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2:07 PM
@Polynomial reminds me of some old cyberpunk dystopia, can't put my finger on it. Somewhere between Carmageddon and The Matrix.
 
2:20 PM
@lynks very much The Matrix in my eyes
 
@Polynomial I've never managed to figure out why I had so much deja-vu when I originally watched the matrix, for a while I genuinely believed I had seen it before.
but I watched it when it was new...
 
why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here.
 
@RohanDurve-Decode141
 
@RohanDurve-Decode141 what is the matrix.
 
hello to everybody.would somebody know what happens when we configure FireFox as it use proxy what happens? and also how can I make such a proxy server?
 
2:27 PM
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@lynks ^ The matrix :D
 
@HamZa I prefer the identity matrix
 
hi @HamZa (-:
 
any size will do.
 
@imsiso hello there
 
@HamZa - what shoud I ask here you gave me this link.
 
2:29 PM
@HamZa There is no hidden message, this is just a result of a loop & mt_rand()
@imsiso I would search through the site about proxies. Maybe there are some useful links ...
 
with a proxy like a thing that happens when we use freegate
 
@imsiso are you sure you mean to use firefox as a proxy, or to use firefox with a proxy?
 
Yeah, I've noticed that. But you can improve it in the long term...
Do you know any other language ? Because StackExchange is only in english
 
Persian (Farsi)
 
No, let me explain this lol ...
He want to use firefox with a proxy. But he doesn't want a webbased one. Basically he wants to setup his own proxy outside of his country and use it. Now he doesn't have a vps/dedicated and he wants to use a shared hosting.
 
2:35 PM
@HamZa - no I said I can understand things easily just cant talk and right so good. (-:
 
@imsiso oh, well I can't speak it too very good. So we're on the same boat :D
 
@imsiso the easiest thing to do would be to install ToR, that will generally address any problems you are trying to solve with a proxy.
 
@HamZa - where are you from?
 
@imsiso Someone who was in north africa and ended up somewhere in europe :p
@lynks Tor is awfully slow, he wants some speed ...
 
yap
 
2:39 PM
@HamZa depends on the circuit...
 
@lynks what's the chance to get on the right circuit ?
 
I dint need any security or configuration
 
Also, I think his internet connection is also damn slow
 
there are loads of proxies out there. squid, polipo, tinyproxy.
@HamZa you can request a new circuit as often as you like.
alternatively you could just set up ipsec or pptp rather than an application proxy.
 
128kb is called but it get sometimes faster and most times slower.(-:
 
2:41 PM
@lynks I was thinking about a VPN for 5$ ?
 
@HamZa why pay? amazon nodes are free and more than capable
 
@lynks WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ? Is amazon freeee ?
 
It is possible to get a free, albeit limited, amazon node for free for a limited time.
 
@HamZa 1 micro node, 1 year for free
 
and I think freegate and other things are slow for me and also disconnects sometimes
 
2:43 PM
I like my Linode though. :P
Btw, is it common to have a 2FA system where the 2nd factor is a one time password appended to the normal password?
 
thanks to everybody for spend time for me.
 
@TerryChia Securid does something simliar where your 2nd factor is a PIN+code
 
Well maybe it's more than enough 1 node :p
 
simple please a simple way without security or encoding or multiservers or ...
 
@ScottPack Yeah that, RedHat uses something similar for their webmail access.
 
2:45 PM
@TerryChia That would be in addition to your password, though.
Otherwise it's just a different factor, not a second.
 
@imsiso aws.amazon.com, 1 micro node is free for a year, install squid, configure firefox.
 
HEY are you talking about my problem cause Im mixing up would somebody tell me whats going on?
 
@ScottPack Well, my webmail password is "PIN I configured + HOTP I get through Google Authenticator app"
 
what should I do now?
 
@LucasKauffman So does the penis kilt come with its own sporran?
 
2:49 PM
3 mins ago, by lynks
@imsiso aws.amazon.com, 1 micro node is free for a year, install squid, configure firefox.
 
its about a minute im waiting for amazon to load .
 
@imsiso :( what problem are you trying to solve by using a proxy?
there might be another way
 
Thank got Linode has a web console..... I reformatted my computer without backing up my SSH key.
 
filtering and also country banning .most filtering.
 
