<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Podcasting 2.0 May 1st 2026 Episode 259 - "SlopJacked"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dave ships first-party data at the app level - the new /upload/followcounts endpoint changes everything. Plus the podcast:contact; proposal, RSS.com's Alberto Betella on AI disclosure as enforcement substrate&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://newpodcastapps.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Check out the podcasting 2.0 apps and services newpodcastapps.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;ShowNotes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-04-30/-podslop-proliferation-is-challenging-the-audio-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Bloomberg article we discussed about podslop, featuring the chicken guy from Alabama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;01 - DAVE SHIPS /upload/followcounts &amp;mdash; FIRST-PARTY DATA AT THE APP LEVEL (folder: 01 Dave-Ships-Followcounts)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;02 - &amp;lt;podcast:contact&amp;gt; NAMESPACE PROPOSAL (folder: 02 Contact-Namespace)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;03 - ALBERTO BETELLA (RSS.com CEO) &amp;mdash; AI DISCLOSURE TAG AS ENFORCEMENT SUBSTRATE (folder: 03 Alberto-RSS-AI-Disclosure)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;04 - TUCSON DENTAL CARE SEO SPAM PODCAST CLEANUP (folder: 04 Tucson-Dental-SEO-Spam)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;05 - AI HARDWARE CRUNCH &amp;mdash; $65 BILLION US POWER EQUIPMENT BOOM (folder: 05 AI-Hardware-Crunch)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;06 - ANTHROPIC + AI PRICING FOLLOW-UP (folder: 06 Anthropic-AI-Pricing)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;07 - ROBLOX TANKS 18% ON CHILD SAFETY MEASURES (folder: 07 Roblox-Child-Safety)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;08 - BOARDROOM NEWS BITES (folder: 08 Boardroom-News-Bites)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Clip Sources&lt;/p&gt;
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Episode 259: SlopJacked

Podcasting 2.0 May 1st 2026 Episode 259 - "SlopJacked"
Dave ships first-party data at the app level - the new /upload/followcounts endpoint changes everything. Plus the podcast:contact; proposal, RSS.com's Alberto Betella on AI disclosure as enforcement substrate
<a href="https://op3.dev/e/mp3s.nashownotes.com/PC20-259-2026-05-01-Final.mp3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download the mp3</a>
<a href="http://mp3s.nashownotes.com/pc20rss.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Podcast Feed</a>
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<a href="http://preservepodcasting.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Preservepodcasting.com</a>
<a href="http://newpodcastapps.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check out the podcasting 2.0 apps and services newpodcastapps.com</a>
<a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=m0z6N1K047lEsGvPDr3KMumKYHlUHRAdwPNY645UB0LR9fGf_OtpVByzHId7TEFYo9nXNS5aF33Zdjn9&amp;fromUL=true&amp;country.x=US&amp;locale.x=en_US" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Support us with your Time Talent and Treasure</a>
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ShowNotes
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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-04-30/-podslop-proliferation-is-challenging-the-audio-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bloomberg article we discussed about podslop, featuring the chicken guy from Alabama</a>
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01 - DAVE SHIPS /upload/followcounts &mdash; FIRST-PARTY DATA AT THE APP LEVEL (folder: 01 Dave-Ships-Followcounts)
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02 - &lt;podcast:contact&gt; NAMESPACE PROPOSAL (folder: 02 Contact-Namespace)
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03 - ALBERTO BETELLA (RSS.com CEO) &mdash; AI DISCLOSURE TAG AS ENFORCEMENT SUBSTRATE (folder: 03 Alberto-RSS-AI-Disclosure)
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04 - TUCSON DENTAL CARE SEO SPAM PODCAST CLEANUP (folder: 04 Tucson-Dental-SEO-Spam)
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05 - AI HARDWARE CRUNCH &mdash; $65 BILLION US POWER EQUIPMENT BOOM (folder: 05 AI-Hardware-Crunch)
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06 - ANTHROPIC + AI PRICING FOLLOW-UP (folder: 06 Anthropic-AI-Pricing)
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07 - ROBLOX TANKS 18% ON CHILD SAFETY MEASURES (folder: 07 Roblox-Child-Safety)
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08 - BOARDROOM NEWS BITES (folder: 08 Boardroom-News-Bites)
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Podcasting 2.0 April 24th 2026 Episode 258 - "Perceptron"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dave and Adam walk through the entire technical process of building an industry resource for auto-flagging spam and slop podcasts. It's a doozy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Shownotes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Booking Tag&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DeepSeek V4 Released &amp;mdash; Open Source AI From China&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DeepSeek V4 released April 24 &amp;mdash; two variants: V4-Pro (1.6T params) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Open-weight MIT license, 1 million token context window&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trained on domestic Chinese chips (Huawei Ascend, Cambricon) &amp;mdash; not Nvidia&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;V4-Flash: $0.14/M input tokens &amp;mdash; cheapest frontier-class model available&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;White House OSTP accusing China of 'industrial-scale' distillation of US AI models&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anthropic caught DeepSeek using 24,000 fake accounts and 16M exchanges to distill Claude&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our own testing: DeepSeek V3.1 on Together.ai is 4-10x faster and half the cost of Llama 3.3 70B for production tasks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/deepseek-v4-llm-preview-open-source-ai-competition-china.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;CNBC: DeepSeek V4 Preview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/tech/white-house-accuses-china-copying-american-ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;CNN: White House Accuses China Copying American AI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anthropic Claude Code Pricing Drama&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anthropic quietly removed Claude Code from $20/month Pro plan on April 21&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Developer backlash immediate &amp;mdash; reversed within hours&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Head of Growth: 'a test on 2% of new signups' &amp;mdash; but page changes were global&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Internal data: heavy users cost Anthropic $60-$150/month on a $20 subscription&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GitHub also suspended flat-rate Copilot signups, removed Claude Opus from $10 tier&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The AI subscription model is structurally broken &amp;mdash; WeWork/Uber playbook&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://startupfortune.com/anthropic-quietly-pulls-claude-code-from-pro-plan-and-hands-local-model-advocates-their-strongest-argument-yet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;StartupFortune article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Anthropic postmortem (April 23)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Microsoft Voluntary Buyout &amp;mdash; 7% of US Workforce&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Topics for Today&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Podping / namespace updates?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feed cloning follow-up from 257 &amp;mdash; any new developments?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sovereign Feeds update &amp;mdash; feed editing experience&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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Episode 258: Perceptron

