[ale] Making kids stop being entitled slackers with free software

[Jim Kinney]

Squid is a great tool for this issue. League of Legends is on my sh*t list
and is about to get slammed off for the same reasons.

I plan to let things run unfettered for a week to collect enough site
access data to pull the plug effectively.

If I find the morons who pay kids to play games for them to run up their
scores, and thus creating "professional" gamers, I would probably pop a
gasket all over them. Actual reading is still a vital skill. Reading books
used to be entertainment. It doubled as a skill practice. I'm seeing
reading not happening as games, mostly horridly stupid, repetitive crap
games, are the dominant entertainment. The argument that LoL requires
strategy doesn't cut it with me. Ditto on it being a type of real-time
chess. BS. Total BS.

rant off. I feel your pain, brother.
On Mar 4, 2014 11:16 PM, "Dustin Strickland" <dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I thought about it(my router is running DD-WRT), but I decided against
> it. If he wanted to get online while everyone's asleep, nothing would
> be stopping him from using my main workstation or one of the laptops
> which I can't block for various reasons. I run a DDNS client, web server
> and ssh server on the workstation, all of which need constant network
> access(server-0 is a bit of a cripple so migrating these services would
> be an issue). It would be really easy to set up DD-WRT's time-based
> controls, definitely, but I require something that can be fine-tuned
> a bit more, as well as some sort of per-machine override in the event
> that someone who's not him wants to get on the internet after-hours or
> while he's not meeting his work quota.
>
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:57:19 -0500
> JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>
> > Many routers have access time controls - tomato and dd-wrt definitely
> > do. Seems much easier, though squid setup as a transparent proxy AND
> > blocking DNS to all clients would be fun too.
> >
> > On 03/04/2014 10:26 PM, Dustin Strickland wrote:
> > > So, my (much)younger brother is doing middle school online. As kids
> > > his age do, he has issues with motivating himself to do anything
> > > other than play video games, think about playing video games, watch
> > > Youtube commentators play video games, or munching on unhealthy
> > > food that he will never be able to work off if he continues his
> > > daily routine(while talking about video games).
> > >
> > > I think I have a solution, but I would like ALE's opinion on the
> > > best way to implement it. Here is a simple map of my home
> > > network(using generic names, of course):
> > > http://s29.postimg.org/fgrszgq4n/network_map.png
> > >
> > > My goal is simple: Unless he does a set amount of work each weekday
> > > when scheduled, the network will lock down to prevent him from doing
> > > anything else. Also, the network will lock down at 9 PM(10:30 on
> > > weekends) and unlock at 6 AM. There will be an override
> > > method for everyone else. His X session will also be suspended at
> > > these times on his main machine(he uses Steam), and ideally all
> > > game consoles would refuse to boot as well. If Microsoft were nice,
> > > they would allow you to remotely change the parental controls PIN
> > > and settings for the Xbox 360 remotely so that I could automate
> > > this job, but they have an extensive history of making gimmicky
> > > products that are barely usable if you need flexibility, so it is
> > > to be expected that they don't.
> > >
> > > After getting my feet wet in the field with a quick Google search,
> > > I'm thinking that I want to use Squid. I'm probably going to
> > > install Xen on his main machine, workstation-0, and have a PV domU
> > > take care of everything. Do you guys approaching this the right
> > > way(from a technical standpoint I mean, I really don't care what
> > > you think about the ethics of it), and is there any other software
> > > you would recommend for this purpose?
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