Comment on Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating

• piecat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh I would have been so pissed. I was programming on my calculator 24/7 instead of my classes.

  I wrote a sudoku “editor”

  I put that in quotes because I had a grid that could be navigated, arrows moved, storing the numbers, had number entry down, and then I learned the hard way what p vs np is.

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• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They did that here too, but students would use a cheat program that made it look like teachers were resetting it, but really the memory was safe

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  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My memory is pretty hazy but the cheat application emulated the process that teachers used to do a system reset.

      Iirc, it let you press menu, select reset, confirm, and showed the (fake) confirmation screen.

      Also IIRC, you had to install it from Mirage OS, which I don’t think was an OS (?) but rather an app that everyone had to play games from.

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