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 [1]Derek Sivers
 
 Tech Independence
 
 Contents:
 
  0. [2]What?
  1. [3]Register a domain
  2. [4]Change DNS nameservers
  3. [5]Create storage
  4. [6]Create an SSH key
  5. [7]Create your server
  6. [8]SSH into root
  7. [9]Customize these instructions
  8. [10]Use your storage
  9. [11]Contacts and Calendar
 10. [12]Email sending
 11. [13]Email settings
 12. [14]Simple website
 13. [15]File sharing in /pub/
 14. [16]More indie tips
 15. [17]More storage?
 16. [18]Mutt = email in terminal
 17. [19]Upkeep
 18. [20]Certificate expired?
 19. [21]Trouble? Start over
 20. [22]Questions? Additions?
 
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 What?
 
 Tech independence is not depending on any particular company or software.
 
 The only tools you need are the common open source basics built into any Linux
 or BSD operating system — free public-domain tools that are not owned by anyone
 , and can run on any computer.
 
 Learn a few of these basic tools, and you can run your own private server on
 any computer forever, for the rest of your life. Host your own website and
 email. Keep your own contacts and calendars synced with your phone. Back up and
 sync your photos, movies, and music to your own private storage. No more
 subscriptions needed.
 
 You can ignore all the companies offering “solutions”, even if they are free,
 because they take away self-reliance. The point is to know how to do it
 yourself, not to have somebody do it for you. It’s worth a little up-front
 work, like learning how to drive.
 
 Below are simple step-by-step instructions that work. Instead of drowning you
 in options, it uses an operating system called [23]OpenBSD and a hosting
 company called [24]Vultr because I’ve used them for years and I know they are
 good and trustworthy. But you could do this same setup with any free Linux or
 BSD operating system, with any hosting company that gives you “root” access to
 your own private server. You could even do it on an old laptop in your closet.
 
 So if a company turns evil or goes out of business, no problem! You can set up
 a new server anywhere else in an hour, point your domain name to the new IP
 address, and it’s done. That’s tech independence — never dependent on any
 particular provider or software. It’s very empowering. The instructions below
 will show you how.
 
 Register a domain
 
  1. Go to [25]Porkbun.com.
  2. Search for a domain name you like until you find one that’s available.
  3. Create a new account, and pay.
  4. Congratulations. You’ll use this domain name in many of the steps below.
 
 Change DNS nameservers to vultr
 
  1. Wherever you registered your domain name, log in there to change your
     domain’s DNS nameservers.
  2. It’s usually set by default to the company where you registered. So for
     example a domain registered at GoDaddy will have default nameservers of
     something.godaddy.com.
  3. Replace those defaults with these two:
       □ ns1.vultr.com
       □ ns2.vultr.com
 
 Create storage
 
  1. Go to [26]Vultr.com.
  2. Create an account and give it your credit card.
  3. [27]Click here for the “[28]Add Block Storage” page.
  4. Click “Block Storage (HDD)”, which says “Globally Available”
  5. Below that, a list of cities. Click the one closest to you.
  6. Below that, a slider lets you choose how much storage you need. If not
     sure, just leave it as $1 for 40 GB.
  7. Below that, in a subtle box that says “label” type the word encrypted.
  8. Below that, click the “Add Block Storage” button.
 
 Create an SSH key
 
  1. Open a terminal.
       □ Windows? Start → Windows PowerShell → Windows PowerShell
       □ Mac? Applications → Utilities → Terminal
  2. Type ssh-keygen -t ed25519 and hit [enter] or [return].
  3. When it says, “Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/yourname/.ssh/
     id_ed25519):”, hit [enter] or [return].
  4. When it says, “Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):”, hit [enter] or
     [return].
  5. When it says, “Enter same passphrase again:”, hit [enter] or [return].
  6. See the line that starts, “Your public key has been saved in” and ends in
     “id_ed25519.pub”? That’s the file you need for the next step.
  7. In a text editor, open “id_ed25519.pub”.
       □ Windows? Type notepad .ssh/id_ed25519.pub
       □ Mac? Type open -e .ssh/id_ed25519.pub
  8. It should be a single line like this:
     ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3Nz5AAAAIPIXO5icj4LUpqa2baqYQRmCZ1+NV4sBDr you@computer
  9. You’ll use this in the next step: “[29]Create your server”.
 
