
> On 14/11/23 08:35, Christian Schoepplein wrote:
>
> > After installing the two gir packages with the fix from your personal
> > repo
>
> all things are good again:
>
> You'll need to mark t
Hi Samuel,
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 02:27:41AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>I have updated https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/88 with an
>improved patch. Could people try it? I have also uploaded patched Debian
>packages on https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/trixie-tmp/
I was
Hello Samuel,
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 07:59:44PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>What do you get when you paste into another graphical application such
>as pluma or gedit? And conversely when pasting into tmux?
When I am in a tmux session and copy multiline text with brltty's COPY_RECT
command
Hi again,
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 04:58:12PM +0200, Christian Schoepplein wrote:
>Hi samuel,
>
>On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 10:38:41PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>Samuel Thibault, le dim. 22 oct. 2023 22:36:34 +0200, a ecrit:
>>> Christian Schoepplein, le mar. 10 oct. 2023
Hi samuel,
On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 10:38:41PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Samuel Thibault, le dim. 22 oct. 2023 22:36:34 +0200, a ecrit:
>> Christian Schoepplein, le mar. 10 oct. 2023 12:46:21 +0200, a ecrit:
>> > The issue is with copying content via the cliphboard
Hi Samuel and all,
there is another strange issue with the terminal, but I do not know if it is
libvte, tmux or maybe brltty related.
I am using brltty in the terminal, the braille functionality of orca is
turned of in the orca profile settings for mate-terminal. In
Hi Samuel,
On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 11:03:01PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Which exact version are you testing? Please use
>
>dpkg -l libvte-2.91-0:amd64
>
>otherwise I cannot say anything about your results. My package with
>latest changes is versioned 0.73.99-1+fix, not 0.74.
I got version
Hi Samuel and all,
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 02:27:41AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
>I have updated https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/88 with an
>improved patch. Could people try it? I have also uploaded patched Debian
>packages on https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/trixie-tmp/
Hi Samuel,
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 10:31:27PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Samuel Thibault, le mar. 12 sept. 2023 14:07:35 +0200, a ecrit:
>> Christian Schoepplein, le mar. 12 sept. 2023 10:38:02 +0200, a ecrit:
>> > But I noticed another thing. When I switch away from
Hi Seb and all,
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 10:52:39AM +0200, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
>May it be the case that translate adjusts its output to the size of the
>terminal?
I do have the problem not only with translate, this was just an example
command to show the issue. I have the same problems
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 09:10:56AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Christian Schoepplein, le mar. 12 sept. 2023 09:02:40 +0200, a ecrit:
>> The following command displays
>> the output in a long line instead dividing it into seperate lines:
>>
>> translate -i occure
>
Hi Samuel,
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 09:06:00AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Christian Schoepplein, le mar. 12 sept. 2023 09:02:40 +0200, a ecrit:
>> But there are still a few problematic things:
>
>Are these regressions over the previous state?
No. Its much better now, also
Hi Samuel,
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 12:36:28AM +0200, Jérémy Prego wrote:
>for me, everything looks good compared to the version in debian testing
I've also installed the packages you build yesterday and did some testing.
The problem with the statusbar from apt seems to be gone, very cool, and
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 09:25:44AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Ok, is it more problematic than the various erratic behaviors that the
>debian testing version has?
Yes :-(. For me also the new patch brings no real improvement but thank you
so much to continue working on it.
A way to rupture
Hi Al,
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 01:09:43PM -0400, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
>I am thinking I'll run a Linux virtual machine and in that machine, I'll
>run several small docker containers such as Pihole, Plex, and a few other
>things.
No problem. This can be done with kvm / qemu and libvirt without any
Hi all,
On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 10:31:29AM -0400, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
>I currently have a VMWare ESXI host machine in my home lab. I’m considering
>alternative platforms and happy to experiment, but also don’t want to get part
>way down a rabbit hole and then realize I’m suddenly dealing with a
Hi Samuel and all who replied to my request,
> Am 25.06.2023 um 18:12 schrieb Samuel Thibault :
> Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 23 juin 2023 16:37:45 +0200, a ecrit:
>> Is this a known issue with kernel 6.3?
