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> Thing from the 20th century that killed millions of people was actually good and should be tried again and the only reason it failed was because of reasons (Jews, never been tried, ww2, ...) not because it's actually a terrible idea. Also I have no interest in slightly more moderate governments which had many of the same principles but actually survived more than a few decades and were not a massive blood bath.
we are in a day and age where the only way to matter to tech giants is to hurt them directly. Boycotting doesn't work, it's been proven. Most people don't care about it anymore, some are even annoyed at people who denounce the catastrophic consequences of AI over and over. So what else can we do? What other options do we have except preventing its access to us and bombing it?
You don't need Anubis. Preventing scraping is an old problem, usually solved using blocklists and rate limiting and many other techniques. Please only use Anubis only as a last resort.
AI scrapers are LITERALLY BYPASSING block lists and robots.txt. Rate limiting only slows them down and will hurt regular users' experience. The "many other techniques" are either unheard of or unreasonable to use. Anubis just works and works well. Are for or against AI?
I am not against AI as a concept as I think machine learning programs can be useful for many tasks. I don't want to completely discredit an entire section of computer science research. I have even written some of my own machine learning programs.
But it is true that many companies at the moment are not behaving ethically in many aspects, like making their machine learning models proprietary and only usable behind a proprietary SaaSS API and lying to public about what their programs are capable of. I obviously do not support companies such as OpenAI, Twitter, Google or Facebook.
Of course the scraping they do is terrible too. It is essentially a DDOS attack and the companies doing this should be taking to court as conducting DDOS attacks is literally illegal in most parts of the world.
However I also think Anubis as a countermeasure is quite unacceptable for regular users just trying to read a website. It requires me to enable javascript and it also requires me to disable the JShelter browser addon (which is supposed to prevent malware from running on your machine). So what Anubis is doing is equivalent to malware, even though that is not the intend.
first of all let me apologise for being so aggressive in the past post. I understand your stance on AI, as a concept, it's not evil. What you say about JavaScript is a valid concern, and you should see if it's possible to run Anubis with JShelter, ask on their repo. But requiring it to be disabled doesn't make it malware. Anubis is open-source and you can check out the code for it here : github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis And even though it could be hijacked to make it malware, the people who use Anubis set it up themselves, and they obviously won't just let malware run on *their own website*. Overall, you're extremely unlikely to be up against malware with Anubis. If you're still worried, you should blame the scrapers, not the users of Anubis. Scraping costs them A LOT. They're doing this as self-defense and preservation.
... Because it's not requiring you to mine bitcoin?? If it did, and transferred you the bitcoin you earned in your wallet, I don't think too many people would complain, considering it's self-defense, and the only alternative is NOT having the site be available at all. If it stole that bitcoin, that would be a whole different story. But it's not. It's just requiring proof of work. You need to understand that whatever tests you can make a scraper do, AI companies will try to (by)pass them. The only known solution to this problem that's available RIGHT NOW, because hosters need it to stop NOW, not after they figure out a new way to block scrapers, is Anubis. Hosters don't have the resources to jump method-to-method, test to test, block to block as soon as the thing they use gets inevitably passed by scrapers. They need something that WORKS and will KEEP working. Overall, I think you don't measure how much stress (financial, or resource-wise) this is putting on hosters. They are resorting to Anubis knowing that it's slow. They just can't afford to do anything else. To come back to the dilemma : you can only use Anubis, or make scrapers stop by getting their attention.
indeed, it isn't requiring you to mine bitcoin. it's worse: it's requiring you to waste your computing resources, so that the site doesn't have to waste fewer resources of its own. proof of waste is an overall environmental, security and freedom loss. blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-03-2…
oh what's that? too risky? you're scared? you have family and friends? you don't want to help me destroy datacenters because its dangerous and stuff? well then shut your bitch ass up and give me proof of work.
Letter from Ahmad Sa’adat, Secretary General of the PFLP, to the ship «Handala» – From breaking the shackles to breaking the siege #Palestinerepublicpalestine.com/en/2025/…
From behind bars in the occupation's prisons, imprisoned leader Ahmed Saadat salutes the resistance fighters against the siege, addressing them with a message expressing steadfast determination and unity of purpose.
I'm working on, from what I can tell, the most sophisticated open-source io_uring runtime and every time I try to shill it, developers will simply scoff at io_uring, saying, "isn't io_uring horribl...
