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yan

@bcrypt

2 years

could not for the life of me figure out how to buy a bus ticket in Milan. it was literally easier to get a shell 😆

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@bcrypt

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in january 2023, i had a simple ultrasound done at SimonMed. they sent me 4 bills totaling $5137 for it. after a year of emails and phone calls, they finally admitted today that i only owed $140.53 and are mailing me a refund check! here's how i did it 🧵

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@bcrypt

1 year

i don’t even know where to begin

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@bcrypt

4 years

my friend sophie got fired from her job at Facebook and turned down a $64,000 severance package in order to leak this, so u better read it.

"I Have Blood On My Hands": A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation

A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew about specific examples of global political manipulation — and failed to act.

www.buzzfeednews.com

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@bcrypt

7 years

8 rabbits, aka 1 rabbyte

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@bcrypt

5 years

so crazy that if u just touch a computer in the right ways u can make like 100 billion dollars

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@bcrypt

8 years

confirmed that Facebook lets me exclude black, asian, and hispanic people from seeing my ads. why can't i exclude white people?

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5 months

ROFL at andrew huberman saying that if you have a 20% chance of pregnancy in any given month, the chance of being pregnant after 6 months is 120%

How to Optimize Fertility in Males & Females

In this episode, I discuss the mechanisms by which human eggs and sperm are generated, the ovulatory/menstrual cycle, the conception process and overall fert...

www.youtube.com

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@bcrypt

5 years

this is a udp joke so i don't care if u get it

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@bcrypt

6 months

tl;dr if u have insurance check that the amount ur billed lines up with what insurance says u owe before paying. if u overpaid u can try a demand letter to get a refund. ask the provider for a superbill. also "Never Pay the First Bill" has some tips for negotiating a bill down.

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@bcrypt

3 years

i…. just received a children’s book about a rabbit who travels back in time to medieval europe and gets everyone hyped about blockchain

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@bcrypt

5 months

in case youtube takes it down

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@bcrypt

7 years

amazingly i work on a security team where nobody wants to go drinking, so instead we went out for an elaborate tea service after work lol

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@bcrypt

6 months

6/ i called Anthem again to do a 3-way call with SimonMed to explain that i didn't owe them money, they owed me money. again nothing happened for months. in the meantime i started reading Never Pay the First Bill by Marshall Allen which suggested suing them in small claims court

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7/ the first step to suing in small claims in CA is to send a demand letter, so i used to do this for free. i both mailed and emailed it to simonmed. they replied promptly via email saying they'd look into it

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@bcrypt

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8/ after a few back-and-forths with SimonMed, they said their internal investigation concluded that i wasn't owed anything. however they offered to send me a superbill explaining the charges. i said sure. to my surprise, the PDF they sent me showed they owed me 484.92 ROFL

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@bcrypt

7 years

unpopular opinion of the day: i wish infosec (and tech industry in general) put less emphasis on teaching people to be public speakers and more emphasis on teaching them to be good technical writers

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@bcrypt

6 months

2/ the first bill they sent was for $484.92, which i paid promptly. a few months later they sent a bill for $3378.69! i contacted my insurance and they sent me an updated EOB saying i only owed an additional $140.53.

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@bcrypt

8 years

my left pinky is ripped af 💪

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@bcrypt

6 months

9/ their own PDF contained the last bit of proof i needed to get the refund! i simply replied saying so and they immediately escalated it. a few days later they asked me where to send the check :)

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@bcrypt

4 years

the person who used gamestop as a bank in 2014 was way ahead of their time

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@bcrypt

5 years

this car is ok

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@bcrypt

3 years

i hereby declare today to be BGP Awareness Day

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@bcrypt

6 months

3/ i emailed simonmed and attached the EOB. they said they would look into it. shortly after i got a new bill for $140.53 in the mail which i paid. then i noticed the 484.92 amount wasn't counted in my insurance deductible so i contacted my insurance asking why

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@bcrypt

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4/ a representative from Anthem replied saying that their previous reply was wrong; i only owed $140.53 total. so simonmed owed me a refund for the first bill ($484.92). i called simonmed about this and their rep just said they would look into it and send me a check if needed.

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@bcrypt

7 years

i've written links in markdown 100+ times and i still have to look up whether the brackets or the parentheses come first. every single time.

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@bcrypt

6 months

5/ months passed with no refund. i asked Anthem what to do and they suggested Anthem, SimonMed, and I do a 3-way call. Anthem set up this call and again the SimonMed rep said they would look into it. months later, instead of a refund, SimonMed sent me another bill for $1133.18

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@bcrypt

7 years

a group of furries in costume is being accosted by casino staff for foiling the facial recognition system. #PeakDefcon

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@bcrypt

3 years

just gave my first guest lecture at stanford after dropping out in 2012 lol

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@bcrypt

4 years

want to exercise at home but too lazy to figure out a routine? i have solved ur problem by building a web app that randomly generates workouts w/ random pictures scraped from Google Images and random tracks from SoundCloud:

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@bcrypt

6 years

i fixed the macbook keyboard

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@bcrypt

8 years

last night someone explained meditation to me as cache invalidation for your mind