>
> Unfortunately, yes: TIOCSTI poses security problems so it got
>
Hi,
I am using Debian testing and today the kernel was updated to
linux-image 6.3. Since this update the cursorrouting is not working
anymore in the pure text console. In the graphical environment (Mate)
and also in the settings menu of brltty the cursorrouting keys are
working and
Hi,
I am using Debian Testing for years on several systems, servers and
workstations, without bigger problems.
Cheers,
Schoepp
Hello,
> Am 08.03.2023 um 01:18 schrieb Samuel Thibault :
>
> I have updated the image above with the latest kernel from debian, which
> now includes sound drivers, could you download it again and try it?
I've also tried it and both installation with speech or braille worked on a M1
Mac into
Hi Samuel and all,
do you know if the libvte problems have b een fixed in Bookworm that
mess up the output in Mate- or XFCE-Terminal. Its still hard to use
Mate-Terminal as a replace ment for the real textconsole, at least I can
not use it for my daily job in many situations and still have to
Hi again,
> Am 18.02.2023 um 10:48 schrieb Christian Schoepplein :
> One other big problem is again the not working caps lock key. AFAIK all key
> shortcuts to read out the screen in the speech based installer do need this
> key to navigate through the screen. So maybe I might ha
Hi Samuel, Frank and all,
sorry, had no time to work on this during the last days…
> Am 15.02.2023 um 00:21 schrieb Samuel Thibault :
> I have uploaded a test image, could you give it a try from:
>
> https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/mini.iso
>
Booting the ISO and start installation with
Hi again,
> Am 13.02.2023 um 18:18 schrieb Frank Carmickle :
> Yet another thing likely needing work after I get something running, pc
> speaker emulation. I'm guessing that we don't have it enabled in the appstore
> build of utm. I hope to be wrong about this.
Yes, I think this does not work
Hi Frank,
> Am 13.02.2023 um 18:18 schrieb Frank Carmickle :
>
> The utm documentation at
>
> https://docs.getutm.app
>
> indicates that you can disable capslock, specifically for use with screen
> readers. I have not figured out where you turn this setting on, as it isn't
> in the app
Hi Frank and all,
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 03:05:50PM +0100, Christian Schoepplein wrote:
>When using the arm64 installer no beep tone was played, but this might be
>because the whole system is running in a VM. So either pressing "s" does not
>work in the arm64 installer or
Hi Frank,
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 07:56:04AM -0500, Frank Carmickle wrote:
>> On Feb 13, 2023, at 3:50 AM, Christian Schoepplein
>> wrote:
>> What do I have todo to test speech based installation where sound is needed?
>> As said, I am using braille, for that rea
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 09:07:14PM -0500, Frank Carmickle wrote:
>I'm trying to boot the debian installer image for arm64 under the utm
>wrapped qemu on Macos.
I've just installed Debian this way on a M1 Mac yesterday with braille.
>I've tried different emulated sound devices but the
On 12/1/22 03:19, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
I'm wondering if there is a way to install a clean install of Debian x86,
same bullseye version that is on the machine, to an external drive, so
I can boot to it?
You can use debootstrap to install Debian from another Debian or other
already installed
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 06:37:43AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>Thanks this worked. Though it's possible either my sources.list is
>missing an entry or pipewire.pulse got deprecated and removed from the
>archives.
Sorry, maybe my last message contained a typo. The package is called
Hi,
Am 09.10.22 um 16:49 schrieb Jude DaShiell:
What should be done to replace pulseaudio with pipewire and have the
screen reader come up and talk?
I my case on Debian testing it was enough to remove the pulseaduio
package and install pipewire, pipewire-pulse and wireplumber. After a
Hi,
Am 27.08.2022 um 21:00 schrieb john doe:
To me [1] makes perfect sense.
