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 Repository of lists of one-liners to use as a message-of-the-day.
 
+This repository was a learning exercise; this is not a good example to follow of how to distribute text files with Nix.
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 ## flake
 
 The defaultPackage output of this repository's flake is a derivation containing the motd files in this repository.