The problem with parental controls, is that my kids are 3 and 5. I don't want them exposed to raw unfiltered internet. But I also know that they *will be*.
This means that parental controls are a war I'm trying to figure out how to let my kids win in the most gentle way possible. I want them to win without feeling smarter and better than me, and like they're invincible. I want them to become aware of the fact that the internet is a complicated place, I don't want them to fear, but I also want them to respect. I dunno - parenting is hard.
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Fuck yes.
Server migration went off without a hitch.
If I disappear from you for 24 to 48 hours - flush your damn DNS cache
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I'm not in the UK anymore! I've slain the Online Safety Act
Ironically one of our users is a UK citizen, and out of 6 people that might be significant!
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Ah, my domain registrar enrolled me in WHOISGUARD, gave whois a bogus domain. And then required me to get an email to change the email I use on my domain, or change the DNS. They didn't grab the email from my account for this. Oh no! They grabbed the whoisguard bogus email!
How wonderful! I guess server migration isn't happening today >.<
I have two main laptops I use right now. Both of them display a corporate logo for an OS (Microsoft and Apple) when they boot and then do not boot that OS.
Every single time I look at them and think "Stop embarrassing me"
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I'm trying to make a small device autoplay the playlist on a CF card when the CF card is plugged in.
Linux is garbage now - is that the lesson I've learned?
@sungo Yeah - so I've tried a few different options
So I'm kinda stuck in Armbian land because I'm doing this on a raspi knockoff (after they hired a cop I swore them off).
So I started trying with just putting things on fstab, and found a tool for autoplaying CDs - but it didn't really work. So I moved to a udev rule which works on and off - but wont kick off sound because it's not able to subscribe the audio daemon. I've started looking at stripping out pulse and replacing it with alsa directly. But now I'm just trying to find a tool that will play an m3u without a session (cvlc seems gone from packages).
There's more - but I've spent a few hours on this and I'm mostly just frazzled.
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I just replied to an email thread about a cooking group at church. Gmail rate limited for bulk sending.
This is anticompetitive bullshit and I'm so fucking livid.
I want to scream at Gmail users, but I acknowledge that it's not their fault.
Since all the search engines have died - does anyone remember the story of the IBM coffee mug?
I can't find any of the info and I'm looking for:
1) one of them
2) just the history
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you were probably thinking of the Amdahl coffee mug?
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1) the designers of the games make all their articles to advertise their kickstarters
2) the kickstarter ends and then it disappears
3) the books flood out and the backers get excited
4) then it's gone from the zeitgeist because the momentum of the *conversation* was before it was released
5) it's a pain to get it to the table
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I just wrote this PR comment:My biggest worry is that this will take longer to review than it took to write. But to be clear - this is already in staging
Ops is a complete breakdown of the dev process and this is why DevOps is always weird.
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The real question is if the law exist, why did Trump get convicted of a crime and the judge go "Well, you can't do anything to the president, so whatever"
Americans need to come to grips with the idea that laws don't exist
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I didn't realize it took that many words to spell "I don't know what a presidental pardon is" damn
I am tempted to boot my desktop from freebsd live media, copy over the zpool to a 10TB disk, do the upgrades, then copy that back to the server
is this stupid?
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If i have extra rj45 plugs or keystones, i never make a mistske.
If I have just as many as i need, I always make a mistake and need one more.
This is suspiciously consistant.
@sep lol, that's tragic
I am nearing the end of the first box I ever bought so I'm finally getting the hang of it.
Ok - I've been told that HTTP 418 belongs in the 400 block because it's the same as requesting a non-existent file. This argument claims that 418 is the same as 404.
I tend to think of 418 as being more analogous to 501. You cannot put coffee in a teapot, which is a statement about the teapot.
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I'm looking at this as a web application returning a response code. HTTP is a protocol; some of the participants of that protocol will be extremely content aware, others less so. The very notion that holding coffee violates a teapot's nature is a philosophical conceit that would be odd for a low awareness system to express in the first place.
On the other hand, I suppose that attempting to french press in a teapot would be my idea of a 500-series teapot error.
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Disney George who makes 100000 bad star wars a day is just an outlier
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ok - so - every Day the shop brings in Customers. The customers need to be managed, with some events - basically Heists. At the end of the day, you get Entanglements - but they're for the shop itself. Indulging Vices is important, but it's things like Rent and Food instead of drugs.
So the person playing the owner gets money and stress, and the shop has a series of dent, damage, and supplies. The owner can move stress and money from the shop onto the staff as necessary to keep it afloat. Removing stress from a staff member needs money of course
Its been a long time since someone wrote shell unportable enough to ruin my day.
If you're gonna use bashisms, don't just huck them into `/bin/sh`
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Ok - so - I am finally watching The Mandolorian and holy fuck.
I went into Season 1 trepidatious and the show sold me on its visuals and picaresque style. But now I'm on Season 3 (after a detour through Boba Fett), and I gotta say, if I was handed the script for S3E6 I would have stared across the the fucking desk and fired the writer. Just instantly.
