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Reportedly a girl earned a phone confiscation from her mother by watching YouTube while the stove caught fire. There were so many opportunities around their house to circumvent being grounded that it only slowed down her access to the source of her addiction, earning some attention around the net:
In her recounting over Twitter DM, Dorothy told me that her mom took away her phone after she "was boiling rice and was too busy on phone and stove burst into flames." She was watching YouTube at the time.
After her phone was confiscated, she began desperately searching for other ways to tweet. "I've been bored all summer and twitter passes the time for me," she said. She also worried that if she stayed off the platform too long, she'd lose her mutuals — internet shorthand for users who follow each other.
In her search for other posting methods, Dorothy came up with increasingly elaborate ways to daisy-chain systems not designed for tweeting. In her first post, she managed to send a tweet from her Nintendo 3DS, a video-game console with a rudimentary camera and web browser. [...]
She also allegedly used a Nintendo Wii U before settling on the family LG Smart Refrigerator.
Whether this is a gag or not, there are several important issues rasied here regarding both addiction and the proliferation of poorly secured comsumer grade devices.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by choose another one on Wednesday August 14 2019, @09:08PM (2 children)
In the old (ish) days my kids had access to the internet only from a desktop in the kitchen and only for limited time each day.
All that control was instantly subverted when the first kid moved up to secondary school (US: high school, roughly) and was issued with an iPad, wireless connection required. Yep, that's right, a device that they can take (almost) anywhere, which had no screen-time or other parental controls, required internet access in order to "do homework", issued by the ******* school...
Wasn't long before they all had smartphones as well and I completely gave up trying to control it. Restricted wi-fi available time at the router for a while, but then they'd need to "do homework" as soon as it went off, or they'd just hop onto one of the neighbours open access points (or hack into a closed one) anyway.
Now the only limits are an ISP porn filter on the router and a bit of log checking for vpns etc. - but it's really just theatre. I know they can get round it and find porn, but they have to do a bit of work for it, as they should. Still won't be like in my day when you had to listen to the modem screech for ages, praying it didn't drop, as your jpeg came down and rendered pixel-line by pixel-line, all the while wondering if this image would turn out to be a good one or not.
Still, 'tis progress. Obviously in our day we had to walk miles to school, barefoot, in the snow, and it were uphill both ways, etc. etc.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Wednesday August 14 2019, @09:44PM (1 child)
And of course, what the school is teaching is that EVERYTHING MUST be done on an Apple(R)(TM) iPhad(R)(TM) or similar consumertardastic device that brings in the $$$$$.
Give the little fuckers a pencil and paper, and brutally murder the salesmen selling this retarded shit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 15 2019, @02:03PM
> and brutally murder the salesmen selling this retarded shit.
Wish I could but I'd lose my job the instant the superintendents and principals stop getting the newest toys as "incentive" for handing their entire tech budget to Apple while their CompSci labs still languish on computers that chug running Windows 7.