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The Finnish Marticulation Examination to move away from Linux-based exam enviroment due to perceived threat of dwindling support on student devices
Context: The Finnish Marticulation Examination is a national examination required to qualify for entry into a university in Finland (not strictly required, but the vast majority will have passed the exam before university). These are basically the final exams of Finnish "high school". The current digital system used for the exams is called "Abitti", which is a Debian-based OS. The students boot into the system with provided USB-sticks.
In the linked article, there is the following statement (in Finnish):
Computer technology advances quickly, and the current Abitti works in fewer and fewer computers. The threat is that computers that can run the current Linux-environment won't be available in the near future.
The new system ("Abitti 2"), which is planned to be used by Autumn 2026, uses locked-down Web-apps written for each supported OS. Support is planned for Windows, Mac, and ChromeOS. Linux support "needs further investigation". As I understand it, the current situation is that the old Linux USB-stick method (now called "Abitti 2 student-stick") is still used as a backup for those without Windows, Mac, or ChromeOS.
I think the main premise of Linux-bootable computers not being available in the near future is extremely dystopian. Thoughts?
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Koejärjestelmän testiversioon on voinut tutustua syksystä 2024 alkaen, ja lukitun Windows-kokelassovelluksen versio 1.0 julkaistiin elokuussa 2025.Ylioppilastutkintolautakunta
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*Judges rule against Trump administration on deporting Guatemalan [minors] and Venezuelans.* Using the word "children" to describe the Guatemalans protected by this decision fails to express its full scope. It protects Guatemalan minors who are adolescents as well as Guatemalan minors who are children.
Judges rule against Trump administration on deporting Guatemalan children and Venezuelans
Double defeat protects Venezuelans with temporary protected status and Guatemalan minorsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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"O Supremo Tribunal Federal, que teve papel fundamental na vitória da defesa da democracia, vai tomar em breve uma decisão que pode representar uma derrota histórica dos direitos dos trabalhadores. O julgamento do Tema 1389 ameaça transformar a Justiça do Trabalho em uma fachada, onde contratos fraudulentos poderão passar ilesos, blindando empresas e precarizando o emprego. Se a decisão mudar a obrigação de provar a fraude para o trabalhador, a precariedade será institucionalizada. A proteção social, construída com suor e sangue, pode ser destruída, e o Brasil verá a exclusão das camadas mais vulneráveis enquanto o fisco paga a conta."
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Le dinamiche che sfruttano la religione per ricompattare una identità sociale, politica e nazionale sono le dinamiche della disperazione, hanno sempre generato atrocità. Questo è quello che ci insegna la storia.
"...i nazionalisti cristiani negli USA fanno riferimento ad una bolla papale di Alessandro VI. del 1493. La religione cristiana dovrebbe essere »diffusa ovunque« e a questo scopo i popoli »barbarici dovrebbero essere sottomessi«..."
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Wie Bibelfanatiker in die US-Regierung gelangten: Trumps Gotteskrieger
Ultrarechte christliche Nationalisten waren in den USA oft nah dran an der Macht. Der Selfmade-Heiland Donald Trump hat ihnen nun die Tür geöffnet. Das Ziel der Eiferer: eine amerikanische Theokratie. Die SPIEGEL-Titelstory.Jörg Schindler (DER SPIEGEL)
Un sistema antimissile ricevuto da Kiev è già operativo da un mese, ha annunciato Zelensky - Sullo sfondo, il deterioramento delle relazioni fra la Russia e lo Stato ebraico
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Ukraine’s Air Force is about to get a serious boost, thanks to Denmark’s TERMA A/S. These are the same folks who keep NATO’s F-16s alive when missiles start flying, and now Ukraine is looking to bolt that technology onto not just its incoming Western…Unipro2013main (The Military Channel)
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Riporto un interessante #Manifestodelleemozionimaschili, per un'autoconsapevolezza dell'uomo che, a causa delle pressioni sociali, ha perso più delle donne.
Perché il #maschile nella nostra società è schiacciato dal dovere di apparire sempre forte, e la donna da quello di non doversi difendere.
Perché serva a entrambi sentirsi completi.
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Perché un manifesto per le emozioni maschili? Il manifesto per le emozioni maschili è il punto di arrivo di anni di riflessioni e confronti sui diversi comportamenti di uomini e donne.Alberto Penna
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New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper
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New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper
Social media video shows a toilet in China demanding a user watch an ad in order to receive a handful of bathroom tissue.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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my dad isn't as mobile lately so i dropped off a #2ds for him to enjoy. got him started with #acecombat
i have an odd question, though: are there any #rpg games for the #3ds that are like #wow in nature? not multiplayer but open ended where you can do the quests or not, you can go fishing or not, you can wander wherever within your level cap, etc.?
he was a big WoW fan and i think he'd like a simple open-ended RPG to explore (but not for the story).
Le stranezze del marketing... Juve e Inter, le seconde maglie sembrano identiche
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Really hoping to see some One Piece flags in the pictures from the next #NoKings Day protests. I also hope everyone has brotherd to check the notes from Nepal. Regimes can collapse faster than expected. Sometimes it can be a total surprise.
I know things feel impossible right now, but you need to have a plan for when you win because it might surprise you. The other good thing about having a plan is that it gives you something to fight for instead of just something to fight against.
As anarchists, when we were organizing against Trump, in the lead up to and early in his last term, we recognized the potential for repression. Radicals have always been targeted, but now he's going after moderate liberals. This is going to keep escalating, so it would be a good idea for liberals to *listen to anarchists* since we've been doing this for years.
