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 asciinema runs on GNU/Linux, macOS and FreeBSD.
 
-<a href="https://asciinema.org/a/756853?autoplay=1"><img src="https://asciinema.org/a/756853.svg" alt="asciinema CLI demo" width="100%" /></a>
+<a href="https://asciinema.org/a/756853"><img src="https://asciinema.org/a/756853.svg" alt="asciinema CLI demo" width="100%" /></a>
 
 Notable features: