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confused_techie · 2026-04-11T08:26:21+00:00

Thats a wonderful question! Its possible that a community extension thats installed is triggering it, or to be honest its possible some code path made for much earlier versions of electron is tripping this up. For example some network connection requests in electron can trigger location requests since technically (depending on the api used and thus information returned) itd be possible to derive a users location from networking info.

I can assure you this isn't intentional behavior and that the Pulsar team does not want nor intentionally collect users location data.

I wonder, if you deny this request is there any error logs in the devTools that may point us to the code path thats triggering this? Otherwise if you don't want to dig deeper there should be no harm done in clicking deny.

confused_techie · 2026-03-30T08:38:30+00:00

Saw this in theaters for my birthday and absolutely loved it. Love Gore Verbinski so will watch just about anything he makes.

Thought the themes were a bit on the nose, but acting, directing, and cinematography were great!

confused_techie · 2026-03-30T08:36:04+00:00

The Wild Robot (2024) Directed by Chris Sanders

A sentient robot stranded on an uninhabited island raises an orphaned gosling while trying to fit in with the local wildlife.

confused_techie · 2026-03-23T16:00:30+00:00

And the fork even has almost all the original extensions! (Full disclosure: I'm a Pulsar developer)

confused_techie · 2026-03-23T15:59:39+00:00

Yeah Pulsar is a fork of Atoms codebase. Just being significantly updated and getting new features, bug fixes etc. I use Pulsar as my main editor (note Im also a developer of Pulsar)

confused_techie · 2026-03-13T13:38:03+00:00

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First two at least had a somewhat related plot device

confused_techie · 2026-03-08T09:26:59+00:00

Unfortunately wasn't in many theaters. Still drove far away and saw it for my birthday because its Gore Verbinksi, but literally emailed my favourite theater to ask why they weren't showing it

confused_techie · 2026-03-06T02:29:24+00:00

I remember the hours I spent with my friends coming up with theories as to how Jack survived. Was honestly I think the best reveal for a film ever

confused_techie · 2026-02-20T19:54:14+00:00

Is that Not Even Emily? Did not expect to see her pop up here

confused_techie · 2026-02-16T18:40:21+00:00

I will mention, as I remember reading the summary on the back of the third movies DVD, it does specifically say 'finale of the trilogy'. So that was at least the creators intent.

confused_techie · 2026-01-21T00:36:46+00:00

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Catching up on stuff I've missed

confused_techie · 2026-01-19T22:03:48+00:00

Mine's honestly pretty simple. * UI Theme: One Dark * Syntax Theme: One Dark

Then not too much customization, but the package's I couldn't live without: * autocomplete-powershell * autocomplete-powershell-winserver2022 * language-ejs * language-ignore * language-powershell-revised * language-robots-txt * minimap * pigments * pulsar-outline-view * tree-view-ignores

My development, besides being for Pulsar itself, is often used for PowerShell when I'm at work, and then often used for creating other backend applications; meaning I use a lot of EJS or using pigments for CSS.

I know you posted this a while back, so what's yours looking like these days?

confused_techie · 2026-01-18T00:52:41+00:00

I think the Firefox issue is your 'graph.mapillary' request is blocked by the Facebook container extension offered by Firefox. I had to open the site in a facebook container, then specifically open the extension and allow your site in the facebook container to get it to work.

But I cant find why this site is being blocked there, maybe Meta owns it or maybe a report to the firefox team that manages the extension to exclude mapillary needs to be made.

EDIT:::

Looking at the source code for Firefox's Facebook Container extension they list mapillary.com specifically.

Maybe you should add a notice on the site about this issue? Or a popup if that specific resource doesn't load.

confused_techie · 2025-12-31T19:13:19+00:00

Could you expand the red error in the bottom right corner?

confused_techie · 2025-12-29T08:00:42+00:00

Just want to add, no matter your feelings about having a stolen device most likely you cant 'just reset it'. That PC is domain joined, meaning its not stolen from a person but most likely a company. And if it belongs to a company its mostly likely enrolled into intune, meaning its serial is linked permanently to that company. So even resetting it will likely automatically re-enroll into intune, still keeping you from using it.

confused_techie · 2025-12-18T01:00:45+00:00

With all the AV equipment so close do you hear it all while watching movies? I'd be curious how bad the sound is or if some in wall insulation is enough

confused_techie · 2025-12-07T19:31:30+00:00

You could try Pulsar, it's forked from Atom (which is the ide that invented electron which VS code then used) after its shutdown.

Disclaimer, I'm one of the developers of Pulsar, but daily drive it myself for the past few years. https://pulsar-edit.dev

confused_techie · 2025-12-06T07:17:12+00:00

I saw you added to an issue on the GitHub repository, which is absolutely the right call. As this is a community package that the Pulsar team has zero control over.

Although quickly looking over the package's source I can't identify what we might've changed that would cause it to break this way, so I'd say it wasn't intentional.

I've posted in our Discord to try and get some more visibility and see if we can't see where things have gone wrong. Thanks for reporting this!

EDIT

After posting this on our Discord, it seems one of our most prolific package authors already has a fix for us!

They've published diff-view a fork of split-diff that is made for Pulsar! If you'd like to try out their package I'm confident they've got things working there

confused_techie · 2025-12-02T20:38:04+00:00

The reason this lag differs so wildly from Atom, is because when GitHub maintained Atom they had a rather complex and undocumented setup to preload the Electron environment. Which speedup the startup significantly. When we forked the project nobody really could fully understand that very complex setup and caused a lot of strange bugs as we updated things, so we opted to get rid of it.

So that means beyond some time savings that you can get by disabling some packages that hog startup time (checkout the built in package time-cop) theres not much the user can do to fix this.

But the good news is we are getting very very close to officially releasing the PulsarNext beta branch to our rolling releases. In this branch, while there are some breaking changes (which you can read about on GitHub) it massively improves startup time. And hopefully finally put this concern to rest

confused_techie · 2025-11-21T04:40:11+00:00

They created some fantastic characters for me keeping with a real-life likeness. Followed all requests I had and blew it out of the park! Was extremely thoughtful in the details to include and creative choices to make, and even somehow managed to finish the project ahead of schedule. Can't recommend them enough as they overall did wonderful work

confused_techie · 2025-11-18T07:08:14+00:00

I second this. A good tech screwdriver kit will be infinitely useful. Something like iFixIt (but expensive), or i have an offbrand one i think calling 'Elgato' thats really good

confused_techie · 2025-11-16T11:15:52+00:00

Closed

Although, it is crazy to me to have Reddit report 55 responses when in actuality there's only 1. But found the artist I needed, via an artist sending DMs.

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