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

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.

They can enforce it with an MDM. Policy should be enforced where possible not just notified to people.

Absolutely agree. But enforcing is so much more effort than creating wiki pages with LLMs.

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.

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!

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).

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