[1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003#textb
+1
For me the non-free installer is the default. My priva te notebooks
can't be installed without non-free firmware and also at work we need
non-free
Hi,
Am 02.05.2022 um 16:31 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
Christian Schoepplein, le lun. 02 mai 2022 08:40:35 +0200, a ecrit:
sometimes, when I want to use the laptop without the headset, no sound
is there after login into Mate. To get sound back the only working
fix is to plugin the headset
Am 02.05.22 um 17:11 schrieb Didier Spaier:
Le 02/05/2022 à 16:31, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
Christian Schoepplein, le lun. 02 mai 2022 08:40:35 +0200, a ecrit:
Is this another bad issue with pulseaudio and might a switch to
pipewire help?
I'd tend to believe so.
Or use alsa, possibly
Hi,
with Debian 11, latest updates and backports enabled, I very ofthen have the
problem that no sound is available after login into Mate. I normaly use a
headset for work and when this headset is plugged in all is fine. But
sometimes, when I want to use the laptop without the headset, no
Hi,
> Am 01.05.2022 um 02:04 schrieb Nick Gawronski :
> Hi, I had to reinstall debian and like to encrypt my installations.
> Regardless of what installation image I use I find that no choice exists to
> not do the complete wiping of the disk before the LVM manager is setup. I
> get that it
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 03:46:33PM -0400, ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com wrote:
>Using Debian Bullsey and find that there doesn’t seem to be a backports for
>Debian 11 bulseye at least not for kepping the accessibility stack updated. I
>am guessing that this is not available yet?
I have
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 10:30:38PM +0200, Geoff Shang wrote:
>
>I like to use 24 consoles. But I just installed BullsEye on a VM and I can't
>figure out how to get any more than the default 6.
Why not using tmux to get as many consoles you need?
I was also using more then the 6 consoles in the
Hi,
I have to crypt my harddisk for my working laptop. Allthough it is no
big problem to enter the encryption password some seconds after grub I
wonder if a acustical signal could be played that tells me that the
password prompt is displayed. Also a signal about successfully entered
the
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 11:44:42AM +, Jordan Livesey wrote:
>I was able to install it with the speech so it hasn't broken that, and. Plus
>olka works, so there's nothing wrong. , are you using version 11?
Yes, I am using the newest branch of Debian 11. Because I need speech in
cosole and
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 10:32:50AM +0100, Christian Schoepplein wrote:
>Am 29.12.2021 um 09:30 schrieb Christian Schoepplein:
>>
>> one of the latest updates for my system, latest Debian Bullseye, broke
>> speech output on my system. I do have the normal Debian repos activ
Am 29.12.2021 um 09:30 schrieb Christian Schoepplein:
one of the latest updates for my system, latest Debian Bullseye, broke
speech output on my system. I do have the normal Debian repos activated,
aditionaly I am using debian backports. Yesterday everything was fine
but today
Hi,
one of the latest updates for my system, latest Debian Bullseye, broke
speech output on my system. I do have the normal Debian repos activated,
aditionaly I am using debian backports. Yesterday everything was fine
but today there is no more speech output for a normal user and I ha ve
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 01:48:31AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>john doe, le jeu. 09 déc. 2021 08:45:41 +0100, a ecrit:
>> The last time I checked, the Debian Installer was using the ncurses
>> interface for the SSH server which was unaccessible.
>
>?
>It uses whatever interface was selected. If
On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 08:45:41AM +0100, john doe wrote:
>In general, the router GUI interfaces are not screenreader friendly.
>That would be lovely if the DHCP client could send an hostname that is
>unic on the network making the hostname an alternative to using an IP.
