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Re: Show HN: Encourage children to use the net more 4 learning with Pihole 5beta

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OP here. I am not able to from my view. It took several tries to squeeze my title into the 80 characters.

4->for with -> w/ Anyone have opinions on whether that's a more readable abbreviation?

For me, it is. I spend most of my day staring at code and I think that's caused me to have a strong cognitive switch between numbers and letters, at least with spaces around them.

Re: Show HN: Encourage children to use the net more 4 learning with Pihole 5beta

#22
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I don't like it. That's showing kids that automated surveillance is acceptable. Now, I'm sure they will not find that very funny, so that may be an opportunity to teach them what automated surveillance is about...

I don't think it's so bad. This is not the same as omniscient surveillance by the state or intrusive monitoring by ad networks. I think it's perfectly fine if you explain precisely to your child how they're being monitored, and why. There need not be anything surreptitious or nefarious about it.

Re: Show HN: Encourage children to use the net more 4 learning with Pihole 5beta

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Until DNS over HTTPS gets widespread adoption.

Glad you brought this up. My day job involves finding malicious network traffic. DOH is really easy to detect because in suricata or bro/zeek you simply match new outbound connections with DNS responses. If you don't get a matching pair then you need to investigate why you have outbound traffic that is bypassing your DNS server. Note this is alpha stage code. I run this at home on all of my outbound traffic. https://…

Wouldn’t a local DNS cache look the same? If you’re on a machine running systemd-resolved for example.

Re: Show HN: Encourage children to use the net more 4 learning with Pihole 5beta

#24
post #15

I don't like it. That's showing kids that automated surveillance is acceptable. Now, I'm sure they will not find that very funny, so that may be an opportunity to teach them what automated surveillance is about...

If I would let my kids decide what's for dinner every day we'd eat pancakes 7 days per week with candy for desert.

Re: Show HN: Encourage children to use the net more 4 learning with Pihole 5beta

#25
post #15

I don't like it. That's showing kids that automated surveillance is acceptable. Now, I'm sure they will not find that very funny, so that may be an opportunity to teach them what automated surveillance is about...

If I would let my kids decide what's for dinner every day we'd eat pancakes 7 days per week with candy for desert.

Funny, that's what your government thinks about you!

Re: Show HN: Encourage children to use the net more 4 learning with Pihole 5beta

#26

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OP here. I am not able to from my view. It took several tries to squeeze my title into the 80 characters.

4->for with -> w/ Anyone have opinions on whether that's a more readable abbreviation?

Not a fair comparison. In common parlance, there are no other uses for "w/" than "with". Certainly "4" usually means 4.

(Edit: Turns out that if 80 is the limit, "for" would've fit. Hah.

    $ len "Show HN: Encourage children to use the net more for learning with Pihole 5beta"
    Length of 'Show HN: Encourage children to use the net more for learning with Pihole 5beta' is 78
... I also would've left out "more" because... am I really wanting to encourage my kids to be on the net more than they are already?! ...

Perhaps something like "Show HN: Shape your kids online time with PiHole 5Beta"... but anyway cool project. It does shape things like Khan Academy as punishment / work, though. Like... If you only give your kids broccoli, they'll like broccoli. If you give them candy, then say "you can only have more candy after you eat 5 bites of broccoli", they'll f'ing hate broccoli and covet candy as their new god. But the real world is messy like that, eh? :-D )

Re: Show HN: Encourage children to use the net more 4 learning with Pihole 5beta

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The Windows 10 laptop my son uses keeps on changing its Wifi MAC address, which in turn makes the DHCP server give it a new IP. It’s annoying. (I tried some registry changes I found on some website but didn’t work.) Doing this kind of thing requires the child to have a consistent IP. (I tried a static IP, it causes problems if he ever takes the laptop out of our house.) (Thinking about a scheduled task which reports…

Maybe try:

1. Start -> Settings

2. Network & Internet -> wifi

3. Find the WiFi adapter, and click 'Advanced options' link

4. Set 'Random Hardware Addresses' to 'off'

On Android (well, at least on Pixel), this can be turned off on a per-wifi-network level, so you can turn it off for your home network, but still have it on (default) for all others.

Re: Show HN: Encourage children to use the net more 4 learning with Pihole 5beta

#29
post #7

The Windows 10 laptop my son uses keeps on changing its Wifi MAC address, which in turn makes the DHCP server give it a new IP. It’s annoying. (I tried some registry changes I found on some website but didn’t work.) Doing this kind of thing requires the child to have a consistent IP. (I tried a static IP, it causes problems if he ever takes the laptop out of our house.) (Thinking about a scheduled task which reports…

Maybe try: 1. Start -> Settings 2. Network & Internet -> wifi 3. Find the WiFi adapter, and click 'Advanced options' link 4. Set 'Random Hardware Addresses' to 'off' On Android (well, at least on Pixel), this can be turned off on a per-wifi-network level, so you can turn it off for your home network, but still have it on (default) for all others.

There is no “Advanced options” link. There is “Change adapter options” and “Change advanced sharing options”.

I can’t find “Random Hardware Addresses” anywhere

Re: Show HN: Encourage children to use the net more 4 learning with Pihole 5beta

#30

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Maybe try: 1. Start -> Settings 2. Network & Internet -> wifi 3. Find the WiFi adapter, and click 'Advanced options' link 4. Set 'Random Hardware Addresses' to 'off' On Android (well, at least on Pixel), this can be turned off on a per-wifi-network level, so you can turn it off for your home network, but still have it on (default) for all others.

There is no “Advanced options” link. There is “Change adapter options” and “Change advanced sharing options”. I can’t find “Random Hardware Addresses” anywhere

Here are the official instructions:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027925/windows-how...

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