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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 122 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My parents had a porn blocker, and all it made me do was learn enough about computers to circumvent it. Even if they put age verification in front of every porn site in the world there's still torrents and chat rooms and forums all over where you can find it, and kids will find it. Next thing they'll mandate is putting toothpaste back in the tube.

[–] Muddobbers@infosec.pub 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not only will they find it, they'll end up going to the sketchier sites that don't do the age verification because they're not well known enough and not following the laws and they'll likely get something infected on the computer/network or worse.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago

Not only will they find it, they’ll end up going to the sketchier sites that don’t do the age verification because they’re not well known enough and not following the laws and they’ll likely get something infected on the computer/network or worse.

It's like that time we declared a war on drugs and then there were no drugs. Wait, actually that led to a massive black market and tons of violence.

Point being, you're not gonna stop it. You're just gonna make it less safe.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Yep. Who among us as idiot teenagers hasn't downloaded "$current_starlet full nude sex tape.exe" from some shady site?

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Funny you should mention putting toothpaste back in a tube, because I actually helped someone do that last night. It's possible, but also a huge pain in the ass. That's not a commentary on anything besides literal toothpaste.

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would like to hear the rest of the story, please.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My housemate was going on a trip to Alaska the next morning. She had a mostly empty 3 oz toothpaste tube and she was trying to refill it from a larger tube. No idea what she was so opposed to just buying toothpaste when she arrived. I think she was mostly just doing it because she could.

The solution involved holding the tubes end to end and squeezing the larger tube, alternating with using a stirring rod to pack the toothpaste into the smaller tube.

[–] ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My housemate was going on a trip to Alaska the next morning. She had a mostly empty 3 oz toothpaste tube and she was trying to refill it from a larger tube. No idea what she was so opposed to just buying toothpaste when she arrived. I think she was mostly just doing it because she could.

The solution involved holding the tubes end to end and squeezing the larger tube, alternating with using a stirring rod to pack the toothpaste into the smaller tube.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd build some kind of suction device to put negative air pressure on the tube while holding the nozzle in the toothpaste

[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I think I saw something like that on YouTube. I'll look for the video later.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When my wife insisted I put a porn blocker on the internet, I did some simple DNS tinkering, then told my son not to let his mother catch him bypassing the "blocker" I put on.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was growing up we had the ultimate porn blocker.

Dial up internet was far too slow to load more than about half an image per hour.

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It would loan line by precious line. Should I look now and enjoy the suspense or wait ten minutes and see the whole pic in all of its glory? Usually I would be weak and sit there enjoying the anticipation..one line at a time..then finally, when you were so horny you just couldn't take it anymore..you see her penis :/

Kids today don't know how good they got it.

[–] LuckyCat@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

This blows my mind. Why not just push back on your wife for being ridiculous? I say this as a woman with two boys who has been married for 10 years.

[–] DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

toothpaste back in the tube

Well now there's an apt metaphor... :-P

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Mine straight up used Spyware. I learned to make multiple copies of older sessions to cover up anything I wanted, then I replaced current sessions just like they did on security cameras in the movies lol.