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[sestinj]

I'm not aware of any reason we would be connecting to windows.net. I would be surprised if VS Code did not already have access to Desktop / Documents / etc. but if this is the case, then Continue reads the currently open files as context for the LLM. It would be very useful to hear more about the details of these two cases so we can try to better reproduce and solve the problem. Would you be interested in opening a new issue? (https://github.com/continuedev/continue/issues/new)

Continue will cache Python packages in ~/.continue/server/env after the first download, but there might be something else causing slower startup. Will look into this as well!

Meilisearch is an open-source search library. We connect to meilisearch.com only in order to download the software, which then runs completely locally to power search in the dropdown as you type. The line of code where we do this is here: https://github.com/continuedev/continue/blob/ce76e391775034c...

[Galanwe → sestinj]

    subprocess.run(f"curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh", shell=True)

Just went from "cool project, might try it" to "nope".

[sestinj → Galanwe]

This is fair feedback. We will move to packaging it with our extension to avoid running arbitrary code.

[Galanwe → sestinj]

Note that you're also not opting out of "meilisearch telemetry".

You are sending full laptop specs of your users to meilisearch. Which in turn sends them to Twilio apparently.

[sestinj → Galanwe]

This is a good catch, thank you

[Galanwe → sestinj]

I see you've fixed it already, kudos for your reactivity!

[cassianoleal → sestinj]

> I'm not aware of any reason we would be connecting to windows.net.

If that connection is denied, the following error occurs:

    HTTPSConnectionPool(host='openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /encodings/cl100k_base.tiktoken (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x118377110>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor'))

> I would be surprised if VS Code did not already have access to Desktop / Documents / etc.

Why would I give VS Code access to these directories? All my code resides elsewhere, it has no reason to access those, and it hasn't in the last couple years of this particular installation. Not only it hadn't accessed them, but it hadn't even asked me for access until I installed your extension.