IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, June 24, 2021

> https://debian.community/nicolas-dandrimont-maria-climent-pommeret-outreachy-gsoc-conflict-of-interest-policy/

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> 2. https://fsfellowship.eu/2019/01/26/fsfe-behavior-standards.html

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-debian.community | Nicolas Dandrimont, Pauline (or Maria) Climent-Pommeret & Debian, Outreachy, GSoC Conflict of Interest policy scandals

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I've relayed that back into IRC. I did feel baffled by the accusation.

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fsfellowship.eu | FSFE behavior standards

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Re: women in the photos

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> 1. Anisa Kuci (Debian Outreachy, now at Wikimedia Italy)

> https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Utente:Anisa

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.wikimedia.it | Utente:Anisa - Wikimedia Italia

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> 2. not a student

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> 3. Elena Gjevukaj. (GSoC 2018, got married during GSoC, photo attached)

> https://wiki.debian.org/ElenaGjevukaj

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.debian.org | ElenaGjevukaj - Debian Wiki

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> 4. Diellza Shabani. (GSoC 2018. When she was selected for GSoC she

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> became very popular and another company immediately offered her a

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> Thinkpad and a job in a local office so she didn't do much GSoC work.

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> This happens to some interns every year. Mentors were supposed to help

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> her catch up at DebConf18, Taiwan but people only wanted to party with

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> the girls. I wasn't at DebConf18 or DebConf19. After making the trip

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> to Taiwan, she probably knew she could not pass. She resigned from GSoC

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> instead of failing. I think some people were pissed off about this

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> because they wanted to fail her.)

> https://wiki.debian.org/DiellzaShabani

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.debian.org | DiellzaShabani - Debian Wiki

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> 5. Enkelena Haxhija. (GSoC 2018. This is the girl that had a

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> relationship with Ubuntu employee Lucas Kanashiro at both DebConf18 and

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> DebConf19. She also makes the pitch for DebConf in Kosovo)

> https://wiki.debian.org/EnkelenaHaxhija

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.debian.org | EnkelenaHaxhija - Debian Wiki

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> There is another girl who went to Brazil but she is not in the photo.

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> She was never a candidate for GSoC or Outreachy. I never had any

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> romantic relationship with this woman. It is Albiona Hoti. She is in

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> the presentation of the Kosovo bid with Enkelena, she is in the TV

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> interview with me and she is in the video with Enkelena:

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> https://danielpocock.com/how-kosovo-won-debconf21/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-danielpocock.com | How Kosovo won DebConf21

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> You can verify the names of the three women in GSoC on this page. There

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> were only three women in GSoC 2018, women #3, #4 and #5 in the photo. I

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> did not have a romantic relationship with any of these women.

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> https://bits.debian.org/2018/05/welcome-gsoc2018-and-outreachy-interns.html

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-bits.debian.org | Debian welcomes its GSoC 2018 and Outreachy interns - Bits from Debian

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> An interesting question: if Diellza did not pass GSoC 2018, why did they

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> give her a second DebConf, the trip to Brazil in 2019?

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> Same story with one of the admins, Jaminy. She met Chris Lamb and I at

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> FOSSASIA 2016 in Singapore. Selected for GSoC 2016. Failed GSoC. She

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> is invited back to every conference since then. Molly appointed Jaminy

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> as an admin in 2018 through the Google interface. Lamb added Jaminy's

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> name to the delegation in 2019, the same email where he added Molly,

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> none of these three people are Debian Developers:

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> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00011.html

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lists.debian.org | Updating the Debian Outreach Team delegation

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> Another fact: they actually rejected my DebConf18 (Taiwan) funding

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> request on 13 June 2018. It looks like they were already plotting

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> something. I was an administrator in GSoC but they wanted to have the

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> interns in DebConf without me, bribe them, say things behind my back.

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> Why? I was elected by FSFE fellows in April 2017 for a two year term.

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> They started looking for ways to undermine me from January 2018 or earlier.

