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 # tower-of-babel-public
 
-a public snapshot of my pyinfra script collection, not upstream
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+a public snapshot of my pyinfra script collection, not upstream
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+this is for study, not for use. parts of the internal architecture have been
+stripped down to the point i don't know if these scripts will run