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How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado

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Re: How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado

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Post by anderspitman »

Fly.io and Tailscale are two of my favorite companies. I think the future of selfhosting is Linux services running in microVMs on Windows and Android devices that people already have lying around. Fly.io is proving that the VM side is feasible. You also need something like Tailscale to tunnel through CGNAT et al.

I work on open source projects that solve many of the same problems, but it's a chicken/egg problem, and Fly.io and Tailscale are building the infrastructure that will show people what's possible.

Re: How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado

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Post by bsnnkv »

queezey wrote: post #3

FYI: Your link for Overmind is to the wrong project. The process manager is https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind The article currently links to a deprecated Angular.js project with the same name ( https://github.com/geddski/overmind )

Thanks for taking the time to point this out, I really appreciate small acts of kindness like this.

Re: How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado

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Post by crawshaw »

jalino23 wrote: post #4

I fell in love with tailscale as soon as I figured out what it enabled me to do. it was very confusing at first cause I relate "vpn" to something like nordvpn or express vpn when I hear it. but no tailscale is a lot more than that.

thanks! we have a lot of work to do explaining tailscale. we’re working on it.

Re: How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado

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Post by CharlesW »

crawshaw wrote: post #6
jalino23 wrote: post #4

I fell in love with tailscale as soon as I figured out what it enabled me to do. it was very confusing at first cause I relate "vpn" to something like nordvpn or express vpn when I hear it. but no tailscale is a lot more than that.

thanks! we have a lot of work to do explaining tailscale. we’re working on it.

“Make any device anywhere part of your own private, secure network.”

Re: How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado

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Post by bedast »

jalino23 wrote: post #4

I fell in love with tailscale as soon as I figured out what it enabled me to do. it was very confusing at first cause I relate "vpn" to something like nordvpn or express vpn when I hear it. but no tailscale is a lot more than that.

Man, marketing of those tunneling services as VPNs is actually causing damage. Those services are NOT VPNs.

Tailscale is very much more like a real VPN than those other things that are pretending to be VPNs.

Re: How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado

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Post by NoraCodes »

bedast wrote: post #8
jalino23 wrote: post #4

I fell in love with tailscale as soon as I figured out what it enabled me to do. it was very confusing at first cause I relate "vpn" to something like nordvpn or express vpn when I hear it. but no tailscale is a lot more than that.

Man, marketing of those tunneling services as VPNs is actually causing damage. Those services are NOT VPNs. Tailscale is very much more like a real VPN than those other things that are pretending to be VPNs.

They definitely are VPNs, just a specific subset of use cases of a VPN.

Re: How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado

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Post by tptacek »

CharlesW wrote: post #7
crawshaw wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thanks! we have a lot of work to do explaining tailscale. we’re working on it.

“Make any device anywhere part of your own private, secure network.”

The challenge is that there's two kinds of VPN users (corporate and retail), and for corporate users, the thing you just described is simply a VPN.
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