Death from starvation (medically known as nutritional starvation or famine) is a slow and painful process that occurs when the body does not get enough food (calories, protein, and essential
"Ils viennent d’avoir le bac et s’apprêtent à quitter leurs montagnes pour les études. Au cœur du Massif du Jura, la jeunesse de la ville de Saint-Claude raconte ses envies d’ailleurs, souvent restreintes par le manque de transports et de moyens.Reportages"
I DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE LOLCOWLIZATION DONE BY THOSE CALIFORNIANS "NATIE" IS WORSE THAN NEI-CHAN AS NEI-CHAN IS SIMILAR TO NEE-CHAN SINCE SHES AN OLDER SISTER "NATIE" DOESN'T HAVE SHIT ON THAT
Το ντοκιμαντέρ καταγράφει τη μοναδική διάσχιση των τριών ψηλότερων βουνών της Ηπείρου —Γράμμου, Σμόλικα και Τύμφης— μέσα από τις Δρακόλιμνές τους, από τον Θοδωρή Ζιάκκα, σε μια ξεχωριστή αθλητική πράξη με βαθύ οικολογικό μήνυμα και στόχο την ανάδειξη της παρθένας φύσης της Πίνδου.
Φανταστείτε λέει να υπήρχαν παίκτριες με διπλό διαβατήριο που είχαν το δικαίωμα να επιλέξουν με ποια εθνική ομάδα θα έπαιζαν και να επέλεγαν τις ΗΠΑ για να κερδίσουν περισσότερα μετάλλια. Ουπππς Τι? Υπάρχουν στ αληθεια?
»Two individuals responsible for grave international crimes—including war crimes and genocide committed in the Gaza Strip—are currently on Belgian soil, attending the Tomorrowland music festival in Boom.«
Brussels, Boom – 19 July 2025 Two individuals responsible for grave international crimes—including war crimes and genocide committed in the Gaza Strip—are currently on Belgian soil, attending...
»They are directly implicated in some of the most egregious crimes committed during Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza, including:
Indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, homes, and hospitals; The use of torture and human shields; Mass arbitrary detention and forced displacement of civilians; And the deliberate infliction of conditions calculated to destroy the Palestinian population, consistent with genocide under Article 6 of the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention.«
Update: »Belgian federal police have arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers credibly accused of war crimes in Gaza.«
»The suspects were identified and arrested with a clear show of force at the Tomorrowland festival in Boom. After being taken into custody, they were formally interrogated and released. The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed that a criminal investigation is now underway.« hindrajabfoundation.org/perpet…
Boom, Belgium — In what may become a turning point in the global pursuit of accountability, Belgian federal police have arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers credibly accused of war...
It's a shame there isn't more information, such as whether they are allowed to leave the country, or whether the criminal investigation means that the interrogation yielded incriminating insights (or at least, failed to establish their innocence) or was already in place as the basis for the temporary arrest…
Under National socialism, unemployment was cut from 50% to 2%
A nation where before millions were starving was now thriving. So much that former German territories asked to once again be united with Germany. A Germany that quickly advanced and became the leading industrial nation in the world.
National Socialism can never be compared to Jewish Socialism.
Please do not compare National Socialism with the Jewish Socialism as described by the Jew Ludwig Von Mises
I didn't see the link when I first answered, I could only see Ur comment. But "Socialism" and Socialist economy as described by Mises had nothing to do with National Socialism.
If U claim that Adolf Hitler faked economic development then U are miss informed.
What National Socialists did under Adolf Hitler was not some political trick. They transformed the nation in a way that no other nation have done. Their progress have not seen the likes after or before.
Germany under that time was not a planed economy. Like I already said, it was nothing like communism.
U do well to actually read something. Preferably not Jewish propaganda.
I have noticed a disturbing trend in #donation pages of respectable #charities.
In the course of the last few months, it seems that the options to designate a donation to a specific world region or conflict zone have been silently dropped, and replaced by generic "designate globally" donation forms.
Charities may always take the stand that they know best where donations should flow, of course.
I find it slightly unethical though to use photographs of the #Gaza genocide for fundraising, when donors are only informed in the small print that their donations are distributed world-wide.
If you know of trustworthy charities that don't follow this trend, please suggest the respective URLs in a reply. If you're a VPN user, by all means pick a US-based server for testing, and check where the respective donation link leads you to, before recommending it.
