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This is why Nike enjoys it's hosting services from Digital Ocean.
This wouldn't have anything to do with the new NO SPANKING YOUR KIDS law in Scotland would it?
Parenting: a subject where everyone has their own opinion and then some.
Just like whether or not you should self host email.
Good idea. Thanks.
/me gets up.
"Don't tell me how to raise my kids ... You're not my dad!"
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@VortexMagnus shall rise again.
I don't see what further advice any clinically accredited professional could provide that the professionals on LET couldn't. We are an inclusive, well versed and diverse bunch. But I gave you a thumbs up anyways bud.
I bit. I totally thought this was /s . You get a thumbs up too.
Honeslty if kids are old enough to use the internet then their old enough to figure out how to get pissed off by and find a way around all blocks you implement. Educate them on the internet or dont give them access period as any blocks will just manage to annoy them and give them reason to break them.
Here's some reading that was to be found circa my vintage. I was 9 and unleashed with a phone line, a c64 and a 300 baud modem.
http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/BOXES/
Are you going to moderate your child's learning too or let them explore for themselves. I will not disagree that the internet is a 100x different animal now than 20-30 years ago. Just saying, if your kid is persistent enough they will seek knowledge for themselves.
You could also consider encapsulating your children in a Docker container or FreeBSD Jail for their own safety.
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You may also seek answers here. I demand an apology for being accused of being unhelpful.
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sudo apt install -y buzzkilldad
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Hell, is LET an education advice forum or an opinion polling site? NO.
Either ignore OP or provide some technical advice. That's what he asked for. If you provide sensible technical advice and can't resist to paternalize or virtue signal a bit you can provide some education advice additionally.
@lebidule
Pretty much any mailing solution offers some kind of filtering. The approach I would take is to write a small filter script that looks the sender up in a white list (e.g. is the mail from granny, uncle, ...?) and to allow it into the inbox if yes or to send it to my account if not (for a quick look).
That said I would definitely allow my child to tell me sender email addresses of his chosing to be white listed (friends, teachers, ...).
Plus, I would of course take quite some time (in slices over some weeks) to talk about and educate my child about the internet and the dangers that lurk there, how to check and verify things, how to protect oneself, etc.
I think it's very important that the child sees the whole "operation" as something like "daddy grabs my hand and we enter the internet together and the smarter I become the more things I can do all by myself" and not as some form of censorship and control.
Yeah, right. I'm going to have RATS in all the devices possible, custom SSL cert authority installed with transparent logging proxy and send everything on an append-only remote database - with configurable triggers for real-time alerts. It's gonna take a looooong time until that baby requires hardening.
Hi, and welcome to LowEndTalk. Thank you for your contributions in your 18 months on LET. They are many noted and not being derided. Cheers.
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Just contact the NSA and ask them for a daily log of all your son's internet activity.
Use mailman and setup the e-mail main address as mailing lists and require any submissions to the list to be approved before they are delivered to the users on the list. So you make something like [email protected] as a mailing list and then have them delivered once approved to your end e-mail account, something like [email protected]. This would allow you to moderate the list and control what e-mails end up in the end user (kids) account.
my 2 cents.
Cheers!
This seems like it would teach the child that dishonesty is acceptable in a family situation. I think it is not.
This is by far the best joke I saw this year.