Anarchists have been kidnapped and held without charges for months at a tim (check out en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattl…. Only for those folks, they were kidnapped and held without trial under Obama.) Radicals have been doing this for years. It's worth your time to listen so you know how to prepare.
We had a bail fund set up. Support your local bail fund and don't try to start your own (liberals in Seattle did that last time). We focused on basic survival for our members. When the regime cracks down it will be random (since they can't get everyone). How are you going to support folks? Bail funds are a nice first step, but the whole process can take a long time. People can (and often do) lose their jobs, even if they aren't convicted of anything. Are you going to make sure targeted people are able to pay rent and get food? Are you going to make sure families are taken care of when a parent is kidnapped?
Resistence is only a threat if it's sustainable, otherwise they can just overpower and wait. You have to be able to wait longer. Occupations are *extremely* expensive. If you can support each other through an occupation, you can win.
So what is your plan? How are you going to make sure that those who fight can keep fighting? The best time to think about that question was under Biden. The second best time is now.
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One of our most important projects was the "food security committee" which made sure that our members always ate. It expanded out and now members of that committee still can food and bring it to houseless camps (among other things).
This is disaster prep work. We are in a disaster, how do you prepare for it to get worse? How to you prepare to come out the other side?
The only way we survive this level of disaster is together. Organize around that idea and you'll already be building the world we want to see on the other side.
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in reply to Otter • • •BlessedDog
in reply to Otter • • •They claim that to be, but in my experience I have had maybe two students ask me for help with boot options, out of around 2-4 thousand? This was at a college with no computer science program, and most people being not very savvy with technology.
The ones asking for hekp usually had some old Macbook with weird boot menus
Korkki
in reply to uint • • •Otter
in reply to Korkki • • •Unless they mean something like the Respondus rootkit
discuss.privacyguides.net/t/be…
IMO some exams should just be proctored in person
Best way to use Respondus LockDown Browser for school?
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in reply to Otter • • •Redkey
in reply to uint • • •Reading the FAQs, the whole situation smacks of changing for the sake of change. It seems like some important functionality of the old system isn't available in the new system, but they're pushing it through regardless. Combined with this downplaying of Linux support, perhaps some political representatives with low technical skills have been talking to some lobbyists. And unless the Finnish school system has bought into Chromebooks in a big way, they seem unusually eager to support ChromeOS.
I wonder if the whole Secure Boot/Microsoft shim key issue is a part of this.
Korkki
in reply to Redkey • • •Yeah goverment is now giving laptops students at that level, on a loan basis. Just so that everybody has access to free study materials that are now partly of fully digital. The computers are usually, but not always chromebooks because they are cheap and chromebooks are the "student laptop" anyways.
Yeah that's part of it. The boot issues with usb. It's apparently a total lottery of whose computer decides not to boot when the exam starts with the new windows limitations.
FishFace
in reply to uint • • •LeFantome
in reply to FishFace • • •It would be disappointing if the county where Linux was born moved away from it out of ignorance.
It may be that when they say newer hardware “cannot run Linux” they actually mean that their system, that requires a BIOS, will not run.
SteveTech
in reply to FishFace • • •utopiah
in reply to SteveTech • • •I feel like Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) a lot of that is already addressed, including package availability. Few years ago it was tricky but now, a LOT is available due to the success of ARM on phones, tablets, etc.
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in reply to uint • • •sga
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in reply to sga • • •HelloRoot
in reply to someacnt • • •sudo rm -rf ./intrusive_thoughts
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in reply to uint • • •This doesn’t make any sense. Web apps are by their nature universal, but even if you needed to target individual OSes for some reason the app engines that one would use like Edge Webview or Electron run on all the OSes mentioned…
The only way this really makes sense is if they are going with something stupid like Lockdown Browser which, while based on chromium as far as I know, has no official Linux support.
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in reply to uint • • •It's 'matriculation', right? Both times? Is that part of the test?
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in reply to uint • • •BlessedDog
in reply to uint • • •Having worked as an admin for both systems, this absolutely sucks... The cost of running these servers is going to at least quadruple due to the new system requirements, and tens of thousands of USB sticks are going to become e-waste.
We used to run these servers on old laptops, but now with the new system requirements (which I won't disclose here, as I am not sure if they have been publically stated yet) the cost of running these servers is going to quadruple for most institutions, moreso for ones buying it as SaaS from OpinSys.
Not a fan AT ALL, but hey, at least I have 200 stickers advertising the new version 🙄
utopiah
in reply to uint • • •Easy fix, forbid the sales of computers in Finland that do not let user boot on the OS of choice, including of course Abitti.
Sure a small percentage of Fins might not buy their computers in the country via a national online shop but I bet it's a minority.
For the few who still do, make a RPi5 or equivalent available instead of a USB stick. It's a bit more expensive but not so much.
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in reply to utopiah • • •utopiah
in reply to Tiger_Man_ • • •I agree that computers are phone but in this specific context I don't believe that would fit. Do people take an exam on a phone? Actual people I mean, not few hackers who (rightfully) believe it's an interesting technical feat. Also IMHO for phones to be considered computers then isn't a locked bootloader ALSO precisely a problem?
So... sure get it fixed for phones too!
If Apple managed to switch it's own hardware port to USB-C this seems relatively simple in comparison.
Matt
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in reply to uint • • •LeFantome
in reply to uint • • •The last time I looked at this, it did not really add up. The “lack of supoort” was more for BIOS boot than anything. When they say “Linux”, they mean their ancient implementation of it.
It would be a real shame if Linux lost foothold in its own country out of ignorance and bias.