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Will my programs make you fluent in Hebrew? How long will it take? What’s the best way?
Forget about fluency. It’s not a switch you flip—it’s a journey.
I’ve spoken English since I was 4, run a business in it, and am even married to an English speaker. Am I fluent? No idea. And it doesn’t matter.
Fluency isn’t about never making mistakes. It’s about progress.
The real magic?
✅ Understanding more conversations
✅ Ordering in Hebrew with confidence
✅ Building relationships & new opportunitiesFocus on small wins. Find a method that keeps you moving forward. Enjoy the process. That’s what makes Hebrew part of your life! 💙
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Will my programs make you fluent in Hebrew? How long will it take? What’s the best way?
Forget about fluency. It’s not a switch you flip—it’s a journey.
I’ve spoken English since I was 4, run a business in it, and am even married to an English speaker. Am I fluent? No idea. And it doesn’t matter.
Fluency isn’t about never making mistakes. It’s about progress.
The real magic?
✅ Understanding more conversations
✅ Ordering in Hebrew with confidence
✅ Building relationships & new opportunitiesFocus on small wins. Find a method that keeps you moving forward. Enjoy the process. That’s what makes Hebrew part of your life! 💙
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Will my programs make you fluent in Hebrew? How long will it take? What’s the best way?
Forget about fluency. It’s not a switch you flip—it’s a journey.
I’ve spoken English since I was 4, run a business in it, and am even married to an English speaker. Am I fluent? No idea. And it doesn’t matter.
Fluency isn’t about never making mistakes. It’s about progress.
The real magic?
✅ Understanding more conversations
✅ Ordering in Hebrew with confidence
✅ Building relationships & new opportunitiesFocus on small wins. Find a method that keeps you moving forward. Enjoy the process. That’s what makes Hebrew part of your life! 💙
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🛑 If a country like #Ukraine can be abandoned, despite the strategic consequences that will shape the next decades or even century…why do universities, organizations or nations still believe there’s even the slightest hesitation to flip the “kill switch” on their Azure, Google Cloud, or Salesforce environment?
🚨 Do we all fully grasp the sheer contempt and hate that Musk and his circle hold for education and the so-called “leftist woke-mind-virus” science?
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In the words of Fatboy Slim, "we've come a long long way together." Here, @miaq breaks down Flipboard's federation journey so far.
"We could [federate Flipboard] with a quick flip of the switch but we’ve chosen to act more intentionally," she writes. "We’re taking measured steps to test, learn, and ensure that everything we’re doing stays true to our values and those of the fediverse. Maintaining quality is top of the list."
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/federation-timeline/
#Federation #Fediverse #Flipboard #FediCurious #ActivityPub #Publishing #Media #Technology #MastodonMigration #Mastodon
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Oop – I am experiencing a bug on the iOS 16.3 RC where, when the mute switch is off, my alert volume gets louder as my main volume is turned down.
And vice versa – when I go all the way up, alerts get quieter 😅
Only way to fix it is to play different audio (and flip the mute switch).
Filed as FB11962599 with attached video demoing it happen.
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Stocks fall despite Fed intervention, dragging tech shares down once again - On a day that saw the U.S. Federal Reserve try to flip the only switch it can to light up investor c... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/UqeqRqPdYm4/ #constructionsoftware #softwareasaservice #construction #unitedstates #techcrunch #robinhood #bessemer #software #butcher #procore #uber #tc
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Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the #ArabSpring Fueled a Global #Surveillance Boom
For #activists , #journalists , & everyday users, that means now living with a constant threat: the phone in your pocket, the platforms you organize on, and the systems you rely on for safety and connection can be #weaponized at the flip of a switch. A global surveillance industry has treated repression by many #MENA governments as a growth opportunity, …now shape digital authoritarianism
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Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the #ArabSpring Fueled a Global #Surveillance Boom
For #activists , #journalists , & everyday users, that means now living with a constant threat: the phone in your pocket, the platforms you organize on, and the systems you rely on for safety and connection can be #weaponized at the flip of a switch. A global surveillance industry has treated repression by many #MENA governments as a growth opportunity, …now shape digital authoritarianism
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Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the #ArabSpring Fueled a Global #Surveillance Boom
For #activists , #journalists , & everyday users, that means now living with a constant threat: the phone in your pocket, the platforms you organize on, and the systems you rely on for safety and connection can be #weaponized at the flip of a switch. A global surveillance industry has treated repression by many #MENA governments as a growth opportunity, …now shape digital authoritarianism
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Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the #ArabSpring Fueled a Global #Surveillance Boom
For #activists , #journalists , & everyday users, that means now living with a constant threat: the phone in your pocket, the platforms you organize on, and the systems you rely on for safety and connection can be #weaponized at the flip of a switch. A global surveillance industry has treated repression by many #MENA governments as a growth opportunity, …now shape digital authoritarianism
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Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the #ArabSpring Fueled a Global #Surveillance Boom
For #activists , #journalists , & everyday users, that means now living with a constant threat: the phone in your pocket, the platforms you organize on, and the systems you rely on for safety and connection can be #weaponized at the flip of a switch. A global surveillance industry has treated repression by many #MENA governments as a growth opportunity, …now shape digital authoritarianism
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Some people use "Therapy Speak" as a weapon to minimize deep work. It is the classic "Pot calling the kettle black."
