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Bikini Atoll: An Ecological Miracle Amidst Atomic Scars

2025-03-15
Bikini Atoll: An Ecological Miracle Amidst Atomic Scars

Nearly 60 years after 23 nuclear detonations scarred Bikini Atoll, it appears as an idyllic Pacific paradise once again. However, Stanford professor Stephen Palumbi's research reveals a surprising ecological recovery near Bravo Crater, the site of the most powerful US bomb ever detonated. Flourishing coral reefs and fish populations exist despite the devastation. Palumbi's team will sequence the genomes of corals and coconut crabs to study genetic mutations and adaptation to radiation, with potential applications in cancer research. This research highlights the ocean's resilience while serving as a stark reminder of the past and the importance of preventing similar disasters.

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(medium.com)
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Bluesky CEO's Subtle Dig at Zuckerberg Sells Out in Minutes

2025-03-14
Bluesky CEO's Subtle Dig at Zuckerberg Sells Out in Minutes

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber's SXSW appearance featured a T-shirt reading "Mundus sine Caesaribus" ("A world without Caesars"), a subtle jab at Mark Zuckerberg, who previously wore a "Zuck or nothing" shirt. The shirt, sold to fund Bluesky's developer ecosystem, sold out in 30 minutes. This highlights Bluesky's decentralized, open-source model, contrasting with Meta's centralized structure. The shirt isn't just a playful rivalry; it embodies Bluesky's commitment to user agency and developer contribution.

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(techcrunch.com)
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AI Agents: Hype or the Future of Work?

2025-03-14
AI Agents: Hype or the Future of Work?

Silicon Valley is betting big on AI agents, but there's a significant lack of consensus on what exactly constitutes an AI agent. Companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Salesforce envision them as the future of work, yet their functionalities and implementations vary wildly. Definitions range from fully autonomous systems to tools following predefined workflows, causing confusion even among industry experts. This ambiguity stems from rapid technological advancements and marketing hype, creating both opportunities for innovation and potential for misaligned expectations and uncertain ROI. Ultimately, whether AI agents truly revolutionize the world may depend on the industry's ability to establish a unified definition.

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(techcrunch.com)
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TypeScript Gets a Go Rewrite: 8x Faster!

2025-03-15
TypeScript Gets a Go Rewrite: 8x Faster!

Microsoft is developing a native TypeScript implementation using Google's Go language. This promises dramatic improvements in editor startup speed, build times, and memory usage, making it easier to scale TypeScript to large codebases. The plan involves porting the TypeScript compiler, tools, and codebase from JavaScript to Go. Microsoft aims for a mid-2025 preview of Go-based tsc command-line type checking and a feature-complete Go implementation by year's end. Visual Studio Code users will experience significantly faster editor performance, including an 8x improvement in project load times and instant comprehensive error listings.

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(www.infoworld.com)
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ATProto: It's Not What You Think

2025-03-14
ATProto: It's Not What You Think

This post explores the decentralized social protocol ATProto and its application Bluesky. The author recounts their evolving perspective, explaining that ATProto isn't fully decentralized but achieves data decentralization through Personal Data Servers (PDSes). While most apps built on ATProto are centralized, the PDS ensures users own and control their data, even if an app shuts down. Bluesky's mainstream adoption boosts ATProto's reach, but its centralization remains debated. The post also discusses identity verification, the need for more PDS providers, and concerns about the centralized PLC directory. Despite shortcomings, the author believes ATProto represents significant progress in data ownership and openness, with further potential yet to be explored.

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(blog.muni.town)
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AudioNimbus: A Rust Wrapper for Immersive Spatial Audio with Steam Audio

2025-03-12
AudioNimbus: A Rust Wrapper for Immersive Spatial Audio with Steam Audio

AudioNimbus is a Rust library providing a safe and easy-to-use wrapper around Valve's powerful Steam Audio spatial audio toolkit. It simplifies integration of immersive 3D audio into Rust projects, supporting features like HRTF, Ambisonics, realistic sound propagation (including distance attenuation and reflections), and more. The library consists of two crates: `audionimbus` (high-level safe wrapper) and `audionimbus-sys` (auto-generated bindings to the Steam Audio C API). Check out the demo for a quick start!

