david_allison

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by david_allison 9d ago
Thank you!! E-waste is awful, as is cutting off old devices. We still backport security fixes to minSdk 21. To Google's credit, post-21 is a much more pleasant experience and requires very little developer time. API desugaring[0] has w
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by david_allison 10d ago
Google Play rejected our 2.24.1 release (Aug 31). F-Droid is typically slower, but we don't have to worry about distribution issues. This is regarding 2.25.0alpha4.
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by david_allison 10d ago
We use Roborazzi[0], which is an excellent screenshot library, but: * We target minSdk 24 * We're still using XML views * We target a large variety of form factors * We have a lot of screens, and these have a lot of configuration optio
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by david_allison 10d ago
Team effort, but thank you!! I've just taken the next month and a half off to work on things full time. I'm excited! The next update won't be huge, (Google required us to make all screens 'edge to edge'[0], which to
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by david_allison 10d ago
AnkiDroid (~17 years old) submitted our latest alpha on Sept 03, 2026, 4:40 am. Still pending review.
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by david_allison 25d ago
We've been seeking official clarification from Google on this for over a month. That's what we're seeking here. It's not clear given Google's policy wording and replies. We've removed the links, and can move fo
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by david_allison 2mo ago
Worse: there's unpatched RCEs for Modern Warfare II: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10718
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by david_allison 3mo ago
> Like software, elementary school education is also a pool for adults on the autism spectrum substantially higher than general population average. Interesting! Do you have a source for this?
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by david_allison 3mo ago
There's an arena/research report by Ozzie Kirkby and Andy Matuschak at https://memory-machines.com/ which you might find interesting. I predict that things will be 'good' within the next 5 years, but you
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by david_allison 4mo ago
I have a large amount, some are occasionally useful when debugging.
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by david_allison 4mo ago
> Mirrors Edge Catalyst Are you sure? I played in 2024 on PC and it was playable.
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by david_allison 4mo ago
We define our API into the Rust via protobufs[0] and some codegen. The wrapper around these is very lean, FFI-based[1], it's abstracted to a library so Android devs never need to know there's rust/codegen involved. We then de
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by david_allison 4mo ago
> I'd happily share if "share" still meant "drop a gist." It doesn't, anymore. It still does. Feel free to use https://unmaintained.tech/ on your repo.
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by david_allison 5mo ago
https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics 1.1 Contribute to society and to human well-being, acknowledging that all people are stakeholders in computing. 1.2 Avoid harm. 1.3 Be honest and trustworthy. 1.4 Be fair and take action n
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by david_allison 5mo ago
Location: Isle of Man/Europe Remote: Yes - Experience working with US/International teams Willing to relocate: Yes - For the right role. Happy to be on-site for onboarding Technologies: Kotlin, Android, TypeScript, Reac
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by david_allison 6mo ago
Thank you!
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by david_allison 6mo ago
> How could Stack Overflow succeed in a post-chatgpt eta? As a data source for LLMs, and by becoming the place someone goes where ChatGPT can't produce a sufficient answer.
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by david_allison 6mo ago
It's $50,000 per statement
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by david_allison 6mo ago
What if it's used for training data? It seems like there's no penalty for training on copyrighted materials.
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by david_allison 6mo ago
Oh wow, thank you so much!!!!!
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by david_allison 6mo ago
Is this available online? I'd love documentation of my prompts.
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by david_allison 6mo ago
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per... https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per... Fear-mongering. Not even dangerous permissions. Granted on
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by david_allison 6mo ago
IMO: That's just due to the speed of responses. Hardware will continue to improve, and eventually you'll have the choice of reaching a flow state with 2026 models, or using frontier models at our current level of performance.
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by david_allison 6mo ago
Very unusual: 47.0.1 is showing these permissions when on my MacBook viewing the store entry. The Play Store doesn't show these permissions when viewed on my Pixel 9 Pro, and the APK doesn't have these permissions when downloaded&
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by david_allison 6mo ago
You need to state the permissions you *may* request/use in AndroidManifest.xml. This data can then be displayed to users pre-installation. From the (limited) article, it doesn't seem they do this: https://thereallo.dev&
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by david_allison 6mo ago
Cheers!
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by david_allison 6mo ago
I have GitHub Copilot Pro. I don't believe I signed up for it. I neither use it nor want it. 1. A lot of settings are 'Enabled' with no option to opt out. What can I do? 2. How do I opt out of data collection? I see the messa
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by david_allison 6mo ago
This is not using current data, which is a huge risk to take when it comes to travel. You can travel visa-free (30 days) to China on a UK passport.
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by david_allison 7mo ago
> Nothing (reasonable) can protect against direct lightning strikes Belkin make a number of surge protectors which offer a connected equipment warranty in the UK. Admittedly: financial protection, not data protection, but I felt it was w
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by david_allison 7mo ago
Millions, just on the AnkiDroid side

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