Search for the host
Hello,
some weeks ago I've created a bootable linux cd ISO image which has ssh
enabled and allows login remotely as root. Now I've created another image
which has also included brltty. After booting this ISO you can still
connect via ssh, but also a connected braille device should be detected
Hello,
I've created a bootable linux cd ISO image which has ssh enabled and alows
login as root. I thought this might be also usefull for you, because I was
searching around the net for such a cd and did not find anything which was
working out of the box. The ISO can also be written to a USB
Am 12.05.2021 um 12:10 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
Normally if you install with speech, the levels during the installer
(which apparently with vmware may need to get bumped thanks to the
speakup shortcut) will get propagated.
So you were actually talking about the volume of the orca speech at the
Am 12.05.2021 um 10:36 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
Mmm, were you actually using speech synthesis during the installer? We
copy over the audio parameters only if speech was used.
I was not using speech during installation, only braille... Thats how I
install and use Debian systems for years. I
On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 10:23:30PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Christian Schoepplein, le sam. 08 mai 2021 15:03:54 +0200, a ecrit:
>> On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 11:40:49AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> >Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 07 mai 2021 22:20:32 +0200, a ecrit:
>&g
On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 10:23:30PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> >- Do you end up with a /var/lib/alsa/asound.state file on the installed
>> > system?
>> >- Please post the content of that file
>>
>> The file ist also there. It looks like this:
>>
>
>> control.2 {
>> iface
Hi Sebastian,
On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 04:50:56PM +0200, Sebastian Humenda wrote:
>
>BRLTTY uses `-x a2`, i.e. it uses the at-spi2 screen driver. This is the way
>for BRLTTY to capture the output of the MATE terminal.
>BRLTTY supports these days a few more controls which is why it shows something
Hello,
I have a fresh Bullseye installation and Orca and brltty are working fine in
the Mate environment.
To have also a working environment which is good to use in the textbased world
I've installed brltty-x11. The idea was to start another brltty in the Mate
terminal. which runs seperated
Hi Samuel,
On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 11:40:49AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 07 mai 2021 22:20:32 +0200, a ecrit:
>> > Am 23.04.2021 um 10:50 schrieb Samuel Thibault :
>> >> * espeakup:
>> >>- Carry over the alsa mi
Hello,
> Am 23.04.2021 um 10:50 schrieb Samuel Thibault :
>
> Cyril Brulebois, le ven. 23 avril 2021 07:21:43 +0200, a ecrit:
>> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first
>> release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye".
>
> And notably for this list:
>
>> *
Hi and again sorry for the X-posting,
Am 08.02.2021 um 12:32 schrieb Sebastian Humenda:
Christian Schoepplein schrieb am 08.02.2021, 11:26 +0100:
regarding to a presentation at FOSDEM 2021 it is planed to make Thunderbird
more and more a webbased application based on Electron.
I have only
Hi and sorry for the X-posting...,
regarding to a presentation at FOSDEM 2021 it is planed to make
Thunderbird more and more a webbased application based on Electron.
I wonder what that means regarding to accessibility in Thunderbird in
general and what graphical mailer will be available for
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:38:03PM +0300, Geoff Shang wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Christian Schoepplein wrote:
>
>> I unfortunatly have to use Debian in a virtual machine on a Windows 10
>> system. The virtualitation software I am using is VMware Workstation 15.
>>
&g
Hi Geoff,
Am 05.06.2020 um 15:38 schrieb Geoff Shang:
I also use Debian in VMWare Player 15 under windows 10 for work.
Fortunately, I've not updated to 15.5.5 and I won't now thanks to your
warning.
I've also tested VMware player 15.5.5, unfortunatly with the same bad
result :-(. Its not
Hi Alex,
Am 05.06.2020 um 13:41 schrieb Alex ARNAUD:
If a VMware update broke your sound system, couldn't be easier to
contact them directly?
I will try and ofcourse I tried to find other users that have reported
similar problems with the latest VMware update, but I do not have much
hope
Am 05.06.2020 um 12:36 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 05 juin 2020 12:08:24 +0200, a ecrit:
speech-dispatcher 0.9.0-5+deb10u1
speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins:amd64 0.9.0-5+deb10u1
Ok, so this includes the latest fixes.