❞ Will this dropping of the fig leaf of Israeli ‘liberalism’ finally make Druze Palestinians aware of the way they have been suckered into service and loyalty for a state that ultimately reviles them as Palestinians? One can only hope. ❝
SANAA, July 21 (YPA) - The leader of the Yemeni revolution , Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, reaffirmed Yemen's firm position in supporting the Palestinian people in Gaza, stressing that the Yemeni people will persist their multidimensional support for Gaza,
~American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test~
Ιούλιος 1945, μια παρέα 13χρονων κοριτσιών πάνε κατασκήνωση και κολυμπούν στα νερά του ποταμού Ruidoso του New Mexico. Αυτό που δεν γνώριζαν τα κορίτσια είναι ότι εκεί κοντά, το Manhattan Project πυροδότησε δοκιμαστικά μια πυρηνική βόμβα. Όλα τα κορίτσια πέθαναν από καρκίνο πριν τα 30 τους, μοναδική επιζών η Barbara Kent, το κορίτσι μπροστά στην φώτο, αναλυτικά στο
The Trinity test site was chosen, in part, for its supposed remove from human inhabitation. Yet nearly half-a-million people were living within a 150-mile radius of the explosion, with some as close as 12 miles away.
wwwwow crazy. more #ResistanceGB revealing their crazy, and the crazier they report on...
how thin the veil on christian fascism, and nothing christian about it.
[1]problem? the other.
how shallow manipulative.
and did you catch all the outrageous bald faced hypocrisy too? the things we hate in others, are the things we hate in ourselves, yet do not face.
and wtf was that bs about Catholicism as the paragon of virtue he spouted? ... like the scandals are not enough clue?
so much more... one could critique for an hour, every utterance, uttered without any witting irony...
astonishing.
good to be aware.
hopefully more people see such for what it is, not for what it strives to preen as, and more so, people see past their "othering" hateful distraction ploy, and even more so yet, look to somewhere that's actually going to do something good.
gotta wonder too... is it psyop at the level of making us hate the idea of being independent, if that's what those most vocal for independence are like? ew. wouldnt wanna be like that. better join the other groupthink instead, huh?
[1: [nor nationalist. [pls stop using language of the oppressor... oh, national, that's nice, socialist, that's nice... see? lets start calling them what they are. totalitarianising fascist supremacist eugenicists]] "christian nationalist", "national socialist", #stopfallingforit #theylie #bewarethenamechangers #itsjustmarketing ]
seems easier, if you're "really" christian, you'd be better considering:
WWJD
... doesnt seem likely that this paragon of virtue we all hold up in such high regard, would be encouraging the kinds of things that monster was ranting hatefully about. ... i must have missed that version of the bible where jesus avoids mentioning helping the sick and poor etc, and instead rants on about the other being the problem, and that if we could just get them, everything would be fine. ... could swore the genius of it, almost like the defining grand spiritual emphasis clarification evolution that is christianity, is the forgiveness... to no longer be making the whole world blind with an eye for an eye, instead turning the other cheek, expediting peace and introspection in the cestation of the generation of fear, hate, and anger... no? ... maybe i need go see what sacrement this guy's using. maybe i have the wrong end of the stick, and jesus really wants us to arm up with uzis and go kill people who are not the right colour or accent or whatever next criteria in this tightening exploit of a true scotsman fallacy. what an obnoxious set of ideas espoused by that fella... but hey, maybe he has some insight... we should approach him with our socratic questions...
ps, some of those stopped clocks could chirp well when it was just problem identification re-chirpings... but when you start probing them for what their ideas are in terms of an ideal outcome and means of remedy... wwwwow does the crazy come out. #weareinalotoftrouble #idiocracy #stultophobia
reminds me of my advocacy of broad spectrum aptitude testing, to help avail to people, where they're a fucking idiot and should take a step back before they do serious harm.
and simultaneously reminds of (worth looking up the whole bit, or even the whole set, but that minute clip probably gets the main gist).
Remedios Varo, a surrealist painter born in 1908 in Anglés, Girona, Spain, is one of the most important figures in 20th-century art in Mexico, where she
“Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an…
"Πάργα: Απευθείας ανάθεση σε επαγγελματία που είναι υπόδικος για ηθική αυτουργία σε ληστεία.
Σημειώνεται ότι ο ίδιος επαγγελματίας έχει λάβει πολλές απευθείας αναθέσεις συνολικού ύψους εκατοντάδων χιλιάδων ευρώ τα τελευταία χρόνια από τον Δήμο Πάργας."
φίλος ήθελε βοήθεια με τα ΕΣΠΑ για τα eshop, αν θυμάσαι. Φυσικά πήρε τα… (συμπληρώνεις κατά το δοκούν). Του έλεγα δεν είναι για την πλεμπα, θα τα φάνε μεταξύ τους. Οχι μου έλεγε, υπάρχει αριστεία, αξιοκρατία, διαγωνισμοί και άλλα κουλά. Τελικά τα έκλεισε όλα και έφυγε έξω.
