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[-] Soleos@lemmy.world 33 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Depends, in some technical fields it's starting to flip because kids don't need to learn computer skills as much when they just use iPhones and tablets where everything "just works".

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago

Yeah. My friend from high school works in high school. Among others he teaches IT. Compared to today's kids we were hackers. We knew how to crack a game, install a driver, replace some hardware. Today's kids don't know how to download a file.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 points 13 hours ago

Well, not everyone knew how to crack a game, but many did know how to use an existing crack for a game

[-] joshcodes@programming.dev 26 points 18 hours ago

I went to school with someone who didnt like deadlines, so she would do the following:

  • fill a word document with nonsense
  • open word document in hex editor
  • corrupt file through some means she googled
  • submit the file to our submission system
  • wait for teacher to open the file, get 'corrupted' message

She'd do the work at her own pace in the mean time, and when she got asked for another copy because it was corrupted, shed hand it up. She graduated with me, and I dont know what she does now but I hope she's in infosec.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago
  • fill a word document with nonsense

I mean this is like 90% of college even when you're not gaming the system

[-] Emi@ani.social 10 points 17 hours ago

Our IT teacher knew if we did something late because he would look at when the file was last edited. We had a great IT teacher that also wanted to teach us how to think instead of just teaching basic word and excell.

[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 7 points 16 hours ago

Couldn't you then just change the system clock before editing the file? Or hell, is the metadata able to be altered by the user?

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 16 hours ago

The server logs the submission time

[-] jaycifer@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Right, but in this case the teacher knows the submission time will be late because they asked for an additional submission after the due date.

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