 Create your server
 
  1. In your [30]Vultr.com account:
  2. [31]Click here for the “[32]Deploy New Instance” page.
  3. Click “Cloud Compute” (NOT “Optimized Cloud Compute”)
  4. Below that, click “Intel Regular Performance”
  5. Below that, IMPORTANT: click the same city you chose for your encrypted
     storage in the previous step.
  6. Below that, click “OpenBSD” (the yellow blowfish) then inside its box,
     click “7.4 x64”
  7. Below that, under Server Size, click “25 GB SSD $5/month”
  8. A blue pop-up appears underneath, up-selling “For only $1.00 more you
     can...”. Click “No thanks”.
  9. Scroll down to “SSH Keys”, click “Add New”, then under “Name” type mykey.
 10. From [33]the previous section, step 3, copy (⌘-C or Ctrl-C) the contents of
     “id_ed25519.pub” and paste it into this box called “SSH Key”. It should be
     a single line like this:
     ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1XO5iclCcrHbGRPoj4LUpqa2baqYQRmCZ1+NV4sBDr
     you@computer
 11. After pasting it into the box, click [Add SSH Key].
 12. Under SSH Keys, click the box with the picture of the key called “mykey” to
     give it a tick mark in the top-right corner.
 13. Scroll up to “Enable Auto Backups”, click the “on” toggle button to turn it
     OFF.
 14. A scary pop-up says “Are you sure....”. Tick the box next to “I understand
     the risks”, then click the red button “Disable Auto Backups”.
 15. Under “Additional Features”, untick the box next to “Enable IPv6”, to
     disable it.
 16. Under “Server Hostname & Label”, type your domain name in both “server
     hostname” and “server label”.
 17. At the bottom, click the big blue button [“Deploy Now”].
 18. Stretch your legs for a minute while waiting for your server status to
     change from “Installing” to “Running”.
 19. Copy and save its IP Address on your computer.
 
 SSH into root, and get my script
 
  1. Copy (⌘-C or Ctrl-C) the IP Address from the last step of [34]Create Your
     Server.
  2. Open your terminal from the [35]Create an SSH key section.
  3. Whenever I say to type something into the terminal, hit your [return] or
     [enter] key afterwards.
  4. Type into the terminal: ssh root@YOUR-IP-ADDRESS. So for example:
     ssh [email protected]
  5. It should say something like:
 
     The authenticity of host '123.45.67.78 (123.45.67.89)' can’t be established.
     ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:OyiqVsjRX8U2f0UTUY4D0erdl6855YNRXyQk2D.
     This key is not known by any other names
     Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])?
 
  6. Type yes
  7. It should say something like:
 
     Warning: Permanently added '123.45.67.89' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
     OpenBSD 7.4 (GENERIC.MP) #1396: Sun Oct  8 09:20:40 MDT 2023
     Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system.
 
  8. Congratulations! You’re inside a remote computer!
  9. Type ftp https://sive.rs/ti.sh
 10. Type sh ti.sh
 11. Watch it install, answer its questions, and do what it says.
 12. Be ready to open a new terminal window, so you can leave this one
     logged-in.
 13. See below for help with its prompts.
 
 Customize these instructions
 
 Enter your domain name and the username that you create, below, and this will
 customize all following instructions for you.
 
 Your domain name? [36][                    ] Your username?
 [37][                    ] [38][customize]
 Now when you see this button: 📋 click it to copy that line so you can paste it
 into your terminal, without error.
 
 Use your encrypted storage
 
 The [40]ti.sh script will eventually prompt you, “Now upload anything while I
 wait...”. Here’s how.
 
 Mac
 
 Type rsync -avz Documents [email protected]:/mnt/ and you will see
 it uploading your Documents folder to your private encrypted storage. Use this
 same format to upload any other folders, replacing “Documents” in the command.
 If you are happy synchronizing on the command line like this, you can skip over
 the next FreeFileSync section.
 