@Abbie Normal The cthulhu looking alien was called Captain Shuggoth, the pleasure planet was called Plzir-15, the drug is nepenthe but does not cause or remove sorrow, and the red herring was Jack Black going "Do you like secretions? Also! I used to be imperial"
The action scene was just Mando kicking battle droids until one attacked him, then deciding to run away through a crowded market instead of anything else. And then it turned out Christopher Lloyd signed his name on all the drugs (it was nanorobots so they checked with a microscope) so they caught him, because he had no other plan. I... don't really even get its purpose.
Thinking about #BSDCan abstracts and falling into analysis paralysis, I've no idea what an abstract *looks* like for this con. How many words? Do you want the talk outline? The topic and that's it?
I dunno - AP is setting in - I want to give a good idea without accidentally writing the entire talk?
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@Hypolite Petovan @pamela Ok so the talk abstract is basically
My goal with computer is to be as stupidly boring as possible, let's talk about how BSD enables that, and what I am currently doing.
The problem is that... that... I don't know. Giving more context is way too much, but it's also not much there.
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@silverwizard A good abstract is like good slides, they give the direction of the talk but not the details.
You aren’t trying to get clicks so you should state bluntly the context of the talk and its conclusion, this lets people gage if they are interested in the “in-between” part.
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I was running a D&D module (Grasp of the Emerald Claw) in #BurningWheel, and they failed a navigation roll, so I rolled on the Random Encounter Table.
It is now over 6 months later and the aftershocks of that random encounter are still pretty major to the campaign.
Dice are wonderful.
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Product Name: TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI)
Version: Rev X.0x
and I want to see what kind of idiocy I'm going to be able to push through it (I think it'll handle 64GB DDR4), but like - no one ever has used this product for anything *useful*
People brigading @Cory Doctorow because he supports a thing they don't like.
I get why people proping up bluesky sucks, and why people are mad.
But fucking. Ok. If there's anyone who has earned benefit of the fucking doubt it's Cory Fucking Doctorow. And if you believe he made a bad call after reading his piece on it, I get it, but imagine dismissing him this hard for one bad take. Damn. Fucking bonkers.
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@Hypolite Petovan I mean - the war between millionaires and billionaires is a pretty complicated thing going on.
I'm in a situation where I'm going to become a millionaire at some point by dint of birth, and it's weird, I feel a lot of guilt about it. And despite this - I don't feel any kinship with the idea of a billionaire. Billionaires are these weird *monsters* - they don't feel like people anymore, they're just these warps in reality that reshape our fucking world to their (somehow always Nazi) whims.
But yeah - like - Mark Ruffalo does not have any sort of world shaping money - but has enough to try to make a new social media company - it makes sense - but like - yeah - Mark Ruffalo probably shouldn't be the place we put our trust in our digital future.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •When I was little I knew there were books in the library I was not supposed to read, and as I got older I could venture into those areas, but my mom still kept an eye on what I was reading and would talk to me about it, exploring how various groups were presented, etc.
Simpler days, eh? You can't know what all websites or whatever your kids lands on unless you've got a parental control in place, I would imagine.
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in reply to ⚝ TekNo aEvl ⚝ • •@Tek aEvl I don't do that because:
1) my kids will definitely win. That's a losing scenario
2) I'm not my kid's enemy - they need to know I support them
I need to teach them their own judgement. For now they're in their own sandbox - but I want them to learn how to grow.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •when my son was younger (he is 12 now) we had regular conversations about why a movie or a network service will remain locked by the parental controls. With time, as he inevitable became exposed to more and more content above his age (some of that done by me, after assessing his emotional and mental capabilities) - games or movies most of the time - after another conversation I started lifting some aspects of controls above his age. And we continue the process.
I think the point I am trying to convey is - be transparent about why some things are locked. Talk to your kids (when they're older) to know their experiences form elsewhere. Adjust settings. Support. I think I got it all quite well with my boy - not ideally but well. We still argue, he still tries to outsmart the system sometimes...
Ah, one thing: Android and Google Apps - do not enable any google apps for your children as embedded webview does NOT fall under any parental controls. Finding out Youtube playing through google maps was quite interesting.
Android parental controls are not effective at all, chrome and otherwise. It a steaming pile of horse shite.
Apple does a bit better but requires some fidgeting to be set up properly. But does work, most of the time.
For anything else, other devices, I have a per device ACL list on the firewall...
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in reply to Artur Wawrowski • •@Artur Wawrowski Yeah! This is the important bit! Emphasizing my role as protector and that I am protecting. And that they will grow into things! "You need to learn more" is such an important idea that's really hard for a 5 year old to accept.
And generally - I think it's good for a kid to outsmart the system. Kids *need* to outsmart the system.
My kids are running custom android tablets with an in-house fdroid store replacing the play store. For now.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •sooo been there myself! My kids are now 12/13. We started slow, with unconnected devices (old phones) and a few games, kinda like just a different toy. As they go through school we try to draw analogies with familiar things.. Internet is kinda like 'outdoors'. Some areas are safe for you, some are not. Running around when you should be in bed is also not good. Trying to present family controls as helping, not a war you will lose...
But. Yeah it's hard 🤪 good luck!
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