“... whenever the Legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence. ... [Power then] devolves to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty, and, by the…
"... whenever the Legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obe…
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This past week has seen a notable shift in mainstream media outlets avoiding calling Israel’s assault on Gaza a genocide.Tariq Nafi reports on The New York T...
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming…
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in fav…
Electric Dreams (1984) premiered in the US on this date (07-20-1984). It starred Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, and Bud Cort. Great music. Fun story. #Comedy #Classic #Music #PopcornTime
UN OHCA: Gaza is now at IPC Phase 5 of famine, final stage In a matter of days, not weeks, roughly 470,000 people will begin suffering organ failure, brain injury, and sudden cardiac death. Another 1 million are at phase 4. For children, this damage is already permanent. Even if they survive this, they will be permanently damaged for the rest of their lives.
I am only tagging this under #Gaza because it is not a political issue.
Resistance to the Zionist Entity Continues Unfettered
Palestine
5 Israeli soldiers have been injured in Gaza on Thursday, as the Palestinian resistance keeps up the struggle against Zionist occupation forces in the besieged enclave, despite the brutal war which has entered its 650th day.
Israeli media reported on Thursday morning that five soldiers were injured in Gaza battles.
The occupation military (Israeli occupation Forces – IOF) acknowledged to the injury of four soldiers, according to a statement.
It announced that soldiers with the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion were seriously wounded, and two officers were moderately and lightly injured during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip.
The four troops were injured by gunfire carried out by Hamas gunmen in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, the IOF announced.
Meanwhile on Thursday, Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad resistance group, announced its fighters shelled the Israeli settlement of Be’eri.
Earlier, Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, announced on Wednesday that it had targeted an Israeli command and control post in southern Gaza, as part of a joint operation with the al-Quds Brigades.
According to a statement released Wednesday, the attack was carried out using mortar shells and struck the Israeli site in the Qizan al-Najjar area, south of Khan Younis.
In a separate operation, Al-Qassam fighters shelled a gathering of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles near the al-Muhandis Hall in the al-Satra al-Gharbi area, north of Khan Younis, also using mortars.
The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, announced on Thursday that it had launched a series of rocket attacks targeting Sderot, Mefalsim, and Nir Oz settlements located in the Gaza envelope.
Earlier, a spokesperson for the Israeli occupation forces confirmed the launch of two rockets from the Gaza Strip toward the area, triggering air raid sirens.ast night
In a separate statement, the brigades reported that its fighters targeted a vehicle transporting undercover Israeli forces, known as mista’aravim, with an RPG in the middle of Jala Street in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
The Resistance group said a direct confrontation followed the strike, involving automatic weapons and hand grenades, resulting in casualties among the Israeli unit.
The al-Quds Brigades also released footage showing the targeting of the Be’eri settlement with multiple rockets as a response to the occupation’s ongoing crimes.
Yemen
In support for the oppressed Palestinian people and their resistance, and in response to the crime of genocide perpetrated by the Zionist enemy against the people in the Gaza Strip, the missile force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Lod Airport (Ben Gurion) in the occupied Yaffa (Tel Aviv) region using a “Palestine 2” hypersonic ballistic missile, the military spokesman General Yahya Saree said.
The operation successfully achieved its goal, thanks to Allah, causing millions of herds of usurping Zionists to flee to shelters and halting airport operations, he added.
The Yemeni Armed Forces called on all the people of the Arab and Islamic nation to come out in support of Gaza, “as their pain has intensified and their fear has increased, as they are subjected to an unjust, unending siege and a sinful, relentless aggression.”
“If you cannot stand up for your religion, then stand up for your Arab identity. If you cannot stand up for your Arab identity, then stand up for your humanity. If the criminal enemy succeeds in implementing its plan in Gaza, your turn will come sooner or later … O Allah, let this be reached out, O Allah, bear witness.
Our operations will continue until the aggression against Gaza stops and the siege is lifted, General Saree maintained.
Iran
Iranian strikes on the Israeli enemy continue as part of the Islamic Republic’s response to the Israeli aggression targeting it.
In this context, Israeli media reported on Friday morning that an Iranian missile fell directly on a site in the city of Beersheba in southern occupied Palestine, causing 36 injuries among settlers and significant damage to several buildings.
According to reports, the missile caused widespread destruction and led to the closure of the city’s train station due to damage. It also set a number of vehicles ablaze in the area.
