cyclop-family

Decide which applications a child may use, when and for how long, and see what was actually used. Settings are written once and applied by the machine itself, so unplugging the network lifts nothing. The application filter and the daily window are stored where the rest of the desktop already looks for them, so the shell hides a blocked application, the software centre hides what is above the chosen age, and login is refused outside the allowed hours by the system's own login stack. What the desktop does not provide is provided here: a daily time budget, a budget per application, warnings before time runs out, and a per-day report. What is measured is a duration per application per day. No page titles, no keystrokes, no screenshots. The child can read the policy that applies to them: parental controls that hide themselves are surveillance, not protection. Web filtering blocks domains, not addresses: with HTTPS the path is encrypted, so no one can filter one page of a site and allow the rest. It works per account, through a local resolver and a rule that only diverts that child's name lookups, so the parent's own account is untouched. It needs dnsmasq-base and nftables; without th

sudo apt install cyclop-family