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(github.com)
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The AI Job Market Shift: Is 2025 a Career Winter?

2025-03-16
The AI Job Market Shift: Is 2025 a Career Winter?

The rapid advancement of AI, especially large language models, has created a challenging job market for many software engineers, particularly those who entered senior roles between 2010 and 2020. Traditional management skills are less valued now, replaced by a demand for meticulous detail-orientation, rapid project execution, and adaptation to the AI transition. This leaves many senior leaders feeling overwhelmed, while potential leaders skilled in technical details and rapid iteration struggle for promotion. Simultaneously, rapid AI advancements challenge established company advantages, demanding product and development process redesign. This creates immense pressure on job seekers, with reduced hiring, promotions, and slower salary growth. In short, the current job market is highly competitive, demanding more from job seekers.

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(lethain.com)
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Briar: Decentralized Messaging App for Activists and Journalists

2025-03-14

Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone needing secure communication. Unlike traditional apps, Briar doesn't rely on central servers; messages sync directly between devices. Offline, it uses Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or memory cards. Online, it leverages Tor for enhanced privacy. Briar resists surveillance and censorship by employing end-to-end encryption and a decentralized architecture. It offers private messaging, public forums, and blogs, protecting against metadata surveillance, content filtering, takedown orders, and denial-of-service attacks. Briar's long-term vision extends beyond messaging, aiming to support secure, distributed applications for crisis mapping and collaborative work, fostering safe spaces for communication and organization globally.

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(briarproject.org)
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Calculating Earth's Radius with Geometric Algebra: A Sunset Photo Hack

2025-03-15

This article presents a clever method for calculating the Earth's radius using a single photograph of a sunset over a calm body of water. Building upon Robert Vanderbei's elegant trigonometric analysis, the author employs the more powerful system of geometric algebra to analyze the image. By constructing vector equations and leveraging properties of geometric algebra, such as the geometric product and wedge product, a concise formula for calculating the Earth's radius is derived. The method ingeniously uses the relationship between the sun's position and its reflection on the water, and the effects of Earth's curvature, ultimately yielding a result reasonably close to the actual value.

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(www.shapeoperator.com)
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A Key Lemma in Proving the Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory

2025-03-15

This blog post proves a key lemma used in proving the Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory (FTGT). Lemma 12.1 states: If L/K is a field extension, M is an intermediate field, and τ is a K-automorphism of L, then τM*τ⁻¹ = τ(M)*. The post uses a concrete example (L = Q(√2, √3), K = Q, M = Q(√2)) to illustrate the lemma and provides a complete proof, showing both τM*τ⁻¹ ⊆ τ(M)* and τM*τ⁻¹ ⊇ τ(M)*. This is crucial for understanding Galois theory.

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(susam.net)
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Early Pirate Bay Backer Dies in Plane Crash

2025-03-13
Early Pirate Bay Backer Dies in Plane Crash

Carl Lundstrom, co-founder and early financial backer of The Pirate Bay, died in a plane crash in the Slovenian mountains. Lundstrom, also a member of the far-right Alternative for Sweden party, was flying from Zagreb to Zurich when his plane crashed. The 64-year-old's Piper Mooney Ovation M20R split in two upon impact. Bad weather hampered rescue efforts. He was previously convicted in 2012 for assisting in copyright infringement. Lundstrom also had ties to other Swedish political parties and unsuccessfully ran for office in 2021.