“Israeli” media reported that the Iranian missile targeted a center for high-precision technology, research, cybersecurity, and information technology, near a Microsoft building in Beersheba. Israeli media confirmed that initial estimates indicate the missile carried multiple explosive warheads, causing significant damage. This marks one of the most significant precision strikes in the recent wave of missiles launched by Iran deep into the occupied territories.
Iranian strategic missiles have inflicted heavy losses on a number of the occupation’s security and financial centers in Tel Aviv, Beersheba, and the Negev.
As “Israel” continues its attacks on Iranian territory, Iran has been responding to the aggression under Operation Truthful Promise 3, targeting Israeli military and strategic positions across the occupied Palestinian territories with ballistic missiles and drones.
I love how one of the best reviewed air purifiers on this site is basically just a box with PC fans that pulls air through an off the shelf 3M Filtrete and draws just over 10 watts of power housefresh.com/cleanairkits-lu…
@Kylieeee @starlily The fans are at least easy to replace if they ever go bad or if you want to upgrade them. I'm wondering how much the performance would be boosted by adding stators.
I've been using them on 120mm fans for busting hot spots in an equipment room at work and they're just glorious.
@anielsen001 @Kylieeee @starlily computer fans are much quieter for CRBox builds. A bit more involved (and more expensive - about $130) but filters can get replaced easily. Kid1 made one for dorm room last year and putting together another one now mastodon.online/@SRDas/1120325…
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Kid1 put together this computer fan based #CRBox
Works great - fairly quiet.
Parts cost about USD$130 (with an extra set of filters for later) with as much as possible from local hardware store
Based on
https://itsairborne.
New at The Watch: An audit found 36 deaths in police custody that should have been classified as homicides, but that Maryland medical examiners classified as something else. Their failure to call the deaths homicides precluded any further investigation of the officers involved.
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in reply to Konstruct 🦈 • • •I am not against AI as a concept as I think machine learning programs can be useful for many tasks. I don't want to completely discredit an entire section of computer science research. I have even written some of my own machine learning programs.
But it is true that many companies at the moment are not behaving ethically in many aspects, like making their machine learning models proprietary and only usable behind a proprietary SaaSS API and lying to public about what their programs are capable of. I obviously do not support companies such as OpenAI, Twitter, Google or Facebook.
Of course the scraping they do is terrible too. It is essentially a DDOS attack and the companies doing this should be taking to court as conducting DDOS attacks is literally illegal in most parts of the world.
However I also think Anubis as a countermeasure is quite unacceptable for regular users just trying to read a website. It requires me to enable javascript and it also requires me to disable the JShelter browser addon (which is supposed to prevent malware from running on your machine). So what Anubis is doing is equivalent to malware, even though that is not the intend.
Konstruct 🦈
in reply to SuperDicq • • •And even though it could be hijacked to make it malware, the people who use Anubis set it up themselves, and they obviously won't just let malware run on *their own website*. Overall, you're extremely unlikely to be up against malware with Anubis. If you're still worried, you should blame the scrapers, not the users of Anubis. Scraping costs them A LOT. They're doing this as self-defense and preservation.
GitHub - TecharoHQ/anubis: Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers
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in reply to Konstruct 🦈 • • •I do not want my computer to process a useless hash algorithm (which sometimes up to 2 minutes on my slower machines).
If you install Anubis, you're forcing me to run software on my computer that I don't want to run.
So even though there is no malicious intend, you're making me do things I don't want to do. I consider that malware.
SuperDicq
in reply to SuperDicq • • •If a website would require you to mine bitcoin for 2 minutes in order to access it that would be considered unacceptable.
So why is it suddenly considered acceptable in this case?
It is essentially the same result for the end user, their computing is doing things the user doesn't want it to do.
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in reply to SuperDicq • • •You need to understand that whatever tests you can make a scraper do, AI companies will try to (by)pass them. The only known solution to this problem that's available RIGHT NOW, because hosters need it to stop NOW, not after they figure out a new way to block scrapers, is Anubis. Hosters don't have the resources to jump method-to-method, test to test, block to block as soon as the thing they use gets inevitably passed by scrapers. They need something that WORKS and will KEEP working. Overall, I think you don't measure how much stress (financial, or resource-wise) this is putting on hosters. They are resorting to Anubis knowing that it's slow. They just can't afford to do anything else. To come back to the dilemma : you can only use Anubis, or make scrapers stop by getting their attention.
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in reply to Konstruct 🦈 • • •indeed, it isn't requiring you to mine bitcoin. it's worse: it's requiring you to waste your computing resources, so that the site doesn't have to waste fewer resources of its own. proof of waste is an overall environmental, security and freedom loss. blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-03-2…
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against proof of waste
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