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

by Iwillgetby on 3/13/20, 2:18 AM with 32 comments

• by Iwillgetby on 3/13/20, 9:04 AM

  Pleasant surprise to see my post on the front page. I don't mention this in the original reddit post but the nodejs code comes from our 2016-2018 failed startup that at one point was invited to be on the TV show shark tank.

• by _-___________-_ on 3/13/20, 10:17 AM

  Can we edit the '4' in the title to 'for'? This isn't a teenager's chatroom and it took me a minute to successfully parse the sentence as a result of it.

• by skissane on 3/13/20, 8:38 AM

  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 its IP to the home server, so at least I know what it is all the time...)

• by jedieaston on 3/13/20, 4:55 AM

  well, until they figure out how to set a local DNS server.

• by dod9er on 3/13/20, 6:38 AM

  Nice idea, does anyone have an idea what german-language learning sites have a point-system ?

• by wiz21c on 3/13/20, 10:22 AM

  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...