Guys a madman, didn't even ask for a ticket.
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Allowing children on roblox is negligence at this point so I think this is unironically in the right
Deleting Roblox and installing Factorio
You'll thank me when you're older, kid.
The factory must grow.
"Why is my child applying to Nestle's child mines"
he yearns
Older? Poor kid might forget to eat or drink water if you get him hooked on Factorio
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I refuse to allow my own child on it. It takes zero effort to see all the super shady shit happening there. I wont have my child exposed to that crap.
I played Roblox with my kids for years and didn't find any shady shit. Not saying there is no shady stuff on there, but after 100s of hours either it's suddenly gotten worse, we somehow dodged all the shady shit or the media have exaggerated the issue. Take your pick.
I played with my kids because they desperately wanted to join in on the fun but the reports of it being pedo land made me create a rule of "you only play when we play together". We had great fun, have many fond memories of our time on there.
You definitely dodged the shady shit with that rule. Not just pedo land either, also the illegal child labor.
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My sister-in-law let her 10 year old daughter play it with zero supervision. When we found out we told her she should be watching what her daughter’s doing so she went in to check and found the kid talking to some grown man from Azerbaijan.
The real question is : Why did you invite anyone over, before having a guest VLAN set up ? Classic beginner mistake.
I have two seperate guest VLANs, one for my family, and one for the people I love.
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"Are you nuts kid? We don't use wifi around here. I unsoldered the antennas of my router, just in case."
Fake! The AP is separate from the router!
Imagine having a router with an AP built in. We don't use that consumer tier stuff around here. 😎
"Oh, your iPad hasn't got an LC duplex OFC port? That's too bad, scrub."
hands nephew some bits of fiber optic cable and an SFP
Figure it out, kid
I've only ever met two types of IT professional. Either:
- Their home network is immaculate and smooth as butter. It connects quickly and integrates with everything. They can manage it all from their phone, but they don't have to because it's all automated. Their server room (a) exists and (b) is cable managed. There's a wireless access point and connected smart speaker in every room, including the garage and the back patio, but they're carefully located for maximum sound coverage and to prevent signal interference. Their home theater is substantially better than a movie theater, and their media server is packed to the gills with content. Network security is hardened, with bespoke subnets for every user and tunneling for the media server and smart home functions. You feel a sense of calm and ease when connected to their network. "Everything I do at work, I try out at home first."
Or:
- Their "home network" is a single Belkin router from 2011. They've had it since college, and it takes 9 minutes to reboot (which they have to do daily). It doesn't even have Tomato on it and still uses the default password. They still watch OTA TV and Blu-Rays, so the wifi is exclusively connected to the smart switch that their tea kettle is plugged into so they can start their hot water before they come downstairs. You feel guilty even asking for the wifi password. "Why would I do any network stuff here? I do IT all day at work, the last thing I want to do is even touch a Cat5 cable at home."
“Everything I do at work, I try out at home first.”
Absolutely no fucking way! And anything that touches work is isolated, their opsec sucks so much they didn't even realized they mandate "security solutions" with known backdoors.
I think it means they setup new tech on their homelab to learn how everything works and how to break it. Then when a problem arises where one of these solutions is needed at work, you can implement it without any large issues. It makes sense if your hobby is close to or adjacent your day job, and you are on Salary, and your boss treats you right.
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Isn't this basically just rich IT guy vs poor IT guy?
No, it's 'my life is IT and i never stop working" guy, and "IT is just my job" guy.
I just order a new router on Black Friday to replace my 10 year old one. I also only console game now because PC gaming is too much of a headache. I spend my money on outdoor gear and pets, not technology. My new router is $90 bucks. I can't fathom why I'd ever need a wifi 7 quad band router with 9Gbps of throughput for a home network, other than pure bragging rights. All my devices are like 5-10 years old and barely support wifi 6 anyway.
A couple of my co-workers are the former. They will be doing penetration testing at 2am form their home lab in the morning because they their default mode is work work work. If i'm up at 2 am i'm watching TV and snacking.
I monitor security updates, but my co-workers like get excited and ramble on anytime a new patch/attack is documented. I don't get it. They revel in doing updates and rebuilding their VMs fresh every few weeks, I groan and clone.
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The guy she tells you not to worry about VS you.
I'm in the meme. In the shitty paragraph.
Are you my boyfriend/roommate?
Edit: he and I are both IT folks, but he handles all the Windows issues in the house. I handle Linux issues. He handles the router because it's closer to his desk so it's easier for him to threaten.
