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1365	/n/2023/12/19/Brodie_Robertson_is_Wrong_Because_Flatpaks_Snaps_Do_In_Fact_Pro.shtml
1163	/n/2024/04/07/Outreachy_Tindernships_Debian_photo_sites.shtml
1150	/n/2024/04/10/Abuse_Sex_Crimes_at_FOSDEM_and_Open_Source_tech_events.shtml
1093	/n/2024/04/09/Justin_Flory_UNICEF_Red_Hat_s_MIT_Epstein_moment.shtml
917	/n/2024/04/07/Jonathan_Saul_Cohen_Debian_West_London_mansion_exposed.shtml
915	/n/2024/04/09/Ubuntu_underage_girl_child_sex_or_child_prostitution.shtml
901	/n/2024/04/09/Links_09_04_2024_Netflix_Layoffs_and_Cox_Will_Try_to_Bring_Cooy.shtml
861	/n/2024/04/09/Mastodon_mastodon_social_Gives_the_Boot_to_the_Militants_Who_At.shtml
827	/n/2024/04/06/Charles_Fussell_Jonathan_Cohen_Debian_SLAPP_microsite_resignati.shtml
819	/n/2024/04/10/Daniele_Scasciafratte_Mozilla_OSCAL_Albania_dating.shtml
815	/n/2024/04/08/In_Their_Own_Words_Militants_Admit_Phoning_My_Employer_and_My_W.shtml
812	/n/2024/04/06/Sentiment_at_Red_Hat_Amid_Rumours_of_Mass_Layoffs_12_Months_Aft.shtml
804	/n/2024/04/06/Fernanda_Weiden_Google_FSFE_Wikipedia_vanity_pages.shtml
783	/n/2024/04/10/Wikileaks_Dickileaks_Ubuntu_Underage_girl.shtml
781	/n/2024/04/06/Assorted_Comments_on_Rumours_of_Red_Hat_Mass_Layoffs.shtml
779	/n/2024/04/09/Who_Is_That_The_Russian_Mistress_of_Bill_Gates_According_to_the.shtml
778	/n/2024/04/10/This_is_What_Techrights_Would_Look_Like_If_We_Participated_in_C.shtml
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