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701<script type="text/javascript" src="https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js" id="cloudflare-turnstile-js" data-wp-strategy="async"></script>
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707<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.martinwoods.me.uk/app/themes/salt-blog/assets/js/footer.js?ver=1.0" id="footer-js"></script>
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.