david_allison

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by david_allison 16d 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 1mo 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 2mo 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 2mo 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 3mo ago
I have a large amount, some are occasionally useful when debugging.
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by david_allison 3mo 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 4mo 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 5mo ago
Thank you!
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by david_allison 5mo 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 6mo 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 6mo ago
Millions, just on the AnkiDroid side
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by david_allison 7mo ago
Might as well start with the source code[0] and dig deeper: * CMAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts * ETWS Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System [0] https://cs.android.com/android
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by david_allison 7mo ago
As an eligible maintainer: absolutely. In the past week (besides the constant slop), there are models which have misattributed the copyright of new files to me, and stripped my copyright from existing files. It's sapping up time, energ
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by david_allison 7mo ago
I provided a spam email chain from a user with a linked GitHub profile, stating that they obtained my email from my GitHub profile. GP [martinwoodward] states: > This type of behaviour is explicitly against the GitHub terms of service, w
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by david_allison 7mo ago
If used/implemented correctly, they don't. * This is an optional feature via git config, with a further GitHub setting to reject commits pushed using your personal email address. * If the GitHub setting is disabled, some GitHub-ge
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by david_allison 7mo ago
To confirm: is this email spammers, or spam on GitHub? I've had decent success with on-GitHub action (I'd wager ~80% action taken), but the effort to report email spammers doesn't seem worthwhile.

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