When someone attacks you for working on yourself, it is usually a sign of their own internal friction. It is much easier to bully a stranger than it is to look in the mirror.
This online harassment is just a symptom of a dysregulated system.
When the internal "Hardware" is fried by stress, everything feels like a threat. They aren't really talking about you. They are showing you that their own wires are crossed.
Don't let their noise flip your master switch. Everything I build is rooted in Self-Respect. That is the only way to move from surviving to thriving.
Keep your internal world clear. That is how we multiply harmony.
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Some people use "Therapy Speak" as a weapon to minimize deep work. It is the classic "Pot calling the kettle black."
When someone attacks you for working on yourself, it is usually a sign of their own internal friction. It is much easier to bully a stranger than it is to look in the mirror.
This online harassment is just a symptom of a dysregulated system.
When the internal "Hardware" is fried by stress, everything feels like a threat. They aren't really talking about you. They are showing you that their own wires are crossed.
Don't let their noise flip your master switch. Everything I build is rooted in Self-Respect. That is the only way to move from surviving to thriving.
Keep your internal world clear. That is how we multiply harmony.
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Some people use "Therapy Speak" as a weapon to minimize deep work. It is the classic "Pot calling the kettle black."
When someone attacks you for working on yourself, it is usually a sign of their own internal friction. It is much easier to bully a stranger than it is to look in the mirror.
This online harassment is just a symptom of a dysregulated system.
When the internal "Hardware" is fried by stress, everything feels like a threat. They aren't really talking about you. They are showing you that their own wires are crossed.
Don't let their noise flip your master switch. Everything I build is rooted in Self-Respect. That is the only way to move from surviving to thriving.
Keep your internal world clear. That is how we multiply harmony.
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Some people use "Therapy Speak" as a weapon to minimize deep work. It is the classic "Pot calling the kettle black."
When someone attacks you for working on yourself, it is usually a sign of their own internal friction. It is much easier to bully a stranger than it is to look in the mirror.
This online harassment is just a symptom of a dysregulated system.
When the internal "Hardware" is fried by stress, everything feels like a threat. They aren't really talking about you. They are showing you that their own wires are crossed.
Don't let their noise flip your master switch. Everything I build is rooted in Self-Respect. That is the only way to move from surviving to thriving.
Keep your internal world clear. That is how we multiply harmony.
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Some people use "Therapy Speak" as a weapon to minimize deep work. It is the classic "Pot calling the kettle black."
When someone attacks you for working on yourself, it is usually a sign of their own internal friction. It is much easier to bully a stranger than it is to look in the mirror.
This online harassment is just a symptom of a dysregulated system.
When the internal "Hardware" is fried by stress, everything feels like a threat. They aren't really talking about you. They are showing you that their own wires are crossed.
Don't let their noise flip your master switch. Everything I build is rooted in Self-Respect. That is the only way to move from surviving to thriving.
Keep your internal world clear. That is how we multiply harmony.
