copy-selection(CLIPBOARD)
… is simpler.
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hw (12024-01-31):
> Well, I doubt it.
Well, doubt it all you want. In the meantime, we will continue to use
it.
Did not read the rest, not interested in red herring nightmare
scenarios.
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hw (12024-01-30):
> Yes, and how much effort and how reliable is doing that?
Very little effort and probably more reliable than hardware RAID with
closed-source hardware.
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hw (12024-01-29):
> Ok in that case, hardware RAID is a requirement for machines with UEFI
That is not true, you can still put the RAID in a partition and keep the
boot partitions in sync manually or with scripts.
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p is called. That is
almost what I want, but the small gap is blocking: cryptsetup might ask
for the password several times (if the user types it wrong), and the
sound must be played again too in that case.
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asked directly. I
wrote to this list in the small hope of having an answer from somebody
competent who knows what about the issue.
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ord is
asked”?
In fact, what relation do you see between a timer and cryptsetup asking
for a password?
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Curt (12024-01-26):
> I guess a systemd timer unit constitutes a hack.
A systemd timer in the initrd? Can you elaborate?
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and the EFI partition
just contains the data.
Of course, it only works with RAID1, where the data on disk is the data
in RAID.
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nice to
propose I think.
Thanks.
1: No need to suggest I can hack the initrd to replace askpass by a
script that plays the sound before running the real askpass, I already
thought of it. I would like something robust, avoid hacks.
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> This layout was invented by Matthew J. Garrett for Fedora and is still
> the most bootable of all possible weird ways to present boot stuff for
> legacy BIOS and EFI on USB stick in the same image.
I think I invented independently something similar.
https://nsup.org/~george/comp/live_iso_usb/grub_hybrid.html
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size=30712, type=lvm
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Tim Woodall (12024-01-26):
> Until your UEFI bios writes to the disk before the system has booted.
Hi. Have you ever observed an UEFI firmware doing that? Without explicit
admin instructions?
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FI
└─LVM
It is rather ugly to have the same device be both a RAID with its
superblock in the hole between GPT and first partition and the GPT in
the hole before the RAID superblock, but it serves its purpose: the EFI
partition is kept in sync over all devices.
It still requires setting the non-volatile variables, though.
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should it be investigated?
Do you believe it used to work? To the better of my knowledge it never
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to rescue boot from.
Looks you are confusing RAID with backups. Yes, OS can be reinstalled,
but that still makes “a nominal amount of time” during which your
computer is not available.
Your “spare” SSD would be more usefully used in a RAID array than
corroding on your shelves.
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nd that's that.
If the SSD dies, your system does not boot. Somewhat wasting the benefit
of RAID.
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booting the
system (inside the LVM) inside the RAID inside the partition.
Which leads me to wonder if there is an automated way to install GRUB on
all the EFI partitions.
The manual way is not that bad, but automated would be nice.
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Franco Martelli (12024-01-19):
> > One case against using partitions on mdraid: if your array gets messed
> > up, you get to recreate those partition tables yourself and that's just
> > hilarious if you don't have a backup. Happened to a friend of mine,
> > reason was a UPS brownout.
> How can I ge
Nicholas Geovanis (12024-01-15):
> In your dd commands that moved these filesystems, did you specify ibs=
> and/or obs=
> ?
> If so, what values did you use?
Why do you ask this information? How do you think it will be useful?
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Hi.
Andy Smith (12024-01-13):
> As usual you have not bothered to show us what you are talking about
> (the email from smartd)
And that leads you to write a patient and detailed answer, so surely it
was the best way to proceed.
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xev. Show what you get if you cannot read it.
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lking in excess of 20,000 (not difficult to achieve with
> over 1000 CDs to rip) files here, mixed case, and long file names, all.
Pictures or it did not happen.
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below the
limitations of FAT.
> Even with the smaller sticks, I had to use all upper case, and stick to
> 8.3 names for the files, otherwise the FAT still got overloaded.
What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long
filenames.
