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SilverElfintoday at 3:39 PM1 replyview on HN

You often cannot even tell what the permission prompts are for. Sometimes they have generic names like a programming language is requesting something. Not sure what that’s about.


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milkshakestoday at 3:43 PM

those are interpreters, the language is interpreted by a binary called `ruby` or `python`, for example, so that happens to be the process that's requesting the permission