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You're assuming they allow it, but it might be against policy.

• baxtr 5mo ago
  I’m pretty sure there is an policy on their internal wiki saying you shouldn’t do that. Problem is: most employees don’t care to read these. Although I’m sure something like this could have been checked for during commit.
  • hhh 5mo ago
    They can enforce it with an MDM. Policy should be enforced where possible not just notified to people.
    • baxtr 5mo ago
      Absolutely agree. But enforcing is so much more effort than creating wiki pages with LLMs.
• danpalmer 5mo ago
  Fair point, I hadn't considered this, but wouldn't they just disallow it? Like, I use a VSCode fork at work, but the enforced extensions store backend is based on an allowlist and extensions need reviewing to be available there.
  • paholg 5mo ago
    When I worked at Amazon, I had to run a special Amazon Linux. But I could just install whatever I wanted. I used emacs with whatever plugins I wanted. Big tech can be suprisingly not locked down!
    • wyclif 5mo ago
      Ah, that must have been AL2023, right? IIRC, it's tightly integrated with internal deployment toolchains like Apollo and Brazil (Amazon's internal package management and build systems).