Cue the "You wouldn't download a car" memes.
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vz8 commented on Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction? · Posted by u/Archipelagia
i hope some of your childrens manages to bypass family filters and starts his passion for the magical world of cybersecurity this way
One of them knows how but plays along. Cicada 3301 here we come.
vz8 commented on Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction? · Posted by u/Archipelagia
We changed DNS for all devices to use OpenDNS familyshield [0] for starters. It's a passive way to throttle some of the worst of the worst out there.
Of course setting some limits on how much / how often helps a bit, and frank discussions about what too much of an addictive thing does to you.
Our youngest is developmentally delayed and will absolutely ignore any guidelines and follow the path of least resistance / most enticement, so their bedroom connection runs through a proxy running Squid [1] where I've whitelisted school and certain entertainment (that took a bit of time running Telerik Fiddler[2] to gather the many domains necessary for the whitelist)
Spotify was a bit of a problem, again with our youngest who went straight for the podcasts with the most adult content, which Spotify gleefully recommended the first moment we turned the service on. Could never find a way to turn podcasts off - never wanted them.
We run our own Emby[3] server that everyone has access to with curated music tv and movies (and also have the usual streaming video services, but those are reserved for common areas).
Looked at other options like walled garden family services (e.g. Amazon Kindle Fires with subscription), but there seems to only be content ranging up to ~12 year old tastes.
[0] https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/228006487-Fami... [1] http://www.squid-cache.org/ [2] https://www.telerik.com/fiddler [3] https://emby.media/
What a great post to start off a weekend - thanks. For anyone excited about this, you may want to check out the amazing collections at Rijksmuseum [0] as well.
vz8 commented on Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people? · Posted by u/xupybd
Is this a reference to Flexports hiring ad, also currently on the front page?
I checked out the site and leadership out of curiosity. Mostly I'm thinking gritty => tenacious.
vz8 commented on Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js threejs-example.hyperbeam... · Posted by u/declan_g
This is remarkable stuff.
Suggestion: A hotkey (in or out of the virtual computer) that allows you to reset to the default orientation without having to reload the page. On a laptop with only a touchpad, I'm fighting with the controls a bit.
Call me crazy, but I think it's only a matter of time before windows in our living spaces will be monitors with overlaid ads. The in-app purchase will be "allowing us" to remove the ads so we can look at the view in peace.
In the meantime, all my TVs never see the light of WiFi and have ROKU sticks.
I'd love to see a "Can-I-use" browser extension when looking at articles like this.
Occasionally a project requires IE 10/11 support (state government work) and it's such a shame to get excited about an impossible CSS approach.
vz8 commented on Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections lapcatsoftware.com/articl... · Posted by u/alsetmusic
I wonder if this explains the occasional "Ghosts in the machine" behavior I've seen in Fiddler. Hoo boy.
At the gym, people assume anyone with big muscles must be an expert in medicine. Let's not make the same mistake here.
16% lift in overall test scores: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/sprojec...
11% lift in math test scores: https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
And Khan Academy's impact page: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/impact has links to additional studies.