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akent

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About akent

Software engineer, embedded C, Python, Android etc. Whatever needs doing.

Sydney, Australia.

@akent on twitter.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #41075308

    Interesting. Looks like it's written as a register value for BLTCON0 (in BLITOPS.C) http://www.amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual...

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    Comment #30424132

    FWIW my Pixel 4 is still going strong, haven't even thought of getting a replacement. My partner is on the previous Pixel 3 (released October 2018) and no complaints there either.

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    Comment #27500759

    Check out https://useful-forks.github.io/ if you haven't seen it, agree it'd be great to have this kind of thing a lot more visible particularly on repos with no commits for like 6…

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    Comment #27483516

    Will we? Seems like it's an entirely different protocol from Google Cast?

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    Comment #26551390

    A lot of twitter permissions, perhaps worth explaining why you need all this and/or reduce them? This application will be able to: See Tweets from your timeline (including protecte…

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    Comment #26218959

    Funny how COVID-19 has changed all that.

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    Comment #25260870

    Not sure how you imagine push notifications to work, but literally Google provide a "service" for this so app developers don't have to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase_Cloud…

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    Comment #24510054

    Buying a domain is not the same as hosting the DNS for that domain.

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    Comment #24489262

    Looks like that was yet another joke.

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    Comment #24489251

    Let us know when you do something even half as impressive.

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    Comment #24489240

    He ate it with the skin on, too.

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    Comment #23708405

    Do they release the source of the webservice? Seemingly not. This is extremely shady.

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    Comment #20369683

    How would a screen reader work with the ASCII art of RFCs? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793#section-3.1

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    Comment #15197295

    It's fine to have that way of editing as an option or an easter egg but, to have it as the only way of editing a message? No. Just no.

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    Comment #14321293

    No, it doesn't. Standard copyright applies if there is no licence. GitHub user agreement allows other users to view and make copies of your content on github but not for "free use"…