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(www.independent.co.uk)
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Crows and Magpies Use Anti-Bird Spikes in Nest Building: A Rebellious Act of Nature

2025-03-14
Crows and Magpies Use Anti-Bird Spikes in Nest Building: A Rebellious Act of Nature

Common anti-bird spikes, designed to deter birds from buildings, are being ingeniously repurposed by crows and magpies as nesting material. A new study reveals these birds collect and integrate the spikes into their nests, even potentially using them as defense against other birds. Researchers found this behavior in several European cities, with one magpie nest containing approximately 1,500 visible spikes. This discovery not only highlights the remarkable adaptability and intelligence of birds but also prompts reflection on the balance between urban development and wildlife.

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(www.audubon.org)
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GitHub Action Compromise: tj-actions/changed-files Injecting Malicious Code

2025-03-15
GitHub Action Compromise: tj-actions/changed-files Injecting Malicious Code

A critical security incident has compromised the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action, impacting over 23,000 repositories. Attackers retroactively modified multiple version tags to point to a malicious commit, exposing CI/CD secrets in public build logs. StepSecurity Harden-Runner detected this anomaly. The compromised Action executes a malicious Python script that dumps secrets from the Runner Worker process. Immediate action is required: stop using the affected Action and review build logs for leaked secrets.

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(www.stepsecurity.io)
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How Ideas Shape Historical Change: A Century-Spanning Ideological Struggle

2025-03-13
How Ideas Shape Historical Change: A Century-Spanning Ideological Struggle

This essay explores the role of ideas in major historical transformations. From religion to the Enlightenment and neoliberalism, the author analyzes how different ideologies have emerged, evolved, and impacted historical processes. Some ideologies, like Marxism, have exerted immense mobilizing power due to their rigorous theoretical frameworks during specific historical periods; others, such as neoliberalism, have achieved global influence through their control over economic foundations. The author argues that the Left needs to develop a systematic and uncompromising ideology capable of challenging the existing order to effectively participate in future historical changes.

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(newleftreview.org)
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ESP32 Bluetooth Controller 'Backdoor': A False Alarm?

2025-03-11

Recent concerns have emerged regarding a potential "backdoor" or "undocumented features" in the ESP32 Bluetooth controller. Espressif has responded, stating that the so-called "undocumented HCI commands" are solely for debugging purposes and do not pose a security threat. These commands assist in debugging (e.g., read/write RAM, memory-mapped flash read, send/receive packets), and don't play an active role in standard Bluetooth host stack (like NimBLE or Bluedroid) HCI communication. In ESP32, the controller and host run on the same MCU, communicating via a virtual HCI layer. Any code accessing this layer must execute on the ESP32 with full privileges. Therefore, unless the application itself has vulnerabilities, these undocumented commands cannot be exploited. Espressif will provide a software patch to remove access to these debug commands and will document all vendor-specific HCI commands for greater transparency.

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(developer.espressif.com)
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Supersolidity Achieved in a Photonic Crystal: A Breakthrough

2025-03-11

An international team has for the first time observed a supersolid phase in a photonic crystal polariton condensate, published in Nature. This groundbreaking research introduces a new platform for exploring supersolidity beyond traditional ultracold atomic systems. Supersolids uniquely combine the rigidity of a crystal with the frictionless flow of a superfluid. The researchers achieved this by condensing polaritons within a photonic crystal waveguide, enabling precise measurement of density modulations and probing the local coherence of the supersolid wavefunction. This work not only demonstrates a supersolid phase in a photonic platform but also paves the way for exploring quantum phases of matter in non-equilibrium systems, with potential applications in neuromorphic computing and advanced photonics.

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(www.photonicsonline.com)
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zlib-ng: A Next-Gen Data Compression Library

2025-03-16
zlib-ng: A Next-Gen Data Compression Library

zlib-ng is a modernized fork of the popular zlib compression library, improving performance, maintainability, and portability. It incorporates optimizations from Intel and Cloudflare, and supports a wide range of CPU instruction sets such as AVX-512 and ARM NEON. zlib-ng aims to coexist with zlib, offering a lower barrier to code changes and supporting CMake and multiple build systems.

