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fredley

11:01

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Braiam

@marcgravell @StackStatus Out of curiosity, how did http://chat.meta.SE end up redirecting to Area 51 of all places?

Tweeted by tmslft on May 16, 2014 at 7:25 AM in reply to marcgravell

?

Arperum

46 secs ago, by fredley

Refresh this page

I'll post about it once the read-only goes away.

3ventic

@Arperum hm?

What's wrong with that one?

MBraedley

My team lead hasn't responded to the email I sent him last night, so I don't know if I should bother going in today or use some of the flex time I've built up.

Arperum

@3ventic Some info is outdated.

3ventic

11:03

What info?

I don't see anything wrong with it..

Arperum

@3ventic Look harder. To the link on that page.

3ventic

Links to meta, so what?

Compare it to gaming.stackexchange.com/error

Arperum

@3ventic Look harder.wrong link.

3ventic

Links to meta.currentsite, seems fine

Arperum

@3ventic Trying to enter chat gave me that link too though, and not the meta.SE link as required

3ventic

11:06

Oh

Trying to enter chat redirected me to area51

Braiam

6 mins ago, by Braiam

@marcgravell @StackStatus Out of curiosity, how did http://chat.meta.SE end up redirecting to Area 51 of all places?

Tweeted by tmslft on May 16, 2014 at 7:25 AM in reply to marcgravell

3ventic

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 15 mins ago, by 3ventic

I was redirected to area51 when I tried to open this chat..

Arperum

This was ~4 hours ago when going to chat.

MBraedley

Sent the email, I'm taking today off. Extra long weekend ho!

Arperum

11:22

@Arperum and now it's fixed of course...

3ventic

still read only :/

Braiam

chat is going down?

MBraedley

@Braiam I'm still here

At least I think I am. CAN ANYONE HEAR ME?

5pike

@MBraedley what?

3ventic

@MBraedley No, we're all deaf

5pike

11:27

@3ventic what?

MBraedley

Okay, at least I'm not shouting into the void

3ventic

Random comment #rand();

RedRiderX

What is chat not working?

Arperum

@RedRiderX You didn't notice the downtime of multiple hours?

RedRiderX

Uhh....

My timezone is not conductive to being awake untill like now

Arperum

11:38

@RedRiderX Lucky you.

badp

oh Quora Quora. Thank you Quora. Look out for a Quora Digest Digest in a yank friendlier timezone. They, too, should get to experience the joy of your favorite moment of the "week".

5pike

@badp Ohhhh. Waited all "week" for this.

badp

I know! Me too.

@3ventic why didn't Ok, Panic catch that

3ventic

Because panic doesn't exist

Arperum

@badp Probably because the bots aren't/weren't activated again?

badp

11:45

oh?

we're LAZERS-less?

3ventic

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 10 mins ago, by Martijn Pieters

Turns out our "independent" power feeds which we built full redundancy behind all went to the same (now failing) UPS. One. Fucking. Job.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on May 16, 2014 at 9:51 AM

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 8 mins ago, by durron597

@BrentO Both of our "redundant" feeds went through a single UPS path (which we were lied to about), we're...having words at the moment.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on May 16, 2014 at 10:42 AM in reply to BrentO

5pike

@badp Read-only mode. Lazers wouldn't work, right?

badp

no I mean all the feed posting bots are not working?

3ventic

Lazers would work but they'd have nothing to post

badp

but Okay Panic does have things to post.

5pike

11:47

@3ventic Yeah, that.

Arperum

@badp Not sure, I was just taking a wild guess.

Braiam

meh, I managed to put a comment during read-only

badp

Braiam

bots are down...

badp

RedRiderX

11:48

badp

RedRiderX

Ah forget it

badp

Grace Note

@badp According to the data it is identified as Butsutekkai

badp

@GraceNote butsutekkai... bot sotekkai... bot... so... tekken... no I'm coming up empty.

