bluGill

joined 2 years ago
[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

Almost everything is a webpage these days. Or a youtube video

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They are enabled - the kids have found bypasses. Turning on the hotspot and then using their school device for instance

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago

But not my kids phone that they turned the hotspot on before then. even if I take it their school device can be got from the backpack

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I managed to do this once on mbin - but I have no clue how. This is a commonly requested feature.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Depends - what don't you like about your current instance? The ui will be different on each but that isn't good or bad so much as what you like. (No project has a real ui designer)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -2 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

It only takes one kid to figure out the bypass and it spreads all the kids. Some of those kids are talking to kids going to other schools.

every week my kids hear about a new game the school isn't blocking while they are in class. Sometimes the teachers catch them, but kids are good at hiding what they are doing - and switching to what they should do when the teacher comes near.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I can't - teachers give them homework that must be done on the device all the time.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Every week my kid hears about another game (not boobs) that the school didn't block and thus they can play when the teacher isn't looking. There are also a lot of non educational youtube videos they can watch, but since some of their real educational videos are on youtube they don't block most. (Again youtube will block boobs - but that is not all I'm worried about)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -2 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

They are only easy to setup if you don't care about getting them right. Either you block a lot of useful content (only approved, audited things allowed), or you block only things that are known evil (that is you audited it). Either way the vast majority of the internet is not audited and we have no idea which of that is good vs evil. (nevermind trying to get a consistent definition of good/evil). The name "onlyfans" makes me think of sports fans and thus something I'd allow kids to access - of course I know better, I'll be there is someone out there who would be setting up the firewall who doesn't know it is in fact adult content.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 0 points 8 hours ago

Age verification needs to be done by someone (probably a government agency, though it need not be) who has verified age. That someone needs to be legally liable (and able to enforce) the tracking rules for anyone who uses their system to verify age. You want to verify someone's age with me, first you need to prove you are following our privacy rules - including our regular random audits.

It needs a better cryptologist than me to get the details of the above system right.

Of course if even if you have the above I'm not sure how you will get anyone to use it. Perhaps we can have schools put a hard block on any system that doesn't follow the above system, but the vast majority of the web isn't going to opt-in. Note in particular this includes a lot of the useful sites I as a parent want my kids to access so it won't help me as a parent.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -1 points 8 hours ago

As a voters you don't get much a choice. In any voting system there is a case where all your choices are for something you are a hard no on.

 

My wife is complaining that we have music all over the living room all the time. With a couple kids in music lessons, school bands (regular, jazz), orchestra, and such a practice session often needs 6 books and 5 loose pages of music so I can't blame her for being frustrated. There is no easy way to store all that and find what you need for the current daily practice sessions.

Putting a tablet (suggestions? schools gives the kids an iPad, and I'm looking at pinetab2, or boox for me) on a stand seems easy enough, but then what?

Mobile sheets seems to be what others around me use, so probably what I'd end up doing too, though I'm not locked to anything. Any other software that I should be looking at? I do like the idea that we can synchronize page turning.

The hard part is getting all my music onto my NAS. Do I just scan all my books? Buy again as PDF (only rarely an option). Entry the music into some other program? I have some sheet music I want to put into lilypond - is there anything that would sync my tablets to a rendered version of this.

I already have Jellyfin and I see book options (but have not used it yet). Calibri-web also comes up often for books. Both seem book reading focused and music flows / organization is different. Anything else I might want to put on my servers that might be better?

Any other thoughts? What have others done that works?

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