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(github.com)
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The Curious History of JavaScript Comments: Why `<!--` and `-->` Work

2025-03-12

This article unravels the curious history behind the use of `` as comment characters in JavaScript. Initially, to ensure compatibility with older browsers, developers would wrap their JavaScript code within HTML comments inside `` tags. Surprisingly, modern browsers still support this syntax due to historical browser compatibility burdens and the standardization committee's commitment to 'not breaking the web'. The article explains how this syntax works and why `-->` must appear at the beginning of a line.

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(www.hillelwayne.com)
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UK Tech Minister Uses ChatGPT, Sparking FOI Debate

2025-03-13
UK Tech Minister Uses ChatGPT, Sparking FOI Debate

UK's technology secretary, Peter Kyle, used ChatGPT to seek advice on the slow AI adoption in UK businesses and podcast recommendations. His ChatGPT interactions were released under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, a potential first in determining whether chatbot interactions are subject to such laws. ChatGPT's advice included improving awareness, addressing regulatory and ethical concerns, and increasing government support. While the government claims AI is used as a labor-saving tool, the incident raises questions about government use of commercial AI tools and transparency, setting a precedent for other nations with similar FOI laws.

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(www.newscientist.com)
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Tesla's European Sales Plummet 45%, Outpaced by Chinese Automakers

2025-02-25
Tesla's European Sales Plummet 45%, Outpaced by Chinese Automakers

Tesla's European sales plunged 45% in January, reaching only 9,945 vehicles and a market share of 1%, significantly lower than last year's 1.8%. This contrasts sharply with a 34% increase in overall European EV sales. Chinese automakers like SAIC Motor (sales up 37%, market share at 2.3%) and BYD (outsold Tesla in the UK for the first time) are outperforming Tesla. Tesla's Berlin factory is undergoing a Model Y production line revamp, which might contribute to the sales decline. Elon Musk's recent involvement in European politics, endorsing Germany's far-right AfD party, may also have negatively impacted the brand, sparking public backlash and protests.

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(www.businessinsider.com)
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Shef: Cook Up Shell Recipes Without the Mess

2025-03-11
Shef: Cook Up Shell Recipes Without the Mess

Shef, a powerful CLI tool, lets you create complex shell workflows without the headache of writing intricate bash scripts. Inspired by CyberChef, Shef uses a simple YAML format to chain commands, incorporate interactive prompts, implement loops and conditional logic, and build reusable recipes. It streamlines shell scripting by offering features like templating, transformations, and easy error handling, making it a game-changer for automating tasks and managing complex processes.

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(github.com)
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CalPERS' Climate Portfolio: Greenwashing or Genuine Transition?

2025-03-11

California's Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest US pension fund, has classified over $3 billion in holdings in fossil fuel companies and other major greenhouse gas emitters as "climate solutions." This has sparked controversy, with critics arguing it contradicts CalPERS' stated goal of transitioning to a low-carbon economy. CalPERS defends its strategy, claiming it aims to influence polluting companies while investing in clean energy, fulfilling its fiduciary duty. However, a report reveals CalPERS' climate portfolio includes 52 of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters, highlighting challenges in meeting its emission reduction targets. The situation underscores the difficulty of balancing financial returns with climate commitments and raises questions about transparency and the definition of 'climate solutions'.

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(financialpost.com)
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Serverless P2P Browser File Transfer: FilePizza v2 Arrives

2025-03-12
Serverless P2P Browser File Transfer: FilePizza v2 Arrives

FilePizza v2 is a WebRTC-based peer-to-peer file transfer tool for browsers. It eliminates the need for intermediary servers, transferring files directly between browsers for speed, privacy, and security. New features include a modern UI, dark mode, mobile support, multi-file uploads (zipped), upload progress monitoring, password protection, and Redis-based server state storage. End-to-end encryption ensures secure transfers. Conceived while eating pizza at UC Berkeley, it's now open-source and available at file.pizza.

