TFW you see a building with scaffolding covered by netting in the colours of the Italian flag, and you think WTF
but then you realize you're in San Fermo della Battaglia, i.e. (if I'm not mistaken) on the very place of a locally important battle of the wars of Italian unification, and one fought by the army of idealistic volunteers, not the regular one, and then it becomes ok.
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Giacché ha più volte funzionato, invoco il potere del Fediverso per riportare a casa un gattaccio che ha avuto la pessima idea di svignarsela, lasciando nell'angoscia i suoi coinquilini.
#PersoETrovato #CercoTrovo #mastodonperilsociale #caturdayeveryday
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Questa mattina ho due domande:
- com'è il libro sui cecchini del weekend di Sarajevo? Leggo recensioni contrastanti
- qualcuno ha una vaga idea di quando devo iniziare il processo di germinazione dei semini di ciliegia per avere, nel futuro (non importa quanto lontano), un alberello VERY AESTETHICALLY PLEASING in terrazzo? tipo st'autunno? metto in frigo? tolgo la coccia esteriore? posso dire "coccia"?
andate e condividetevi (per favore grazie)
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Cette affiche du XIXe siècle est conservée dans les archives de l'État de Côme, représentant des statues de cire représentant des «événements récents intéressants», dont certains se seraient produits en France. Le numéro IX concerne en particulier un tueur en série chatouillant, qui aurait tué quatre épouses en les chatouillant sous les pieds. Existe-t-il un document ou un témoignage en France sur cette affaire ? Merci
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I was level 9.
I kicked down the door.
I found a mid-level monster.
It was the first encounter with a chance of victory, I expected everybody to throw anything and everything at me
And they did. and it wasn't enough.
I won.
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Ero livello 9
Ho sfondato la porta
Ho trovato un mostro di livello intermedio
Era il primo combattimento a rischio vittoria, mi aspettavo che mi tirassero addosso la qualunque
E ci han provato, ma non è bastato
Ho vinto.
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I have to admit it was definitely a form of patriarchal oppression *and* because of capitalism.
When we were starting the game I was putting my token on the female marker, and then decided “no, in honor of Pride month let's start as a male” and everybody else did the same, starting as female, and I won as the only male in the game.
*And* I finished the game with a class of Tycoon, not because I'd chosen it willingly, but because that's the only class card I got.
And I also won one level early in the game by tattling to the police.
I'm not proud of this game.
But I won, and that's the important thing in #munchkin, right? :D
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Devo ammettere che è stata oppressione del patriarcato *e* colpa del capitalismo.
All'inizio della partita stavo per mettere il segnalino su “donna”, ma ho detto “mannò, in onore del Pride inizio come uomo”, e gli altri mi hanno imitata (imitato?) iniziando come donna, e ho vinto essendo l'unico uomo del gioco.
*E* quando ho finito la mia classe era Tycoon, non perché l'avrei scelta liberamente, ma perché è stata l'unica carta classe che ho pescato..
E ho vinto uno dei livelli verso l'inizio della partita andando a fare la spia con la polizia.
Non sono orgogliosa di questa partita.
Ma ho vinto, e questa è la cosa importante in #munchkin, giusto?
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Oh, and my real life partner had the Exiguous Armour (+2)
I may have leered a bit
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E il mio compagno (vero) aveva l'Exiguous Armour (+2)
Potrei aver dato qualche occhiata lussuriosa
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I think this is well worth reading. I've been a bit frustrated by some over-confident claims that data centres in space are literally impossible due to the cooling issues alone, and other claims that those issues are fairly minor. I am nowhere near close to being familiar with all the real-world engineering nitty gritty; I understand a fair bit of thermodynamics, but that is not enough to really settle things. FWIW, the arguments here seem well grounded in physics and the technological/economic/legal issues raised strike me as plausible.
robtow.substack.com/p/spacex-i…
Rob Tow · Nova Lux, New Mexico, USA, Sol III · 17 June 2026Rob Tow
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Using LLMs is like driving a big-ass gas truck.
No one *should* do it, but it can be useful, and you—as an individual—shouldn't *really* feel that bad for doing it under limited circumstances.