@imsiso are you on windows?
 
2:54 PM
I cant see some sites like some music sites games sites and also some lesson and learning sites
yes
 
Wow lots of ppl
 
ppl?
 
@imsiso Yo dawg, would you like a site so you can site while you site?
 
people
sound it out
 
@Simon oh god the confusion that is going to come from that. His english is not great.
 
2:56 PM
Oops.
 
@imsiso I would again highly recommend that you use ToR.
 
@Simon I need a fast proxy.
 
@imsiso ToR will not slow down a connection that is already very slow.
 
Sanity check. I don't think there is any problem with storing VirtualBox virtual disk in a common partition and accessing it from both Windows and Linux right?
 
@lynks would you give me a link to download? I can't search it (easily)
 
@lynks Ummm bleh
 
that is the bridge version, specifically configured to use bridges
@TerryChia no problem, just dont use it from more than one place simultaneously. :P
@TerryChia oh wait. I dont know if VirtualBox on windows keeps bookeeping information outside the virtual hdd file...
@Griffin BLEERRGGHHHH
 
downloading 18%
 
@ScottPack yes it hangs between the weener and your balls
 
@imsiso ahh wait! dont use that one. use this one --> torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/tor-browser-2.3.25-10_en-US.exe
 
3:01 PM
@lynks Potato time!!!!
 
@imsiso sorry I misread the description on the site.
 
@LucasKauffman Does the kilt go around the testes or the shaft?
 
@imsiso what is your native language?
 
@LucasKauffman What the fuck? I just remembered that I dreamed you twitted something to me in French. Why are you corrupting my dream world?
 
Persian (Farsi)
 
3:02 PM
@imsiso hmm, nope can't switch to that. Speak French? Chinese?
 
I know french as much as say :'excuzemua non'
 
@imsiso haha ok, we will stick with english.
 
talk English silvouple
 
LOL
 
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Q: UFO CTF 2013: July 19-21, 2013, 18:00 (UTC+4)

TildalWaveThis is an announcement for the upcoming UFO CTF 2013 that starts on July 19th, 2013 at 18:00 (UTC+4) and lasts 48 hours. The CTF will be in a Jeopardy format. All members of our Sec.SE CTF Team mark your calendars! Warning! Our planet is in great danger, 19.07.13 18.00 UTC + 4 The Earth...

 
3:04 PM
I shouldn't be laughing.
 
@lynks Potato me baby.
 
@Simon Sale vicelard :p
 
are theses related to me?
 
@HamZa vicelard?!? I wasn't born in France, I don't know their weird words.
 
@Gilles I've also updated the SIGINT CTF post with results ;)
 
3:06 PM
@Simon but, do you speak french è_O ?
 
Im not French. why we don't talk English?
 
@HamZa Yes but there are a lot of differences between French Canadian and French from France.
 
@HamZa are you French?
 
@imsiso I'm not french either :p
 
You'll never hear someone say vicelard here, unless his name is @ThomasPornin
 
3:07 PM
@Simon Hmmm I see
 
ok one news the download finished but its cropped
I should download it again
 
@Simon give me a phrase in (canadian) french, I want to know if I could understand it
 
@Simon How could lard ever be a vice? I always thought it was a virtue.
 
@Simon @lynks Refuses to potato me. Will you?
 
@Simon Even though, it won't happen, because I am enormously well educated.
 
3:09 PM
@ThomasPornin Is it true that you have a second account on Sec SE ?
 
@HamZa It is.
 
@ThomasPornin Is "well educated" a euphemism?
 
@ThomasPornin Is there a reason behind it that you could enlighten me with ?
 
is Pornin=Po.rning?
 
@HamZa The roots of the language are the same but expressions are different.
 
3:10 PM
@Simon daccord (<-- understanble ?)
 
@ScottPack No, although it would also work.
 
@HamZa Of course.
 
@HamZa I could do it. So I did.
 
@Thomas is Pornin=Po.rning? or its your family?
 
Thomassssss
 
3:11 PM
@Simon Because I am just that way. I love corrupting young Canadians in their dreams. I'm a bit like Freddy Krueger that way
 
@ThomasPornin That sounds unbearable.
 