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#20yrago UK anti-piracy officer assures Firefox she’ll catch the pirates who copy it https://web.archive.org/web/20060511105535/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2051196,00.html
#20yrsago Diane Duane vows to finish trilogy as a reader-supported web-book https://web.archive.org/web/20060630094910/http://outofambit.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_outofambit_archive.html#114069083471800451
#15yrago Order of Odd-Fish, a funny, mannered, hilariously weird epic romp https://memex.craphound.com/2011/02/23/order-of-odd-fish-a-funny-mannered-hilariously-weird-epic-romp/
#15yrsago HOWTO make a batpole flip-top bust switch https://web.archive.org/web/20110218013400/https://www.thenewhobbyist.com/2011/02/wireless-light-switch-or-bust/
#15yrsago Travel guide for American invalids, 1887 https://web.archive.org/web/20110225235315/http://www.butifandthat.com/guide-for-invalids/
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CW: Long thread/4
#20yrago UK anti-piracy officer assures Firefox she’ll catch the pirates who copy it https://web.archive.org/web/20060511105535/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2051196,00.html
#20yrsago Diane Duane vows to finish trilogy as a reader-supported web-book https://web.archive.org/web/20060630094910/http://outofambit.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_outofambit_archive.html#114069083471800451
#15yrago Order of Odd-Fish, a funny, mannered, hilariously weird epic romp https://memex.craphound.com/2011/02/23/order-of-odd-fish-a-funny-mannered-hilariously-weird-epic-romp/
#15yrsago HOWTO make a batpole flip-top bust switch https://web.archive.org/web/20110218013400/https://www.thenewhobbyist.com/2011/02/wireless-light-switch-or-bust/
#15yrsago Travel guide for American invalids, 1887 https://web.archive.org/web/20110225235315/http://www.butifandthat.com/guide-for-invalids/
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CW: Long thread/4
#20yrago UK anti-piracy officer assures Firefox she’ll catch the pirates who copy it https://web.archive.org/web/20060511105535/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2051196,00.html
#20yrsago Diane Duane vows to finish trilogy as a reader-supported web-book https://web.archive.org/web/20060630094910/http://outofambit.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_outofambit_archive.html#114069083471800451
#15yrago Order of Odd-Fish, a funny, mannered, hilariously weird epic romp https://memex.craphound.com/2011/02/23/order-of-odd-fish-a-funny-mannered-hilariously-weird-epic-romp/
#15yrsago HOWTO make a batpole flip-top bust switch https://web.archive.org/web/20110218013400/https://www.thenewhobbyist.com/2011/02/wireless-light-switch-or-bust/
#15yrsago Travel guide for American invalids, 1887 https://web.archive.org/web/20110225235315/http://www.butifandthat.com/guide-for-invalids/
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CW: Long thread/4
#20yrago UK anti-piracy officer assures Firefox she’ll catch the pirates who copy it https://web.archive.org/web/20060511105535/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2051196,00.html
#20yrsago Diane Duane vows to finish trilogy as a reader-supported web-book https://web.archive.org/web/20060630094910/http://outofambit.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_outofambit_archive.html#114069083471800451
#15yrago Order of Odd-Fish, a funny, mannered, hilariously weird epic romp https://memex.craphound.com/2011/02/23/order-of-odd-fish-a-funny-mannered-hilariously-weird-epic-romp/
#15yrsago HOWTO make a batpole flip-top bust switch https://web.archive.org/web/20110218013400/https://www.thenewhobbyist.com/2011/02/wireless-light-switch-or-bust/
#15yrsago Travel guide for American invalids, 1887 https://web.archive.org/web/20110225235315/http://www.butifandthat.com/guide-for-invalids/
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CW: Long thread/4
#20yrago UK anti-piracy officer assures Firefox she’ll catch the pirates who copy it https://web.archive.org/web/20060511105535/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2051196,00.html
#20yrsago Diane Duane vows to finish trilogy as a reader-supported web-book https://web.archive.org/web/20060630094910/http://outofambit.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_outofambit_archive.html#114069083471800451
#15yrago Order of Odd-Fish, a funny, mannered, hilariously weird epic romp https://memex.craphound.com/2011/02/23/order-of-odd-fish-a-funny-mannered-hilariously-weird-epic-romp/
#15yrsago HOWTO make a batpole flip-top bust switch https://web.archive.org/web/20110218013400/https://www.thenewhobbyist.com/2011/02/wireless-light-switch-or-bust/
#15yrsago Travel guide for American invalids, 1887 https://web.archive.org/web/20110225235315/http://www.butifandthat.com/guide-for-invalids/
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Whimsical Outdoor Art Structure by Debra Martz