But please remember, using it feeds some of the worst companies in history, and *they* (and especially their decision-makers) need to be held responsible for their destructive practices. Every dollar in their pockets helps promote more late-stage capitalism and fascism.
Lastly, If you *do* use it, don't drive like an asshole.
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Credentials: years spent working both for and against various AI companies.
*braces for backlash*
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And a bit of a #sewing update
The three initial cockades have been actually finished, and I still want to make another couple to write instructions for two more centrepiece variants. Technically I could just make the centrepieces, since they are the only pictures I need, but completionist, I guess?
Meanwhile, I've picked back up the victorian vampire shirt, and it's closer to being finished than I remembered. These couple of days I've made all of the buttonholes (just 7) and finished the sleeves, and now the only things missing are attaching the sleeves to the body, and hemming half of the bottom edge (which I'll either do during my next confcall, or at the very end of the project, whichever comes first).
And I've also done some flossing on one (1) boning channel on the corset. That corset that has been worn a few times already.
And I've found at least one new sewing project I want to make (for which I already have almost all materials (I need to check if I have suitable sewing thread).
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua purtroppo se mi metto a parlare francese @Diego Roversi non reagisce come Gomez
non so se sia perché non so il francese, dovrei provare a studiarlo :D
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I was in the living room, putting back the (black) cover on the couch, I thought “I could do with a bit more light”, so I went to the office, opened a shell, run mosquitto_pub with a bit of json, and then back to the living room to see the LED bars turn from cycling rainbow to full white
and then when I finished doing stuff on the couch I went back to the office, and set the LED bars back to cycling rainbow
that's the normal way to deal with smart home stuff, right?
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@cate la maggior parte dei miei device sono degli ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo con attaccati dei sensori, che mandano i valori via mqtt in modo abbastanza grezzo e vengono letti da uno script python tenuto assieme con la duct tape che li salva in un rrd e genera dei grafici (visualizzati in una pagina html statico).
poi c'è la barra a LED RGB + W¹, controllata da un altro ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo che riceve comandi in un json custom, e ho intenzione di metterne in giro almeno un altra
poi abbiamo due (2) prese smart che inviano i dati di consumo in un formato compatibile con HA, ma ancora non ho avuto tempo di leggerli e farci cose, e una non è ancora neanche stata attaccata (sono state comprate per decidere quale sia il primo frigo da cambiare, poi non so se le useremo ancora)
prima o poi ho intenzione di cambiare il modo in cui gli ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo mandano i dati, per renderlo compatibile con HA e tutto il resto del mondo, e di scrivere qualcosa per leggerli che abbia un po' meno duct tape.
¹ nel senso che sono una striscia RGB e una strisca W comprate separatamente, incollate sulla stessa base di alluminio e controllate dallo stesso device
If you are using Arch Linux and aur, here is a list of malicious packages found until now: md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA
``` 123pan-bin 1code 8188eu-dkms 8192eu-dkms-git abntex acpitool actual-ai adapta-gtk-theme-git adblmd.archlinux.org
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I will post on the blog about it later in the month (hopefully), but if anybody has a pressing need to make a cockade with multiple colours, say with a deadline in June, I've just published my instructions
sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
(they do look finished in the pictures, dont' they? yeah, they aren't. I'm still sewing the backs, but nobody needs to know about it :D )
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"Latin letters do not hold hands. Arabic letters do.
To understand why every machine since Gutenberg has wrestled this script and mostly lost, you need one structural fact: Arabic is cursive always."
This piece is an exhilarating, eye-opening, outrageous, and very funny tale of the difference between latin letters and Arabic letters, and why printing presses and screen renderers have such a hard time with it.
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#TIL
"… languages were written on a tablet of stone using a chisel. Since most people are naturally right-handed, they would hold a hammer with the right hand and a chisel with the left. … That’s why you find most older languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi) written from right to left.
When ink was invented, … writing from left to right became more preferable in many parts of the world since this method avoided smudging ink."
Source: writingbeginner.com/are-arabic…
Are Arabic writers left-handed?christopherkokoski (Writing Beginner)
@Deborah Preuss, pcc that phrase feels off
the oldest writing system, cuneiform, was written first and foremost by pressing a stylus on clay, with carving in stone reserved for exceptionally important documents.
