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I enjoyed the brevity of the python snippet required for this:

python -c '_secret = "d74ae47dc6f599d3f9cb847bd77d6b7c" ; print (bin(int(_secret,16))[2:])'

The only one minor issue with this snippet (which I now just realized), is that if the secret has the first few bits on zero (i.e. anything that starts with something under `7`) then the resulting bits would be less than 128, and thus the user has to copy them from right to left (the least significant one) on the card from bottom-right upward.

Alternatively, one could use the `.rjust(128,"0")` to pad the bits, as in:

python -c '_secret = "d74ae47dc6f599d3f9cb847bd77d6b7c" ; print (bin(int(_secret,16))[2:].rjust(128,"0"))'

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