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LineageOS adds internal support for microG
https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_base/+/383574
https://review.lineageos.org/q/topic:microg-eval
And the application signature spoofing is locked-down to apps signed by microg.org.
As of February 25th 2024, LineageOS has added internal support for application signature spoofing, a critical pre-requisite for full microG functionality. LineageOS ROM images built after that date will include this new feature.
This means that many people will no longer have to root their device and install tools like Xposed/LSposed to make their ROMs compatible with microG. This is a win for both security/stability as well as user friendliness, as there is no longer any need for any settings/permissions in this implementation. The ROM will “just work” with core modules released by the microG project.
Other than application signature spoofing hacks, microG installation tasks remain as before. Please see #microg #installers note for a general overview and links to recommended installation tools.~This is huge news for the microG project, as LineageOS is the largest and most famous custom Android ROM project in the world.
LOS is also used as the foundation for a large percentage of other custom android ROMs as well. Which means that almost every one of those ROMs will also now include microG support by default, without any extra effort on their part.
The impact of this on the custom ROM community cannot be overstated: it is a “watershed moment”.
Many in the FOSS community have gotten increasingly frustrated with Google’s progressive crippling of the base FOSS version of android “AOSP”, and the migration of many important core functions which used to be included with AOSP into proprietary, closed-source Google apps and frameworks instead.
This issue was one of the founding objectives of the microG project: give control back to the user and let them take advantage of the open-source foundation of android without forcing them to use a proprietary and snoopery vendor-locked version of the OS instead, just to get basic functionality like push messaging and Play Store app compatibility.
At this point we believe that the existing “LineageOS for microG” project will continue with their project as it is a “works out of the box” solution that also bundles some FOSS app store tools.
Stract is an open source search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. It's a search engine made for hackers and tinkerers just like ourselves. No more searches where some of the terms in the query arent used, and the engine tries to guess what you really meant. You get what you search for.
https://stract.com
https://github.com/StractOrg/stract
#Web #Search #SearchEngine
#FLOSS
What To Do When The Cell Phones Go Down (AT&T) | Ham Radio Crash Course
On the heels of the great AT&T outage. Here are my thoughts on how to offset your dependence on phones with different radio services and technologies.
#MobileNetwork #Network
#HRCC #hamradio #amateurradio #LoRa #Meshstatic #MeshNetwork
How to Anonymize Your Linux System with Whoami
#Whoami is a comprehensive toolkit that can anonymize a running #Linux session. It comes with scripts that can hide your machine’s real IP address, change its default DNS resolvers, and secure your browser. This article will show you how to install Whoami and run some of its modules to anonymize your Ubuntu system.
Note: Don’t confuse this with the whoami command that displays the username of the current user. Also, Whoami works for any Debian and Arch based distro.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/anonymize-linux-with-whoami/
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Quiet
Encrypted p2p team chat with no servers, just Tor.
https://tryquiet.org/index.html
https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet
Currently in developpement stage so be cautious of your data
Quiet is an alternative to team chat apps like Slack, Discord, and Element that does not require trusting a central server or running one's own. In Quiet, all data syncs directly between a team's devices over Tor with no server required.
No email or phone number required, Unlike #Slack, #Discord, #WhatsApp, #Telegram, and #Signal, no email or phone number is required to create or join a #community.
End-to-end encryption, All data is #encrypted end-to-end between member devices, using Tor.
Channels, Organize chats in Slack-like channels, so conversations don't get messy.
Images, Send and receive images, with copy/paste, drag & drop, and image previews.
Files, Send and receive files of unlimited size!
Notifications, Invite links, Keyboard controls, Desktop apps
Android, Quiet works on Android, and F-Droid support is on the way.
#E2E #Chat #Quiet #Tor
11 Best Note-Taking Apps for #Linux in 2024
https://www.tecmint.com/note-taking-apps-linux/
@BonesTechGarage
#notes
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Google's Pixel / GCam is a great, easy to use, feature rich camera app that competes well with the excellent open source Open Camera. GCam brings things like portrait mode, and easy to use slow-motion.
Because of this, there are many developers porting the app to work on as many phones as possible. GCam can increase the performance of your phone's hardware camera, and the ports can also bring the GCam app to DeGoogled phones.
GCam Hub is a website dedicated to tracking all the GCam ports.
Here is the 👉🏻 web page listing many Stable GCam Version:
You can work you way through the list until you find one that works on your phone, but then you may try 100 versions and never get one that works.
Keep in mind, these ports will not auto update.