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D
CD: just make the script a little
more powerful and it will rip them at the same time.
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ve not been
abandoned, like old geezers like to pretend, but rather has moved to
using solutions that do not suffer the ugly limitations of
implementations in the kernel?
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next
they seek back a few sectors and check that the overlap matches.
But on the other hand, an audio CD can contain up to 807 mega-octets of
audio, compared to only 703 for a data CD.
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orks.
But unless you cannot spare 60 megaoctets somewhere, save yourself a lot
of trouble: just run cdparanoia -B then opusenc and put back the audio
CD at the back of the shelf where it belongs.
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(as I described elsewhere in the thread) and one
to catch URLs in the text, probably urlview (mentioned by somebody
else).
No need to blame Mutt at all.
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stand what is going on.
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out links displayed by “lynx -dump”.
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ing. The graphical web browsers I know are actually very tolerant
of spurious newline characters inserted in pasted URLs, and I suspect it
is on purpose. PDFs from magazines might also have wrapped links.
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Greg Wooledge (12023-12-31):
> Have your browser load THAT file.
Or just have this:
text/html; lynx -force_html -dump %s; copiousoutput
in your .mailcap file. Possibly along with:
auto_view text/html
in the .muttrc.
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observed the new one replaces the old one in the list of
boot options: you might need call efobootmgr manually to set up things
exactly how you want them, using what grub-install did as a reference.
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est”
is a very common word when diagnosing problems.
The best way to deal with that is to ignore the rare honest mistakes and
ban deliberate repeat offenders.
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break their
computer, but that would not be nice to people stumbling upon the
archives (but probably no worse than the average Ubuntu webforum).
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ive interpreter for the
OCaml language accept “let pi = 3.14;;” and output
“val pi : float = 3.”.
Yet, (some) localized functions now exist with a _l variant taking a
locale_t argument, but no such thing exists for timezone.
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the ability to put back everything in place by quitting and
restarting. Now they are losing the concept of multiple users, and they
are also losing the ability to run several independent instances of the
same program.
Desktop environment suck.
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u move to a mail operator that respects
you.
If you cannot do that easily, all the more reason to do it.
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https://www.generation-nt.com/reponses/la-gestion-de-l-heure-sous-linux-entraide-500251.html
I think it might be of interest, and nowadays LLMs can translate it
correctly I guess.
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s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
Or possibly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czgOWmtGVGs
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Greg Wooledge (12023-12-15):
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 01:42:14PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> > Also, note that file names can also contain newlines in general. The
> > only robust delimiter is the NUL character.
>
> True. In order to be 100% safe, the OP's code woul
bust delimiter is the NUL character.
Also, ditch batch. For simple scripts, do standard shell. For complex
scripts and interactive use, zsh rulz:
fndar=(${(f)"$(...)"})
fndar=(${(ps:\0:)"$(...)"})
fndar=(**/*(O))
(I do not think zsh can sort version numbers easily, though.)
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reating proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for
>> org.gtk.vfs.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24)
That means the issue is in the DBus monster moussaka¹. The odds of
finding a solution in the current circumstances are vanishingly thin.
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gt; After removing raid, I completely redesigned my network to be more inline
> with the howtos and other information.
You know that RAID has nothing to do with the setup of your network,
right?
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> Christmas's
> wish :-)
Oh, you mean that. That is not telnet, that comes from the kernel. Even
sleep has this.
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gt; would be a market niche, wouldn't it?
I am not sure what you are saying: telnet does not have a line mode with
readline editing; anything of that kind you observe is on the server
side. socat, OTOH, has.
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net is not bad per se, provided we know
(1) that they happen, (2) if we need them in our use case and (3) how to
turn them off. I guess most people who use telnet as a general network
client do not know either (1) nor (2) nor (3).
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seems to be able to do TCP server.)
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Curt (12023-12-04):
> I think you're buggering yet another fly here.
I think you should read the docs and shut up. I know what I am saying.
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Curt (12023-12-04):
> Telnet doesn't alter the actual data being transmitted
Yes it does, read the doc before posting wrong information here.
