groxx
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Bipedal and featherless.
I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void.
I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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groxx
@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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groxx
@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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2d ago
@samhenrigold apple sauce
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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groxx
@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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4d ago
@elricofmelnibone @briankrebs yea, there's a 0% chance of this working.
It'll only harm good-faith buyers and sellers, who announce the transfer, losing them tons of users in the process. Any in bad faith will just not do so.
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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groxx
@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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5d ago
@kottke unfortunately the features vary in their support - e.g. there was a good chunk of time (a couple years maybe?) where quotes didn't ensure exact matches, and you had to +word or +"multiple words" (which didn't always work) to get precision again. I've also had negative and site matches (and especially negative site matches) fail, though it has consistently at least down-ranked those terms. it depends on how "helpful" Google is feeling / who wants a promotion this quarter.
generally speaking though yea, these are all super useful, and you can get many of them without needing to remember terms if you use their "advanced search" page: https://www.google.com/advanced_search
the advanced search page has also worked consistently for me, unlike special terms in the general UI.
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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groxx
@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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Apr 06, 2026
@AmyZenunim it's an extremely rare vent-channel that doesn't degrade into rampant self-reinforcing toxicity.
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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groxx
@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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Apr 05, 2026
@mcc I think it's spelled "copilot" these days
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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groxx
@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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Apr 03, 2026
@lemgandi @david_chisnall @futurebird I'm sure they're aware - the parabolic antenna that the hat makes is aimed down, increasing your reception of the Earth's healing Schumann resonance waves. It's like dial-up for the collective unconscious (slower access is healthier, it's low glycemic index information and the opposite of unhealthy 5G).
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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groxx
@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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Mar 28, 2026
@fdroidorg there are a number of good articles about calculators and what the stock Android one does to be so accurate - I can't find the older one I half-remember, but https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/the-impossible-calculator looks alright. It's interesting stuff.
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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Mar 12, 2026
@fluffy @adrienne @shibacomputer @Mer__edith thank you! so apparently they haven't even switched it to "only notify mutuals", which some other privacy-oriented ones have done. I'll bet abusers are thrilled :blobfoxsad:
I'm also assuming that happened before you had the opportunity to change that "find me" setting, which iirc needs you to set up a username, which can only happen after it's too late?
("mutual contact data" does not at all imply "desire to contact" so I think this is still horrifically bad if not opt-in, bit it would at least be slightly less horrifying)
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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Mar 12, 2026
@fluffy @adrienne @shibacomputer @Mer__edith since I'm still trying to find conclusive info about "is this fixed now": when did you sign up? most of my info is from at least 5 years ago, but it's extremely difficult to test it out due to needing a new phone number + unknown backend delays before contacts sync or whatever.
the last major attempt was here, closed by Moxie, which I don't read as "it does not do that any more" for some reason: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7409
quick searches show it at least in 2021: https://medium.com/swlh/if-signal-is-so-hot-on-privacy-why-did-it-tell-everyone-i-joined-d85cda54a322 (I can't believe this isn't a more broadly visible issue, but at least some talk about it)
but yeah contact stuff has been an issue for a long time: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6750
it's much more polite about contacts syncing nowadays (I don't sync and it has never prompted me again and it works just fine). last I've seen they still relied on SGX for contact privacy, and I don't really trust that... but it's a decent approach for contact-sharers, and opting out is now trivial, so that's fine
I have it installed and use it when I can and am broadly happy with the changes under Meredith, to put this all in context. it's still probably the best big option. there's just a lot of deeply undesirable muck to walk out of, and it'll take time.
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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Mar 12, 2026
@dissident @aral @shibacomputer @Mer__edith that's UI for after signup though, related to / rolled out with the username feature, isn't it? or is that now shown before the blast when creating an account?
I'd just test it myself, but I don't have dozens of phone numbers to just throw away if it's inconclusive. or even a second handy, I'd have to go buy one just to test it once.
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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Mar 12, 2026
@shibacomputer @Mer__edith
(edit to try to minimize distraction: apologies for derailing discussion a bit early on! Signal is a relatively small part of the writing, it's much broader. it was just literally a discussion point for me minutes before seeing this)
ironically, I was just discussing Signal with my wife, and she refuses to install it ever since it spammed people who had her phone number in their contacts the moment she signed up, with no warning or option. and I don't blame her one bit. so many of those "it's good for the social graph" decisions are obviously dangerous and directly at odds with the other stated/advertised purpose of "the best option if your safety is at risk". and it put up such a fight to try to force you to sync contacts, for so long.
wild, insane stuff, every step of the way. I'm still reading through, but wanted to say thanks for the attempts, and the write-up :blobfoxthumbsup:
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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Feb 22, 2026
@mhoye @jonathankoren it's branchless too, and easily parallelized onto a GPU to speed it up
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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Feb 16, 2026
@jon these burrowing owls are so photogenic :blobfoxlaugh: I've seen SO many great shots
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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May 29, 2025
@forgefed
To explore for repos that might be useful: almost never. I generally rely on those "awesome-*" repos for a curated list.
(I mean, I do sometimes need to search for those, but...)
To find where a project officially lives, because the original is unknown/migrated/whatever: not too frequently needed, but this is definitely the main goal for repo-searching for me.
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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@groxx@hachyderm.io
Bipedal and featherless. I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void. I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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