Hieroglyphs followed soon afterwards, and indeed some of the earliest examples are carved in stone, but they are also small bits of text in the middle of a decorative design, and there are also similar examples that are painted on pottery, which would only require one hand.
Chinese oracle bone script were, like the name says, carved in softer material (bone).
And I don't know whether we know on what surface Maya script started, and I suspect that if it was done on perishable materials we'll never know, because the climate there is quite different from that of Egypt.
And the direction of writing of those early examples varied wildly, even in the same script, with left to right, right to left, top to bottom and even boustrophedon.
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The Sumerians, then the Egyptians, but it's the Phoenicians or the Etruscans who first had an alphabet* as we know it, and they wrote right to left. Then the Greeks adopted the letters but wrote them backwards, left to right.
superprof.com/blog/why-are-sem…
Romans (much later) also wrote on wax tablets for everyday notes. I mean, who had time to carve everything in stone?
*The word 'alphabet' is from their first two letters, aleph or alif (cow), and beth (house)
Why is Arabic written from right to left? Discover the history, linguistic roots, and practical reasons behind Arabic’s unique writing direction.www.superprof.com
@CelloMom On Cars @Deborah Preuss, pcc afaik the proto-sinaitic script was still written in both directions (including changing direction on alternate lines), and so were the early greek and italic (including etruscan) texts, settling on a standard direction happened a bit later, and it ended up being the opposite direction between Semitic languages and Greek + the linguistic mess that was Italy.
I'm not sure whether there has been any research on why it happened this way, or if it was a random chance (which sounds pretty likely, considering that the writing mediums were pretty similar in both places).
boustrophedic and right-to-left inscriptions from the pre-roman iron age are quite common in the museums of northern Italy, even if the alphabet they were using was definitely derived from the Greek one (probably after going through the Etruscans, as they were the local prestige civilization at the time)
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@CelloMom On Cars @Deborah Preuss, pcc also, wikipedia tells me that the oldest find of a probably-wax-tablet was in a shipwreck of the coast of contemporary Turkey from the 14th century BC, which is pretty cool!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluburun…
(probably. after a few millennia in the sea I think there was no wax left on the tablet, and I have no access to the article to read the details and see how confident they are that it was actually one)
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@CelloMom On Cars TIL that the harfbuzz name comes from arabic, thanks!
(I knew of it from the fact that's optionally used by fpdf2, that I maintain in Debian)
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"Hello, requesting donation for cover cost of previous AI agent use in dn42. aws bill 6531,30$. pls send donation to ethereum 0xABC (masked) for refund. thank you"
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I'm shocked AWS reduced the bill
imagine going to the gas station and saying "I made a mistake; I meant to drive to Portland, Oregon and drove to Portland, Maine by accident; please can I get a refund on the fuel I spent?"
@technomancy I’ve had refunds a few times just going sorry I forgot my vm on can you pls help am poor uwu
They are surprisingly helpful
From the WTAF dept:
Malware developers are now adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware to evade AI-based security scanners.
tl;dr: The inclusion of content that LLMs are trained to refuse -- such as information about nukes and bioweapons -- can effectively prevent the LLM from continuing to analyze the threat.
"This header appears designed for AI-mediated analysis, not for Node, Bun, or Python. It attempts to derail scanners or analyst copilots that feed the beginning of a file to a language model without clearly isolating the content as untrusted data. In weak pipelines, this can cause refusal behavior, prompt confusion, context pollution, or premature classification before the scanner reaches the actual malware."
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IDK why, but this reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where Calvin asks his mom for stuff she will never give him in a million years, and then he just asks for a cookie.
