The New Internet
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The New Internet
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#2I'm distracted by all the references to being "old" because the author remembers the 1990s.
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#3So the answer to the bad old internet is to install tailscale on everything?
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#4So the answer to the bad old internet is to install tailscale on everything?
I think the message from this post is we’ll pay rent to Tailscale instead of AWS eventually.
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#5Of course these ideas are not that new. IPv6 was supposed to give end-to-end connectivity to all, and originally IPsec was supposed to be mandatory part of IPv6, giving each internet host cryptographic identity. And so on.
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#6I really enjoy and appreciate the tailscale service, but this article didn't click for me. I love an inspiring CEO rally speech as much as the next early adopter, and agree that there is a ridiculous amount of developer friction and complexity in computing, but tailscale still has its own friction and isn't on track to solve the big picture issues _at all_.
As a concrete example, a few weeks ago, I invited my dad to my tailnet with the intent of using remote desktop into his machine to help him fix something. He accepted the invite, and then I couldn't ping his machine despite it appearing in my TS domain web interface.
Now he hates tailscale, and I lost credibility because prior I told him how awesome it is. In his view, it wasted his time and doesn't "work right", and metadat is a fool.
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#7The new internet, an overlay network on top of the existing internet. Cool?
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#8I like Tailscale, but this reads as too self-aggrandizing.
You have a mesh VPN product with some value-added services on top of it. That's great, but this idea isn't novel or unique. Why should your solution be the "new internet" instead of any of the alternatives?
I wouldn't want to rely on a single company for all my internet infrastructure, anyway. So I'll stick with the traditional internet with all its complexity. Its major problems aren't technical but social, and no new technology will solve those.
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#9I love Tailscale, but this post gives me the creeps. The internet succeeded because it was built on standards and was completely free. With Tailscale, I get wireguard is open source and we have things like Headscale. But the whole everyone gets an IP, doesn’t it depend on Tailscale owning a massive ip address space? We can all wait until full ipv6 rollout, or we can depend on centralized ipv4, and servers and proprietary stuff. Maybe a bit hypocritical?
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#10Even though I don't agree with the whole "New Internet" thing, this article is very well written.