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		accrual 70 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS? Discord does this as well I believe. I often needed to enter the administrator password to install a helper after the system had been off for a couple days.

nartho 70 days ago | [–]

Discord, Slack and VS Code desktop apps are all built using Electron, so I'm guessing this is an Electron issue.

jonplackett 70 days ago | [–]

And they are sooooo insistent. Just keep bugging you forever

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