Newer packages in this compromise use native extensions and .pth loaders to execute JavaScript stealers in developer environments.Kirill Boychenko (Socket)
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CERCO COINQUILIN3 IN AREA URBANA DI BOLOGNA DA AGOSTI 2026 A NOVEMBRE 2027
La casa è del tutto arredata, collegata coi mezzi, illuminata benissimo e ha un cappotto termico che funziona, la stanza è abbastanza grande e senza il caos radioattivo di coinquimerda pure carina, l'affitto è 300 euro al mese a testa più bollette variabili ma comunque basse, il proprietario non sa fare il suo lavoro e vorrei abitare con gente che non maltratta la mia gatta e non è transfobica dunque ci provo io
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People have strange heroic ideas about the Viking Period. The reason is that they specifically read *heroic* literature, much of it written as historical semi-fiction hundreds of years later. It's like basing your ideas about the 1100s on Walter Scott.
Viking Period archaeology in Scandinavia is deeply unheroic. It concerns itself overwhelmingly with the non-Viking activities of farmers.
Most runestones deal with modest land inheritance.
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If somebody else is stuck cursing the syntax change in .screenrc, this is a guide to the new colours:
pingle.org/2026/04/26/screen-5…
Updating GNU Screen 5.x configuration for hardstatus color syntax changespingle.org
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SFC announced today a multi-pronged, comprehensive initiative to deal with Bambu Lab's AGPLv3 copyleft violations, and with software right to repair for 3D printer users generally.
sfconservancy.org/news/2026/ma…
The initial plan includes forks, reverse engineering, and further investigation. As always, litigation remains a last resort.
Donate now to help SFC continue this work: sfconservancy.org/sustainer
#SFC #SoftwareFreedom #OpenSource #Bambu #BambuLab #BambuStudio #AGPLv3 #AGPL #copyleft
Software Freedom Conservancy (“SFC”) announces a new initiative regarding the software right to repair for users and consumers of 3D printers manufactured by Bambu Lab.Software Freedom Conservancy
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This kickstarter may be of interest to a few on fedi. Youtube poledancing archer who makes videos about historical archery, fantasy combat, & um... pole dancing, is doing a crowd funder to get hold of a properly fitting set of plate armour to do experiments in what it's possible to do in full armour. Is about 70% funded with 10 days to go.
If the project is funded we can finally answer the important historical question. Is it possible to pole dance in full plate armour?
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e oggi #hoVistoCose!
ho visto passare alle obliteratrici #trenord una tessera con un abbonamento comprato poche ore prima, e l'ha riconosciuto e attivato!
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His Grace (#notOurCat) was inside our home, on the couch with us, and we had a window open so he was joined by the Lady (who in reality is quite afraid of us).
Outside we could see a few wild mid-sized big cats, and then one of them got close to the window and he wanted to enter too. I closed the window, and he remained outside, looking at us with an Innocent Cat Look, asking us why we were so cruel and we didn't allow him on the couch too!
(they were *wild*. not domestic. not even feral (or somewhat feral, like his Grace and the Lady). *wild*)
/me, trying to draw a pcb and having to mix mm and mils.
if I ever build a time machine I'm not going back to kill Hitler. what I'm doing is going back to 1793 to save the ship with Joseph Dombey and the sample of the meter!
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Intanto: piano segreto di corrompere l'Italia al consumo di cenovis:
una nuova vittima
BUAHAHAHAHAH
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@Alessandro e te l'avevo detto che dovevi prendertene un tubetto prima di andare via!
(ma se si organizza per andare in isvizzera a prendere il cenovis passando dai boschi con una gerla (forse :D ) ci vieni anche tu? :D )
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
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Almost a year ago I made myself a few new white camisoles in a hurry.
Now I need a couple black camisoles, and they are starting to be quite urgent.
*Where* did I leave the printed pattern???
(I could print it again, I still have everything I need, but it feels wasteful)
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Circa un'anno fa mi sono fatta delle canottiere bianche nuove, in fretta e furia
Adesso ho bisogno di un paio di canottiere nere, e stanno iniziando ad essere abbastanza urgenti.
*Dove* ho infognato il cartamodello stampato???
(potrei stamparlo ancora, ho tutto ciò che mi serve, ma sarebbe uno spreco)
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I totally agree.
The most important institutional websites I'm using have hours - or even days! - of planned downtimes.
Some customers, having a small institutional website visited by 3 persons (and 300 bots) per day: "We've been down for 20 seconds!!! We've been OFFLINE!!!"