I'm just happy it's not one of the 15 yesterday. (I figured Ikaruga would've been too obvious of a pick)

(did I mention I made a small effort to try and learn a few words of japanese earlier this month? It didn't go too well)

(now all I really learned is that there are some combinations of sounds of which I ought to know the meaning of but can never remember and that's going to destroy all enjoyment from all japanese songs you guys ever subject me to forever and ever)

(I brought this on myself.)

Braiam

11:56

guys, we are moving out!

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 min ago, by Martijn Pieters

@durron597 Let's just say we're moving June 4th

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on May 16, 2014 at 11:43 AM in reply to durron597

badp

ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod

that means we'll need to redirect our LAZERS power from scorching the earth to moving

ARQADE WILL BE DOWN FOR THE DURATION

3ventic

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 2 mins ago, by balpha

for completeness we should mention that the move was planned before

badp

Braiam

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 3 mins ago, by Bart

Booo for completeness @balpha. Totally takes the drama out of the situation.

fredley

My main fear at this point is that Lazers will post everything it's missed in one huge display of power

MBraedley

12:08

@fredley MOAR POWER!

Arperum

@fredley He didn't miss anything, the sites are read only...

fredley

@Arperum It's a race

Frank

@3ventic Ouch. I wonder who's job it was to do that.

3ventic

Someone's who is not too happy right now, probably

Arperum

Jan 30 at 13:39, by Arperum

Animated gifs are still cancer.

Braiam

12:18

SE sites are back, Arqade, MSE and SO still read only

StrixVaria

WE'RE BACK I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF

Frank

@StrixVaria Maybe actually get work done? :P

StrixVaria

I just got to work and now it's back.

So that's out the window.

Arperum

@Frank Not an option, to busy panicking.

OKAY, PANIC.

We are in the process of moving operations back to New York.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 16, 2014 at 12:02 PM

Arperum

12:25

@OKAY,PANIC. That was some panic right there.

Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange Network Status: Stack Exchange Primary Data Center Offline - May 16th, 2014

posted on May 16, 2014

Our data center racks in New York unexpectedly lost connectivity. There was a failure in the UPS feeding our equipment that went undetected by our provider. Here is a timeline of major events so far: 06:43 UTC - The UPS feeding our racks in the New York data center stopped feeding utility power and failed to provider backup power 07:04 UTC - We learned the nature of the UPS issue and began fai…

badp

@fredley yessssss

fredley

FEAR REALIZED

/CHAT

Arperum

@fredley You were WRONG. It was not @Lazers who flooded.

badp

→ 14 panicks moved to The Android Hell: This Is The Part Where All The Robots Scream At You, And Each Other, Too, For Good Measure

OKAY, PANIC.

12:29

@nickscode That's the Oregon address for Stack Overflow and most sites

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 16, 2014 at 12:23 PM in reply to nickscode

badp

I guess I should look into filtering tweets starting with an at-sign?

Tim Stone

Probably

badp

Hrm. It's a Google Apps Scripts thingadongdong

I have no idea what the hell this language actually is

on a second look, it's probably js

agent86

if you have an android phone/tablet, you can make off with ~$15 to the amazon appstore if you don't mind clicking some buttons and getting a bunch of free apps. kindle users get a bonus of GTA:SA kindle fire edition free via this method - cheapassgamer.com/topic/…

MBraedley

@badp Except possibly @replies to specific accounts

user15026

12:45

@agent86 I am intrigued.

agent86

I guess it's more like $22. I mathed bad.

badp

@MBraedley It's a jumbled mess of regular expression hell that somehow deals with @-replies by not showing the @-replied person in the feed, but no RE actually has the character "@" in it

agent86

dunno if it's US only though

badp

@agent86 it is. Well it's not available in Italy anyway

agent86

suck it, rest of the world!

@badp okay. got it, thanks. this one is just superfluous.

badp

12:47

@agent86 You are most welcome, good sir, have a nice day.

agent86

@badp awesome.

Arperum

chat.stackexchange.com/messages/15559968/history

lovely

badp

bows

I've done worse than that

OKAY, PANIC.