Just wondering: did you try
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 12:15:37PM +0300, Всеволод Попов wrote:
>How did you manage to install debian on a vmWare workstation? Each time when I
>tried to do that with the text installer I didn't get any luck. The sound was
>disabled in some point. Right after I started the instalation.
I was
Hi Didier,
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 11:46:17AM +0200, Didier Spaier wrote:
>Maybe OT, but very possibly Qemu does a better job than VMware Workstation 15.
>
>At least its audio is very good, with a choice between several sound cards.
I know Qemu and I use it on other systems to run Windows or
Hi Samuel,
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 10:01:44AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Christian Schoepplein, le ven. 05 juin 2020 09:44:14 +0200, a ecrit:
>> the sound output and therefore also the speech output is stucking. It
>> sounds like the system is under heavy load and speech i
Hi Sebastian,
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 10:50:31AM +0200, Sebastian Humenda wrote:
>Christian Schoepplein schrieb am 05.06.2020, 9:44 +0200:
>>I unfortunatly have to use Debian in a virtual machine on a Windows 10
>>system. The virtualitation software I am using is VMware
Hi,
I unfortunatly have to use Debian in a virtual machine on a Windows 10
system. The virtualitation software I am using is VMware Workstation 15.
Since the latest update of VMware Workstation to the version 15.5.5 the
sound output and therefore also the speech output is stucking. It sounds
On Mon, July 15, 2019 11:45 pm, dhof...@att.net wrote:
> I notice in Debian 10.0 32 bit that when accessing the Mate desktop
> Terminal
> through the menu system that the terminal comes up but not in focus. I
> have to use the Alt plus tab key to get focus. Is this normal? --
I can confirm this
Hi Samuel,
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 05:45:55AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
>Samuel:
>
>I just want to thank you for many critical contributions to Linux
>accessibility over the past 15 years or more, and especially for your
>contributions to Speakup.
+1! Also a big THANKS from me. I am using
and its the only solution without
removing pulse...
Cheers,
Schoepp
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board shortcut?
Regards from Munich,
Schoepp
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that solves this issues.
Ciao,
Schoepp
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essibility for Debian, and a special big thanks to you, Samuel!
Ciao,
Christian
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ach. I use lxc very ofthen for my daily work to test
and setup new services in our server environment'.
Ciao,
Schoepp
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Hi,
BTW., I'd like to give GNOME3 a try. But because I need my machine for
daily work it would be interesting if I can install the gnome packages
without making my MATE environment unuseable. Is this working?
Ciao,
Christian
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Hi,
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 09:56:00PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
>Samuel Thibault writes:
>
>> Cyril Brulebois, on Sat 21 May 2016 23:13:17 +0200, wrote:
>>> * brltty:
>>> - Install MATE desktop by default when brltty is used in d-i.
>>> * espeakup:
>>> - Install
also use Tesseract if FindReader is
>> missing, but in such case, it will be free.
>>
>> Would some users interested by such solution? I "like" it as it
>> introduces OCR on GNU/Linux and enable some unusual users to come.
>> Waiting for a full "libre" solution, accessible for such people.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>
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tput in both worlds...
Thanks and all the best from Munich,
Christian
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t the prefered way to run
both services, but it is working fine and I do not have any latencies in
speech output anywhere...
@Halim: Would you describe more detailed your setup with alsa please?
Wich steps did you perform after a fresh installation of Debian?
Cheers,
Schoepp
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:
>Christian Schoepplein <ch...@schoeppi.net> writes:
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:33:41AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>>As discussed during DebConf15, we target enabling the accessibility
>>>stack by default. I've studied that a bit more, here are my thought
changes volume for mplayer and leaves the
system volume alone.
Just put the setting
softvol=1
into your ~/.mplayer/config file, then the internal softmixer of mplayer
is used and you can change volume indipendently from your systemwide
sound settings.
Regards,
Christian
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