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Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

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Re: Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

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Post by ipdashc »

bradfitz wrote: post #53
ipdashc wrote: post #45

Looks dope, though I'm surprised, is Tailscale fine with their DERP servers being used by non-customers like this? (Yes, it's a Tailscale project, but doesn't require login.) I vaguely assumed there was an auth step before you could use one as a relay. They mention a rate limit, but still

Yes, it's been our CEO Avery's position for ~6.5 years now that we should run DERP servers on the internet for the public good. (rate-limited) But these are a separate fleet ( https://tailcat.dev/derpmap.json ) separate from our usual ones, and not using "tailscale.com" in DNS or SNI anywhere.

Fair enough. Thank you!

Re: Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

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Post by cure_42 »

swozey wrote: post #34
mikepurvis wrote: post #28

I enjoy that they supply a nix install/environment, similar to the main tailscale/tailscale repo. Is nix widespread or the standard dev environment at tailscale, or is it like a 10% option and most people just use Docker or whatever?

When I was writing rust stuff a few years ago it seemed like nix was the hip cool thing all the up and coming rustaceans (mostly unemployed students trying to land faang jobs) were using. If you're not familiar with the rust community it's very different from other programming communities I've been in (python/go/ruby/etc). Almost felt like you'd be kicked out of their lunch table if you weren't using it, but I've onl…

Always makes me chuckle when there's this uncountably large group of people, and someone meets a handful of them and then decides they can make broad, sweeping statements about the entire group, despite having not met 99.99...% of them XD

Re: Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

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Post by idiotsecant »

tucnak wrote: post #73
nullsanity wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can! They just need a real computer, the real Minecraft game (Java), and then they can! it's so easy when you don't play the shitty mobile clone.

Why is this downvoted? Bedrock is literally dog shit clone for iPad kids. This is not even controversial, it's just fact.

Yaaaa get those 9 year olds good stupid plebs can't even buy their own computer, you really gottem

Re: Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

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Post by idoescompooters »

clavicle1009 wrote: post #69

Netbird is the more mature version of this: fully open-source, self-sufficient, works like a charm, supports reverse proxying out-of-the-box, and much more. No reason to ever return to the Tail family.

Except the public relays are paywalled...

Re: Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

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Post by MattCruikshank »

TZubiri wrote: post #29
MattCruikshank wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...this is a github repo. Pointing to an open source project. That is not forced to use any vendor-specific systems to function.

It's a pattern that occurs in commercial software yes, but Open Source has its own version of building mirror ecosystems. Collaborating to bleeding edge issues on robust infrastructure is very hard, so junior engineers that want to collaborate in open source (often for reputation building) can do so in these mirror ecosystems, it's an added bonus if they believe that they are contributing to the bleeding edge instead…

The author is Brad Fitzpatrick.

He worked at Google for 12+ years. He created memcached, WebSub (PubSubHubbub), OpenID, and Perkeep (Camlistore). He's a late-stage co-founder of Tailscale.

If he's a junior engineer, then I have no idea what a senior engineer is.

Re: Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

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Post by behringer »

jasonmp85 wrote: post #81
tucnak wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is this downvoted? Bedrock is literally dog shit clone for iPad kids. This is not even controversial, it's just fact.

You're defending a video game written in Java.

It's almost like it should run on an iPad out of the box.

Re: Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

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Post by Dylan16807 »

tucnak wrote: post #73
nullsanity wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can! They just need a real computer, the real Minecraft game (Java), and then they can! it's so easy when you don't play the shitty mobile clone.

Why is this downvoted? Bedrock is literally dog shit clone for iPad kids. This is not even controversial, it's just fact.

It has roughly the same features, much worse moddability, and better performance.

At some point it was a weaker clone, but it developed into a very high quality clone, and has graduated into being a co-production with the Java version.

Get a refund from wherever you got your facts.

I'll give you half a point for "iPad kids" since that term implies a lot of incorrect things but it does run on iPads.

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