@hugedz It was a IPTABLES configuration issue we have on a list to resolve before the next run there. It's not you, it's me.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 16, 2014 at 12:46 PM in reply to hugedz

Arperum

@badp I've seen @Lesspop do worse too. can't remember when or what though.

badp

12:49

so um

      while (tweet = re.exec(alltweets)) {

        url   = tweet[1];
        when  = Utilities.formatDate(parseDate(tweet[2]), "UTC", "EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss");

        tweet = tweet[5].replace(/<\s*(div|span|b|p)[^>]*>/gi, "")
                        .replace(/<\s*\/\s*(div|span|b|p)[^>]*>/gi, "")
                        .replace(/class=".*?"|rel=".*?"|title=".*?"|target=".*?"|data-expanded-url=".*?"|data-query-source=".*?"|dir=".*?"|data-scribe=".*?"/gi, "")
                        .replace(/\s+/g, " ");

results in

<item>
<title>StackStatus:  It was a IPTABLES configuration issue we have on a list to resolve before the next run there. It&#39;s not you, it&#39;s me.</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 07:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>https://twitter.com/StackStatus/statuses/467284972500705281</guid>
<link>https://twitter.com/StackStatus/statuses/467284972500705281</link>
<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://twitter.com/hugedz" >@hugedz</a> It was a IPTABLES configuration issue we have on a list to resolve before the next run there. It&#39;s not you, it&#39;s me.]]></description>

user15026

/cc @origamirobot

badp

so there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to say "this tweet is a mention"?

I would have to catch <a href="https://twitter.com/ at the start of tweet

that sounds super-brittle

3ventic

Strip html tags and then check if first letter is @?

Yuki

@AshleyNunn I just had the worst dream.

badp

12:54

@3ventic There's a javascript function for that?

I guess this RE would work

^<a href="https?:\/\/twitter.com\/(\w+)" ?>@\1<\/a>

3ventic

172

Q: Strip HTML from Text JavaScript

Is there an easy way to take a string of html in JavaScript and strip out the html?

badp

@3ventic I don't think this is running in a DOM.

3ventic

yeah probably not

badp

I'll try ^<a href="https?:\/\/twitter.com\/(\w+)" ?>@\1<\/a>

Lazers

0

Q: PS3 Problems Again

Ok so I just got my Playstation working last nite, it wouldn't turn on, every time I turned it on, it will beep 5 times, blink 5 times, then turn straight back off, I got it fixed by unplugging it for 10-15 minutes and when I plugged it back in, I let it sit there for like 5 minutes. Then I turne...

technical-issues ps3 call-of-duty-black-ops-2 nba2k14

user15026

12:57

@Yuki oh?

Yuki

@AshleyNunn I was getting to go to what I assume to be a party. Apparently, it was going to be a big party and I was bringing the drinks. I was all excited and for some reason dressed up in Dark Souls cosplay.

I guess it was a con party or something?

Well, I was on my way... until I got pulled over by a cop.

The entire rest of the dream was me being processed.

user15026

ick.

Yuki

I swear, my subconscious does this all the time. Last time, I was about to go skydiving and then got stuck in a hospital waiting room for the entire rest of the dream.

For reasons I can't recall.

user15026

that is just rude

Tim Stone

I had a dream that I was hired by SE, but then dream-me realised that it must be a dream.

Then my 8-month old woke up an hour ago and I still haven't had coffee. UNACCEPTABLU.

user15026

13:01

I keep dreaming about sports

user15026

but they are weird messes of sports

Arperum

I can't remember my dreams most of the time, but in the cases I do they are kinda weird.

Lazers

1

Q: What happens if a Pokémon hits multiple evolution criteria at once?

There's several Pokémon that have branching evolution paths - Slowpoke for example can be evolved into Slowbro by level-up, or into Slowking by trading with King's Rock held. In most cases, these branches can't conflict, but there's at least one where 3 conditions can be potentially met at once....

pokemon-sixth-gen

user15026

Damn, I really need to be able to read Korean today....

Yuki

@AshleyNunn Calvinball!

badp

13:05

Success! Ok, Panic will no longer show mentions

(and perhaps other stuff, too)

5pike

@badp Well, where is it?

badp

@5pike you beat me to it. I'm preparing it

It is very tough work. Digesting those digests isn't something that just happens at the snap of a finger.

