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During Summer school (yeah I'm an idiot) I disabled this LanSchool Helper thing with a few lines of powershell script(fuck windows, havent used it since I was like 15) that allowed the teacher to see what the students were doing on their computers. Instead of finishing my failing courses I was then able to spend the rest of my time that Summer honing my programming skills.

I graduated a year late, but had easily become the best programmer that school district had ever seen 😎 And by impressing the kids sitting next to me while I browsed docs, blogs, stack overflow, and youtube - rose to be a Summer school legend.

I am a dev badass. I am legend. 😂

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  • 2
    I hated lanschool, they had the same thing at my secondary school and pretty much everyone disabled it xD
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    @DucksCanCode nothing like stickin it to the man!
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    @KidLaser too right, rebel! You only get one life, don't let people tell you what to do with it or control you, do whatever the fuck you want because there's this then death, enjoy this as long as possible
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    I'm actually quite curious how you guys managed to disable it...
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    @chilledfrogs theres actually a couple ways to do it from what I learned. Figuring out the pid and killing it is the best route though because it wont display a black screen on the teachers monitor as opposed to if you were to temporarily remove the lanschool files from your computer. I wasnt like sending raw data to the lanschool process or anything...I wish I had though like a true hackerman lol.
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    @KidLaser I thought so... But killing it should display a black screen right? At least I would expect that
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    I thought so too, but I tested it out with my old calculus teacher prior to Summerschool and it actually displayed the last rendered image that was on my screen before killing it.
    I had to do it relatively quick though because the screen would update on the teachers panel every few minutes, I suppose the refresh would vary depending on your teachers settings(if there are any) but yeah it was pretty neat.
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    @KidLaser That's lovely :D. I saw iTALC used in my middle school in Paris, and in my high school I'm not even sure they actually use anything, so far I poked around and doesn't look like it 😂😂 which isn't particularly surprising knowing the general level of computer literacy in France :P... So I'm gonna tell that to those in my middle school at least, they'll have fun... Hehehe
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    @chilledfrogs Haha deeecennnt! Giving the youth the proper knowledge to rebel against the system, I like it!
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    @KidLaser I'm sorta the go-to guy for computers everywhere I go (for teachers and students alike, I don't mind even though I'm more into CS than IT, I like to help and this is also useful to know... Even when they piss me off due to incompetence but hey 😅), but I am rather pissed that school computers are locked down at all... Yes some people will do crap on them, but this doesn't prevent them from doing it AT ALL. I even succeeded in a few negociations with staff/teachers to make the rules more lenient, so that's nice
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    @chilledfrogs Haha same dude, where I'm from computers are seen as magical portals that nobody could possibly wrap their heads around. My grandpa taught me a bunh of stuff from a young age and Ive been teaching myself since, so I've always been seen as the wizard lmfao!
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