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Fwd: [sfchalkboard] Next Fix-it Fest is this Saturday, November 16, 1–3:30 pm in Berkeley

by Juliana A

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ben Rosenthal <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net> Date: Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 8:33 PM Subject: [sfchalkboard] Next Fix-it Fest is this Saturday, November 16, 1–3:30 pm in Berkeley To: <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net> Hi Friends - Join us for the second BUSD Fix-it Fest! A Free Community Repair Event Saturday, November 16, 1-3:30 pm Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School 1781 Rose Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 Learn to repair your broken items and help reduce waste in our community. Register your item in advance (recommended), volunteer, or find more info: https://bit.ly/fixitfests We will provide a workspace, tools, and guidance from a volunteer “Repair Coach” to help you disassemble, troubleshoot, and hopefully fix your item. Categories include: clothing, electronics, bicycles, small appliances, toys & sporting goods, jewelry, ceramics & shoes! Location & Accessibility: MLK Jr. Middle School, 1781 Rose Street, Science Building (enter through west gate across from Edith St.). Wheelchair accessible. Bike parking. Accessible by AC transit. Street parking only. COVID Policy: Masks are welcome. Rooms will be ventilated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As part of the BUSD Fix-it Fest, (Berkeley Unified School District) middle school students enrolled in MakerSpace classes will learn about repair during a weeklong unit in the classroom. This event (the second of three repair events being held during the 2024–2025 school year) will provide an opportunity for school & community members to learn how to repair household items. The third event will be held: February 8, 2025, 1–3:30 pm, Longfellow Middle School 1701 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702 Organized by: BUSD Climate Literacy Initiative and BUSD Middle School MakerSpace Programs In collaboration with Transition Berkeley, Nimble Repair, & Culture of Repair Hope you can come. Invite your friends, too. - Ben -- Thanks for keeping the bay communal, collective and rad. You got this e-mail because you're on the SF Chalkboard list: https://chalkies.website/ Unsubscribe or manage your subscription at https://lists.riseup.net/www/suboptions/sfchalkboard -- julianaferreira(a)gmail.com she/her

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Anyone going to Bhangra beats! It’s Friday free and San Francisco’s first official Diwali celebration

by Romy Ilano

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bhangra-beats-night-market-inaugural-city-of-s… Anyone going to Bhangra beats! It’s Friday free and San Francisco’s first official Diwali celebration We’ve been trying to do more “field trips” outside of SudoRoom with the intention of continuing the inspiration at museums and events with creating nights during the week Let’s get some ideas for holiday decorations at this dance party ! Sent from my iPhone

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Sudoroom tonight? (Wednesday)

by Jake Watters

I'll be going in and hanging out and maybe some others will come too

10 months, 1 week

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I've added the San Francisco, San Jose, & east bay bike parties to our calendar - let's recruit bike party people again!

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/others-events/bike-parties/ FYI I've added auxiliary bike party events (Fridays) to our SudoRoom calendar. If we want new members or people dropping by, it's a good idea to "market" to these folks - we had a great time when they came in a while ago to hack on their bikes all at once. https://sudoroom.org/when-the-bike-party-came-to-sudoroom/ what's nice is that the themes change every month for each of these 3 bike parties, and it's a new opportunity for people to be creative especially with costumes. It would also be a good idea to document "starter projects" (I never got around to work on my own bike personally and might add to the wiki) ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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has anyone created Christmas / new year's decorations or costumes at SudoRoom or Noisebridge?

by Romy Ilano

I'm looking for stuff to put on the sudoroom events pages and blog - has anyone created new year's celebrations or costumes? Religious decorations? Winter solstice pagan celebration LED costumes? If you'd like to share your photos we would love it! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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spire has a buy nothing - clothing swap on Black Friday - should we do something similar

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/events/black-friday-clothes-swap-the-spire/ Discussed this with Paige on Monday - November 29 (black Friday) the Spire down the street is having a clothing swap. This sounds like we could do some kind of measured donation on the same day to the free store (we don't want them to be overwhelmed) ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Can you help fixing this tv? fixit clinic