You've got to crawl through the digest, then digest it carefully.

user15026

@Yuki haha yeah that's what it feels like

badp

The digested output must be rearranged into proper shape and function!

All of this work goes in creating your favorite moment of the "week":

5pike

@badp ~~"week"~~ alright

badp

13:11

Welcome to another edition of the Quora Digest Digest!

The Quorest of the Quorest, handpicked just for your fine tastes.

user15026

Is there coffee served at this event?

user15026

(I left my coffee at home and this is making me a sad bean)

badp

This might be considered for the following "weeks"

but alas! Let us not delay the climax of the Quora Digest Digest any longer!

Onto the Question of the "Week"!

> What's the best-looking CV you've ever seen?

...and the honorable mention goes to:

> What are some of the best sarcastic quotations?

user15026

.....

badp

This has been the Quora Digest Digest! I hope you enjoyed it because your "week" is going downhill from here and @AshleyNunn still doesn't have any coffee!

5pike

13:13

@badp Doubt it, work is over in 17 minutes.

...

Now I'll die in a car accident on my way home ... Thanks badp

And Quora, who made this possible

badp

This "week"'s edition of the Quora Digest Digest, ladies and gentlemen, is brought to you by Phoenix Wright.

OKAY, PANIC.

Stack Exchange systems are fully online at this time, we are contiuing to monitor on our side.

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 16, 2014 at 1:12 PM

user15026

I can't tell if the office is for real cold or if I am just tired and undercaffeinated and headachy and thus I feel cold

badp

yessss Okay Panic is not totally broked

@AshleyNunn How about some warm relaxing tea?

Can you get some of that?

user15026

@badp I think there might be tea in the kitchen on this floor. When there stops being a million bajillion egames forever I will check :D

badp

13:18

@AshleyNunn ALL of the sports television sports benbrocka sports call of dota

user15026

@badp seriously. like I counted at least 20 dota matches, plus some sc2, and an lol match I am 99% never actually happened.

user15026

It's not bad, except when people can't agree on who won :P

Arperum

@AshleyNunn In all cases: You won, because it got you something to be payed for!

user15026

@Arperum Yeah, that's what I tell myself. And I really don't hate it - because searching for this stuff makes my day zip by. I just wish that there was like an espn of esports that was reliable and regulated.

badp

@AshleyNunn but then you wouldn't need to be awesome

it would just be ctrl-c ctrl-v menial busywork

In a way you are creating the ESPN of eSports.

user15026

13:24

@badp I am pretty awesome :P

Ben Brocka

> So the answer to Microsoft’s problems with the Xbox One? Simple. Stop listening to the public and put everything back the way it was when it was announced a year ago. Then, and only then, will the console be the best of its generation.

Tim Stone

> It did the same listening thing before the Xbox One even launched by taking out the requirement for the console to be online once every 24 hours. While this appeased privacy nuts, it stripped some nice features out of the console.

Wait, what?

I wasn't too concerned about that, but I'm also unclear what features not requiring that somehow removed.

Arperum

@BenBrocka ...

Kevin van der Velden

@TimStone game lending iirc

Tim Stone

But did they actually have that to begin with?

Kevin van der Velden

13:30

Yeah, with the always online drm you could lend your games to other people

Tim Stone

I thought it was "Well, we'll be able to do that..."

Ben Brocka

I love that people are still doing the "vocal minority" thing when PS4 sales numbers are almost double Xbox One's

I can only assume in their little heads people bought PS4 because Xbox DIDN'T have always online DRM

StrixVaria

I wrote a letter to the chairman of the FCC so he can have one more person to ignore when he fucks us all.

Tim Stone

@KevinvanderVelden Right, I just wasn't sure if they had actually implemented that for release.

Ben Brocka

@StrixVaria I thought fuck-us-all passed yesterday? Didn't they approve "fast lanes"?