 [41]FreeFileSync
 
 Everyone using Windows should use [42]FreeFileSync. Here’s how:
 
  1. [43]Download FreeFileSync and please give an optional donation there if you
     can afford to. Donating also unlocks more features. Thanks to Jon Lis for
     the recommendation.
  2. Install and open FreeFileSync.
  3. Top-center: click the grey [Browse] button and find the folder with the
     stuff you want to upload.
  4. Top-far-right: click the white cloud icon then SFTP at the top.
  5. Server name or IP address: yourdomain.name
  6. Left side: click (*) Key File
  7. Username: yourusername
  8. Browse to find your private key, called id_ed25519 from the “[44]Create an
     SSH key” section. (Not the file that ends in “.pub”, but the one next to
     it.) NOTE: Because the /Users/yourusername/.ssh directory is “hidden” by
     Windows and Mac by default, I find it easier to just type the path
     directly, like this:
       □ The username, for this next line, should be your username on your home
         computer, not your remote server.
       □ Windows? Type 📋C:\Users\yourusername\.ssh\id_ed25519
       □ Mac? Type 📋/Users/yourusername/.ssh/id_ed25519
  9. Directory on server: /mnt
 10. Click OK to go back to the main screen.
 11. Top-right: click the green gear wheel.
 12. Left button: click “MIRROR →”
 13. Click OK to go back to the main screen.
 14. Top-center: click “COMPARE”, and make sure your files are there.
 15. Top-right: click “SYNCHRONIZE Mirror →” then [Start]
 
 Verify and unmount
 
  1. When it’s done uploading, log in to your server again, from your terminal.
  2. Type find /mnt
  3. You should see a long list of the files you uploaded.
  4. Type m-x to detach your encrypted storage.
  5. Type find /mnt again, and now you should see nothing there!
     Congratulations! You now see how this will work in the future:
      1. Log in and type “m” to attach your encrypted storage.
      2. Upload your files with rsync or FreeFileSync.
      3. Log in and type “m-x” to detach the storage, for security.
 
 Contacts and Calendar
 
 Your phone currently keeps its contacts and calendars with Google or Apple. Now
 you can get them off the cloud and keep them privately on your own server.
 
 My [47]ti.sh setup script installs a [48]CardDAV server for contacts, and [49]
 CalDAV server for calendars.
 
 Here’s how to connect your phone.
 
 Android phone
 
 You need an app called “[50]DAVx⁵”, so [51]install it first. Then…
 
  1. Open the DAVx⁵ app
  2. Click the orange (+) in the bottom-right
  3. Click (·) “Login with URL and user name”
  4. Base URL: https://dav.yourdomain.name/
  5. User name: yourusername
  6. Password: the “easy to type on your phone” password you made
  7. Click “LOGIN” in the bottom-right corner.
  8. It should work and bring you to the “Create account” page, where “Account
     name” will be yourusername. Leave everything as-is and click “CREATE
     ACCOUNT” in the bottom-right corner.
  9. It brings you to the “CARDDAV” header. Tick the toggle to turn on next to
     your domain name.
 10. Click the ♻ arrows in the bottom-right corner to synchronize your contacts.
 11. Click the “CALDAV” header up top. Tick the toggle to turn on next to your
     domain name.
 12. Click the ♻ arrows in the bottom-right corner to synchronize your calendar.
 13. Go to your Calendar app, and in the top-right corner, click the round icon
     there. (Might be your face or a letter.) Then change it to the one with 
     yourusername. After changing it, click the X in the top-left corner.
 14. To add a new Event, Click [+] in the bottom-right corner, and choose “Event
     ” from the popup menu.
 15. There might be a warning, “Switch to a Google Account to take advantage
     blah blah…”. Click “dismiss”.
 16. Title this event something like “Test Delete”, and notice it should be
     saving to the calendar with your domain name and username. Click (Save) in
     the top-right corner.
 17. Check the terminal window where it should say “Calendar entry added!”
 18. Go to your Contacts app, and in the bottom-right corner, click “Fix &
     manage”.
 19. Click “Settings”
 20. Near the bottom, click “Default account for new contacts”, and change it to
     the DAVx⁵ Address book with your domain name.
 21. Click “< Settings” in the top-left corner.
 22. In the top-right corner, click the round icon there. (Might be your face or
     a letter.) Then change it to the DAVx⁵ Address book with your domain name.
     Then click X in the top-left corner.
 23. Click “Contacts” in the bottom-left corner. It should say “No contacts in
     this account”.
 24. Click + in the bottom-right corner to Create contact. Top of the next page
     should say “Save to” then your domain name.
 25. Add a New Contact with a name like “Test Delete”. Then click “Save” in the
     top-right corner.
 26. Check the terminal window where it should say “Contact added! Both work.
     Congratulations.”
 