The #EnchantedHighway in #NorthDakota begins at I-94’s exit 72 and covers 32 miles along County Highway 21, ending in #Regent. We were traveling south to north, so the first structure for us was actually considered the last one in Regent, next to the souvenir shop. With the flip of a switch, all the items in this "house" begin to move.https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/whimsical-outdoor-art-structure-debra-martz.html
#whimsical #fun #sculptures #metalart #photography #PhotographyIsArt #BuyIntoArt #WallArt
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Whimsical Outdoor Art Structure by Debra Martz
The #EnchantedHighway in #NorthDakota begins at I-94’s exit 72 and covers 32 miles along County Highway 21, ending in #Regent. We were traveling south to north, so the first structure for us was actually considered the last one in Regent, next to the souvenir shop. With the flip of a switch, all the items in this "house" begin to move.https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/whimsical-outdoor-art-structure-debra-martz.html
#whimsical #fun #sculptures #metalart #photography #PhotographyIsArt #BuyIntoArt #WallArt
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Whimsical Outdoor Art Structure by Debra Martz
The #EnchantedHighway in #NorthDakota begins at I-94’s exit 72 and covers 32 miles along County Highway 21, ending in #Regent. We were traveling south to north, so the first structure for us was actually considered the last one in Regent, next to the souvenir shop. With the flip of a switch, all the items in this "house" begin to move.https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/whimsical-outdoor-art-structure-debra-martz.html
#whimsical #fun #sculptures #metalart #photography #PhotographyIsArt #BuyIntoArt #WallArt
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Whimsical Outdoor Art Structure by Debra Martz
The #EnchantedHighway in #NorthDakota begins at I-94’s exit 72 and covers 32 miles along County Highway 21, ending in #Regent. We were traveling south to north, so the first structure for us was actually considered the last one in Regent, next to the souvenir shop. With the flip of a switch, all the items in this "house" begin to move.https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/whimsical-outdoor-art-structure-debra-martz.html
#whimsical #fun #sculptures #metalart #photography #PhotographyIsArt #BuyIntoArt #WallArt
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In the period of 48hrs, the #Trump family’s net worth surged by billions, based on holdings of its just-launched #DigitalAssets, underscoring the #unregulated nature of #cryptocurrencies & Trump’s ability to use his fame, power & partnership w/the industry to enrich himself, his family & his allies at the flip of a switch.
…#Crypto industry leaders & investors emerged as some of Trump’s biggest supporters in the campaign in an effort to #influence future #policies & to ease #regulations….
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Relaxation techniques using breathing and dissociation
“Did you know you’re the boss of your body.
Can I borrow your imagination?
Imagine there’s a wire from your arm to your brain?
What colour is it?
In your brain there’s a switch.
What colour is it?
When your ready flip the white switch and turn your arm off
What does it feel like?”
Don’t forget to switch the arm back on!
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Well I'm excessively proud of this so I'll share it here:
We bond microfluidic chips by heating them in a lab oven for a couple hours, and I’m too lazy to go back to the lab to turn off the oven (or ask someone else to do it for me), so I made a little Arduino-powered "oven turner offer" that uses a servo to flip the power switch after a user-specified amount of time. Code available here: https://github.com/groverlab/oven_timer/ #arduino #microfluidic
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Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro: Build Guide And Setup Ft. Forbidden OpenWRT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6f_sJP-0ZE
Back in 2024 Banana Pi sent over their BPI-R4 and I spent a few days sorting out how to get OpenWRT up and running on it. For the most part things technically functioned, and two years later it’s matured into a solid DIY router board with full OpenWRT support.
Welp, Banana Pi is back with an upgraded version sporting quad 2.5 gigabit, dual 10 gig copper/fibre for LAN and WAN, and a lonely 1 gigabit port for old times’ sake. Better yet, there’s a USB-C serial port on the back so I don’t have to go digging through the cable bin for a UART adapter.
Unfortunately it’s only been on the market for seven-ish months, so we’re still quite a ways out from having OpenWRT support. But that’s not going to stop me from downloading HackedUpTechDemoWRT™ from Banana Pi and slinging a couple of databits through it.
You know, for science.
HARDWARE
Under the hood there’s the same quad core Arm Cortex-A73 MediaTek MT7988A found in the BPI-R4, but the RAM has been bumped to 8 GB. You also get three M.2 B key slots for 4 & 5G modules, plus two M.2 M key slots for NVMe drives.
