Spyke

You don't get rid of me quite that quickly. Heeerrreeee I am again. I like the idea of all of us having the same cake day though. Cake is good. Cake is life.

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Oh man so many familiar names! This is so sick I’m so glad your all here!

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aussie.zone

Welp, I’m here too!

Makes me realise how much I relied on avatar’s in place of scanning peoples usernames.

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Sinnivarreply
aussie.zone

Isn't it odd! I didn't realise too, but I need ugly avatars to know who's who

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And mine's not even the same on the desktop and mobile! Go figure...

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aussie.zone

Whoa what? That’s it? So long and thanks for all the fish the DT is done?! I get it. It sucks. But like, arnt we cutting off our nose to spite our face here?

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aussie.zone

Yeah that was very sudden. Glad I'm here though. Might take my old arse a bit to get used to the interface and such, but looking forward to the experience.

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TinyBreakreply
aussie.zone

Oh thank god! you were one of the names I was worried about since I didn’t see you online the DT today. I did think to message Dressedlikerappers and jaybberwocky. Should someone message Lemon?

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aussie.zone

Haha...I've been lurking kind of but not really posting.

Probably a good idea to message them. Same with Steve00 and Melbourne_Wanderer.

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::: spoiler force majeure Thank you for your ongoing love and support

I'll continue to write, create, and conjure.

Old friends or new readers, I will build a rapport,

Unless I'm taken out by a force majeure! :::

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Ridiculous poetry is very random, so definitely fits in here.

I may have posted a poem or two myself in the past. I think the most recent was an Ode to Raisin Toast.

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aussie.zone

Ha ha. Just signed in from the "other" forum. Happy to see your post. Wont have to miss your poetry.

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aussie.zone

Ok I'm here.

You know what annoys me the most about all this? I have thousands of saved posts that I was ONE DAY going to get around to sorting through. Now a lot of them are going to be gone.

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Baconreply
aussie.zone

This morning I spent quite some time screenshoting the DT comments I saved

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I only save posts so I can bring them up smugly when someone in the footy sub shows themselves to be a hypocrite.

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Hi mom. The milk expired 5 days ago. I took a sip. Can I have some money to buy a new bottle please?

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What’s everyone having for dinner on this, the day the DT died?

(Testing out posting pictures don’t mind me)

I made kitsune udon

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aussie.zone

TB checking in. Relieved to see them friendly usernames here. Not sure I like the site itself but I mean this is hopefully temporary right?

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Baconreply
aussie.zone

i'll be here for as long as it takes. Breakfast will be served tomorrow.

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Yes. Please check back tomorrow morning. The after eight business does not provide regular food.

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Dalek Thalreply
aussie.zone

I mean hey, maybe apps'll update quickly and we'll have a better looking site?

Thanks for the link by the by!

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aussie.zone

Welcome to the new frontier! It's pretty basic, but we have plenty of potatoes to sustain us while we build. 🥔

I've been here a couple of days but had a teleporting incident on the way over, which led to the development of a multiple personality disorder. I am BrightFadedDog elsewhere, but appear here in the form of a Raven😁

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Baconreply
aussie.zone

Request for assistance detected. Please specify.

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Baconreply
aussie.zone
  1. Make sure you have subscribed: https://aussie.zone/c/melbourne
  2. Assuming you are at aussie.zone, you click your profile and under Subscribed you can find Melbourne.

Edit: You can also go to Communities, and then the Subscribed tab.

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f_bomreply
aussie.zone

f_bom, I used the same username from reddit :)

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f_bomreply
aussie.zone

hello! :) Decided to use an avatar that was more...recognisable haha

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I'm so happy to see so many friendly faces from Reddit here! (I'm IAmABakuAMA if anyone was wondering, but was able to score the shorter version here)

How's life DT peeps?

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Caved and signed up here, I work too much shift work alone not have some sort of little outlet.

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The death of /r/melbourne is just an inside job to increase WFH productivity

Real eyes realise real lies 👀👀👀

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Oi! My first post in here. Was chillin during the 2 day protest only to be back and know that DT is yeeted.

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oztrinreply
aussie.zone

shakes pompoms Seriously, I know how hard (and soul-sucking) it is. Good for you!

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aussie.zone

Drinks anyone 🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉

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Only you beautiful people are going to know about the St Kilda Rd tram disruption. Trams being diverted down Park St and Kings way from ANZAC Station. Back onto St Kilda Rd at arts precinct (theoretically - we've moved 100m in 15m on King's way)

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TinyBreakreply
aussie.zone

Agreed. But I didn’t love reddit initially. Happy to give it some time. Especially if this is it… you know?