 Apple iPhone
 
  1. Settings → Contacts → Accounts → Add Account → Other → (under “CONTACTS”:)
     Add CardDAV Account
  2. Server: dav.yourdomain.name
  3. User Name: yourusername
  4. Password: the “easy to type on your phone” password you made
  5. Click “next” in the top right corner, and it should bring you to your
     “Accounts” page, where you see it listed, saying “Contacts” underneath.
  6. Click Add Account → Other → (under “CALENDARS”:) Add CalDAV Account
  7. Server: dav.yourdomain.name
  8. User Name: yourusername
  9. Password: the “easy to type on your phone” password you made
 10. Click “next” in the top right corner, and it should bring you to a “CalDAV”
     page, showing Calendars and Reminders. Un-tick Reminders.
 11. Click “save” in the top right corner, and it should bring you to your
     “Accounts” page, where you see it listed, saying “Calendars” underneath.
 12. Click “< Contacts” in the top-left corner, to go back to settings for your
     Contacts app.
 13. At the bottom change Default Account to the one with yourdomain.name.
 14. Click “< Contacts” then “< Settings”, both in the top-left corner, then
     scroll down to Calendar settings and click it.
 15. In Calendar settings, 2nd from the bottom should say “Default Calendar”.
     Tap to change it to the one with yourdomain.name.
 16. Go to your Calendar app and click the + in the top-right corner.
 17. Add a New Event with a Title like “Test Delete”. Then click “Add” in the
     top-right corner.
 18. Check the terminal window where it should say “Calendar entry added!”
 19. Go to your Contacts app and click the + in the top-right corner.
 20. Add a New Contact with a name like “Test Delete”. Then click “Done” in the
     top-right corner.
 21. Check the terminal window where it should say “Contact added! Both work.
     Congratulations.”
 
 Email sending
 
  1. Go to [52]Mailjet.com and sign up for their free account.
  2. Go to [53]this page for API keys and [Generate secret key]
  3. Give the [54]ti.sh script your API key and Secret key, and it will do the
     rest.
 
 Email settings
 
 To do email from your phone, computer, or anywhere else, you now have an [55]
 IMAP server, called [56]Dovecot. So on any device, you can add a new IMAP Mail
 account, with these settings:
 
   • Account type: IMAP
   • Email address: [email protected]
   • Username: yourusername
   • Password: the password you made for your username on your server
   • Incoming mail server: yourdomain.name
   • Outgoing mail server: yourdomain.name
   • Connection security: SSL
   • Authentication type: Basic authentication
 
 Simple website
 
  1. On your home computer, in your main home directory, make a directory/folder
     called “htdocs”
  2. [57]Download this file called “template.html” and save it in your “htdocs”
     directory.
  3. [58]Download this file called “style.css” and also save it in your “htdocs”
     directory.
  4. Make a copy of the “template.html” file, and name the copy “index.html”.
     This will be your home page.
  5. Edit the index.html file in a text editor (NotePad or TextEdit) and change
     my default text to whatever you want.
  6. When you need to add a new page, just copy the template again, call it
     “about.html” or whatever, and make a link to it from the home page. The
     header of each page will link back to index.html : your home page.
  7. If you want to change the look of your site, just edit the style.css file. 
     [59]Search the web for “CSS tutorial” if needed.
  8. To upload it to your public server, do one of the next two steps:
  9. Apple Mac? Open a new terminal window on your computer, type
     rsync -avz htdocs [email protected]:/var/www/
 10. Windows? [60]FreeFileSync again, but now change the “Directory on server”
     to /var/www/ (you can find it by clicking [browse] or typing it directly)
     then upload this htdocs directory there.
 11. Go to https://yourdomain.name in your web browser, refresh the page, and
     you should see your updated website.
 12. Any trouble, just know that the goal is to get that index.html file into
     this location on your server: /var/www/htdocs/index.html because that’s
     where the web server is expecting it to be. That’s where we put the
     original test file, so your new index.html file should replace that one.
 13. If you want [61]short URLs, without the .html, you can (for everything
     except index.html) because I set the default type to be HTML. Just remove
     the “.html” from your HTML filenames, update your links, and voilà!
 
