“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.
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 😊
They’re in the business of selling the illusion of security to university administrators.
Most money moves because a retarded manager/executive has a retarded idea, I’m sure of it.
Also kickbacks, don’t forget the kickbacks
You should get bonus points in cybersecurity for bypassing that crap
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.
I had this problem with Pearson. I got around it by making sure my bowser (librewolf) reported windows as my user agent. This was last semester for an online intro level course, ymmv
Edit: I see your other posts about how its not blocking access… Tbh I don’t remember checking, I just remember checking my browser settings haha. Guess I didn’t have to bother.
I had that too, closed the popup and never ran into anything even mildly broken during the entire course. Aside from the popup they don’t seem to be actively sabotaging Linux users, and it’s a website, so it’s gonna work pretty much identically on any OS as long as you’re using a common browser.
That said, they should definitely phrase the message more like “Your OS isn’t supported, so don’t expect help from us if something Linux-specific breaks our page” than “You need to get a different OS.”
ask them for the .onion to get to their site 👍
They’re under a class-action lawsuit currently for using biometric data in a US state where it’s illegal. Just kinda interesting. https://www.bipatestsettlement.com/Home/FAQ
This is like the Apple Business website, which only works in Safari, according to them. Used the User-Agent Switcher plugin, and the website/dashboard works just fine on Firefox in Linux.
welp, I use Vivaldi without any user-agent switching and it works fine
You heard that OP? That’s how you do it, it’ll still work on Linux.
They mean downgrade
Same pearson selling linux books
That kind of fuckery drove me off a company-sponsored training course.
“Upgrading” to a supported operating system… “Upgrading”.
Yeah, that was also what got into my nerves.
The funny thing is that their server is probably running on Linux.
they aren’t all. vast majority is Windows Server and IBM.
edit: because people seem confused. I’m talking about Pearson directly, not global OS stats.
chill tf out Linux weebs. I’m one of you.
That is both laughably wrong, and immediately verifiable as false. As far as server marketshare goes, Linux leads the pack with 62.7%.
Guess what most IBM big irons are running nowadays?
Unix
Well, AIX (one of IBMs UNIX variants) is old, and, AFAIK more or less legacy stuff. The other is RHEL, which is s Linux.
The world runs on legacy
RHEL, since they bought red hat.
z/OS
For closed and proprietary stuff, and things that still run on FORTRAN and COBOL, yes. But about anything running a web frontend, it’s Linux (RHEL).
Dust? (but really its not Linux or windows anyway)
AIX (Unix), Windows, Powervm?
Windows? On a mainframe? Microsoft may be ambicious, but that is a few number to big for them.
Windows has a laughable market share when it comes to webservers.
I’m talking specifics, not globally.
Nearly all of my daughters sites she visited in college were nix servers. The exception being one administration machine she used for her payroll access as a RA.
By “nix” do you actually mean Nix, or do you mean “*nix” as any Unix derivative?
Guess.
Edit: ;) I guess you are all guessing poorly. Nix when I looked it up is just another fringe linix distro. Never heard of it because I don’t need a purpose built crippled distro for anything. Since a guess is too hard to do I will tell you even now most websites I access according to my router stats are Linix distros. Every now and then there will be a bsd based one and ever rarer than that a windows site. I’m seeing these downvotes as a function of bias against the norm. I find it funny and responses like this always bring a smile to my face.
Lol what? Linux servers are still dominant in market share.
Pearson directly, not globally.
That makes more sense. Thank you for the context.
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”
if it’s in a browser fake ur user agent
Just spoof your user agent string. You’ll eventually find one they like.
bro, my math and calc professor made us use this for our course despite the fact that our college really wants profs to stop using 3rd party sites like these and just use Brightspace.
It was like $100 CAD too. And it’s a fucking WEBSITE. Why is windows required? Do you need to ring 0 access so I can solve a derivative or something???
Its about data collection under the guise of “security”
It’s also about making it the equivalent of pushing a button for the professor. Want a test that covers chapters X-y? Push three buttons and the students have a test over those chapters. No effort means they can jerk off in the direction of the grant that was just rejected because they used a bad word according to the government.
In my experience professors are heavily overworked and heavily underpaid. Offloading work onto other systems to get a better work-life balance seems like a natural response.
No disagreement on the overworked and underpaid bits, but I look at it like this: a parent with a full time job is extremely overburdened. Get the kid up in the morning, get the kid dressed, get the kid fed, deal with the inevitable breakdown from not getting the right cereal or the other kid taking the favorite seat, getting the kid’s backpack and homework sorted, and finally get the kid to the bus stop or take said kid directly to school because there was a fight and now the kid isn’t allowed on the bus… and they still have to drive to work by 0800 hours. Just because they’re late to work and in a rush doesn’t excuse the speeding. Teaching is a shitty, hard profession. You don’t get appreciated despite almost literally doing nothing but try to improve the next generation. I still think that turning over the task of teaching (which the courses I had to take did; it was entirely book+online portal driven, very little teacher) to the textbook company is a bad track to take.
What is the relation between someone speeding in their car and a professor using a bad set of course materials?
Your analogy doesn’t really establish any causal or relational links. Both subjects are victims of America’s capital-dominated power structure?
Sure better decisions can be made, but how much can you blame the subject under duress? How much blood can you reasonably expect the parent or teacher to draw from the stone? At what cost of their health?
Professor=overworked and pushed to do the coursework more quickly so they can get everything; research, classwork, grant writing; done in the limited time they have. Not bringing in enough grant money or publishing enough well liked research often gets you fired, you know.
Parent=overworked and pushed to get to work faster so they’re not late. Being late often get you fired, you know.
Both are being pushed into actions that are detrimental to society. Speeding creates a slew of cascading issues, starting with small things like increased frustrations in all drivers and building to large things like much more serious wrecks. It’s a terrible thing. Giving up control of the curriculum and passing the buck to pearson (in the original OP’s case) to teach students, make tests, grade coursework (that can no longer be anywhere near as inventive or applicable because it has to be in some format that a computer can grade), etc. is a terrible thing.
They should be extremely infuriated that you are using some old and busted software that doesn’t support a common OS.