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I lurked on reddit for a long time before I had some Dutch courage to jump in. Here I'm swimming blindly.

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aussie.zone

It's a bit of a fixer upper, but bit of elbow grease and a coat of paint could make it real nice.

5

I don't know. I feel like I've moved from a 4 star hotel to someone's bungalow in the backyard. Lol

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Last Wednesday's DT had 608 comments. Here we already have 321.
We are amazing.

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Been screenshotting saved posts (much to the cats' chagrin when they wanted cuddles) but enough.
If they're gone in the morning, they're gone.
Night all! szzzz

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Followed a link here 👋 discord moves too fast for me. This page layout is weirding me out too.

I don’t even know what an api is😞

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aussie.zone

Man I hope the jerboa devs are working feverishly to polish this app up. This could be a pretty painless transition if they get a move on.

Remembering preferences, like that I want my "front page" to be Subscribed and trending rather than active, not Local Active.. that and sorting by new are probably the big ones. If they can eventually get it anywhere near the Boost/baconreader experience that'd be incredible.

Getting people's heads around instances will be tricky but if people are looking for a specific place and are directed to it, that should be ok.

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aussie.zone

If you go to the settings for your profile you can set the preferences for the front page. Mine is now set to subscribed and new and works for the main page for the instance. No settings for the individual communits that I can see though.

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Oooh I somehow missed those dropdowns when I went looking. Subscribed/Hot seems to have done the trick. Now I see today's DT above yesterday's which is way better. Thanks!

3

Setting to new doesn't seem to sort comments here by new though. I have to manually sort every time I refresh.

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lemmy.world

Is that something you're doing on the web version or in app?... Can i do it in Jerboa?

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aussie.zone

Pretty sure it's attached to your account, so shouldn't matter where you do it from. But the profile settings in Jerboa is extremely buggy atm. Default sorting is all kinds of messed up for me, so I had to do it from the web.

2

Sooo... My account would be on my instance, or just the Lemmy main site?

Edit - yep, on my instance. Which I had forgotten. Got it now though, thanks

2

Well, I'm here... Didn't know if it would be the same but after having a look, it does feel a bit like home. I promise that I'll try be on my best behaviour, but like in the old times, if I act up please don't be afraid to put me in my place. I'm not the brightest, but with the DT here, I think I can continue to grow.

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Waddlekinsreply
aussie.zone

Most have been fine but the melb meetup was bad, def dont recommend

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Ooh i was in a bunch of american ones. One was created when covid happened, one was a sopranos server i only stayed in for a week, one was a politics server, and my current one is for the tea community! The general servers were all kinda horny and dramatic but not...creepy? The melb meetup one is a different world

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I received one of my TAFE assignments back marked. All correct, no need to resubmit🎉

Just one more to get back and I can declare myself TAFE free until term 3.

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aussie.zone

My sanemartigan account has been blocked from replying to posts in the daily thread. EDIT: looks like all comments have been shutdown.

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Also, it never dawned on me that your new account was sanemartigan....I am not very bright

2

Not sure if I count as cool but I'm glad to be here. Whoever did this thanks for making it.

4

Hola Friends,

I am the real MissDarylC but someone is impersonating me??? Hence the extra S.

So happy to see so many familiar faces here.

6

Me! This seems like the best alternative, and nice to see lots of familiar usernames.

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TuxOfStarsreply
beehaw.org

Me! And r/Melbourne and the DT was my main go to over there so I might stick around here now

3

one of the few authors I've read that I will still think about years later

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aussie.zone

I'm at work and forgot to bring in my noise cancelling headphones. The TV is on and its constant Trump rally "news". 😞

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aussie.zone

Please don't take this the wrong way, but were you trained in the arcane arts of typewriting? The only time I've seen anyone do double spaces after a punctuation was when dad taught me how to use the typewriter as a kid.

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aussie.zone

Yes, I was trained on a typewriter. My fingers insist on the double space and my brain is no longer involved in the process. I don't think I could change now, no matter how much I wanted to!

To give you an idea of the timeframe, I came first place in my typing class, an achievement for which I was awarded a Brashes voucher 🤣

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aussie.zone

Brashes voucher

So, according to Wikipedia, some time between 1860 and 1990.. I'm just gonna take the midpoint and assume 1920s.