 It’s important to know how to make a simple website by hand, and not let people
 sell you on complex solutions that are the equivalent of saying you need a
 jumbo jet when you really need a bicycle. For real tech independence, start by
 typing your HTML files yourself. Only later, after you have many many pages,
 consider a more complicated solution.
 
 File sharing in /pub/
 
 Your website is configured to list all files in the /pub/ directory of your
 website. So basically anything in /var/www/htdocs/pub/ is public. Upload any
 files you want to share.
 
 It replaces Dropbox and similar services for sending big files. Just upload the
 file to /var/www/htdocs/pub/ then find it in your web browser, copy its URL,
 and send someone the URL.
 
 If the files you want to share are already on your computer, then just make a
 pub/ directory inside htdocs/ (so, htdocs/pub/), put your files in there, then
 use FreeFileSync or rsync to upload them as you did in the previous section
 called “[62]Simple website”. Consider them part of your website.
 
 Or if you have a URL from somewhere else online that you want to download to
 your server, just do it as we did in the numbered steps above. Then use
 FreeFileSync or rsync to download from your server to your computer first,
 before your next upload sync.
 
 More indie tips
 
  1. Use [63]Firefox.
  2. Install [64]uBlock Origin in Firefox and Chrome.
  3. In Firefox settings, under “Privacy and Security”, choose “[X] Delete
     cookies and site data when Firefox is closed”, then close Firefox often to
     erase all your cookies and logins. Browse the web anonymously, not
     logged-in.
  4. Replace Google Authenticator with [65]Aegis on Android or [66]Raivo on
     iPhone.
  5. If you use Windows, replace it with [67]Ubuntu Linux. (Use both at first,
     then slowly transition.)
  6. Keep your new email address as a [68]private email account that you only
     give to those few people who you really want to hear from. Then your old
     gmail/yahoo/outlook/etc address can be just low-priority junk, and your new
     private email account won’t need spam protection.
  7. Or if you don’t want to run your own email server, use [69]Mailbox.org or 
     [70]Fastmail but only by using your own domain name. Be yourusername@
     yourdomain.name from now on. Don’t depend on anyone else’s domain for your
     email or you’ll be stuck with them.
 
 More storage?
 
 If you need hundreds of gigabytes, or even terabytes of storage, I recommend
 Hetzner’s “[71]Storage Box”. It’s the best storage value I’ve found. Also
 consider [72]Backblaze Personal Backup.
 
 I personally use Vultr’s storage (as described above) for sensitive information
 I definitely want completely encrypted. Then I use Hetzner’s Storage Box for
 all my photos, videos, music, and other big files that don’t absolutely need to
 be encrypted.
 
 Mutt = email in the terminal
 
 Unless you want to read email directly on your server, skip this step.
 
  1. ssh in to your server, then type mutt
  2. You should see the subject headers, with the first email highlighted. Type
     j and k a few times to go down and up the list of emails.
  3. To read an email, hit [enter] or [return] when it is highlighted.
  4. To go back to the list, type i (for “index”)
  5. To reply, hit r then:
       □ It shows “To:” so you can edit or add recipients. Hit [enter] or
         [return] to leave it.
       □ It shows “Subject:” so you can edit the subject. Hit [enter] or
         [return] to leave it.
       □ It asks “Include message in reply? ([yes]/no/?):”. Hit [enter] or
         [return] for the usual norm of echoing someone’s email back at them
         below your reply. Or n for not.
       □ Now you are inside the [73]vi text editor which is not
         self-explanatory, so I’ll walk you through a simple reply:
       □ Hit i (no [return] or [enter]) to go into “insert mode” and type your
         message. You’ll notice it’s on the same line as some other text, so you
         might want to start by hitting [return] or [enter] a few times, then
         up-arrow to go back to the first line again.
       □ When done typing your message, hit your [esc] key in the very top-left
         corner of your keyboard. Nothing will change on the screen, yet.
       □ Type :wq (the “:” at the beginning is important) then [enter] or
         [return].
       □ Then you’ll see the “Compose Menu” which I think of as the “last chance
         before sending” screen. Hit y to send it.
  6. To send a new email, hit m then repeat those steps like you did for a
     reply, except now the “To:” and “Subject:” are blank and waiting for you to
     create. (For “To:”, type the email address of the person you’re emailing.)
  7. To quit, hit q
 