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/fix-it-clinic-tv-can-you-help/ Can anyone help out with this fixit project? around a tv? Marc, and Mike opened up a 55″ 4K TV and discovered inside it’s a Toshiba Model K550WDR1 rebranded as a Best Buy Toshiba 551621U - When power is applied It flashes on briefly, shows the logo, and then goes out. Normally this would indicate a power supply issue, but after a little online research some people think the problem might be a firmware issue. *Can someone help to find firmware we can try to flash on this* *TV to see if that resurrects it?* <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_8281.jpeg>Examining the wounded television <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_20241105_224834.jpg> <https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_20241105_222750.jpg> ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Should we create a lending library of stuff we actually don't want people to return?

by Romy Ilano

We have a lot of stuff? Should we create a lending library of stuff we don't actually care if people return or not? This would have less maintenance costs and effort than if we had a lending library of stuff we really want back (and we'd have to manage late fees etc) *a members-only "lending library" would help marketing our* - This could serve as a* big marketing plug for SudoRoom -* Hey be a member! You get access to our (wink wink) lending library where you can borrow stuff on the honor system - We could make a page where we give each item (like a cute glue gun) pretty stickers and a name. "Borrow Homer the glue gun! She has created universes you have never seen!" and have little animated cartoons ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Do we have an extra standing desk converter I can borrow

by Romy Ilano

So we have an extra standing desk converter? They go on top of regular desks and look like this https://desky.com/products/zero-standing-desk-converter Sent from my iPhone

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Network switches

by Thomas Lopes

Anyone can use these: 8 port gigabit Netgear GS-108 2 8 port 100Mbit w/ 4 ports POE TP Link TL-SF1008P Otherwise I'll e-waste. Thomas

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Looking for volunteers - Women in Tech Dinner -Tuesday, December 3rd from 5:00 – 7:00pm

by Romy Ilano

I can’t make this one but it looks like it’s a great cause and volunteers who want to inspire a younger folks in Oakland https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz515XvNoMMTXGuHENMhed-m9LsJuNQyk… Sent from my iPhone

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Folks I updated the blog with some new blog posts

by Romy Ilano

Do you have any stories of project syou've worked on and how SudoRoom helped you out? - brainstorming a guide for total newcomers. It should have a flow chart and make it really obvious how to plan your projects, how to ask for help https://sudoroom.org/blog/ We are not "marketing" ourselves well enough for a big advantage that we have - we are nerds who offer an affordable hackerspace with ties to the community. Also holidays are coming up and people will be working on lights decorations for various religions, especially the christian and christian orthodox ones! and new year is a biggie. Has anyone worked on xmas lights before at the SudoRoom / new year's even decorations or costumes? that would be nice to feature on our blog ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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StupidHacks Spiel

by Ethan Hu

I'm inviting y'all to StupidHacks (aka stupid hackathon 9) - attendance wasn't enough to warrant using both NoiseBridge and Sudoroom so it'll be in NoiseBridge only for this semester! Here's the blurb I sent attendees - our slack is at https://join.slack.com/t/stupidhacks8/shared_invite/zt-2tganat7o-1_n3tXhqs3… Also if you know any affordable but good places to cater from (near bart) with a budget of ~$150 please lmk ASAP! <blurb> Welcome to stupidhacks! Please join our stupid slack ASAP! Invites have been sent to your email, but reply if one has not. *Updates will be given regularly there - please turn on notifications*! Check-in instructions for November 17th: The event will be held *on Sunday November 17th, with me departing from UCB ~10AM *at Noisebridge in SF (272 Capp St). 1. To go to Noisebridge, take BART from downtown Berkeley to 16th st. mission. 2. Turn right (towards 17th st) on Capp. *Don't worry about getting lost - at the beginning of the event we will ask early comers to meet at BART! Later attendees may accompany directors as they shuttle catering back and forth.* 3. A link will be released for remote attendees! If you aren't feeling good please only attend remotely! Trust me, the experience is just as good online. Sponsors (mostly parodies of actual startups that sponsor hackathons): 1. "AI" sponsor: Your project should include matrix multiplication or some LinAlg-related joke in addition to wasting energy in general. 2. "Cryptocurrency" sponsor: Any overly convoluted data structures or methods of storing data in general qualify. Wasting power by itself also qualifies. </blurb> Best Regards, -- Ethan Hu (he series) ASUC Senator 412 Eshleman Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720 Associated Students of the University of California <http://www.asuc.org> ethanhu(a)berkeley.edu