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@bcrypt

7 years

check out my sweet burner laptop

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@bcrypt

7 years

it's great making a product for linux users because they have such a low baseline expectation for things working out-of-the-box and will go to great lengths to help you debug

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@bcrypt

7 years

me every night

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@bcrypt

5 years

when i joined @brave in 2015, we estimated that the Brave 1.0 release was about 6 months away. today we finally did it!!! so proud of the team (which is now about 14x larger) :D

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@bcrypt

4 years

pg&e also: * caused the deadliest fires in CA history bc they chose to spend money on lobbying & paying investors rather than maintaining their infrastructure * declared bankruptcy to avoid liability for fire victims * spent millions on lobbying politicians after that

J. Smith (amannamedsmith.bsky.social)

@AManNamedSmith

4 years

Just as a reminder... If you're in California, and your power goes out due to a rolling blackout, PG&E had the money to upgrade their infrastructure to ensure this doesn't happen and they gave it to their shareholders and executives.

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@bcrypt

7 years

i remember the days when people still programmed in low-level languages such as untranspiled javascript

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@bcrypt

6 years

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@bcrypt

6 months

fyi homebrew had the backdoored version of xz utils; updating now will downgrade it

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@bcrypt

5 years

i don’t know who needs to see this but here u go

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@bcrypt

3 years

u mean to tell me i didn’t need to type “sudo” for the last 12 years??

Ars Technica

@arstechnica

3 years

A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on every major Linux distro by @dangoodin001

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@bcrypt

8 years

relationship goals

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@bcrypt

9 years

am i in a nightmare rn

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@bcrypt

5 years

got the best, AKA worst, hackerone report ever. someone reported that an attacker website can figure out a person's IP address by *gaining local access to the person's machine*, installing a NodeJS webserver, and using the IP npm package to get the IP.

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@bcrypt

5 years

my friends: me: what if Game of Thrones is actually the prequel to the Redwall series because everyone dies at the end and small woodland animals become the dominant species

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@bcrypt

2 years

just made a "decentralized" "alternative" to twitter; everyone should go "join" it to make an account: fork to tweet: git commit --allow-empty to follow someone: git remote add <alias> <their fork url> to retweet: git cherry-pick <their "tweet">

GitHub - diracdeltas/tweets: janky twitter replacement.

janky twitter replacement. Contribute to diracdeltas/tweets development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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@bcrypt

8 years

hypothesis: most people's feelings about most things are just cached responses

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@bcrypt

4 years

my biggest takeaway from this article is that FB could be doing a lot more to prevent politically-motivated bot activity, but they choose not to because they don't see any immediate revenue or PR benefit from doing so.

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@bcrypt

6 years

i hate the confrontational tone of 'git blame'. from now on i will rename it to 'git thanks'.

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@bcrypt

7 years

it’d be cool to live in a society where you get to go to college for 1 year every several years in order to learn a new field

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@bcrypt

2 years

just got the heartbreaking news that peter eckersley is in the hospital and may not make it. there will be a vigil for him at 7pm in duboce park. if you want to share a story about him, please let me know.

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@bcrypt

7 years

if you made #30Under30 , don’t give your personal info to Forbes. I found a bug that lets any 30under30 member (like me) see other members’ DoBs, addresses, phones, etc. Forbes ignored my emails asking them to fix.

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@bcrypt

8 years

global DNS ddos is the grownup version of a snow day. ☃️

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@bcrypt

7 years

who made this

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@bcrypt

5 years

if you exclude english and spanish, the most commonly spoken language in each US state is pretty surprising.

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@bcrypt

4 years

things the javascript event loop runs in: a thread

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@bcrypt

3 years

buried in this announcement is the absolutely crazy revelation that until 2 weeks ago, anyone could have published an update to any npm package. (HT @feross )

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@bcrypt

5 years

omfg my dentist today made a beat out of the dental cleaning tool sounds WHILE CLEANING MY TEETH and then she declared that her stage name would be Splash Mouth

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@bcrypt

6 years

ask yourself does this iptables rule spark joy

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@bcrypt

5 years

OMG someone actually discovered malware (on the official Monero website) because the attackers changed the download binary but didn't change the hashes posted on the website this is a big day for hash checkers everywhere

Official Monero website is hacked to deliver currency-stealing malware

GetMonero.org delivers Linux and Windows binaries that steal users' funds.

arstechnica.com

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@bcrypt

6 years

we don’t usually like colors, but today is an exception. happy #SFPride from azuki and me!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤

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@bcrypt

4 years

wear a mask

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@bcrypt

7 years

if your site embeds tweets, add <meta name="twitter:dnt" content="on"> so that Twitter doesn't track your visitors

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@bcrypt

6 years

A lot of people ask "why should I work in software development as opposed to math/physics/finance/etc.?" One reason is that this field is surprisingly full of "inadequate equilibria" (a steady-state in which low-hanging fruits are still available for non-experts to solve).

