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SelfControl For Your Web 2.0 Addiction

Posted by samzenpus on from the red-button-red-button dept.

jamie dubs writes "Find yourself spending all day on Slashdot? Facebook? Gmail? Getting clean can be hard, but thankfully Steve Lambert is here to help. "SelfControl" is an open-source Mac application that will completely block access to a list of websites for a specified period of time."

5 comments

  1. Irony plus. by dov_0 · · Score: 1

    Does anyone else find it ironic that SelfControl uses an external object to enforce compliance?

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    sudo mount --milk --sugar /cup/tea /mouth /etc/init.d/relax start
    1. Re:Irony plus. by maccallr · · Score: 1

      No I don't get it. What's the external object?

    2. Re:Irony plus. by dov_0 · · Score: 1

      No I don't get it. What's the external object?

      *Sigh* The application on the computer called 'SelfControl'...

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      sudo mount --milk --sugar /cup/tea /mouth /etc/init.d/relax start
    3. Re:Irony plus. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      its a mac application so it makes sense. I work at a company with thousands of employees, and periodically we'd have to pursue employee infractions for things like downloading porn, otherwise generally fucking off. Once we quit hiring people with mac experience, the trend for problem employees showed a measureable downward trend, in other words, mac people really do have no self control.

  2. After seeing the picture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I thought the guy advocates ripping out a bunch of keys from your keyboard. Alt/Ctrl + S, E, L, F will render pretty much all my favorite sites unaccessible.