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I tried this last week but found myself browsing in a VM so finally decided to just not fight it. So if you do want to try this, make sure you block all possib
by basugasubaku 17y ago
I tried this last week but found myself browsing in a VM so finally decided to just not fight it.
So if you do want to try this, make sure you block all possible ways you can access the sites (various browsers, various VMs). Kind of a pain.
- brown9-2 17y agoThis story is astonishing. You were successful at preventing yourself from browsing from your main machine, but fired up a a virtual machine to circumvent yourself?
- basugasubaku 17y agoI always am running the VM anyway (Linux guest on Windows host); it's not like I started it just to browse. Just saying if you feel the need to block yourself programmatically you probably need to do so on all routes by which you can reasonably access the sites, e.g., various browsers and various VMs.
- joebasirico 17y agoPerhaps you could ask your IT Admin to block the domain at the firewall level? I feel at some point there must be a balance. I view HN as a way for me to "sharpen the saw" as they say. This is precisely why I've stopped going to those "other" social bookmarking sites. Too much distraction, not enough substance.
- bkovitz 17y agoAnonymous proxy servers. Where there's a will, there's a way.