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US pledges support for Taiwan after forced withdrawal of diplomats from Hong Kon^ wrong window

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correct window: ERR News' working hours over Midsummer holiday

https://news.err.ee/1608254712/err-news-working-hours-over-midsummer-holiday

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.err.ee | ERR News' working hours over Midsummer holiday | News | ERR

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Yes, they're trying to turn it into a partisan thing. :(

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<li>

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<h5><a href="https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-hd-scaling-snaps.html">Plasma desktop, HD scaling & snaps</a></h5>

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-hd-scaling-snaps.html">Plasma )

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<p>I like the topic of HD scaling in Linux desktops. Like fonts, it's one of the most neglected areas of user experience in the Tux space. By and large, Plasma is the only environment that does scaling well. The other desktops sort of get along with full-integer scaling, font DPI tweaks, and, if you're lucky, some fractional scaling, with 25% increments and such. </p>

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<p> Things get extra interesting when you use Plasma with non-native applications, i.e., stuff that goes beyond the default Plasma set. I talked about this in my first article on HD scaling in Plasma, where I showed you a whole bunch of tweaks for software like Firefox, Chrome, old GTK2 stuff, and such. Now, I want to elaborate and show you how to scale snaps, in those scenarios where the scaling does not work well out of

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the box. Follow me.</p></blockquote></li>

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What would really help the world more than any whistleblowing on M$

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would be for the courts to neutralize non-disparagment clauses and

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certain non-disclosure 'agreements' attached to ending employment.

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A lot of 'ex' microsofters could then talk freely. It's a cult so many won't

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but some probably want to talk but are afraid of the papers they signed

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on the way out.

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<li>

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<h5><a href="https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6126">Adding a ChaCha Cipher to Precursor’s TRNG</a></h5>

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.bunniestudios.com | Adding a ChaCha Cipher to Precursor’s TRNG « bunnie's blog

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<p>So in Precursor, we’d like to add some conditioning on the collected entropy. To be clear, we will always make the raw entropy pool available for inspection — this is absolutely necessary for testing and CI coverage — but it’s a good idea to throw the output of your TRNG into a cryptographically sound stream cipher of some type, so that in the case that your TRNG suffers a sporadic drop-out, you don’t have a

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disastrous, instantaneous collapse of entropy. Depending on how you configure the conditioning, you can also increase the effective availability of random numbers.</p></blockquote></li>

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Should we add any headers or other information to the HTTP responses to

Jun 24 11:28

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advertize the Gemini site?

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s/headers/custom headers/

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are there any specs for this, or just some made-up hand-crafted cruft nobody will see except in page source?

Jun 24 11:29

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Not even in page source, it would be a custom header in the HTTP response

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The effort would be minimal but probably so would the returns.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_headers.html

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-httpd.apache.org | mod_headers - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4

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maybe better to suggest something in the gemini mailing lists first?

Jun 24 11:45

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Ok, I'll try a few things here on my machine first.

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apropos : http://techrights.org/2021/06/24/microsoft-attacking-linux-from-the-inside/

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Didn't KDE 3.4 or 3.5 blow away the competing version of M$ Windows in regards

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to usability in formal usability tests? That was about two decades ago

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and I consider GNU/Linux distros to have surpassed M$ in usability at

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that point. Since then the gap has only widened as M$ gets more convoluted

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Politicians Need to Crack Down on Microsoft’s Monopoly Abuse Amid Yet More Attacks on Linux (Even From the Inside) | Techrights

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and GNU/Linux distros more polished.

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DoS against TR at the moment

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Seem

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Seems over.

Jun 24 15:26

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KDE Plasma5 improved gradually over the years and it's really nice now, also very stable. I'm thankful for that. The issue we have is not technical. Marketing, lobbying, bribery etc.

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YEs, bribery and other bullshit are the deciding factors in *any* Windows

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deployment. Yet, they yammer on with continued lies about it being

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easier to use than GNU/Linnux. I would point out that those lies were

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debunked many years ago.