@ThomasPornin lol
@Simon haha ok
 
@ScottPack Perhaps you should go to France and tell them.
 
I feel ignored </3
 
How else can one make biscuits if not with lard?
 
3:11 PM
@Griffin @HamZa gives a hug to @Griffin
 
@imsiso it's only a google search away ;)
 
its better I be quite for a while because I don't know whats going on here.|-:
 
@ThomasPornin It seems that the education in France is better than it is here. Or at least, most of you seem to be better at spelling than most of QCers.
 
@HamZa I feel loved
 
I don't know if it's due to the fact that we're surrounded by English, but a damn load of people can't spell French properly.
 
3:13 PM
@ThomasPornin You know, maybe you would at some point merge your two accounts and cause a bufffer rep overflow :p
 
@LucasKauffman Let me have lucid dreams then, please.
 
@Simon me neither, but understandable at some extent ...
 
@Griffin I am confused. I've never been asked to potato someone before.
 
@TildalWave what you mean? only a google search away from what?
 
@HamZa Where are you from?
 
3:15 PM
pakestan?
 
@lynks Yes potato me baby.
 
@Griffin potato?
 
@lynks Yes.
 
Arabic?
@HamZa is Arabic?
 
38 mins ago, by HamZa
@imsiso Someone who was in north africa and ended up somewhere in europe :p
 
3:16 PM
@lynks Actually charzard me. If you don't know what it is urban dictionary charzarding
 
@imsiso from finding more information on The Bear, at least the relevant part of it that he's OK with having it publicly available
 
@imsiso It is an arabic name
 
@imsiso Are you from Iran?
 
yes
 
@HamZa The Bear gains too much rep to fit in the one-day limit (200 rep)
 
3:17 PM
@LucasKauffman u?
 
@HamZa So He alternates His answers between the two accounts.
 
@Adnan :O that really makes sense !
 
@HamZa Well, no it doesn't.
At least not to mortals like us.
 
@Adnan You don't say ...
 
@LucasKauffman where are u from?
 
3:18 PM
I lost track of this conversation a long time ago.
 
you do the best
 
@imsiso I am from a mysterious country who brang the world stuff like beer, waffles, KeccaK and AES,
 
@HamZa We barely make it to the 200 rep 1-2 days a week.
 
@LucasKauffman sorry I blag your pardon my Englisg is not so good
 
@lynks Urban dictionary charzarding then do it to me.
 
3:19 PM
HOLY SHIT! I just glimpsed at the transcript. What's going on here?!
 
@Adnan Unless your name is @ThomasPornin
 
@Lucas TELL ME!!!!
 
We're charzarding everyone!
 
@Griffin unfortunately I have.
 
@imsiso Belgium
 
3:20 PM
@lynks I wish I didn't google that.
 
@Adnan I should work more on answering questions :p
 
@lynks Bro you charzard?
 
@HamZa I see.
 
Who's the blue person?!
 
OK 94% of download
 
3:21 PM
Well I was born in europe lol
I live in the netherlands now
 
Why are there so many messages?
 
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that's what I though lol
 
@HamZa Nice! Are you part of the group of nice people who are into Hardstyle?
 
@HamZa Urban dictionary Charzarding
 
@Simon not really, I like some dubstep, DnB, chillstep ...
 
3:23 PM
@Griffin go home.
 
@HamZa Oh no, you live in the land of Hardstyle, why don't you like it?!?
 
@HamZa - download compeleted but still cropped do you have another link of tor?
 
@lynks I'm not drunk
@lynks Actually I'm at camp :o
 
@HamZa - download compeleted but still cropped do you have another link of tor?
 
Well you know, I don't like all musics from a specific genre, just a few ones. Some dubstep tracks are really awful.
If you do have some good hardstyle tracks, please send them :p
@imsiso huh ? "cropped" ?
 
3:26 PM
It's like Christmas again, someone's asking me for tracks!
 
@Simon or a channel lol
 
Now, I gotta figure out if you're into melodic or rawer tracks.
 
@HamZa yes
 
@copy Just escape. Escape NOW! Ask questions later.
 
