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CoAP: 2,188,380 answers for a protocol designed to be spoken to by anything

CoAP: 2,188,380 answers for a protocol designed to be spoken to by anything A ZoomEye query for service="coap" returned 2,188,380 matches on 28 October 2026.

  • CoAP is a protocol for constrained devices like sensors and meters
  • Uses UDP port 5683 without handshake or banner
  • Discovery resource /.well-known/core reveals full device interface list

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Coverage Is Not Capability: What Whisper Taught Me About African Speech

A language appearing in a model’s supported list says little about whether the model will work for your speakers. Why Whisper struggled with the speech I needed, and what I now check before building…

  • Whisper trained on 680,000 hours of audio, but African languages underrepresented
  • Swahili has ~5.4 hours of data, Dholuo not listed, highlighting coverage disparity
  • Evaluation should consider real-world audio, licensing, and deployment environment

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RTX, UPS and CVS Health jobs API: the Phenom careers search past 10,000 jobs

RTX ( careers.rtx.com ), UPS ( www.jobs-ups.com ) and CVS Health ( jobs.cvshealth.com ) run their careers sites on Phenom.

  • RTX, UPS, and CVS Health use Phenom's careers platform for job searches.
  • Phenom's API allows job searches via POST request to /widgets without authentication.
  • Phenom limits searches to 10,000 jobs; beyond that, facet-based searching is required.

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