Note: Shamim's SGCAM version 8.5.300 V5 works on Pixel 3a running Lineage.
If you find a version that works on your phone, let everyone know in the comments.
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#GCam #camera
15 Best Tools for #Linux #Font Management
https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-linux-font-tools-and-how-to-install-linux-fonts-on-ubuntu/
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Sapio
Open source, crowdsourced app you can get from F-droid which is designed to track and list which android apps will or will not work on a Gapps-free Android device.
Its searchable, per-app list has separate compatibility categories for straight AOSP/vanilla ROMs as well as devices with #microG.
For each one of those categories it will show a color-coded legend:
Green - works with no limitations
Yellow - works with some limitations
Red - Doesn't work at all
You can also contribute to #Sapio by sharing your personal app compatibility experiences. The more submissions they get, the handier this tool becomes for all of us. ☺️
You can get the app here:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.klee.sapio
https://github.com/jonathanklee/Sapio
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Fossify Mobile Apps branched from the Simple Phone's "Simple Mobile Tools" in response to Simple Mobile Tools being sold to ZippoApps, raising privacy concerns.
Here is a list of the new apps under development w/their GitHub links for Obtainium, & F-Droid w/IzzyOnDroid links.
Calculator
- GitHub URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet
Calendar
- GitHub URL
- F-Droid
Contacts
- Github URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet
- Simple Contacts Pro SE
(Another Branch that is
more compatible w/standards)
Draw
- GitHub URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet
File-Manager
- GitHub URL
- F-Droid
Flashlight
- GitHub URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet
Gallery
- GitHub URL
- F-Droid
Keyboard
- GitHub URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet
Launcher
- GitHub URL (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet
Music-Player
- GitHub URL - (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet
Phone
- GitHub URL - (No Released)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet
SMS-Messenger
- GitHub URL - (No Release)
- F-Droid - Not..Yet
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#Fossify
OSS Document Scanner
Open Source app to #scan all your #documents. You either scan using your camera or by importing an image. The app will automatically detect you document within the photo and will crop the image.
Once the document is created you can detect text within the document using #OCR.
You can also share your document as a #PDF. If you want you can synchronize the app data with a webdav server (like nextloud) to never loose anything!
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.akylas.documentscanner
https://github.com/Akylas/com.akylas.documentscanner
For anyone using any Simple Mobile Tools app be aware that they were sold few days ago (4 dec 2023) to a very privacy unfriendly company:
https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241
Is suggested to remove them or stop updating them.
BTW the company is an israeli publisher that has all app on Play store serving ads and asking weekly fees to avoid them...
Someone has made an alternatives list:
https://libreddit.nullnet.services/r/SimpleMobileTools/comments/18929pq/simplemobiletools_was_sold_alternatives/
One of the dev of SMT has forked them:
https://github.com/FossifyX
And another group of dev announced a fork too:
https://github.com/goastian
Nextcloud now offers AI integration for your Nextcloud server. Apps aren't installed by default, except Smart Mail, Background Images & Sus Login.
AI comes with risk, so #Nextcloud rates their #AI apps at 4 levels, based on 3 conditions.
Conditions
1. Is it open source?
2. is the trained model free for self-hosting?
3. is the training data available and free to use?
Rating levels
🟢 = All condition met
🟡 = 2 conditions met
🟠 = 1 condition met
🔴 = 0 conditions met
The AI apps are listed
below w/their ratings.
👇
IMAGE GENERATION
🟡 Online StableDiffusion
🟡 Self-Hosted StableDiffusion
🔴 Online DALL-E 2
TEXT GENERATION
🟡 LocalAI
🔴 ChatGPT
SPEECH-2-TEXT DICTATION
🟢 OpenAI Whisper
🟡 External Whisper
SPEECH-2-TEXT TRANSCRIPTION
🟢 OpenAI Whisper
🟢 LocalAI
SMART INBOX
(can be disabled in low-left settings)
🟢 Built-In
FACE/OBJECT RECOGNITION
🟢 Recognize
BACKGROUND IMAGES/BLUR
🟢 Built-In
TRANSLATION
🟢 Opus
🟢 LibreTranslate
🔴 DeepL
SUSPICIOUS LOGIN
🟢 Built-In
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Documenso
The Open Source DocuSign Alternative.
Signing documents digitally should be fast and easy and should be the best practice for every document signed worldwide.
This is technically quite easy today, but it also introduces a new party to every signature: The signing tool providers. While this is not a problem in itself, it should make us think about how we want these providers of trust to work.
Documenso aims to be the world's most trusted document-signing tool. This trust is built by empowering you to self-host Documenso and review how it works under the hood.
https://github.com/documenso/documenso
https://documenso.com/
BraveNewPipe
A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android
Due to restrictive project policy, the #NewPipe team refuses to add platforms that they find offensive. This fork (BraveNewPipe) will not be as restrictive. As long as the platforms work in the spirit of free speech, they could be integrated.
Nevertheless, platforms that promote pornography or other degrading things will NOT be included here.
Contribute
This fork will focus only on integrating other platforms. Unrelated patches will be rejected for now.
Feel free to suggest which alternative platforms should be included. Any contribution (development/testing/bug report) is greatly appreciated.
Which additional platforms are supported?
Bitchute
Rumble
Other features not found in NewPipe
-NewPipe x Sponsorblock into this fork
-searchfilters: in the action menu of the search page you can now change the search behavior for the actual search. The supported content/sort filters depend on the service
https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe
Download
https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe/releases
#yt #video #streaming
Podcini
Open source #podcast manager/player project.
This is based on a fork from the popular project AntennaPod as of Feb 5 2024.
Differing from the forked project, this project is purely Kotlin based, relies on the most recent dependencies, and most importantly has migrated the media player to androidx.media3, and added mechanism of AudioOffloadMode which is supposed to be kind to device battery. Efficiencies are also sought on running the app. App build is also upgraded to target Android 14.
https://github.com/XilinJia/Podcini
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/ac.mdiq.podcini
⚡️You-Get: Download video, audio, images from the web easily!
Ever wanted to pull a bunch of content down so you can watch later?
You-Get is a CLI (command line interface) utility that makes it easy to download videos, audio, and images from the web.
https://you-get.org
you-get 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw'
You Get supports an impressive array of sites: Youtube, Twitter, VK, Tumblr, Soundcloud, Instagram, Facebook, and countless others!
It supports downloading YouTube playlists as well, it'll go through each video in the playlist.
Downloads can be very slow though, I recommend you use the —info flag before downloading to see what formats are available. Then you can run the command again with the —i-tag flag at whichever quality level is right for you.
You can download videos off of big tech platforms / paywalls by using the '—cookies' flag and pointing to a Firefox cookies database (cookies.sqlite).
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#yt
ArchiveBox
Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more…
https://archivebox.io
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view websites offline.
Without active preservation effort, everything on the internet eventually dissapears or degrades. Archive.org does a great job as a centralized service, but saved URLs have to be public, and they can’t save every type of content.
ArchiveBox is an open source tool that lets organizations & individuals archive both public & private web content while retaining control over their data. It can be used to save copies of bookmarks, preserve evidence for legal cases, backup photos from FB/Insta/Flickr or media from YT/Soundcloud/etc., save research papers, and more…
Once installed, it can be used as a CLI tool, self-hosted Web App, Python library, or one-off command.
It saves snapshots of the URLs you feed it in several redundant formats.
It also detects any content featured inside pages & extracts it out into a folder:
🌐 HTML/Any websites ➡️ original HTML+CSS+JS, singlefile HTML, screenshot PNG, PDF, WARC, title, article text, favicon, headers, …
🎥 Social Media/News ➡️ post content TXT, comments, title, author, images, …
🎬 YouTube/SoundCloud/etc. ➡️ MP3/MP4s, subtitles, metadata, thumbnail, …
💾 Github/Gitlab/etc. links ➡️ clone of GIT source code, README, images, …
✨ and more, see Output Formats below…
HeliBoard
#HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customizable open-source #android #keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard. Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/releases
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/helium314.keyboard
Features
Add dictionaries for suggestions and spell check
build your own, or get them here, or in the experimental section (quality may vary)
additional dictionaries for emojis or scientific symbols can be used to provide suggestions ("emoji search")
note that for Korean layouts, suggestions only work using this dictionary, the tools in the dictionary repository are not able to create working dictionaries
Customize keyboard themes (style, colors and background image)
can follow the system's day/night setting on Android 10+ (and on some versions of Android 9)
can follow dynamic colors for Android 12+
Customize keyboard layouts (only when disabling use system languages)
Multilingual typing
Glide typing (only with closed source library)
library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available
can be extracted from GApps packages ("swypelibs"), or downloaded here
if you are concerned about security implications of loading user-provides libraries, please use the nouserlib build variant, which removes this option. If HeliBoard is installed as system app, and swypelibs are available for the system, they will be used.