I'd love to know why technologists are so obsessed with the N 9-nines of uptime when major institutions in my life have hour-long or even day-long outages regularly.My bank (~$88b market cap)? I'm sorry, you can't log in to move money between your accounts because our system is down for the weekend.
My insurance company (~$65b market cap)? Yeah, you'd like to pay your bill, but it's Memorial Day weekend, so we'll accept your money on Tuesday when we're back online.
Both are already treading right around 99% (a mere two nines of) uptime without taking any of the other outages (past or future this year) into consideration.
While it would be nice if such businesses strived it's not particularly uncommon for such "professional" sites. The bar is set astoundingly low. 🤷
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I'd propose a coordinated, monthly maintenance window. That sends a combined signal "We are all down today because we make things better for you". With an online community of helpful admins helping their online neighbours to fix issues without being pressured to reduce downtime to absurd minimums. Would also give users a day to do other things, like going out and meet people :)
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Hey, on saturday/sunday of this week (May 30th to 31th), I'll be at the "Torino Comics" festival in Italy, meeting the "Silly Studios" publisher on their booth (Zona Chiostro, Pagoda P10). If you are around, come to say a hello and get a signed and sketched copy of the paperback volumes of "Pepper & Carrot"!
See you in Turin!
official website: torinocomics.it/
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@LaVi LaVi! guarda! a furia di leggere cose in inglese¹ scritte da tedeschi ho trovato una cosa in italiano!
“Il progetto FLATIF – Linguaggi e Terminologie della Moda tra Italiano e Francese: costruzione e disseminazione delle risorse nasce come un’iniziativa di ricerca multidisciplinare, interdisciplinare e plurilingue volta a indagare i linguaggi e le terminologie della moda nel periodo compreso tra il 1880 e il 1980.”
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@Giorgia Mecojoni signora Presidente del Consiglio, volevo porre alla sua attenzione una conseguenza forse inaspettata delle continue proroghe degli sconti sulle accise, ovvero l'affollamento dei nostri distributori di benzina da parte di extracomunitari¹ con auto di grossa cilindrata che fanno rifornimento coi nostri carburanti.
Cosa che tra l'altro risulta essere un comportamento ancora più contro natura di una relazione amorosa omosessuale: da tempo immemore la tradizione era che fossimo noi a recarci da loro ad acquistare carburanti economici.
¹ residenti della Confederazione Elvetica, ovviamente
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@sans_serif_girl ebbasta co sto femminile che è come una nelle ferrovie che se fà chiamare capatrena
"Er presidento"
Daje che ce tengo ar punto de spiegarlo in parlamento!
youtu.be/6-IPW0iTNL4?si=dMFAOt…
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Vista Agenzia Televisiva Nazionale (YouTube)
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I keep seeing a lot of advice for writers saying "don't use this, don't use that" because it will show up as AI written.
I hate it. It makes me worried. A lot of the "AI" traits in writing overlap with storytelling language. Spoken language.
When I write, as a storyteller, I use em dash when I would take a breath or a pause on stage, instead of finishing a thought. I use triple adjectives because in spoken word they add to the rhythm.
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Ignore the stupidity and save every draft.
Backups.
But you know all this really.
There has always been stupid advice for writers. School was the worst for me!
Colgo l'occasione per ricordarvi che ci sono sempre più libri audio che potete ascoltare fuori dalle piattaforme come Audible e dalle gabbie come Spotify.
Ci sono le mie letture (Assalto alle piattaforme, Liberare il mio smartphone, etc): podcast.kenobit.it/@assaltoall…
E le letture di @savohead:
scalpocast.savohead.com/@SCALP…
Credo che tutto cambierà quando inizieremo a mettere le cose belle che facciamo direttamente sul Fediverso. E penso che i podcast siano un grande antidoto al doomscrolling.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Oggi ho visto un edificio con un ponteggio coperto con delle reti tricolore, e il primo pensiero è stato WTF
poi mi sono resa conto di essere a San Fermo della Battaglia, credo nel punto preciso della battaglia eponima, ed erano i garibaldini idealisti, non l'esercito regolare, e allora dai, direi che hanno fatto bene
#ilPatriottismoVaBeneMaSoloFinoAgliAnni60dellOttocento
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