Because my upcoming C++ test is hard I want to be able to alt tab into VSCode to test things. Obviously, safe exam browser doesn't let you do this. Any of you with first hand experience in getting around this? Hypothetically.

    • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      a lot of these things track eye movement and whatnot.

      What a distopian nightmare. Does that mean you can't even use a piece of paper lol?

    • Shmyt [he/him,any]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Some of those programs are definitely way way worse than others. I was lucky that my last courses ended in April so I was only on the old infrastructure which just locked your computer into that browser window, removed your clipboard, and wouldn't launch with certain programs or browser plugins running. My course ended just before everything moved to online only with webcams so I wouldn't be surprised that now the cameras are being bundled into the software.

      I would have been pretty boned if I had to use that sort of thing: ADD always has me looking around and staring at walls and zoning out to think, at least in class my profs can talk with me and see that I can't see anyone else's papers but on webcam that just looks like I'm reading off another monitor.

      Pretty predictable that they forced software that doesn't work properly, very questionable that it specifically fucked up black students, but also creepy that they didn't inform them what inputs it was capturing.

      • FanondorfAmiibo [they/them,none/use name]
        ·
        4 years ago

        I'd really recommend reading up on the facial recognition issues faced by black people, it's been a pretty consistent issue. I remember reading about the Xbox Kinect camera not picking up people with dark skin, and more seriously, there's been at least three false positives that lead to innocent black people being arrested.

        https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/technology/facial-recognition-misidentify-jail.html