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GNOME 50 Will Make Sure You Don't Use Your Computer Past Your Bedtime

([GNOME] 18 Minutes Ago New Parental Controls)


As part of the GNOME Foundation funded Digital Wellbeing project, the GNOME Shell for GNOME 50 has merged options to prevent unlocking the desktop session past their bed time. The intent here is on rounding out GNOME's parental controls functionality.

As highlighted in [1]This Week in GNOME , the GNOME Shell has landed the functionality to prevent unlocking your desktop when it's past your scheduled bedtime. Plus parents or others with control can extend their screen time via new options added.

It's noted these were the last remaining bits for the parent controls session limits integration into the GNOME Shell.

More details for those interested can be found via [2]this merge that is now in place for GNOME 50. This week also saw new updates for the Turtle app for managing Git repositories within the Nautilus file manager, Rewaita for modifying Adwaita, and of course the [3]GNOME 50 Alpha release.



[1] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/01/twig-232/

[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3980

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Alpha


Brief History Of Linux (#14)
Military Intelligence: Not an oxymoron in 1969

It was the Department Of Defense that commissioned the ARPANET in 1969, a
rare example of the US military breaking away from its official motto,
"The Leading Edge Of Yesterday's Technology(tm)".

In the years leading up to 1969, packet switching technology had evolved
enough to make the ARPANET possible. Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
received the ARPA contract in 1968 for packet switching "Interface Message
Processors". US Senator Edward Kennedy, always on the ball, sent a
telegram to BBN praising them for their non-denominational "Interfaith"
Message Processors, an act unsurpassed by elected representatives until Al
Gore invented the Internet years later.

While ARPANET started with only four nodes in 1969, it evolved rapidly.
Email was first used in 1971; by 1975 the first mailing list, MsgGroup,
was created by Steve Walker when he sent a "First post!" messages to it.
In 1979 all productive use of ARPANET ceased when USENET and the first MUD
were created. In 1983, when the network surpassed 1,000 hosts, a study
showed that 90.4% of all traffic was devoted to email and USENET flame wars.