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fellowship opportunity on open tech for social + environmental research

by unixjazz

Dear sudoers, I’m writing to let you know of a fellowship opportunity for community organizations and researchers working with common technologies for socio-environmental research. The goal of the fellowship is to bring graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and members of community-based organizations with new perspectives to socio-environmental research with open technologies. **Application deadline is Dec. 15, 2024.** The fellowship is designed to: - Encourage translational and integrative work involving social + environmental research with common technologies; - Provide a space for fellows and network members to collaborate on common research issues, challenges, and solutions. Fellows may be: - Graduate students conducting research with open technologies on socio-environmental issues; - Post-docs with existing community projects in Science and Technology Studies, Open Science, and/or Socio-environmental research; and/or - Community practitioners who are interested in integrating common technologies into their environmental justice work. The SEEKCommons project website contains all the necessary fellowship information, including the application link: https://seekcommons.org/fellowship-application.html https://seekcommons.org If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. I try to be present every Tuesday at Sudoroom! Best wishes, LF (on behalf of the org. team)

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Intro & project

by Tara Odorizzi

Hello! I recently discovered Sudo Room while searching for some support on a project I'm working on, and just became a member. I'm excited this community exists! I'm creating an immersive art project for an event in New York in a couple of weeks. The premise is that participants are traveling between dimensions via an interdimensional travel agency but their mirror selves hijack the service. I am hoping to create a few things, including a voice modulator that I can mount inside a mask and a rumble pack kind of thing that can be attached to the bottom of a chair. I'd like to sync the vibration in the pack to an audio track, along with some lights. I'm a graphic designer by trade with a pretty diverse skillset, but sadly building something like this is not (yet) in my toolbox. I was planning on coming to the event on Tuesday night and would be very very grateful if anyone were willing to help me. In exchange I'd be happy to do a trade or to pay or make you cookies or write you a poem or petsit or teach others something if I can. I know lots of design tools, can paint, draw, and other not so technical things! Thanks for reading and hope to meet you soon. Tara

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Tonight: help fix the Toshiba TV

by Peter Mui

Hi sudoers: There’s a Toshiba 55l621U 55” 4K TV in sudoroom I’d like to put in service as the new jitsi and discord telepresence monitor. But it’s currently not working: it flashes on briefly and then goes out. Normally this would indicate a power supply issue, but I’ve done a little online research and some people online claim the problem might be a firmware issue, e.g. see https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/toshiba-55l621u-wont-turn-on-properly.… Can you do some more online sleuthing and see if you come up with a plan of attack for fixing this TV? And let’s try to put our heads together tonight at sudoroom and get this puppy working: I’ve already got a rolling stand for it. Sincerely, -Peter

10 months, 2 weeks

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North doorway entrance to Omni

by Jake Watters

We've been asked by the new building owners to start using the other doors to enter the building! I'm talking about the double doors on the north side, which open onto the sidewalk of 48th street. We need to fix the outdoor light above that entryway, and clean the area maybe with a power washer, and make the whole doorway more inviting. Volunteers? There is a new web link to buzz those doors open, please email me if you don't have that link yet! -jake

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Do you have projects to share or stories about SudoRoom? Get them on the November newsletter

by Romy Ilano

I have the November newsletter up! https://sudoroom.org/november-at-sudoroom/ Do you have any interesting projects, things about town or things to share? They would help our blog! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

