It IS bespoke internal development, not for deployment outside of the facility.
The computers running the software exist only to run this software and have no business talking to the internet at all.
IT is provided by an external third party vendor who operate on an inflexible “best practices dogma”.
In a rapidly churning startup phase, where new releases can and do come out constantly to meet production requirements, this one size fits all mentality is impractical.
If you refuse to whitelist the deployment directory, you will be taking 2am calls to whitelist the emergency releases.
No it can’t wait until Monday at 9am, no there will not be a staged roll out and multiple rounds of testing.
I am more than willing to have a chat; you, me and the CEO.
Think about your audience and the specific features that will potentially appeal to them.
Depending on who that user is, the same feature/quirk can be either a pro or a con.
There’s lower user numbers here compared to something like Reddit, but the people involved tend to be of an average higher tech literacy.
So there’s not as much noise, but there’s also not as much signal.
As a user, you can spin up your own instance, which gives you complete control… But it also introduces a financial and moderation expense, not to mention inherently leading to fractured communities.
Just look at the Android discussion, it’s occurring on at least:
Android@lemmy.world
Android@lemdro.id
Android@lemmy.ml
etc etc
TNG had some movies (bald guy on the poster) and they were written by people who didn’t like the show for people who didn’t watch the show.
So many of my undefined feelings of sadness about TNG movies just snapped into focus.
I HATE how true this is.
I’ve read Revelation Space and Chasm City.
I’m sorry, but they are a massive struggle.
Worst/Pragmatic.
If I get a timeline for a feature request, then everything can be scheduled, tested, whitelisted, delivered at a reasonable time.
That’s the rarer event - normally it’s more like “the scale head has died and a technician is on the way to replace it” and whilst I modify the program in question to handle this new input, hundreds of staff are standing around and delivery quotas won’t be met.
Is my position arrogant? This is the job.
I’ll see if this is possible at the site in question, thank you.