Let's start with melodic: youtube.com/watch?v=uzxvQPq9OiY
 
3:27 PM
@Simon oh painful lol
 
@HamZa Oh c'mon, wait for the drop at least.
 
oh wait :O
 
@Lucas :( I feel old.. and confused. Who are these people?
 
@Adnan You don't know me :O
 
> What has happened to this place?
 
3:31 PM
I think I really don't like it ...
DOM BOM DOM BOM DUM BOM DRAM DOM DRAM DUM ....
 
> I don’t recognize it anymore.
> It used to be so fun and special.
> What is life worth living for?
 
@HamZa Which means you don't like kicks. If you don't like kicks, I can't do anything for you, sorry.
You don't belong to the Hardstyle world.
 
@Simon My condolences
Speaking of South Park, who has watched it in french lol ?
 
@HamZa Indeed, indeed. You are surrounded by Hardstyle parties which I would kill to go to.
 
I don't really have time to go to such places or interested in it in the first place.
I mean, I've got my laptop :P
 
3:34 PM
Oh lawd, I'll act like if I never read that.
 
@Hamza You might enjoy this
 
@Adnan wow
 
Les fleurs du mal... Why are they stealing Charles Beaudelaire's stuff?
 
/me needs some sleep
Cya ...
shutdown /s /f /t 1
 
shutdown -h now
 
3:37 PM
wait @HamZa
how tor works?
this is correct. shutdown -s -f -t +100000000000000000
OK have a sweet dream
 
Where TF do you guys find time for all this nonsense? I tried reading the transcript, I really did :~
don't mind me, carry on...
 
@TildalWave I think we're done.
 
@Simon Good, my system is running out of memory :)
 
Haha :)
 
251 MB just to hold this chat... wt*? I could open 10 pages with boobs instead
 
3:53 PM
Is that what we are worth to you TidalWave.
..just 10 tabs of boobs?
 
@TildalWave yo moma's so fat, her boobs are 25MB
7
 
@Gilles tif, jpg, bmp, png?
 
@ScottPack “does this encoding make me look fat?” Any man knows there's no correct answer to that
 
3:57 PM
@Gilles You look lovely in that encoding.
 
@Gilles Yo Mama is so FAT she cannot be compressed.
 
I have just been chortling to myself for the past ten minutes just reading today's ...odd... transcript
 
Yo Mama so fat she overflows the gzip header.
4
 
Hahahahaha
 
Really? Nobody?
FAT filesystem.. doesn't support the compressed attribute.
Ahhhh
Disappointed in @Scott
 
4:04 PM
We don't like Windows jokes.
 
Why? Don't nobody care about FAT.
 
Boom.
 
exFAT or GTFO
 
@ScottPack But.. because.. FAT .. and.. fat.. yo mama.. you know.. fat
 
exFAT indeed solves many problems.
 
4:05 PM
i was pinged somehow? o.O
 
@adnan - I thought it was genius. But what do I know...I don't understand hard style or charzarding...
 
@Adnan I wrote the program, trolled a couple of people already facebook.com/manish.goregaokar/posts/186231408212800
 
Haha.
 
@Adnan You're confusing the notions of people getting the joke and people recognizing it as a joke.
 
4:06 PM
Many of them are suspicious though
My friends circle isn't a complete loss
 
@imsiso there's probably a few Thomases, now, you might've pinged me and not the right person.
 
@RoryAlsop It's ok Rory, you don't need to understand any, you're too old for them.
:)
 
@Adnan this would work better if I didn't remember Doublespace
 
@ManishEarth I can't view the post
 
I think so @simon - I need guitars, bass and fire - like when we accidentally wiped out the dinosaurs at an afterparty
 
4:07 PM
Turns out that one of PRISM's ways of collecting data is by utilizing our own hard drive. Less than 10% of the hard drive is actually visible to you, so a 500GB hard drive is nearly 60TB in reality. All computers come with a tweaked version of bios which elects to ignore these sections of the hard drive unless called for explicitly. Whenever your computer is on, keyboard, mouse, network, and webcam data is constantly being stored here, and is periodically sent to NSA headquarters.