Podcasting 2.0 April 24th 2026 Episode 258 - "Perceptron"
Dave and Adam walk through the entire technical process of building an industry resource for auto-flagging spam and slop podcasts. It's a doozy!
<div>
Shownotes
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Booking Tag
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DeepSeek V4 Released &mdash; Open Source AI From China
DeepSeek V4 released April 24 &mdash; two variants: V4-Pro (1.6T params) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active)
Open-weight MIT license, 1 million token context window
Trained on domestic Chinese chips (Huawei Ascend, Cambricon) &mdash; not Nvidia
V4-Flash: $0.14/M input tokens &mdash; cheapest frontier-class model available
White House OSTP accusing China of 'industrial-scale' distillation of US AI models
Anthropic caught DeepSeek using 24,000 fake accounts and 16M exchanges to distill Claude
Our own testing: DeepSeek V3.1 on Together.ai is 4-10x faster and half the cost of Llama 3.3 70B for production tasks
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/deepseek-v4-llm-preview-open-source-ai-competition-china.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC: DeepSeek V4 Preview</a>
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/tech/white-house-accuses-china-copying-american-ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN: White House Accuses China Copying American AI</a>
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Anthropic Claude Code Pricing Drama
Anthropic quietly removed Claude Code from $20/month Pro plan on April 21
Developer backlash immediate &mdash; reversed within hours
Head of Growth: 'a test on 2% of new signups' &mdash; but page changes were global
Internal data: heavy users cost Anthropic $60-$150/month on a $20 subscription
GitHub also suspended flat-rate Copilot signups, removed Claude Opus from $10 tier
The AI subscription model is structurally broken &mdash; WeWork/Uber playbook
<a href="https://startupfortune.com/anthropic-quietly-pulls-claude-code-from-pro-plan-and-hands-local-model-advocates-their-strongest-argument-yet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">StartupFortune article</a>
<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthropic postmortem (April 23)</a>
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Microsoft Voluntary Buyout &mdash; 7% of US Workforce
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Topics for Today
Podping / namespace updates?
Feed cloning follow-up from 257 &mdash; any new developments?
Sovereign Feeds update &mdash; feed editing experience
</div>
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<description>&lt;h2&gt;Podcasting 2.0 April 17th 2026 Episode 257 - Slop Factory&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Show Notes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CI/CD Prompt Injection &amp;mdash; Claude Code, Gemini CLI Credential Theft&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fountain Flooding the API &amp;mdash; 1.5 Million Hits in 24 Hours&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feed Cloning Epidemic &amp;mdash; Spam Flavor of the Moment&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Episode 257: Slop Factory