Kevin van der Velden

13:33

@TimStone well they scrapped the online drm bit before they released the xbone right? I've no idea if they actually implemented it

user15026

@StrixVaria I am tempted to do the same but I am Canadian so I never know if there is an actual point

Kevin van der Velden

@BenBrocka they approved a vote for it

user15026

@BenBrocka They kinda did? I mean they said it was approved for vote

Tim Stone

@BenBrocka It goes for 120 days of public comment now

Ben Brocka

120 days of "Fuck the FCC" I hope

user15026

13:34

@TimStone so put on your best yelly voices

Tim Stone

Then they have to actually draft the final proposal on which to vote.

StrixVaria

@AshleyNunn I think there's still something to be said. The USA is a pretty big deal, so this would probably have rippling effects to the entire world.

It was so hard to keep the tone of my letter respectful because Tom Wheeler is such a fucking asshole.

user15026

@StrixVaria Yeah I am pretty sure I would just devolve into a screaming mess

Arperum

@Unionhawk Well said. co-signs letter

user15026

@Unionhawk signs

fredley

13:48

@Unionhawk *signs*

Ben Brocka

cat storage and transport device

Lazers

0

Q: How to make an enchantment with more than standard allowed max level?

I've seen a lot of lets plays and vanilla servers where players used swords with, for example, Sharpness X (but max allowed level is V). Or, also, I saw modded severs where you can donate and buy Nano Sable from Industrial Craft with Sharpness XVII. How can I get such enchantment with in game met...

minecraft

0

Q: What is the most fast/cheap/efficient way of killing unneeded migrants?

I try to run a fortress with just seven dwarves inside which never go outside. Literally they are sealed inside. The question is how to deal with migrants. I want every migrant wave to clear mess after the previous wave, sort corpses and spare belongings to stockpiles and die quickly (so they do...

dwarf-fortress

Ben Brocka

@Lazers pfffhahaha

StrixVaria

@spugsley I wrote a few-sentence outline for chapter 22 before I started writing it so I could reference it. Now that I'm 3/4 done writing it, I glanced back at the outline and I did the opposite of almost everything I said in the outline.

Arperum

bleh, 30 minutes left, and completely out of energy.

Tomorrow I'm seeing a couple bands again! So that's good.

OKAY, PANIC.

14:07

We're still online and running from NYC, pending a power status update from @Internap (hint, hint)

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 16, 2014 at 2:04 PM

Ben Brocka

14:20

excellent ad choice

Lazers

0

Q: What to beware of when dwarves are reliably sealed in a fortress?

Once I walled up all the entrances and thought that I'm safe. I managed to make the fortress quite stable, i.e. resources are replenished by dwarves and they always stay happy. But eventually I started to lose dwarves faster than they breed. This is a list of causes of deaths in a sealed fortres...

dwarf-fortress

Powerlord

@badp OBJECTION!

badp

@Powerlord You may proceed to cross-examine the Quora Digest Digest.

Powerlord

@badp presses every statement

badp

@Powerlord makes funny noises in response to each of those

agent86

14:26

I am tired and grumpy.

that is all.

user15026

@agent86 I am tired but not as grumpy as I was. (I have settled into work with my blanket and my tea and my hoodie hood up and all the egames are less AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, so things are pretty good)

agent86

@AshleyNunn I want a work blanket :(

user15026

And really, I would be less tired if I had willpower and not played Doctor Life til stupid time (thanks, @gnomeslice ;) )

user15026

@agent86 shares

agent86

@AshleyNunn wooo! canadian blanket share!

Unionhawk

14:30

@AshleyNunn When is it stupid time?

agent86

hmm, it just occurred to me that I can buy a buttload of kairosoft games with this amazon credit

like, ALL THE KAIROSOFT

user15026

@agent86 dooooo it

user15026

you wil not regret this

user15026

(except the soccer ones and the racing ones and the horse one, those are less fun. Still okay, but get the better ones first)

agent86

yeah, I crushed dungeon village a couple of months ago, with the last amazon credit I had.

beastie bay was just all kinds of great though, and free.

I tried twice to get into dream house days and just couldn't do it

OKAY, PANIC.