If the app is installed as a system app and swypelibs are available, glide typing will be available independent of the version.
Clipboard history
One-handed mode
Split keyboard (if the screen is large enough)
Number pad
Backup and restore your learned word / history data
Ouisync
Store, sync, and share files across devices anywhere.
Secure, open source, peer-to-peer file-sharing.
https://ouisync.net
https://github.com/equalitie/ouisync-app/releases
- Easily share content with your audiences
Need to share news, event documents, videos or educational material to your audiences without relying on centralized platforms that are easily blocked? With Ouisync, you can quickly upload media and share Read-only access to content via QR codes, shortlinks, or other messaging platforms. Ouisync is 100% free and open source, and will never share or sell your data to third parties.
- Quickly share files with a friend
Share a Ouisync repository using Write permissions to allow multiple users to add or edit files within a repository, even in conditions of limited connectivity. Keep data in sync between your personal devices, collaborate on team projects, and create group photo albums. All data in Ouisync is end-to-end encrypted for your peace of mind.
- Securely store sensitive documents
Want to securely back up your data on other devices and make it inaccessible to anyone else? Share your Ouisync repositories in Blind mode. Your friend offers you their spare computer for storage of your data? Let your friends be your cloud! It takes just a couple of taps in Ouisync to securely store your data in Blind mode and you never again have to worry about losing your phone - your data is safely stored for whenever you need it.
- Secure
Data (including metadata such as file name, size or location) is encrypted both in transit and at rest, and can be shared as read/write, read-only, or blind.
- Resilient
Ouisync users are able to share files despite conditions of limited or no internet connectivity, when the centralised servers most apps rely upon may not be reachable.
- You're in control
Easily create encrypted repositories for your data and then distribute the link to friends, audiences, or between devices for effective, decentralized publication and/or backup storage.
@dcntr
#cloud #file #transfer #share #sync #bittorrent #p2p
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You can log and track the phone locations of your family and friends in complete privacy, using your Nextcloud server.
To do this you need to install the Nextcloud PhoneTrack App on your Nextcloud server, and the Android PhoneTrack App on every DeGoogled phone you want to track.
The F-Droid version is old and buggy.
To get the newer Dev Android version, you:
1. Go to the PhoneTrack Dev GitLab page, scroll down and click the "APK Direct Download" link
2. At top "Pipeline" option, click the Download arrow and select "AssembleDevDebug:archive"
3. This downloads a zip file. Extract the zip and install the APK.
CONNECT ALL PHONES AND TRACK
4. On Nextcloud create a dedicated account for PhoneTracking.
5. Create a PhoneTrack "Session" in the Nextcloud PhoneTrack app.
6. Sign each phone into the Nextcloud PhoneTrack account, and on the phone, add a "PhoneTrack log job" to the Session on Nextcloud.
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#PhoneTrack #Tracker #Nextcloud
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KDE Connect is an app that makes it easy to connect your DeGoogled phone and/or Linux Phone to your Linux laptop using your phone's hot spot, or any network.
KDE Connect can do these things:
- Share files
- Share clipboard
- Control Slideshows w/phone
- Send/Receive texts on laptop
(Using KDE Connect
Taskbar Indicator)
- Control laptop media player
- Move laptop mouse pointer
1. Install KDE Connect on phone
Use KDEConnect on F-Droid
2. Install on laptop
For Debian based distros:sudo apt install kdeconnect
On your laptop firewall, make sure you open ports that KDE Connect uses.
To do this, open up terminal and enter these commands:sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/udp
sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/tcp
sudo ufw reload
3. Connect both devices
- Connect both to the same network
- Open app on both devices
- Find and pair devices
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#KDEConnect #transfer #Files #share
https://github.com/j-fbriere/squawker/issues/180
With nitter announcing it's dead and #twitter's increasing aggression towards anonymous front ends the end of #Squawker and #Nitter was inevitable.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983
Nitter d420
https://nitter.d420.de
Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives
Article, Comments
⚡️Mirotalk SFU - A High Quality FOSS Jitsi Competitor?
@takebackourtech
I recently came across MiroTalk SFU, a self-hosted video/audio conferencing software. Developed by Miroslav Pejic, Mirotalk SFU uses WebRTC for real-time a/v streaming and an SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit) architecture.
There are 2 version of the app. A P2P version of the app where browsers connect directly to each other, and the more standard SFU version where a media server is responsible for collecting and distributing a real time stream from each participant.
