My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf

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My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf

My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf - ratfactor

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[tallsimon@mstdn.ca]

@h4ckernews Oh yeah, when the kids were younger? It was

sed -e "/TV Box/s/^ *##*/ ... " < kids_devices.conf > tmp
mv tmp kids_devices.conf

to remove the commenting out of their IP's and then pfctl -f to reload. Then pfctl -k on the table of those devices to kill any internet sessions. Script for this was on the crontab.

Want to have some fun? Tell the kids you're going to randomize the switch-off time between 9:30pm and 10:30pm, instead of just a 10:00pm cutoff.

It's an interesting lesson in how people react to uncertainty instead of a reliable mean value.