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I’m very against Roblox. I know a kid who had a really hard time with online predators and a lot of it stated with Roblox. He’s 19 now. He and I were talking about it recently.
Parents think Roblox is like Minecraft bc of the aesthetics of the game. But, Roblox is not a game with a chat feature, it’s a chat room with some games. That’s a big difference.
They have 380 million users. Around 60% of the user base is under the age of 16. 40% is under the age of 12. That’s 152 million mostly unmonitored kids.
I’m sure Roblox has gotten better moderation during that time, but in our experience predators meet kids on Roblox and get them to exchange Discord or other contact info with them.
Discord is also a problem here, but that’s for another rant in another thread. If you are concerned about your kids and want to discuss it with me, feel free to message me.
TLDR: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY ROBLOX unless you are actively monitoring the game.
I’m sure Roblox has gotten better moderation during that time
Quite the opposite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roblox%E2%80%93Schlep_controversy
Don't forget the child labor aspect. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/09/the-trouble-with-roblox-the-video-game-empire-built-on-child-labour
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Simple solution: log the kid into your neighbor's wifi.
As an early teen my parents turned off the WiFi router at night and when not in use. I eventually found the neighbor had an exploitable WEP router from an Android app, and I used it to continue watching Minecraft and Happy Wheels videos on Youtube.
My son did this...
Congrats, pretty sure "mom took away my internet" is the primary entry point for IT professionals
Lol his reward was I retired from family tech support and gave the reins to him. He loved it at first but realized it for the curse it was within a few months.
Hes given it back to me by refusing to call my parents back when they call asking for help. I'd ground him but he's an adult and my shenanigans don't mean much anymore 😂
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Probably because it was Roblox and an iPad
If it was a Nintendo DS and Pokemon Black 2 you could have never been able to deny peak
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What idiot IT specialist does not run a segregated VLAN for guest wifi access? That is just rude.
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45 minutes setting up an alt vlan?
Was he getting paid by the hour?
The experience of managing a consumer-grade LAN appliance:
Open web browser
Start typing 192.168.0.1
It auto-inserts 192.168.0.12 because that's the IP address of your NAS, and you've logged into it to adjust something at some point in the last six months. You register it has done this as you're releasing the Enter key.
click Back.
Type the IP address again, this time carefully deleting the 2 it oh so helpfully inserted.
Wait 3 to 5 business weeks while the 16-bit ARM microcontroller they put in these things serves a web page like old people fuck. It loads to a completely useless stats page that has no information that anyone has ever needed to know.
Click LAN Setup.
Wait 3 to 5 business weeks while the 16-bit ARM microcontroller they put in these things serves a web page like old people fuck.
Parse the wall of acronyms before you, click the link that says DHCP.
Wait 3 to 5 business weeks while the 16-bit ARM microcontroller they put in these things serves a web page like old people fuck.
It continues in that fashion until you get what you need done or your network stops working and you have to get a pen and press the Reset button on the back of the device.
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Ok but 56kbps is just evil
It's only considered evil if it doesn't also produce dial-up noises.
But since op didn't clarify, let's just assume evil.
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Wouldn't it be enough to just create a seperate subnet?
Yeah that's where it turned from story to joke for me
They’re specifically talking about Zero Trust though and treating it like a corporate device as the joke. This means authenticate at every layer, RBAC, and endpoint security compliance before allowing access to a service. Putting the device into an isolated guest VLAN works too of course.
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Lol wtf? Why even spend 45 minutes doing that if you're going to completely block those ports?
Just tell him "no".
"oh I'm trying to fix it just give me a few more minutes away from everyone" lights joint
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Which actual IT guy supports antivirus?
Ohh fuck yes, I support antivirus, but only on Windows, maybe, possibly OSX. If you give bare Windows to a kid, they'll have viruses as soon as they learn to use Google.
TBF, Fam gets my guest network. It's not allowed to touch anything in my house, they can only route through. DHCP sends their DNS to 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8, They can't even touch my DNS, they can't see any of my home automation and they can't see each other. They can push the connection as hard as they want, the QOS won't let them take priority.
For my son I just used APLs in group policy. Only approved apps could run. I encouraged him to be better than me and he has definitely kept me on my toes. Now he is in college for cyber security and loving it.
So far he hasn't broken anything major on his computer or the network, well, aside from messing up his BIOS a couple times... But then he got to teach me how to program EEPROM (like I said, he has kept me learning stuff I normally wouldn't).
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I'll admit it. I can feel that vibe and I don't totally disagree.
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