• JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    42·
    7 days ago

    Damn! If only we had some sort of technology that was OS independent and served as a way to view content and run code written for it without having to recompile for every platform.

    I am of course talking about web browsers. Which I’m betting this screenshot is from.

      • Brandonazz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        7 days ago

        Netflix does the same thing with “supported browsers.” It doesn’t matter if it’s actually supported, just whether it’s one of the two or three it allows because it can do analytics or whatever with them.

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
    23·
    6 days ago

    Use Librewolf or a plugin that masks your user agent for privacy purposes; hides your OS so you can’t be fingerprinted so easily.

  • FEIN@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    6 days ago

    For the record, my friend (he uses arch btw) has used Pearson before and I dont believe it actually affected him, so to me the message means “it could work for you but we won’t support Linux if something screws up on your end because we’re lazy developers”

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      How bad can it be?
      It was made by Bil Gates, I keep hearing he’s a genuine ‘philanthropist’.

      • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
        7·
        6 days ago

        Boo! 🤮

        It is so infuriating how capitalists can use their stolen money to make people think they’re saints. (All the while their “help” causes more damage than if we let experts fix problems rather than pirate kings.)

        And it’s even harder to criticize this bastard now because liberals think he’s on their “side” and any criticism must be a “vaccine microchip” loon even when you talk about things he did openly.

  • ExtraMedicated@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    7 days ago

    I just tried to do a certification exam with these pricks a few hours ago. It was my first time and I was not expecting the degree of privacy-violating photos they would need of my workspace. I work in my bedroom and my desk wasn’t clean enough. I think. I could barely understand what the guy was saying due to his thick accent. I think I got disconnected twice and just gave up. Fucking scam. All for a worthless piece of fucking paper to prove I can do the same job I’ve been doing for the past 13+ years.

  • VitabytesDev@feddit.nlEnglish
    107·
    6 days ago

    I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    3241·
    8 days ago

    “Our spyware is not able to accommodate your platform.”

    The horror stories I’ve read about what you give the software access to do (assuming there’s truth to them; I’ve never run it myself).

    Edit: I’m realizing now your screenshot is probably for a web course.

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1511·
      8 days ago

      It’s hilarious how bad it is

      I won’t ramble but I’m a cybersecurity professional with a lot of certs and… I’ve played with it (Pearson VUE)

      Hey Pearson, I have completely defeated your anticheat measures. Ironically, have used my expertise to pass cybersecurity exams. Fight me.

      Hey OP, use a free windows VM. Guess how many monitors your VM has? Guess how many your host can have? Yeah.

      This was 2019, so they may have gotten past that but I tells ya… For folks testing cybersec pros, they sure don’t have airtight opsec.

      I found more, but cannot responsibly disclose 😊

        • Alaik@lemmy.zipEnglish
          234·
          8 days ago

          Most money moves because a retarded manager/executive has a retarded idea, I’m sure of it.

      • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
        23·
        8 days ago

        This is why I just suck it up and go to a testing center even though more often than not it’s unpleasant too. I’m not installing all their tools and having to clear an entire room so there’s nothing that can be seen is such a hassle.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      662·
      8 days ago

      Upgrayedd. With two “d”'s. For a double-dose of telemetry.

    • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      7 days ago

      Aw, manggg. But I just upgraded to Linux last week. Shoot…

      Back to being treated like an idiot, force fed bloat, having no control over my own PC, and taking four steps to get everything done but often ending up down a rabbit hole of 19 step troubleshooting just to say, “Fuck it! Fine! I’ll accept the new feature” then being toured on the new feature after it crashes first then won’t let you login, but finally you do and THEN you’ve got your file open but forget what for by then, all the while it’s notifying you of updates constantly but you won’t run them because you noticed it contains the AMD driver which is the old one so Adrenaline will stop working but that also means Windows has somehow undone the group policy fucking around you had to do. And they say Linux is hard while Windows thinks I’m the fucking idiot and I CANT EVEN SHRINK THE FUCKING PARTITION BECAUSE THE GOD DAMNED PAGE FILE IS JIZZED ALL OVER THE FUCKING DRIVE!!! RAAARRRGH!!!

      snaps back

      Huh, sorry. I get flashbacks still. The doctors say with the right therapy, I’ll be better in a year.

    • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      8 days ago

      This means they forgot platforms other than Windows exists. It’s likely they’re checking for currently supported systems and anything older is insecure, so blocked for your security.

      Likely something like this pseudocode

      function isPlatformVersionSupported(useragent) {
    // Windows XP is NT 5.1
    // Windows Vista is NT 6.0
    // Windows 7 is NT 6.1
    // Windows 8 is NT 6.2
    // Windows 8.1 is NT 6.3
    // Windows 10 and 11 is NT 10.0
    if (useragent.name == "Windows" && useragent.version.match(/Windows NT (6\.3|10)/)) {
        return true
    }

    // TODO: insert supported macos versions here

    return false
}
  • Eggyhead@lemmings.worldEnglish
    185·
    8 days ago

    Their deliberate word choice of “upgrade” to supported operating system is mildly infuriating.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          38·
          8 days ago

          Right, but that could still be given dynamically by a library as “one of the unsupported ones”, getOSName(). They still might not have hard-coded “Linux is bad”.

        • biscuitswalrus@aussie.zoneEnglish
          46·
          8 days ago

          Which will be “If not Windows 11 or Mac os then report os string”. I don’t think they specifically took the time to research different OS’s and list them.

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
          27·
          8 days ago

          They’re probably using a third party library to do user agent detection. I doubt anyone ever tested their code on Linux in the first place. They’re probably writing code like “if Windows version >= 10 or macOS version >= 10.14 or Android version > 10 or iOS version > 14” and Linux just happens to fall through because it has none of those versions.

        • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
          4·
          7 days ago

          The program has the information, but that doesn’t mean the people that wrote the code felt it was worth their time to make the “upgrade” text inclusive to Linux, if they even considered the possibility of Linux.

        • Littux@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          If they were using user agents for identification, Android browsers on “Desktop mode” would be wrongly identified as “Linux”. Even Discord has this issue on their download page. “Premium” Android devices with large screens use Desktop mode by default