<h2>Podcasting 2.0 April 17th 2026 Episode 257 - Slop Factory</h2>
Show Notes
CI/CD Prompt Injection &mdash; Claude Code, Gemini CLI Credential Theft
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Fountain Flooding the API &mdash; 1.5 Million Hits in 24 Hours
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Feed Cloning Epidemic &mdash; Spam Flavor of the Moment
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<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Podcasting 2.0 April 3rd 2026 Episode 256: "Master of Disaster"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ShowNotes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Index API Under Bot Attack&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Lyra" bots destroying API. OpenClaw scrapers (creator hired by OpenAI). Steno.fm 500 req/min. Dave: "Now I'm just angry."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/116336120269176890" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;@dave on Lyra bots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/116336148008002908" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;@dave on reflypod/OpenClaw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OpenClaw Drama&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Podping Alpha - Dave 6 Releases This Week&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;v0.4.0-v0.4.5: swarm health metrics, peer announcements, gossip-listener hang fix. @suorcd contributing PRs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podping.alpha/releases" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Podping alpha releases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Dave did SIX podping releases this week. At this rate, podping will be at version 47 by Christmas. Still in alpha."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Buzzsprout Free Transcripts&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Free auto transcripts for paid plans. Speaker ID (unlike Apple). Chapters integration. Fanmail reply + voicemail.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://podnews.net/update/buzzsprout-transcripts-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Podnews: Buzzsprout transcripts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Criddler on PC20 Complicated Community&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Transcript Format Debate - Deep Research&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HOT - Podcast Portals Land Grab (Beehiiv, Speakeasy, Substack)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Three hosting launches in one week. Do ANY support namespace tags, V4V, or Podping?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/02/beehiiv-expands-into-podcasts-taking-aim-at-patreon-substack-newsletters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Beehiiv launches podcast hosting - no revenue cut, IAB analytics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://podnews.net/press-release/speakeasy" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Speakeasy (Red Seat/Fox Corp) - invitation-only, Backtracks ad-tech&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcastindex.social/@samsethi/116341338967119221" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;@samsethi: "Podcast portals offering hosting as ancillary service"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Episode 256: Master of Disaster

Podcasting 2.0 April 3rd 2026 Episode 256: "Master of Disaster"
<div>&nbsp;</div>
ShowNotes
<div>
Index API Under Bot Attack
<div>&nbsp;</div>
"Lyra" bots destroying API. OpenClaw scrapers (creator hired by OpenAI). Steno.fm 500 req/min. Dave: "Now I'm just angry."
<a href="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/116336120269176890" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@dave on Lyra bots</a>
<a href="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/116336148008002908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@dave on reflypod/OpenClaw</a>
</div>
OpenClaw Drama
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Podping Alpha - Dave 6 Releases This Week
v0.4.0-v0.4.5: swarm health metrics, peer announcements, gossip-listener hang fix. @suorcd contributing PRs.
<a href="https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podping.alpha/releases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Podping alpha releases</a>
"Dave did SIX podping releases this week. At this rate, podping will be at version 47 by Christmas. Still in alpha."
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Buzzsprout Free Transcripts
Free auto transcripts for paid plans. Speaker ID (unlike Apple). Chapters integration. Fanmail reply + voicemail.
<a href="https://podnews.net/update/buzzsprout-transcripts-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Podnews: Buzzsprout transcripts</a>
The Criddler on PC20 Complicated Community
Transcript Format Debate - Deep Research
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HOT - Podcast Portals Land Grab (Beehiiv, Speakeasy, Substack)
<div>&nbsp;</div>
Three hosting launches in one week. Do ANY support namespace tags, V4V, or Podping?
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/02/beehiiv-expands-into-podcasts-taking-aim-at-patreon-substack-newsletters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beehiiv launches podcast hosting - no revenue cut, IAB analytics</a>
<a href="https://podnews.net/press-release/speakeasy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speakeasy (Red Seat/Fox Corp) - invitation-only, Backtracks ad-tech</a>
<a href="https://podcastindex.social/@samsethi/116341338967119221" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@samsethi: "Podcast portals offering hosting as ancillary service"</a>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Podcasting 2.0 March 27th 2026 Episode 255: "Snark Week"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Adam &amp;amp; Dave Are joined by Nathan Gathright to discuss his latest project and writing&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;Nathan Gathright
	Pod.Link
	&lt;a href="https://mignano.medium.com/the-standards-innovation-paradox-e14cab521391"&gt;The Standards Innovation Paradox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</description>

Episode 255: Snark Week

Podcasting 2.0 March 27th 2026 Episode 255: "Snark Week"
Adam &amp; Dave Are joined by Nathan Gathright to discuss his latest project and writing
<pre>Nathan Gathright
	Pod.Link
	<a href="https://mignano.medium.com/the-standards-innovation-paradox-e14cab521391">The Standards Innovation Paradox</a></pre>

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