That’s perfectly valid. Maybe add it to the top of your readme explaining what problem it solves (need to sync files between machines and all you can use is python).
replyMy initial thought was, man, your school is lame. But maybe it's genius? Creativity thrives in a constrained environment.
replyIn high school they had a few information kiosk computers spread around the various buildings; two in the library, one in the main reception, one in the cafeteria, and one in the mostly unused hallway right outside the computer club room. They were locked down so you could only navigate some intranet pages using a rudimentary on-screen keyboard, with the rest of the hardware in a locked cabinet.
replyGuess which one got digitally defaced a couple of times each semester. Guess which ones got left alone. Genius move by the IT guy. Every time it happened he would come talk to the club members about the difference between whitehat and blackhat hacking but other than that nobody ever got in trouble.
This kind of whitelisting does absolutely nothing. It's a straight up lolbin. Anyway, if python is allowed, then surely other languages can be added to whitelist. Ask them to whitelist go and use syncthing
reply> This kind of whitelisting does absolutely nothing.
replywell, aside from getting students more interested in programming, apparently.
Necessity is the mother of invention, constraints the cradle of imagination, and contrarian teenagers the womb of ingenuity.
replytrust me, I've tried asking for other programs to be on the whitelist. if they didn't allow firefox, they definitely won't allow synching. and I don't wanna get in trouble either lol
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replyCan you ask them to permit docker?
replyOr just write a python script wrapper for the syncthing client :)
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