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Re:VSCode's SSH agent is bananas by _zoltan_ on Saturday February 08, 2025 @01:52AM (#42981007)
who are you to decide what the students can learn or not learn?
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Re:VSCode's SSH agent is bananas by joshstrange on Saturday February 08, 2025 @08:44AM (#42982904)
The provider of the servers? If the students want to use their own server, I’m sure they’re free to do whatever they want. Also VS code has plug-ins that just SFTP the files up.
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Re:VSCode's SSH agent is bananas by saagarjha on Sunday February 09, 2025 @05:26AM (#42989780)
Students are frequently not allowed to use their own servers.
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Re:VSCode's SSH agent is bananas by bkallus on Sunday February 09, 2025 @09:05AM (#42990756)
We encourage students to use their own machines. We even loan out old ThinkPads and MacBooks for students to run Linux on. Very few (3-5 per term) take us up on this offer. Most of our students would rather we do the sysadmin stuff for them.

The only requirement is that the code needs to run on our server, which they can easily check before submission.

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