14:35

Updated timeline of events since our last update on the #stackoverflow and #stackexchange outage this morning: http://stackstatus.net/post/85915411384/outage-update-may-16th-2014

Tweeted by StackStatus on May 16, 2014 at 2:33 PM

agent86

I have a year, so I probably shouldn't binge, just in case some awesome new one comes out. but maybe I'll pick up one this weekend for the trip.

user15026

@agent86 Magazine Mogul is pretty good.

Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange Network Status: Outage Update - May 16th, 2014

posted on May 16, 2014

We are currently only line and running operations from the New York data center again after the power outage earlier this morning. We are in a holding pattern since the UPS system serving both our primary and backup power feeds (yes, we’re very excited to learn this too) is still being worked on. At 11:59 UTC The decision was made to move operations back to New York and risk a few second…

agent86

Left4Dead, the arcade game.

@AshleyNunn I will check it out!

Krazer

►

Unionhawk

14:43

@Krazer :o

agent86

@Krazer one of the cards in this video reads "survive or die" - yeah, that kind of covers it...

also I think watching things on the internet has permanently skewed my impression of what japanese girls sound like

Krazer

@agent86 at the moment it looks like it's using a modified VEWLIX cabinet with what looks to be a standard mouse and a Nintendo Wii Nunchuck controller, as opposed to the specialized Half-Life 2/Cyber Diver cabinets that were used on previous FPS games that Taito had done

agent86

@Krazer man, that's... weird.

Unionhawk

@agent86 Yeeeeah, that about covers all bases

Krazer

agent86

14:47

@Unionhawk later there's "RUN and SHOT!"

Krazer

Unionhawk

When discussing real people, it is impossible to get more ambiguous than "survive OR die"

agent86

@Krazer huh. okay. weird, but I guess it works. also, that character model is a lot more .... endowed than I remember the PC L4D2 models being.

most arcade (had to stop myself from using qa there) controllers have to be pretty durable compared to PC/console counterparts, though. odd that they'd pick something that didn't require custom hardware

Ben Brocka

wtf, klout

Lazers

0

Q: How many souls are in Dark Souls 2?

Unlike the original Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2 has a spawn limit on all enemies in the game. This means that there is an objective, exact number of souls which are available in the game. More importantly, it means that that number is limited -- no more infinite soul farming. Hence, the question:...

dark-souls-2

0

Q: How do I contact sony?

I am having problems with my Playstation 3 and I would like to know how to contact Sony Entertainment to see what is wrong with my Playstation 3.

technical-issues

Yuki

14:50

@BenBrocka Dem Roombas.

badp

@Krazer griefing at work?

@BenBrocka Roombas where you are the controller

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria Like a physical letter?

Ben Brocka

Kinect: You are the controller A patch of skin sloughs off and reveals an A button A nail falls off, d pad Dear god what is happening to you

Tweeted by TheXbone on March 20, 2014 at 12:31 PM

badp

ROOMBA NUMBER 1: LIE DOWN ON YOUR BELLY AND MAKE WHIRRY NOISES WITH YOUR MOUTH

NOW ROLL OVER THE GROUND TO CLEAN IT

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot An email.

I actually wrote him another one just now to follow up because I'm so angry.

> If you do not endorse true net neutrality, then you personally will have the legacy of having ruined one of the most profound inventions in human history.

12

Origami Robot

14:58

He keeps saying "Don't worry guys, we wont let them be shitbags"

THEN JUST MAKE RULES THAT DON'T ALLOW THEM TO TRY TO BE SHITBAGS IN THE FIRST PLACE

Yuki

@OrigamiRobot Yes. Because the government has a great track record of being a watchdog.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot too ez

Yuki

The government's so good at it, there aren't civilian watchdog groups. Oh wait.

Origami Robot

@StrixVaria not enuff profits

badp

@OrigamiRobot I'm afraid they tried and the supreme court said they didn't get to do that?

or they said they were doing it wrong.

Whichever

StrixVaria

14:59

@badp The supreme court said the way they did that was bad, but that they thought that it should be done.

Then the FCC was like "lol well shitbag time I guess".

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