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Closed test swap: Warako (PDF scanner) needs 12 testers, I'll test yours too

Hi all, I'm an indie developer and my app Warako is in a Google Play closed test. I need testers to stay opted in for 14 days, and I'm happy to test yours in return. About Warako: a PDF scanner for Android. It scans documents, receipts and ID cards into clean PDFs, reads Arabic and Latin text on the phone (OCR), and lets you sign and fill forms. Documents stay on the phone: no account, no upload…

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Paid in USDC, Living in Indonesia: How I Use Raenest to Receive, Hold and Spend Stablecoins

I work in web3 from Indonesia, and a growing share of my work — bounties, contests, research and security gigs — pays in USDC on Solana. Getting paid was never the hard part.

  • Author receives payments in USDC and USDT stablecoins while living in Indonesia.
  • Raenest platform enables users to receive, hold, convert, spend, and transfer stablecoins.
  • Virtual or physical Visa cards allow spending stablecoins anywhere Visa is accepted.

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GitHub Actions step cannot have both uses and run, and what you get

A GitHub Actions step cannot have both uses and run, and that sentence was once the message you got, but the parser that ships today does not contain it anywhere.

  • GitHub Actions step cannot have both uses and run keys simultaneously.
  • Error message identifies unexpected key and its location in workflow file.
  • Split step into two separate steps with either uses or run key for successful workflow execution.

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DNS over HTTPS changes resolver policy, not just transport

DNS over HTTPS changes resolver policy, not just transport DNS over HTTPS sends DNS queries and responses through HTTPS. RFC 8484 maps each query and response pair to an HTTP exchange and defines the…

  • DNS over HTTPS introduces new resolver policy considerations beyond just transport.
  • Transitioning clients to public DoH services changes both answers and network evidence.
  • Robust resolver policy must account for fallback mechanisms when DoH endpoint fails.

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GitHub Actions vs Argo Workflows: which one runs what

GitHub Actions vs Argo Workflows is usually a false choice, because the two are not sold the same unit of work: Actions runs a workflow file in response to a git event, and Argo Workflows reconciles a…

  • GitHub Actions triggered by Git repository events
  • Argo Workflows implemented as Kubernetes CRD
  • GitHub Actions limits 256 jobs per run, Argo Workflows limited by cluster

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ZQN-12B: our second open model, plus the M3-GPTQ compression paper

ZQN-12B is the second open model from ZAQERIS Ai, an independent AI research group in Cairo, Egypt. Trained from scratch 15.55B parameters, compressed with our ZAQERIS M3-GPTQ method to 6.48 GiB (3.25…

  • ZQAERIS Ai releases ZQN-12B, their second open model with 15.55B parameters.
  • Model compressed to 6.48 GiB using ZAQERIS M3-GPTQ compression method.
  • ZQN-12B offers 128K context window, expandable to 256K with YaRN technique.

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