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Marco Moock (12023-12-04):
> Is that really the case?
Yes.
> Other applications like telnet or vi don't care about it, so I
> assume(d), it is up to the application to handle it.
Applications can decide to change the mode of the tty or catch SIGINT.
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Marco Moock (12023-12-04):
> ncat also uses ^C to kill the process.
No, this effect of ^C is part of the operating system.
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etwork protocol, you should use a really
transparent client. Traditionally people use netcat (nc), but it handles
EOF approximatively.
For that use, I strongly recommend socat.
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Max Nikulin (12023-11-22):
> Is there a document that describes shell behavior in respect to stdin in
> such cases?
The shell did not eat your stdin here, ssh did.
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Marco Moock (12023-11-22):
> Sorry, not gracious-arp, proxy-arp can be responsible for that.
Thanks for clarifying. But AFAIK, with proxy ARP, the network mask
covers all the networks covered by the proxy. That is not the case here.
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you mean?
On the server, we never enabled an option to accept ARP information that
does not come as a reply to a request from the network stack, if such an
option even exists, so even if such a packet came it should not have
reached the ARP tables.
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Hi.
Since last we have four MAC addresses in the ARP table of a server that
should not be there:
$ ip route
default via XXX.XXX.98.254 dev eth0 onlink
XXX.XXX.96.0/22 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src XXX.XXX.98.94
But:
$ ip neigh | grep -v 'XXX.XXX.9[6789]'
XXX.XXX.103.161 dev eth0 lla
new one as described with '--new --help'.
>
> Unfortunately I'm unable to translate to the new interface.
> Any suggestions?
Hi.
What have you tried?
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input and output, going
directly into operation mode skipping the authentication phase.
That way, if a client supports it, you can connect to a IMAP server
through SSH and a key, for example.
It is a tragedy that not more authenticated protocols do not support the
same thing.
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jeremy ardley (12023-11-14):
> I use Bluemail on android. It claims to do threading though I don't use it.
> Bluemail seems competent.
A quick search for screenshots on the web leads to the conclusion that
no, Bluemail does not do threading, just linear conversation.
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\o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
\o-o-o
I am sad that so few software implement this one.
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Hi.
hlyg (12023-11-09):
> list doesn't seem to accept my mail, because of big attachment i believe
Good, I do not want to receive big attachments from mailing-lists — and
no attachments at all from this one. And I am far from alone in that
aspect.
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signa
to...@tuxteam.de (12023-11-07):
> (note how that one stops short of saying "character special file"?
$ file prog/ffmpeg/libavfilter/buffersrc.h
prog/ffmpeg/libavfilter/buffersrc.h: C source, ASCII text
Do you think this is not a file?
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to...@tuxteam.de (12023-11-07):
> "/dev/zero is not a file"
It is lying.
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David Wright (12023-11-07):
> in white on a red background. I'm not sure what that's meant to demonstrate.
It proves nothing, either for a directory or for a device.
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John Hasler (12023-11-07):
> Try to edit one.
Try to edit /dev/zero.
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John Hasler (12023-11-07):
> On System III directories were files.
On Linux, directories are files.
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al means”. Anyway, I am not interested
in splitting hair about stylistic devices.
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erfect solution.
So all we have to do is trust that the original poster has made the
cost-benefit analysis according to one's own priorities and not try to
convince otherwise.
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ul for performances, but when it comes to I/O, they
them harder.
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people who are dumbing down are the same as people who
are using the metaphoric word instead of the precise one.
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Alexander V. Makartsev (12023-11-03):
> Personally, I don't see the problem, because I was talking to people not
> Unix user interfaces.
You talk TO people ABOUT Unix user interface.
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sical
world, I have *sometimes* seen a folder inside a folder, but a folder
inside a folder inside a folder inside a folder…
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directories are: they do not
contain anything except a list of names and numbers.
Folder is the metaphor, directory is the fact.