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(github.com)
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AI Voice Cloning Scams Expose Flaws in Evidence Rules

2025-03-11

An AI voice cloning scam highlights the challenges posed by rapidly advancing voice synthesis technology. A father nearly fell victim to a fraudster who convincingly imitated his son's voice. This case exposes weaknesses in current Federal Rules of Evidence, which allow authentication of voice recordings based solely on witness identification – a process now unreliable due to sophisticated AI voice cloning. Studies show people struggle to distinguish real voices from AI-generated clones, demonstrating the high realism of current technology. The article advocates amending evidence rules to give judges more discretion in admitting or excluding potentially fabricated audio evidence, adapting to the evolving landscape of AI.

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(www.lawfaremedia.org)
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Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Rack Up Hundreds of Parking Tickets in San Francisco

2025-03-15
Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Rack Up Hundreds of Parking Tickets in San Francisco

Waymo's autonomous vehicles in San Francisco received 589 parking tickets in 2024, totaling $65,065 in fines. Violations included obstructing traffic, ignoring street cleaning rules, and parking in prohibited zones. Waymo stated that many citations occurred during the few minutes of picking up or dropping off passengers, while the cars searched for safe parking. While the company claims it's improving its system to avoid future tickets, the incident highlights the challenges autonomous vehicles face in navigating urban environments and adhering to traffic regulations.

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(www.yahoo.com)
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SBF's Prison Interview: A Pardon Play?

2025-03-08
SBF's Prison Interview: A Pardon Play?

Sam Bankman-Fried's (SBF) unauthorized prison interview with Tucker Carlson has sparked controversy. The interview, conducted without prison approval, landed SBF in solitary confinement. Analysts believe this was a calculated move to garner public support and potentially secure a pardon from President Trump. His parents have reportedly hired a lawyer with Trump ties to lobby for a pardon. However, SBF's past Democratic connections and his subtle approach to seeking a pardon may hinder his chances. Despite this, his youth and lengthy sentence leave the possibility of future developments open.

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(gizmodo.com)
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Notepad Gets AI-Powered Summaries: Microsoft Tests New Feature

2025-03-14
Notepad Gets AI-Powered Summaries: Microsoft Tests New Feature

Microsoft is testing AI-powered summaries in Notepad for Windows Insiders. Users can highlight text, right-click, and select 'Summarize' to generate a summary. Alternatively, Ctrl+M or the Copilot menu can be used. A Microsoft account is required, and AI features are disableable in settings. Alongside this, Microsoft is testing recently closed files in Notepad and a 'draw & hold' feature in the Snipping Tool for automatically straightening lines.

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(www.theverge.com)
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UUSEC WAF: A Free, High-Performance Web Application Firewall

2025-03-16
UUSEC WAF: A Free, High-Performance Web Application Firewall

UUSEC WAF is a free, high-performance, and highly scalable web application firewall (WAF) and API security protection product that leverages AI and semantic engines. It boasts a three-layered defense mechanism (traffic, system, and runtime layers). Employing machine learning for anomaly detection, it intercepts 0-day attacks without needing extra rules. Its self-developed cache cleaning surpasses commercial nginx versions, offering regex matching for enhanced flexibility. Built-in HIPS and RASP provide powerful dual-layer defense. Advanced semantic engines and Lua scripting allow for highly flexible rule creation. Installation is straightforward, with host and Docker options. Benchmark tests show accuracy exceeding 99%, significantly outperforming comparable free WAFs.

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(github.com)
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YouTube Experiment: DRM-Only Videos on TV?

2025-03-10
YouTube Experiment: DRM-Only Videos on TV?

Reports indicate YouTube is experimenting with a limited rollout where normal videos only offer DRM-protected formats on the TV (TVHTML5) Innertube client. This affects not only yt-dlp, but also official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, Apple TV), which also only provide DRM formats. Tests show accounts involved can only access DRM-protected versions. This suggests a potential shift in YouTube's copyright protection strategy, potentially impacting how users watch and download videos.

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(github.com)
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