 [74]Mutt is a great program for reading and sending email on the command line.
 It’s been my email client for 20 years. [75]Read its manual here if you want to
 go deeper. It does everything.
 
 The [76]vi text editor is a useful tool to edit text on a server. It takes a
 few minutes to learn, but it’s worth learning because it’s installed by default
 on every Linux/BSD server.
 
 Upkeep
 
 You honestly don’t have to do anything to maintain your server. It will just
 work as-is for decades! But if you like to keep it up-to-date, it only takes a
 minute, so run these next steps any time.
 
  1. Log in to your server, if you are not already.
  2. Type 📋doas su
  3. Type 📋syspatch
  4. Type 📋fw_update
  5. Type 📋pkg_add -u
  6. Type 📋sysupgrade
  7. Type exit; exit to log out.
 
 If that last “sysupgrade” step did not give an “Error retrieving … 404 Not
 Found” error, that means your OpenBSD operating system is upgrading itself.
 They release an upgrade every 6 months. In that case, [82]go to this OpenBSD
 page and follow the link at the top that says “Upgrading to (7.4, etc)” to see
 if there’s anything else you should know.
 
 If the “sysupgrade” step updated your operating system and your server
 rebooted, then there is just one more step:
 
  1. Log in to your server, if you are not already.
  2. Type 📋doas su
  3. Type 📋sysmerge
  4. Follow any instructions. Don’t worry about messing up because you can
     always start over, as described below.
  5. Re-do the syspatch ; fw_update ; pkg_add -u steps, above.
  6. Type exit; exit to log out.
 
 Secure certificate expired?
 
  1. Log in to your server, if you are not already.
  2. Type 📋doas su
  3. Type 📋domain=yourdomain.name
  4. Type 📋acme-client -v $domain
  5. Type 📋rcctl restart relayd
  6. That should fix it. Confirm it in your web browser. [89]Let me know if not.
  7. IMPORTANT: Copy-paste this next line to make it renew automatically from
     now on:
  8. 📋(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "11\t3\t*\t*\t5\tacme-client $domain \&\&
     rcctl reload relayd") | crontab -
  9. Hit [enter]. Type exit; exit to log out.
 10. [91]Let me know if it happens again. (It shouldn’t.)
 
 Trouble? Start over
 
 I’ve tested the steps above very carefully and repeatedly. They work. So if you
 hit a major problem, something not happening like it says it should, please do
 this:
 
  1. Type “cd ; m-x ; exit” in any terminals you still have open, until they are
     all closed.
  2. Go to [92]your Vultr account.
  3. See your server instance? See to the far right, a subtle ···? Click that.
  4. From its pop-up menu, click the last option: “Server Destroy”.
  5. Tick the box next to “[X] Yes, destroy this server.”
  6. Click the big red [Destroy Server] button.
  7. This will not destroy your encrypted storage. That’s another reason we kept
     it separate from the start. So if you already uploaded a bunch of your
     files and want to save them, they should still be there.
  8. On your own computer, in the terminal, type: rm .ssh/known_hosts
  9. Go back to the section called “[93]Create your server” and try again.
 
 Questions? Additions?
 
 To learn more about your new server, just log in and type: [94]help
 It will teach you the basics. Then for each command or file you want to know
 more about, type [95]man followed by the command or filename. So for example,
 log in and type…
 
   • man [96]adduser
   • man [97]ssh
   • man [98]doas
   • man [99]rcctl
   • man [100]pkg_add
   • man [101]ftp
   • man [102]httpd.conf
 
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 [99] https://man.openbsd.org/rcctl.8
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