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Alexander V. Makartsev (12023-11-02):
> It could be also a limitation or bug of overlayfs since it doesn't have
> locale/iocharset/codepage parameters for mount.
No, it is not: Unix file names are made of octets, not characters.
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d “folder” belongs in the “computers are too complicated
for you so we'll make them guess what you want to do and pretend they're
easy but it's normal if they crash” mentality where we cannot get the
computer to do what you want because it is second-guessing our
instructions: vague and not suited for technical communication.
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y...@vienna.at (12023-11-02):
> > I ear with ARMbian you have to use Docker to build a kernel. That makes
> > a pretty strong “why not ARMbian”.
> No
No what? No Docker is not necessary or no it is not a reason to ditch
armbian?
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s and who knows what else.
More probably because you tried to use it on a non-Unix filesystem (or
even non-Unix system).
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y...@vienna.at (12023-11-02):
> Why not try ARMbian?
I ear with ARMbian you have to use Docker to build a kernel. That makes
a pretty strong “why not ARMbian”.
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Max Nikulin (12023-11-01):
> I am curious if ConfigureWithoutCarrier= and IgnoreCarrierLoss= from
> systemd.network(5) may help.
>
> NetworkManager has a similar option, unfortunately it may be changed
> per-device, not per-connection.
I do not have the time to test it anew. IIRC, when I tried, I
Maybe some parameter for diff or rsync that I missed or another utility?
I doubt it, it is too specific a use case.
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somebody give me the hints that will save me some times in
trial and error to get my head around the logic?
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etwork would get
de-configured if somebody pulled the ethernet cable (and that happens a
lot here!) and rebooted the machine while they were at it, and the NIS
and NFS do not appreciate it much.
I switched to ifupdown and everything worked nicely.
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am looking for.
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h, the original data is
not actually deleted.
I asked a question and somehow it has become my responsibility to
explain things…
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. They only allow to keep the last commits, not decimate them.
> --interactive" it is possible to squash e.g. daily commits into weekly or
> monthly ones. The drawback is that git rebase changes commit hashes.
git rebase is too inefficient for that kind of use.
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john doe (12023-10-06):
> I do not understand why you would want multiple repos, to me this looks
> like this would fit the bill for a Git branching workflow.
Please elaborate. How do you work around the fact that Git is terrible
at removing data with a single repository?
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of existing packages in Debian that could make my
work easier?
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an
use rsync or anything I want to do the transfer. Add Tinc to get a
stable reachable IP.
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es that will be of use for you are “bridge_ports none”
and “post-up ip link set dev wlan* master”.
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Michel Verdier (12023-09-24):
> This one is easy : bash read /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc.
Only for interactive shells. There are no interactive shells in the
ancestry of your desktop environment if you log from a display manager.
If it was so easy, the OP would have found it.
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describes breaks Google's terms of use is the
same.
Now, if your interrogation is whether we think you would get away with
it. Well, as it is roughly equivalent to asking if I think you are
smarter than the people at Google, I will respectfully decline to
answer.
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. And they have detection: please only do this on a computer
and network access when you will be the only one inconvenienced when
they block your access. It happened on a computer I co-administrate.
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Stanislav Vlasov (12023-08-24):
> Sometimes it's unexpected :-)
Then the shell prints an error and I try again. Still less time wasted
than these two mails.
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Stanislav Vlasov (12023-08-24):
> With a really large amount of files there will be overflow of process
> environment (or too large cmdline).
If I expect a very large amount of files, I can use it another way.
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;*"
ls **/*(N@-@)
Zsh rulz.
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ceive orphaned
files. A lost+found directory elsewhere… is just a directory with a
wacky name.
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ost+found is for?
If not, please read some documentation about it. The explanation of its
function contains the answer to the question I left quoted above.
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Kamil Jońca (12023-08-04):
> Where text console can be configured?
> Recently I got laptop with debian installed. I wanted to log in into
> text console but Ctrl-Alt-F1 does nothing - it seems that lightdm(?)
> started at first console.
Have you tried Ctrl-Alt-F2?
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