It already has features like:
- Resolution up to 4K, up to 60 fps speeds
- Echo cancellation / noise supression
- Screen sharing
- Built in chat and reactions
- Collaborative whiteboard
- File sharing
- Video / audio sharing
- Livestreaming in the browser
The public server also allows for 'anonymous' calls without any registration or sign in, something which Jitsi had recently removed due to abuse of the public service.
We've always ran a Jitsi server as part of our professionally hosted privacy services Above Suite (https://abovephone.com/suite), and Mirotalk could be a great addition to this.
Try now:
https://sfu.mirotalk.com
https://p2p.mirotalk.com
Code:
https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalk
What do y'all think?
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Fully Customizable ROM + Latest Treble Patches & Features
#GSI #AOSP 14
https://xdaforums.com/t/gsi-aosp-14-fully-customizable-rom-latest-treble-patches-features.4637632/
https://github.com/tabletseeker/treble_build_aosp
Butterfly
🎨 Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app 🎨
Website
http://docs.butterfly.linwood.dev/
Download
http://docs.butterfly.linwood.dev/downloads
Or
https://www.f-droid.org/packages/dev.linwood.butterfly.nightly/
Sources
https://github.com/LinwoodDev/Butterfly
Butterfly is a #note taking app where your ideas come first. You can paint, add #texts, and export them easily on every device. This app works on android, windows, linux, and in the web.
Features
⚡ Simple and intuitive Every tool is in the right place. Open the app and start drawing. Change your tools by clicking on it.
🎨 Customizable: Change everything to your needs. Choose your custom color, create a palette, and add your pages to the paper. The paper has an infinite size, perfect for your ideas and notes.
📝 Support your favorite formats: Import and export are supported for images, pdf and svg. Register the app to open these files to edit them.
📱 Works on every device: The app is available for android, windows, linux, and in the web. You can use it on your phone, tablet, or computer.
💻 Choose where your data is stored: You can choose to store your data locally or in your favorite cloud (webdav). You can also export your data to a file and import it again.
🌐 Available in many languages: The app is available in many languages. Help us to translate this app to your language.
📚 FOSS: The app is open source and free. You can contribute to the project and help to make it better.
🔋 Use it offline: You can use the app offline. You can draw, paint, and export your notes without an internet connection.
🖊️ Use your favorite stylus: The app supports stylus and touch devices. You can draw and paint with your favorite stylus.
📜 Write text: You can write text on your notes. You can change the font, size, and color.
📸 Take photos: You can take photos and add them to your notes. You can also import photos from your gallery.
⚙️ Editable: You can change the size, color, and position of every element after you added it to your note.
🟦 Add shapes: You can add shapes to your notes. You can choose between a rectangle, circle and line.
🔳 Structure your notes: Add areas and waypoints to your notes to keep them organized.
Graphite
An Open Source Web-Based AI-Powered Vector Graphics Editor
Currently, the app is in its alpha stage of development. So, most of its planned features are in a conceptual state.
https://news.itsfoss.com/graphite/
@itsfoss_official
OpenSign
Open-source document e-signing solution designed to provide a secure, reliable, and free alternative to commercial platforms like DocuSign, PandaDoc, SignNow, Adobe Sign, Smartwaiver, SignRequest, HelloSign & Zoho sign
https://github.com/OpenSignLabs/OpenSign
https://www.opensignlabs.com/
Installation Guide
https://github.com/OpenSignLabs/OpenSign/blob/staging/INSTALLATION.md
User Manual
https://github.com/OpenSignLabs/OpenSign/blob/staging/USAGE.md
Comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052344
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Louis Rossman and FUTO have released another not -FOSS app of interest. This time they bring us the #video #streaming app #Grayjay, which is designed to let you surf and search all you favorite video streaming services at once.
Grayjay does everything the popular NewPipe app does, plus more. Unfortunately NewPipe only worked with YouTube and PeerTube.
So far Grayjay works w/these platforms (to a certain extent)
- Rumble
- Odysee
- Youtube
- FUTO's PeerTube Instance
- Twitch
- Patreon
- Soundcloud
- Kick
- Nebula
Sorry, no BitChute so far.
You can download videos for offline viewing, and then export those to your Movies folder on your phone.
You can download the apk install file here:
https://grayjay.app/
Their GitLab source code can be found here:
https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
This app will Chromecast movies, without Google Play Services installed.
⚠️ License https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/voiceinput/-/blob/master/FTL_LICENSE.md
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