10 months, 2 weeks

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sudoroom needs more monthly subscriptions! check your contribution

by Jake

We definitely need more monetary engagement! We are not making enough money each month to keep up with rent. If you're reading this, please check on your monthly payment subscription! Even $30/mo is a huge improvement over what we're getting now! https://sudoroom.org/humans if you have trouble logging into your account just create a new one or email me if you need a password reset - i'm not sure if the automatic reset email function is working. you can also setup an automatic PayPal payment from your own end, our paypal link is here: https://sudoroom.org/donate -jake On Sun, 3 Nov 2024, Romy Ilano via sudo-discuss wrote: > Are we around Thanksgiving week? i updated the sudoroom lu.ma calendars > > https://lu.ma/sudoroom > > will be adding themes, they seem to help a bit with vibe. > > Have we thought about promoting ourselves as a low cost hackerspace? I'm > hearing prices for similar (though more organized and cleaner hackerspace > =P) and the memberships are running $150-200 minimum. Which is fair! just > that we are a nice alternative and are community oriented. > > > > ============================= > > Romy Ilano > romy(a)snowyla.com >

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Updated the SudoRoom calendars - are we around Thanksgiving week?

by Romy Ilano

Are we around Thanksgiving week? i updated the sudoroom lu.ma calendars https://lu.ma/sudoroom will be adding themes, they seem to help a bit with vibe. Have we thought about promoting ourselves as a low cost hackerspace? I'm hearing prices for similar (though more organized and cleaner hackerspace =P) and the memberships are running $150-200 minimum. Which is fair! just that we are a nice alternative and are community oriented. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

10 months, 2 weeks

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Fwd: Roof Renovation Starting TODAY

by Paige P

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Valerie Jameson <valerie(a)thecalli.org> Date: Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 9:08 AM Subject: Roof Renovation Starting TODAY To: omnidelegates <omnidelegates(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>, <cultlabsboard(a)googlegroups.com> Hi everyone, After some uncertainty the roofers arrived today at 8:30 am and are starting on the 48th street corner. Closest to CCL and the disco room. They will be moving clockwise throughout the building in sections. Most of the tear down is happening in the next 72 hours and the entire project is slated to last two weeks. They will wrap up daily by 4-5 pm. They have a 4 person crew : Cleaver is the Forman, Marcelo, (another person) and David as the Project Manager. They are using the neighboring properties' parking spaces to fit their equipment. I have yet to speak with their Project Manager this morning, but will get end of day updates starting today. *Roof work preparation:* - Avoid parking on Shattuck - Discourage folks from hanging out outside - Remove hanging items and things on walls - Be cautious and move items that are stored too close to one another that can crash -bump against each other due to unavoidable vibration during tear off - Consider wrapping items in a protective material. - Secure items in bins/boxes that are sensitive to dust - Place tarps or plastic sheeting to avoid debris and dust falling on personal property - Consider wearing an K95 grade mask or higher to avoid inhaling any toxins from chipped paint etc. I will be on site early today and tomorrow to offer support to groups that need it. Feel free to reach out to me on Slack or email to get in touch. -- *Valerie Jameson* (she/ella) Property Manager - 4799 Shattuck Avenue <https://www.google.com/maps/search/4799+Shattuck+Avenue?entry=gmail&source=g> *Collective Action & Land Liberation Institute (CALLI) * CALLI Website <https://www.thecalli.org/> East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/ebprec> | X <https://www.x.com/ebprec> | Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/eb.prec> | YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/ebprec> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/ebprec> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnidelegates" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to omnidelegates+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/omnidelegates/CAPHcY-XBF39OTR2bfobBO9azMr… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/omnidelegates/CAPHcY-XBF39OTR2bfobBO9azMr…> .

10 months, 3 weeks

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Nonprofit Software Development Summit Nov 20-22

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: Some of you might be interested in this Nonprofit Software Development Summit Nov 20-22 at Preservation Park: https://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit24 Cheers, -Peter

10 months, 3 weeks

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we have to take down this image of Octavia Butler from our site

