david_allison

Millions, just on the AnkiDroid side

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/platform/superproject/main/+/...

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, energy and motivation.

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, when we catch the accounts doing this we can (and do) take action against those accounts including banning the accounts.

But action was not taken, there was no reply to my email to GitHub support.

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-generated commits/fixups use your personal email (e.g. squash merge in the GitHub UI).

* I use my personal email in file-level copyright headers, even if the commits use the GitHub noreply email.

* I have my personal email on my GitHub profile, visible to logged in users.

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.

> when we catch the accounts doing this we can (and do) take action against those accounts including banning the accounts.

This isn't my experience. I requested that you looked into a spammer in July 2025, you ignored my reply and the account is still active.

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Thank you so much for the report. We're sorry to hear you're receiving unwanted emails, but it's always a possibility when your public contact information is listed on the web. You can keep your email address private if you wish by following the steps here:

Setting your commit email address

We do expect our users to comply with our Terms of Service, which prohibits transmitting using information from the GitHub (whether scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise) for spamming purposes. I'm happy to look into it further to see if we can contact the reported user and let them know that this type of activity is not allowed.

Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.

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My reply which was ignored:

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I understand it will happen from time to time. I'd rather be contactable (I've received legitimate emails today because my email is on my profile).

Please take further action. My email is public with the expectation that the ToS will be enforced. If GitHub isn't discouraging spammers then it makes it much harder to justify being contactable.

All the best, David

They already do[0]

    62114487+david-allison@users.noreply.github.com

this includes a unique ID which survives account renames, and the name of the GitHub account at the time.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/reference/ema...

AI changes little here. It was never guaranteed that an author was available to contact regarding a past PR.

Merging a PR from a non-established contributor is often taking on responsibility for the long-term maintenance of their code.

CodeQL has been disappointing with Kotlin, it lagged behind the official releases by about two months, blocking our update to Kotlin 2.3.0

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew23.html

https://github.com/github/codeql/issues/20661

This is the Discord server which AnkiDroid has used for dev for just under 6 years. Nothing AnkiHub related.

That's not the way the world works. I'm not in it for the money.

In the past 12 months, I've made £65.79 from GitHub Sponsors (no fees, thank you GitHub/Microsoft) and $87.89 from Patreon (pre-fees, I'll probably see ~$50), and a split of the Open Collective [below]

AnkiDroid GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/ankidroid

and finances/sponsorship: https://opencollective.com/ankidroid (with immense help from dae).

The page is on GitHub:

https://github.com/ankitects/anki-manual/blob/main/src/sync-...

Full disclaimer - it's a feature which AnkiDroid supports, but isn't one which I use.

It's available on AnkiDroid: Main menu -> Manage note types.

Notifications work extremely badly.

We've got a setting [developer options only] which completely reimplements them, it won't be live for 2.24, but hopefully 2.25

https://github.com/ericli3690/gsoc-ankidroid-report/blob/mai...

> They showed me the Chinese characters and asked me what the English translation is. I was incredulous about how many wrong decks there are and that I could not find good decks.

You can edit the structure of the card templates so they're the 'right way around' for you:

https://docs.ankiweb.net/getting-started.html#card-types

Hey, could you put in an issue, especially regarding the pain points, but also including what 'seems unusual': https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android

It's mostly due to time/resource/technical constraints [some of our strings come from a shared backend], but we can do better here, especially if there's now a lot more community interest in the feature.

Pull requests welcome! Do feel free to get in touch on the issue/Discord.

> - AnkiDroid is a separate open source project (an Android app). The corporation is hiring the main developer, but it's not yet clear to me whether they're just going to get paid to work more on AnkiDroid or if they're also getting other tasks

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To copy from my message on Discord:

> I’m moving to a full-time position working on Anki [incl. AnkiWeb & AnkiMobile]. I’m really excited about this, but there’s a mountain of pending, somewhat undefined work which will need to be done, and it’ll need my full-time attention for a while.

> I’ll still be contributing to AnkiDroid, but I won’t be able to commit as much time as I am doing currently (at least for the first few months while things stabilize). I’ll be here on evenings/weekends, and will be contributing in other ways (hopefully: unified Note Editor, JS addons etc… ), but I expect to slow down with code contributions to ensure I’m staying on on top of PR reviews & general force multiplier work. I’m definitely Org Admin’ing for GSoC over the summer [assuming Google gives us the greenlight], it’s historically been a VERY light role.

> In all honesty: I’m expecting things to be business as usual, I have more than enough capacity to keep up with the notification queue. Even if I completely dropped off the planet, we’re a great team and the improvements would keep on flowing. AnkiDroid’s bus factor has been >>> 1 for a LONG time now.

https://discord.gg/qjzcRTx => https://discord.com/channels/368267295601983490/701922522836...

GSoC: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

Try docker: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/docs/syncserver#...

It was my understanding that the backups are unencrypted. Is that still the case?

They offered T-Shirts in 2025

I'm co-maintaining an open source Android app (primarily Kotlin, with Svelte & Rust). I'd be happy to mentor in 2026.

Feel free to get in touch if you're interested:

https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/main/CONTRIBU...

The Rust backend code is shared between all platforms (Desktop, Android, iOS and Web). This wasn't feasible with the Python code.

From an Android (AnkiDroid) perspective, it's allowed us to remove most of our code which was manually ported from the Python backend, with guaranteed 1:1 compatibility with upstream.

We've moved from being years behind upstream to being able to release in tandem with the Desktop app.

We also migrated to common screens written in Svelte, to reduce the maintenance burden of UI changes for screens with high churn (Deck Options being the primary example).

> Genuine question: if I train my model with copyleft material, how do you prove I did?

It may produce it when asked

https://chatgpt.com/share/678e3306-c188-8002-a26c-ac1f32fee4...

> The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/

YouTube Music isn't available in all countries which Google Play Music was available in.

My music was deleted.

In April, I switched to Microsoft 365 Personal Classic which doesn't contain Copilot.

Has this been discontinued?

> I got into tech because I wanted to help make the world better, not worse. I can confidentially say after working in the industry for over 20 years, that it doesn't do that. That's not what it is. It's not what it's ever been about.

I can confidently say that it does. Sturgeon's law applies: 90% of everything is crap, but there are pockets of good, and they make all the difference.

Some devices don't have browsers, some are locked-down and only support one app store, or sideloading via adb, sometimes the UX is better (SideQuest for the Meta Quest).

> EU or US?

Neither, sadly.

Thanks for the link. I have neither the time nor inclination to be a figurehead, but I can have conversations once I feel there's a reasonable/achievable outcome. I'll put some thought into it.