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Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by Gatsky »

walrus01 wrote: post #119
Gatsky wrote: post #118

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Regarding the protection of one’s children, I am not comprehending why you would have such an extensive list but still allow facebook and instagram.

I didn't say I have children. It seems like a very extensive list because I went into a lot of detail, but it can be summed up as: - no IOT devices I can't fully control, and which are known to stop functioning when there's a last mile residential ISP outage. - no consumer-abusive electronics that I believe will be a waste of my money in the medium to long term

Sorry, I just assumed this was about children due to the nature of the article.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by dagenix »

tjr225 wrote: post #149
elliekelly wrote: post #138

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Grave danger? Of what? I suspect most of HN had free rein of the internet in their formative years. I’m sure I did a lot of stuff my parents wouldn’t have been thrilled about but I was never in grave danger (or any danger really) and I learned a ton. I’d be far more concerned with the potential lasting damage from a kid’s dumb social media posts than crime.

You can’t seriously compare the internet of even 10 years ago to the internet of today. You can go to reddit right now and find a video of some right wing whacko shooting someone to death on the front page. That content was available then, sure. It wasn’t blasted right at you though.

When I was growing up, I had to walk uphill both going to and coming from school.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by reb »

eindiran wrote: post #81
reb wrote: post #67

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"An herb", good god. But completely agree. For anyone who hasn't followed what's happening to Gawker's corpse, this is worth a read: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-183...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/herb Note the pronunciation given for US and Canadian English, with the optional /h/: /(h)ɝb/ If your dialect pronounces it as /ɝb/ it is perfectly natural to say "an herb" (/æn ɝb/) and saying "a herb" (/eɪ ɝb/ or /ə ɝb/) with that pronunciation is incorrect.

I repeat, good god.

I am familiar with the linguistic norms at play here, and if I come across an herb in a grassy meadow, I’ll happily say so. It’s specifically the collision of the dialectal “an” and a slang expression strictly pronounced with a “hard” h that got me. A person is never called an ‘erb, unless the individual speaking is themselves a total herb.

In any case, no offense intended to OP! It genuinely made me laugh. And none intended to you either, this exchange has been very HN in the best way.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by imesh »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #128
imesh wrote: post #112

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No disagreement from me. Without gaming on Windows systems I would may never gotten involved in programming in the first place. I'm currently watching what looked like my nephews Roblox/Minecraft addiction turn into some real amazing content creation utilizing youtube as a very real learning source.

Kid has Linux, every programming lang available, Minecraft, ebooks, wikipedia, educational websites, etc. We live a block from the library. No shortage of quality learning materials basically. Perhaps ya'll've misread the list. It's a preference for quality over quantity.

Everybody has their parenting preferences based on their experiences. I believe educated parents making an effort have favorable results. I can't imagine anyone with your lists of rules not raising intellectually stimulated and curious individuals either.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by jnwatson »

formercoder wrote: post #90
klyrs wrote: post #17

In the late 90s, my dad was really mad about me experimenting with Linux on my personal computer which I built from parts bought with money earned at a summer job. It was kinda hilarious. He has zero involvement with microsoft, very little knowledge of computers, and tended to be mildly anti-establishment... and since it was 100% my computer, it had zero impact on his life. It really felt like a "my role is to crack…

My parents were always very concerned about whether I was “hacking anything”

Yeah, I blame the movie "War Games". I didn't get a modem until I was 12.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by goldenchrome »

aaomidi wrote: post #104

Rules for my kids: If you're over 10 years of age you should know what your limits are. I'm always going to be here for advice and help to get yourself back up from an accident or something that went wrong. I won't block content. I won't demand access to their phones. I won't shame them in any way. I'm also planning on being sex and body positive. Nudity isn't inherently sexual and shame is a social construct. Nothin…

Based on the other replies to this perfectly reasonable post, I’d say HN is filled with helicopter parents.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by CarbyAu »

aaomidi wrote: post #100
formercoder wrote: post #98

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Fair enough, obviously OP has the right to parent as he pleases. I think that my tinkering intuition has led me to many of my professional successes, and this talent was garnered by experimentation with computers as a child.

Eh I sometimes wish parents weren't basically given ownership rights over their kids.

Yeah. Different people have different values.

In the same way people see "free speech" as being a good thing, "free parenting" is similar, both in concept and result.

Clearly, some people talk shit and some people parent shit. And the results are as per expectation.

But without the mixing pot of variation we wouldn't have the better ways either - and we try as a society to have education(for parents and kids, for speech and parenting) make up the difference.

And worse come to worse, there is the unfortunate need for Child Services, however that works out...

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by [deleted] »

aaomidi wrote: post #100
formercoder wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough, obviously OP has the right to parent as he pleases. I think that my tinkering intuition has led me to many of my professional successes, and this talent was garnered by experimentation with computers as a child.

Eh I sometimes wish parents weren't basically given ownership rights over their kids.

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Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by googlryas »

klyrs wrote: post #17

In the late 90s, my dad was really mad about me experimenting with Linux on my personal computer which I built from parts bought with money earned at a summer job. It was kinda hilarious. He has zero involvement with microsoft, very little knowledge of computers, and tended to be mildly anti-establishment... and since it was 100% my computer, it had zero impact on his life. It really felt like a "my role is to crack…

He might have just been sad that you weren't living your life how he would have - ie you spent a lot of time in front of the computer instead of out socializing, chasing girls, playing sports, etc?

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by ACow_Adonis »

tjr225 wrote: post #149
elliekelly wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grave danger? Of what? I suspect most of HN had free rein of the internet in their formative years. I’m sure I did a lot of stuff my parents wouldn’t have been thrilled about but I was never in grave danger (or any danger really) and I learned a ton. I’d be far more concerned with the potential lasting damage from a kid’s dumb social media posts than crime.

You can’t seriously compare the internet of even 10 years ago to the internet of today. You can go to reddit right now and find a video of some right wing whacko shooting someone to death on the front page. That content was available then, sure. It wasn’t blasted right at you though.

Errr, i mean, that's basically what shock sites/links were.

It was basically literally blasted right at you and people trolled by getting them to click on it/expose people to it involuntarily whether you were looking for it or not.

I'd name several of with their 'canonical names' off the top of my head if i didn't want to get banned...

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