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aussie.zone

Spot on! I will be 111 this year. So after a full century of double spacing it is definitely too hard a habbit to change now.

Fortunately it was actually the latter end of that range. We even had newfangled electric typewriters.

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Ha, nice catch! I recently noticed an older colleague doing the double spaces and it brought back memories of my mum teaching me how to type. Not sure when I dropped it, it looks weird to me now once I notice it.

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The news being on the TV was probably the worst part of giving blood the other day. Fuckin free to air news is the pits.

3

Hello world! Super relieved to see how active the new daily thread is, here's to many a daily thread to come!

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I reinstalled Reddit earlier today, and I'm very sad to see the news about the DT. I haven't been there as long as some of you, but I have been around long enough for it to feel like my little internet home. It's very upsetting to see all of the conversations and memories from the sub just gone, potentially forever.

The silver lining, I guess, is that r/Melbourne was almost the only reason I even use reddit, so I guess I can get rid of it now.

I hope everyone will be sticking around, I guess this will be my new home now.

(also, I'm still getting the hang of this fediverse and instance stuff, [email protected] is also me, but Jebora doesn't seem to have a way of logging into aussie.zone, so sh.itjust.works is my home instance for now)

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sh.itjust.works

We have both here. I somewhat represent the dog contingent, but due to confusion over the new platform and ending up with multiple accounts I am mostly present in my Raven form🙂

Breakfast is a bit sparse here so far, I have only been able to supply potatoes.

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Baconreply
aussie.zone

I will bring breakfast tomorrow if the other place shuts down.

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aussie.zone

That would be fabulous. I like it here, but it's a bit like moving to a country town. Lovely atmosphere and very pretty to look at, but the food selection has been a bit lacking.

5

The country town description is quite apt!

Must admit I've been more of a lurker on the other DT (mainly cos I haven't that much to say haha), but being a new forum / country town I'm trying to comment more (and you all seem so lovely)

6

Jerboa's been good so far, but I'm hoping Baconreader does an equivalent for this - I already miss its layout

1

I hope the ones that blocked me on r/melbourne don't come over and do the same here. Also can you swear on here? Everyone seems very well mannered on here so far.

6

Arrrggh it's cold and work sucks and everything is expensive - am I doing this right? :D Also - hi DT peeps!

6

The electrical issue from last night has been resolved. Turns out it was a light sensor outside that had been flooded.

Cooking in the dark was interesting.

5

kidcalhoon1 attained double digit status today.. All the sugar was had, and some presents (mostly asked for encyclopaedia type books, which was cool), and seemingly no meltdown.... she's asleep now, so I think we did it.

5

Just want to say I tried replying to Taleya's excellent post on the O DT thread but I couldn't

yes, there are many very good original content sub on Reddit, such as "AskReddit, AITA, AMA, TIFU, ShowerThoughts, DIY - all user generated."

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aussie.zone

@[email protected] It is possible to tag here, but it works differently. Type out the name with @ at the start, then put another @ at the end and it should give you the option of doing it as a tag. Or hold down/right click the name (on the web browser) and select copy text.

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Update: Zooks is happily nomming the Dine.
The Dine that both of them have refused for days.
The Dine that Sammi has already sampled and licked the gravy off of.
ten millon facepalm emojis
edit: and now she's hoovered up the mince that neither of them would touch. Cats gonna cat.

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I wish this site had an app. I'm not a fan of using website forums for some reason

4
aussie.zone

I got asked for ID at liquorland today. First time ever. Apparently I look under 25, which is weird because I thought people between 18 and 25 could drink. It tripped me out

4

I think the general rule is if you look under 25 they ask to see it. I've seen it on signs.

1

Just had a good gossip with one of the graduates, so much drama happening at work lately. I am teaching him to engage in workplace gossip, whoops.

The drama keeps work interesting, but also very shitty that it's there. I think I prefer the boring, uneventful, pre-drama workplace.

4

I didn't see our community on the /r/melbourne sticky about going dark again, they mentioned a discord so I messaged them about this community and I'll have a look at the discord to let them know as well.

4

How the shit do I log into Jerboa?

I can’t procrastinate on the DT if I can’t make you all live on my phone

4

If r/crochet stays dark I will lose so many patterns for things I was definitely going to maybe eventually make. So many bookmarks.

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Update on the cats: Sammi at least licked the gravy off some of the opened Dine (but didn't finish the contents).
Zooks is sacked out but the plate is near her so we'll see (wouldn't bet the farm on it).
Neither of them seem to like the minced beef.

