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Tailscale raises $100M

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Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by bovermyer »

newhouseb wrote: post #7

Tailscale is my favorite (product) discovery of 2022. I initially set it up to use as a VPN to get around a misbehaving corporate firewall and accidentally realized it solved a whole bunch of other problems I didn't realize I had. Usually a new product doesn't even live up to the intended use case and so TS is really anomalous IMHO in how good it is. - SSH'ing into a raspberry pi I have at home that does random IoT s…

So how do you use this for personal stuff? I know you mentioned the Pi, but what else do you use it for?

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by shepherdjerred »

oicU00 wrote: post #165
shepherdjerred wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It handles a lot more than that, right? It does all of the key distribution and rotation which is a pain.

If they can do it it’s not impossible (they’re just people after all). With an open source implementation out there, anyone can do it merely pulling a Docker container, and without paying Tailscale. Regardless I manage a dozen users with no issue using Embarks container; once they’re setup I touch nothing. Paying people is not working with people; it’s working with a specific group. Open source is working with people…

I haven't payed them a penny despite using their product for a while. And now that I've realized this, I've signed up for their personal pro plan.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by josephruscio »

chimen wrote: post #193

Funding scares me. It bring sharks onboard who do not share the same vision. They will demand revenue and ROI above all else. I like Tailscale but I hate this business model down to the core (Netlify as an example). Tailscale was doing fine as it was, capable people there already. It quickly became an "exit type of business", too quickly. These companies usually bring something really easy to use, let people onboard…

Tailscale investor here. I can assure you we share the same vision with the founders.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by rcfox »

gkbrk wrote: post #173
rcfox wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Don't like entities abusing their power over you? Just change the laws that allow them to do that!" What.

This is how people fix things caused by commercial entities being abusive. It's done quite a bit, most of the critical things people rely on are regulated. Do you live in a place that doesn't regulate things?

You could spend time to learn about the process, deal with months or years of lobbying, deal with counter-lobbying, and eventually win your position or maybe not. Or you could use this technical workaround.

And maybe we're all worse-off for it, but now you're done dealing with that issue.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by ncmncm »

josephruscio wrote: post #243
chimen wrote: post #193

Funding scares me. It bring sharks onboard who do not share the same vision. They will demand revenue and ROI above all else. I like Tailscale but I hate this business model down to the core (Netlify as an example). Tailscale was doing fine as it was, capable people there already. It quickly became an "exit type of business", too quickly. These companies usually bring something really easy to use, let people onboard…

Tailscale investor here. I can assure you we share the same vision with the founders.

You cannot do that. You might personally share a vision with somebody identifiable. But the vision you say you share is anyway not implemented.

Make the service usable without depending on some internet behemoth who might yank my authentication credentials anytime without notice, and we can talk.

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Post by josephruscio »

ncmncm wrote: post #245
josephruscio wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tailscale investor here. I can assure you we share the same vision with the founders.

You cannot do that. You might personally share a vision with somebody identifiable. But the vision you say you share is anyway not implemented. Make the service usable without depending on some internet behemoth who might yank my authentication credentials anytime without notice, and we can talk.

vision: (noun) the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom. (verb) imagine

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by pimeys »

yeswecatan wrote: post #221
newaccount74 wrote: post #141

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I use it so I can connect to my work machine (dynamic IP on office wifi) from my laptop (dynamic IP, home Wifi). It's also great to be able to just ssh into your laptop at home when you're at work and you forgot to push whatever you were working on last night. It's not necessary, but Tailscale makes a lot of things just easier.

> It's also great to be able to just ssh into your laptop at home when you're at work and you forgot to push whatever you were working on last night. What's the difference between using Tailscale for this and just opening the port on your router?

Easier. And you don't open the port to a public network.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by soraminazuki »

moloch wrote: post #58
throwaway92394 wrote: post #26

Am I the only one that has an issue with a VPN that I can't self host? Presumably if Tailscale get's PWN'd or subpoenaed then your network is breached no?

No, they don't have access to the Wireguard keys and everything is point-to-point. They'd have to push a backdoored software update to gain access (and this is a threat with any vendor product).

IIUC Tailscale controls key distribution, so you'd still have to trust them. However, it might still be possible to eliminate that need for trust by verifying peer connections out of band.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by jrockway »

apeace wrote: post #234

Tailscale's CEO has been tweeting a series of "rejected headlines" for their fundraising announcement. They're pretty funny. I thought the HN crowd would like this one: > Tailscale raises $100M to do what any Hacker News reader could have done in a weekend [0] [0] https://twitter.com/apenwarr/status/1521873453921583105?cxt=...

There are already comments where people are showing their simple 400 step procedure that can get you 1% of Tailscale.

Never forget https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

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