And there’s a new case. It’s like the old one, but bigger.
FORBIDDEN OPENWRT
I can’t stress this enough, the version of OpenWRT from Banana Pi is not something you want running your home network. Banana Pi is in the business of making SBCs, not assembling and maintaining secure builds of OpenWRT.
What’s available on Google Drive should be treated as a tech demo to verify hardware functionality, nothing more.
EMMC INSTALL
With that said, let’s get it installed to eMMC by booting from an SD card, installing to NAND, then booting from NAND and installing to eMMC.
Up first, grab the *.zip from Google Drive, extract the zips inside the zip, and write the SD image to an SD card. Then flip both DIP switches to the down position and pop in it the back.
Now format a USB flash drive as FAT32, create two directories, EMMC and NAND, and copy over the contents of the EMMC and SNAND folders to the newly created directories on the USB flash drive. Then slide that business into a USB hole.
Time to stab the BPI-R4 Pro with a USB-C cable, crack open a copy of minicom, set the serial device to ttyACM0, and apply the electrons.
First up, is mounting the USB flash drive.
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt ; cd /mnt/NANDTrack down where NAND is hanging out.
cat /proc/mtdMine is on mtd3, so let’s go ahead and erase it.
mtd erase /dev/mtd3Write the image to NAND.
mtd write *.bin /dev/mtd3Power down the system, flip the dips to 1 up and 2 down and reapply the electrons.
Back at the console, mount the USB flash drive.
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt ; cd /mnt/EMMCDisable the write protection on an eMMC boot partition.
echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0boot0/force_roWrite the preloader.
dd if=BPI-R4Pro-8X-MT76-emmc-preloader.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0boot0Write the image.
dd if=BPI-R4Pro-8X-BE14-MT76-OpenWRT24.10-DSA-emmc-251229.img of=/dev/mmcblk0All that’s left to do is enable booting from the eMMC partition.
mmc bootpart enable 1 1 /dev/mmcblk0Power down and one more trip to the dips. This time it’s 1 down and 2 up.
Reapply the electrons, and after a bit of a wait you’ll boot into Forbidden OpenWRT running from eMMC.
LUCI WEB INTERFACE
Here we’re logged into LuCI, and short and sweet: we can see the 8 GB of memory, and 300 MB out of the 8 GB of eMMC is available. But it does see the NVMe drive I snuck in there, so there’s that.
Ports are porting, and it looks like the 2G, 5G, and 6G radios are up. Neat.
Outside of that, not much to poke at, because there’s zero chance I’m running forbidden OpenWRT on my network.
IPERF3 SPEED TESTS
I wanted to sling some databits through this critter, so I used iperf3 with the
--bidirflag. Hardly scientific, but it at least lets me know if the ports are working.All of the 2.5 gig ports came up Milhouse, with 2.3 on the send and 2.2 on the receive.
Both the 10 gig copper and fibre ports were a bit of a mess, with 9.2 on the send and 5.0 on the way back. Don’t know what’s going on here, flapping?
THERMALS AND POWER
I tried my darndest to cook the MediaTek SoC using stress-ng, but even with the passive cooler I couldn’t get it to crack 55 C under load.
And electron vampirism is about what you would expect from an SBC with 7 RJ45 ports, two SFP+, and a WiFi 7 card attached. Around 11 W at idle and just a smidge over 13 W under load.
DISK SPEED
If you’re wondering what 1 lane of PCIe 3.0 attached to an NVMe looks like, it tops out at around 800 MB/s, which is a little under the theoretical max of ~985 MB/s. But come on, this is a router.
VERDICT
The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro reminds me a lot of the Radxa Orion O6 and Orange Pi 6 Plus. It is a piece of fantastically neat, powerful hardware with absolutely no software to take advantage of it. It is the kind of board you unbox, tinker with for an afternoon, pack away, and set a calendar reminder to check back on in a year.
Alright, I shouldn’t say there is absolutely no software. Frank has a nice version of Debian 13 you can build, but nobody’s dropping BPI-R4 Pro money just to run standard Debian.
I’ll be keeping an eye on the OpenWRT pull request because this critter has the potential to become the single most no kill like overkill router I’ve ever owned. Once things are in a workable state I want to circle back, swap out the MikroTik 4011 in the studio, and somehow convince this critter to host my community x86 Trackmania server… while also doing the router thing.
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