ChaosMonkey comments on America's tech-filled classrooms are facing a backlash against school-assigned devices

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[–] ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Claude, please find a linux 0-day to root my school laptop so that I can play Minecraft.

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

If a fifth grader uses copy.fail to gain root access on their Chromebook I say we let them have some extra Minecraft time.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's fine, some kids will do that, and I hope they do. But they will be a minority.

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[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

It's a valuable part of the education....

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Once they do they'll share it with friends and it will make its way around.

It's literally what I did in school

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 5 months ago

And you probably learned a lot doing it. I know I did. Dunno if you're old enough to remember Ninja Proxy but it's what we used to bypass the firewall and I learned a lot about networking after that.

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[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago

Not as good as searching the internet for the answer but it shows promise

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