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How are the system requirements for KDE Plasma now? It used to be quite

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bloated and sluggish. If it is lighter than XFCE4 now I might give it

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another try.

x https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/microsoft-becomes-second-us-firm-to-pass-2-trillion-market-cap/83798561

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xfce4 is a lot lighter and I use it on an older laptop. No reason to move unless you need some particular functionality of KDE.

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Ok. Thanks. I'll stay with XFCE4 for now. I am curious enough that I might

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try Plasma on a spare machine for part of a day sometime soon.

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I consider XFCE4 kind of heavy so if Plasma is heavier then it may

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only be for the sake of novelty.

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I suppose one worthy video to do is, what features make KDE so good, but I need to prepare and think and advance which ones to show, and how.... (without revealing local files etc.)

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there was a time techrights did more 'marketing' for free software, but the times require response to BoA issues, swpats, RMS/GPL matters. Also bloated Web. I might switch off temporarily the tuxmachines protection, seeing it causes that site to restart due to an issue with a different container.

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Microsoft: Microsoft becomes second US firm to pass $2 trillion market cap, IT News, ET CIO

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https://nitter.actionsack.com/sxpert1/status/1408054475206533126#m

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.actionsack.com | Raphaël Jacquot 🔻 (@sxpert1): "techrights.org/2009/09/21/rm…" | nitter

https://nitter.actionsack.com/stderr_/status/1408054323897147393#m

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.actionsack.com | josue ortega (@stderr_): ""The most abusive ‘tech’ company (akin to a cult disguised as “software company” since the 1970s) is ... attacking Linux from the inside; thankfully, those insipid plans of theirs face major backlash from longtime kernel developers and GNU/Linux users" https://techrights.org/2021/06/24/microsoft-attacking-linux-from-the-inside/" | nitter

https://nitter.actionsack.com/lipoqil/status/1408027742491353093#m

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.actionsack.com | Mailo Světel (@lipoqil): ""the WWW tries to be everything to everyone, both a floor-wax and a toothpaste, while Gemini tries to be good at just one thing" 😂 http://techrights.org/2021/04/28/joining-gemini-space/ #GeminiSpace" | nitter

https://nitter.actionsack.com/lipoqil/status/1407992973888036866#m

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.actionsack.com | Mailo Světel (@lipoqil): "Tohle by byl zajimavej serial http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/freenode-and-cancel-culture/ #Freenode #LiberaChat #Netflix ? #TVshow ?" | nitter

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Which container?

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> TM under attack

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> TM aggregator

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> blocked

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TR and TM load is connected (one to the other), so one container can trigger another's script

Jun 24 16:24

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Oh. I had not thought of that, I am not familiar at all with containers.

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Strange interaction.

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it's the same with VMs. if you see high load, you must consider the possibility that another tenant on the hv causes it.

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Can HV monitor the loads on TR and TM instead?

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good question/I don't know/never checked

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If it can watch then there might be an easy or simple way for it to

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trigger an action in the appropriate guest.

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we only started having this issue when ddos attack on TR resumed, happening in conjunction with our monitoring program

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yes, the monitor is based on the situation that one would find on

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"bare metal" and the quirks of the host-guest relationships in VMs

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is not taken into account.

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i reckon those waves on TR will go away; they're not novel, they come back once in a few months, last a few days, then ebb away

https://twitter.com/c3iq/status/1408020889518673921

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btw, green flares in nmon are usually attack on TR, if it's TM then expect lots of red in the bars. .htaccess for aggregator is in 'history'

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setting topics for libera char to point in the right place....

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#boycottnovell is NOT here. It is at irc.techrights.org (port 6667) under the same channel name, #boycottnovell

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@teckids_eV: @schestowitz You can always donate to us directly if you want to support our cause. Apart from that, I do not understand your tweet.

https://twitter.com/buZztiaan/status/1408014400372494336

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