🔎Julia Evans🔍

@b0rk

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Myth 1: "Ruby has existed for like 20 years. If it were a good idea someone would have done it already." Reality: Not that many people actually work on Ruby profilers! Those people have different priorities and interests than me!

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@bcrypt

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FYI Sophie did NOT leak this memo to Buzzfeed. she posted it internally at FB, and then @BuzzFeed published this article without her permission. I'm disappointed in @BuzzFeed for not respecting their source's wishes on when and how to publish their information.

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@bcrypt

1 year

cannot praise tim cook and the team at apple highly enough for making my rabbit’s ear go over the clock on the latest update

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@bcrypt

5 years

in today’s edition of “DMs that could have been phrased better”

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@bcrypt

7 years

dating preferences: UTC, 24-hour time, week starts on Monday

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@bcrypt

8 years

my neck my back my IRC and my Slack

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@bcrypt

7 years

phew glad my rabbit didn’t login as root

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@bcrypt

8 years

there is a github thread with 42 messages in my inbox this morning where everyone is named Brian

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@bcrypt

7 years

gitcoin: the author of the commit sha1 with the longest prefix of 0's in your repository is now the project maintainer

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@bcrypt

6 years

hi i just want to encourage you to tell someone that they matter, even if you think they know it already. it might sound dumb but someone did this for me and it saved my night.

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@bcrypt

4 years

crypto/privacy bingo card, tag urself

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@bcrypt

6 years

these were all done using makeup (no photoshop) by artist Mimi Choi

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2 years

peter, among other things, was my first boss at EFF and gave me a chance in cybersecurity when nobody else did. he was the mastermind behind HTTPS Everywhere and Let’s Encrypt. few people have had such a positive impact on the Internet in so little time

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@bcrypt

7 years

i right-click where i want

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@bcrypt

7 years

dystopian novel idea: a near-future world in which the visible spectrum is subject to FCC regulation in order to control visual noise. artists have to apply for licenses to use certain colors.

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@bcrypt

7 years

my social media feeds are like 10% shitting on cryptocurrencies, 10% memes, 40% politics, 30% infosec, 5% people's personal updates, and 5% posts from my local rabbit shelter. the rabbit shelter posts are the best tbh.

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the new search engine we've been working on at @brave is now in public beta! * we don't track clicks or queries * we don't profile you * for localized results, we only use IP and don't store it * we show you what % of results are served from our own index

Brave Search

Search the Web. Privately. Truly useful results, AI-powered answers, & more. All from an independent index. No profiling, no bias, no Big Tech.

search.brave.com

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4 years

absolutely stunned at the brutal honesty of this cover letter

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@bcrypt

8 years

The military is threatening to put @xychelsea in solitary for the next 3 decades because she attempted suicide.

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6 years

everyone knows you're not a real software engineer unless you've collected sand to put into a furnace and purify into ingots for silicon wafers, duh

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@bcrypt

7 years

fun way to monitor someone's IP address: 1. create a paid slack workspace 2. get them to join your slack 3. now you can see their IP address and device type in Slack's access logs as long as they're logged in and have the Slack webpage/app open

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5 years

great news!! it’s now possible to be 10x more goth than before because MIT has created a black that is 10x blacker then the previously-blackest black.

MIT creates blackest black that is darker than Vantablack

MIT engineers have created a blackest black coating from carbon nanotubes that is reportedly 10 times darker than any material created before, including Vantablack.

www.dezeen.com

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@bcrypt

7 years

good starting point for debugging your thought patterns:

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@bcrypt

6 years

fun fact: i applied to throw a tea party (securiTEA) at defcon this year for folks who don’t like drinking. the hotel, which has a no-outside-beverages policy, wanted to charge us for hot water at $100/gallon

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Hey friends - I won't be drinking in Vegas this year. I'd appreciate support in this matter and not trying to force me to because I'd still like to hang out with you and I won't if that nonsense goes on. Generally good advice to not do that since you don't know someone's reasons

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@bcrypt

6 years

new year’s eve in 1970 must have been an epoch party

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@bcrypt

5 years

this is an old optical illusion where there are 12 black dots in the pic but most ppl can't see all of them at once. since u aren't able to focus on all the dots simultaneously, ur brain makes stuff up to fill in the gaps. this is a good metaphor for life. perception != reality

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this was the first galaxy brain meme i ever saw and im still not over it tbh

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3 years

RIP @dakami . u were not only a brilliant hacker and artist but also a great friend. i’ll never forget how u paid for my trip to Toorcon so i could speak there, or all the times u were on ur laptop in the middle of a party debugging the giant LED cubes u built. thx for all the joy

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3 years

not impressed

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@bcrypt

6 years

hello my cat here would like to participate in the social engineering contest

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@bcrypt

5 years

remember this meme?? lolol

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@bcrypt

7 years

Wow. @EFF just resigned from the W3C over DRM.

An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership

Dear Jeff, Tim, and colleagues, In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” an API whose sole function was to provide a

www.eff.org

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5 years

its pretty cool that we live in a world where we need acousticians to make rooms sound good but not the equivalent for light waves imagine if ur room being slightly the wrong size made everything look more green because of a resonance at the 550nm wavelength lol

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