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aussie.zone

oh they changed the shutdown time to 11:59pm midnight

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ShibbyUpreply
aussie.zone

They've shut down comments now though. Flogs the lot of them

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Yeah I was about to comment ^From^ ^11:59pm^ ^tonight,^ ^r/melbourne^ ^will^ ^enter^ ^a^ ^lockdown^ but it has already happened

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In a moment of sheer brilliance, I got completely fuddled, thought I created a duplicate account, and accidentally deleted the account I just made, inadvertently locking out the other name for good. Eventually managed to get things together enough, although I ended up with a headache. Not ideal for just getting over being ill, and a different kind of headache.

I now know what it is to be like, to be 97, and not know how to computer. Admittedly, the interface not telling you that there's an issue and just sitting there loading forever did not help any.

3

trying to follow the mini-convos via indentations in here is hurting my mind a little bit.

dark theme is 😘 though

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aussie.zone

@baconmash will be serving breakfast tomorrow I believe. I have not heard anything about the After Eight business.

3

So checking out Mlem… It’s okay for now.

Edit: Well, I didn’t mean to sound that flat. 😂

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I just discovered we can put a display name in that allows things like spaces - I even added a bird emoji.

3

Realised the comments I made from lemmy.ml wasn't appearing on here. Anyway, made a new account 🥳

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I cannot see anyone’s avatar 😦 through my instance. I’m glad most people kept the same reddit username

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goodvikingreply
aussie.zone

You can toggle to see/not see avatars in the settings. Go to the top right and find the 三 looking button and click on your username, scroll down to Settings to configure this.

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aussie.zone

I used my Reddit avatar on this account because like... Well I don't actually know. Hello everyone!

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ugh, my clothes are so frumpy, I need to get some more structured black stuff, Think I'll go to Witchery, they seem to have nice clothes and some new high heels 😊

2

Cheap katsu curry has been had. Snuggled up in an oodie of sorts. Actually going to try to go bed early again…

We’ll see.

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Ok I have another Jerboa question sorry. Is it possible to filter by new? I can do it on the web version but can't seem to find out how on Jerboa 🤔

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aussie.zone

Anyway to use other 'zones' with the aussie zone username? Trying to sign up for some other communities and cannot. I'll figure it out eventually.

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Baconreply
aussie.zone

Some communities might take a little time to approve you.

2

The majority of the communities I am subbed to in aussie.zone are from other instances, usually you can search ![email protected] in the top right search area and it will come up in our instance.

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You can put the full name in the search - so Melbourne would be ![email protected] . I found it didn't always work first time, and you need to have "all" selected, not communities.

I signed up on another instance before I found this one, and couldn't get to this community from there. I ended up creating a new user account here (which is how I became RustyRaven instead of BrightFadedDog). Then I managed to get it to work from the first one anyway, but my MPD was already established by then.

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Ok, may as well just go back to daily rants and updates here. I think I finally might have bought almost everything I need for this place and almost removed everything I don't need. The last part is a lie. I bought cats new toys and they still want to play with what's on my desk. Bit the audio cables and stuff.

About to do another aa meeting. Did much better than getting drunk with my enabler today and the opportunity was there. One day at a time as they say. Higher power? Its those people, not some god or anything, I listened to them for hours last night and they're pretty normal, believe in each other and what the teachings say, that we spend too much time being self indulgent and not enough time being giving.

I got upped on my hormones and tonight I feel superior to my old self in a lot of ways. Dr could have so easily lectured but I'm 100% honest with him so he doesn't. We have a meeting of minds, informed consent but not just on the hormones. It's very refreshing. ADHD likely he thinks also. Great. Got my wig bangs cut nicely too ,,,

After crying in the drs surgery to the replies I read about lamenting the dt dying I feel actually elated to see so many familiar faces here. There's a few people I blocked in the past, and that was then. I'm sure we've all moved on from whatever petty beef we had. I hope so anyway.

Thanks for reading, this journal isn't over than fuck. It's been a good friend.

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Anyone know what’s the name of the website/app that shows you the types of helicopter flying around in your area? Does it exist or am I going crazy lol

-1

I haven't been keeping up with Reddit since the blackout started. But I'm surprised that some subs I frequent are gone. Are mods nuking their subreddits because of Reddit's bullshit? Behind The Bastards and Gaming Circlejerk seem to be missing...

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