However, this is not that hard to unlock. I wrote a program that unlocks this portion of the hard drive, and m
 
@ScottPack Haaaah! :O THE AUDACITY!
 
@RohanDurve-Decode141 ^ @Adnan
 
@ManishEarth You I cannot see it
 
@manish - does that batch file do what I think it does? If so...nice one ;-)
 
@RoryAlsop It's just a for-looped subst command, but it's full of other crap that looks impressive in the source but doesn't get executed
 
4:09 PM
Heh - excellent
 
Two people fooled already, two got suspicious and pinged me. Let's see how many gullible folks I can capture :P
After a day or so I'll post the real thing :P
 
@RoryAlsop I can link you a Hardstyle track with guitar in it. Also, there's a lot of bass in those tracks.
 
@ManishEarth sweet, but you should do a linux version as well
 
@Gilles mount right?
See, all my linuxy friends will see right through it
 
@ManishEarth mount --bind or mount -t tmpfs, I'm not sure which
 
4:11 PM
@ManishEarth You're a terrible person.
 
I didn't read the bat file closely
 
@Adnan I read your Tor exit nodes answer yesterday. I gotta say that you write crazy answers, son. If only @ScottPack would be like you.
 
@Simon Son?! SON?!
 
@Gilles subst to a folder I create in the C drive. It's a virtual drive (a symlink-like thing)
 
@Adnan You finally figured it out.
 
4:12 PM
@Simon I got some good stuff in there. Fewer cacti, to be sure.
 
@ManishEarth so yeah, mount --bind
 
@ScottPack Hey. It's harmless. Just will give them a day of "w00t I have 60TB" befor I tell them
@Gilles Yep, thought so
 
@ScottPack I must say that I favorite'd your answer of the question about changing SSH's default port. I was just kidding.
 
@Manish GREEEEEN!
 
Green? O_0
 
4:15 PM
@ManishEarth GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!
 
@ManishEarth It changes the text to display 60 TB?
 
@Adnan oh right :P
 
@Gilles Yo moma's so fat CERN asked her to not move while they work on gravitons!
 
@Simon No, it creates 10 or so virtual drives. These are drives that are nothing more than a symlink. Each one symlinked to its own folder within C:
 
@ManishEarth Haha, nice.
 
4:16 PM
Google subst
 
Anyone that runs a random script on his computer without a sandbox is a complete idiot.
 
@RohanDurve-Decode141 Yep
And I agree that half my friends fall into that category :P
 
@RohanDurve-Decode141 I do, and I did run @Manish's script.
 
GREEEEN
 
and I'm not a complete idiot (at least I think I'm not)
 
4:27 PM
 
@TildalWave Nope, I ran it without a sandbox
 
@Adnan You're my idiot.
 
EW
 
Who said sandbox will keep you clean? :P
or safe?
 
4:30 PM
@simon - I know. I've tried, but I just don't get hardstyle. It makes me hurt. Like children playing the recorder. Or Paloma Faith. Or stepping on a nail.
 
Fair point, but it beats running it on your main system.
 
@RoryAlsop Damn, I've been listening to it for at least 30 mins a day for 5 years. Are you saying I'm being tortured? :o
 
No @simon. Just that I would be tortured. You'd probably not enjoy a metaltech gig - well, you might, but we probably too mellow for you.
 
@RoryAlsop Nah you're right, I wouldn't enjoy it :P
However, the sound of an STi exhaust, that I do enjoy.
 
@TildalWave HOLY SHIT!!
 
4:34 PM
:-)
People are different and still the same @simon
 
@Tildal What the fuck is that thing?
 
Damn right, haha.
 
@Adnan It's faked with chocolate cream ;)
 
@TildalWave I'm talking about the thing covered with chocolate cream.
 
@Adnan hehe
 
4:35 PM
Hahahaha
 
pen-test gone horribly wrong?
 
Thank god I have AdBlock Plus
 
@Simon I've also received good feedback regarding destruction techniques.
 
@ScottPack I'd like to hear more about that, I'm all about destruction too.
 
5:05 PM
@ScottPack I've been considering writing a purchase justification to see if I can get approval for one of these for secure hard drive destruction. anzioironworks.com/MAG-FED-20MM-RIFLE.htm
 
@Xander All I can see is his crazy mustache.
 