by Jake

This takedown request seems legit, and the link to our wordpress checks out to such an image. So we have to take the image down. It seems to have gone up in July. Here's the link https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image.jpeg maybe we can use a different picture of Octavia Butler instead. does anyone know how to take this image down from our site? -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 22:24:43 +0000 (UTC) From: Alice Arnold <TDN147293(a)phototakedown.com> Reply-To: Alice Arnold <alice(a)a2studio.org> To: info(a)sudoroom.org Cc: Alice Arnold <alice(a)a2studio.org> Subject: [sudo-info] Takedown Notice TDN147293 info(a)sudoroom.org VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Reference: TDN147293 Date: October 28th, 2024 Dear Sir or Madam; My name is Alice Arnold. Your website is displaying, or a website that your company is hosting, is infringing on a copyright-protected image that I am the legal rights owner of. This image was copied onto your servers without my permission. The original image, titled ‘octavia butler los angeles 1999 2000px’, to which I own the exclusive copyrights, can be found at: https://a2studio.org/alice-arnold-photography/ The unauthorized and infringing copy is located at: https://sudoroom.org/events/hackerspace-roaming-art-walk-walking-meetup/ The image is hosted at: https://sudoroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/image.jpeg Additional Notes: Your site is using my image without permission and without credit. This is an illegal use as per copyright law. Take the image off your site and off of your servers. This email constitutes an official notification of the infringement and my legal request that you immediately remove or disable access to the infringing material, and ensure that the user refrains from any unauthorized use or sharing of my copyrighted materials in the future. Additionally, I request that the removed link state the following: "This content has been removed due to copyright infringement." If you are hosting the image for another party, I request that you immediately notify the infringer of this notice, inform them of their duty to remove the infringing material immediately, ensure the material is removed, and notify them to cease any further posting of infringing material to your server in the future. Under Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), you are to expediently remove the infringing work upon receipt of this notice. The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act may grant service providers immunity from liability so long as it investigates and corrects this copyright violation in a timely manner. Noncompliance may result in the loss of your statutory immunity for the infringement under the Act. Should your company fail to comply, in a timely manner, I will consider taking legal action. I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. The information provided in the notification is accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief. Nothing in this notification shall serve as a waiver of any rights or remedies, of myself, with respect to this alleged infringement, all of which are expressly reserved. I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Please send me a prompt response indicating the actions that you have taken to resolve this matter, making sure to reference ‘TDN147293’ in your response. Regards, Alice Arnold (by electronic signature) alice(a)a2studio.org New York, NY, 10002 United States[open?upn=u001.yp4Y8aJYiJopUkwHaIgPH5-2BSOTdPJbCjG3POwVGdcVtYc6Cc0t4K7zATHQQcUcXPH-2FZqsx9s78GeFuGl38AzAaoBhi86oQhQtV1zov4qJRqp7NZ9nah2gFyZ0B82MIFB7b7lpDafxdg-2FRcRpVO3mB5UzrOBYneMWnBf7H4zegroQ-2F1mgfxOkXXqvb-2BdgMoPCogg2deDMDF-2B1p9dhQZ4QXgSjAh8PfPPheP6K4hvH-2BLxIYO KxxezlRnRAwdOYAhwR]

10 months, 3 weeks

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Misfit Shine and other no-longer-supported wearables?

by Judy Tuan

I just found my old Misfit Shine, an activity tracker from around 10 years ago. All its apps appear to be down. Does anybody know how to decode bluetooth signals, maybe we can get step data off of the thing and start using it again? Does anyone know of a wiki or something of defunct fitness gadgets and their open-source life support? lf such projects exist in the world? Maybe there are things for really popular old fitness trackers but I don't think the Misfit Shine ever got much traction lol. I used to wear my Shine in a beautiful sacred-geometry-looking necklace peripheral and I'd check it kinda like a pocketwatch. It doesn't have a display, but it could tell you the time and your % progress to your daily step goal via tiny little LED dots around the edge. It is a svelte little thing. Swarovski even did a collab to make a crystal version plus sparkly bracelets for it. I was the target market for such a gadget and probably the only one. lol

10 months, 3 weeks

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StupidHacks 8.1!!!!!

by Ethan Hu

Hi all, Jake and I have been in talks for a while, and despite Berkeley room bookings being in the air still, could we confirm a time (or multiple) to bus over Stupid Hackathon attendees? Tentative site is: stupidhacks.csua.berkeley.edu and tentative date is November 17 (one-day for now, probably a sequel second semester that will be longer) Best Regards, -- Ethan Hu (he series) ASUC Senator 412 Eshleman Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720 Associated Students of the University of California <http://www.asuc.org> ethanhu(a)berkeley.edu

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