Dad may be installing a network proxy, help. (Rant on parental restrictions)

[joe411]

Have any money on your own?

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[Ipquarx]

I seriously hate it when parents try to "protect their kids from research!"
stop treating love like it's some outlandish practice that only delinquents do. It's arguably the most human part about being a human.

[SpongeCraft1212]

For those wondering; the proxy I saw him looking at (and I think he installed it on my old PC), was Squid. I don't know much about it.

Can it turn into a kid? I have never dealt with a proxy that monitors you at all, so I don't know how to help you. Anyways, I wish you good luck with dealing with this problem.

[spideykong]

That sucks. I hate people like that, your kids aren't going to grow up responsible if you don't let them make their own choices every now and then, or be flexible.

I seriously hate it when parents try to "protect their kids from research!"
stop treating love like it's some outlandish practice that only delinquents do. It's arguably the most human part about being a human.

Well I mean, if your kids are out loving people at 14 or so I'd be a little concerned. research isn't bad really though, parents should understand that.

[Foxscotch]

squid is caching software
some ISPs use it... for caching. there are other places to use it but that's the only time I've ever actually seen it in action. chances are what you saw him looking at was an error page from it. or maybe he saw such an error page and googled it and that's what you saw
either way, your dad probably isn't interested in it. unless he wants to consume marginally less data and slightly increase the speed at which your family can load some web pages, I guess

stop treating love like it's some outlandish practice that only delinquents do. It's arguably the most human part about being a human.

I agree that love shouldn't be taboo, but it's not "the most human part about being a human." like, every single animal does it, and many non-animals
I guess you could say that it's part of being a living thing?? but either way you're needlessly putting down people who don't want to have love, which is no better than the stuff you're talking about

[TristanLuigi]

but either way you're needlessly putting down people who don't want to have love, which is no better than the stuff you're talking about

whatever you say foxscotch
i don't understand why you don't just talk to them about it

[Ipquarx]

but either way you're needlessly putting down people who don't want to have love, which is no better than the stuff you're talking about

I'm most definitely not. I'm putting down people who go out of their way to shame anything involving love, try to force their preferences for not having love onto others, preventing their kids from learning about responsibility and safety during love, and so on. His parents definitely fall into the first category, and there are still tons of people that fall into the 3nd category which REALLY sickens me.

[Foxscotch]

I'm most definitely not. I'm putting down people who go out of their way to shame anything involving love...

by saying "love is part of being human" you are saying people who don't want to have love are less human
there's no way around that. maybe you don't actually think that there's anything wrong with not wanting to have love, but that's why you should choose better words

[joe411]

I'm pretty sure "love is the most human thing" or whatever is a quote from Maddox.

[TristanLuigi]

by saying "love is part of being human" you are saying people who don't want to have love are less human
there's no way around that. maybe you don't actually think that there's anything wrong with not wanting to have love, but that's why you should choose better words

i feel like you are specifically trying to stir up stuff by nitpicking people's words to draw conclusions that you know they did not intend
if you knew what he meant, then he does not need to find better words

and yeah, love is part of being a living organism*. you don't have to do it, but you'll be missing out of pretty much the entire biological purpose of being alive, and according to the majority of people, a lot of fun

*unless you're a bacteria, budding plant, or one of those weird jellyfish things. i did not want to discriminate.

[Ipquarx]

by saying "love is part of being human" you are saying people who don't want to have love are less human

Just because it's a part of being human doesn't mean it makes you any less human if you don't want to have it
Just because playing the piano with two hands is part of being a piano player, does playing with one hand make you any less of a piano player if you're still satisfying the crowd?

[Planr]

it sounds like you have really crappy overprotective parents.

[Sparky_78]

Last time I had a web-blocker I bypassed it
easy as cake

[eboyblue10]

my dad also set up a monitoring proxy, although it's only for monitoring

thankfully it has a gigantic flaw in that it's application-based so i literally can just use safari on my phone and i'm totally under its radar

i don't actually have a problem with it but its mobile web browser is stupid and it kinda freaks me out seeing an eye in my menubar at all times on my computer.

anyway i don't know much about squid but if your dad knows how to install it then he knows how to use a computer effectively. at least you can do cool things with the proxy, try googling "upside-downternet"

[Lego lad]

rip op