@Xander Holy shit!! This is one of the biggest TDRs I've ever seen
Actually, I even don't think I've ever seen one larger than .338
 
@Adnan Yup, it's pretty insane.
 
@Xander Seems like it might be a bit tricky to justify.
 
5:22 PM
@ScottPack Unfortunately, I think you might be right.
 
YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT
 
5:57 PM
HOLY FUCK 20MM o.O
10 grand isn't a lot
for that type of weapon
@RoryAlsop have you tried the tunes of WOB WOB WOB music or something softer like this: youtube.com/watch?v=yzCWGGG2gQc
 
6:24 PM
guys guys guys, Dropbox has a weekly event called Whisky Friday :O
 
😲
 
@LucasKauffman There is (was ?) a soviet 23mm portable gun.
 
@ThomasPornin @LucasKauffman There's also some nutcase trying to build a 30mm bolt-action rifle, starting with a surplus GAU-8 barrel that he managed to buy. A GAU-8 is one of these. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpg (The one that isn't the VW.)
 
wait
isn't a GAU 8 what they hang below a an A10
 
@LucasKauffman Yes.
 
6:38 PM
@LucasKauffman Exactly. The A-10 was in fact, built specifically to house it.
 
Isn't A10 a shotgun?
 
More appropriately, an A10 is the name they give to a flying GAU-8.
@Simon It is a military plane, specialized in shooting tanks.
 
@ThomasPornin It seems to be an american shotgun too.
 
@Simon A-10 Warthog, it's basically a canon with wings. It's built to fly incredible slow and release havoc on anything in its path
 
But it's A-10
 
6:40 PM
@Xander More specifically, they built a gun too big so they made a plane to carry it.
 
@ThomasPornin Pretty neat.
 
@ScottPack <insert penis joke>
 
@Simon The pilot is actually seated in a titanium bathtub, because the plane is meant to fly fairly low and thus a lot of will incur a lot of shots from enemy foot soldiers.
 
@Simon They even had to mount the gun off-center so that the bullets are fired from the centerline of the plane. Otherwise it would cause the plane to buck in a rather unsatisfying way.
 
Under the wings, one can put a rather impressive number of Maverick missiles, too.
 
6:42 PM
Jesus, talk about engineering.
 
How quickly would it take down a tank though?
 
@Simon VERY
 
@Simon Apparently the pilots find them to be quite fun too.
 
> Muzzle velocity when firing Armor-Piercing Incendiary rounds is 3,250 feet per second (990 m/s)
 
6:44 PM
@Simon I think it fires at 70 rounds per second.
 
@Xander I can imagine, haha.
@ThomasPornin Fair amount.
 
a dozen rounds are sufficient to destroy a tank.
 
@ScottPack And that's a 6500+ grain projectile. At 3,900 rounds per minute.
 
> The GAU-8/A is extremely accurate and can fire 4,200 rounds per minute without complications.
 
I calculated it once. It's something like 150,000 ft/lbs of muzzle energy per round.
 
6:46 PM
> The GAU-8/A accuracy when installed in the A-10 is rated at "5 mil, 80 percent", meaning that 80 percent of rounds fired will hit within a cone with an angle of five-milliradians. This equates to a 40 feet (12 m) diameter circle at the weapon's design range of 4,000 feet (1,200 m).[12] By comparison, the M61 has an 8-milliradian dispersion.
Ooo
> The recoil force of the GAU-8/A[15] is 10,000 pounds-force (45 kN),[3] which is slightly more than the output of one of the A-10's two TF34 engines (9,065 lbf / 40.3 kN each).[16] While this recoil force is significant, in practice cannon fire only slows the aircraft a few miles per hour.[14]
It only slows the 25,000 pound airplane down by a few mph.
 
Ha ha.
@Simon Keep in mind, with a gun like this the goal is what are called "mobility kills." They're not actually penetrating the main armor (which is designed to protect the tank against much larger ordinance) but knocking out the treads, or the less well protected engine.
 
@Xander I'll keep this in mind to be prepared for WWIII.
 

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