[wyclif]

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

[baxtr]

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]

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

[baxtr]

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

[danpalmer]

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]

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]

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).