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I wish we could use that. I can’t use them because mermaid doesn’t have a way to assure no data is stored on mermaid servers so I can’t use it for anything proprietary or even work related at all. LucidChart has a way to tie into Corporate though

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I just use VSCode with a markdown file and the mermaid preview extension. It’s all local.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vstirbu....

I can’t even get that approved.

Does corporate IT need to whitelist every VSCode extension that's being used? I can see the logic -it's running arbitrary code on your system as your user on their network- but damn! How does that even work? A self-hosted VSCode marketplace or something?

Basically. VSCode supports airgap install or offline install of plugins. Store them in Artifactory like an arbitrary location like vs-code-plugins and then ask an admin to install them on your VM.

Ouch. We are headed that direction. The problem is, if a vulnerability is found in a plugin, then you have to get everyone to manually upgrade. Doing it this way means everyone’s software is always out of date, which has its own drawbacks too.

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