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There is another interesting company in this space- Netmaker[0]. It's been getting a lot of traction in the homelab space- namely because it takes advantage of kernel wireguard, which is more performant than the userspace wireguard that tailscale uses. [0] - https://www.netmaker.org/
"To paraphrase Larry Wall, Tailscale makes easy things easy" .. Indeed, I run multiple devices via two regionally separated homes and two cheap VPS's .. RaspberryPi, Linux, MacOS and an iPhone all able to communicate effortlessly thanks to TS
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I haven't really felt like 1Password's product materially strayed from the original mission. If anything, I'm even more delighted with the team functionality, shared vaults, quick keyboard access in 1Password 8, etc. I wouldn't put them in the Dropbox bucket. Also, I think the value Tailscale provides is fairly unique and far from obviously a platform feature like file storage and perhaps even password management.
I think they changed from their mission to make password management easy and secure to extracting service fees forever. I don’t necessarily blame them but think their decision was pushed along by the need for big money. For example, I think they’d still be able to do the pay once model if they abstracted they storage to work with Dropbox/icloud/OneDrive/whatever. There’s really no value add as a user for a monthly fe…
I get why they don't but I often wish more SaaS companies had a bring your own computer & storage model. It doesn't make sense for 95% of customers and the 5% of us who might like it and have the tech chops to use it would just complain about having to pay more because we are outliers. But I wish it was offered!
Tailscale has a fantastic product, I’ve been extremely happy from day one. If you’re waiting for a weekend to have a few hours to try out Tailscale, don’t, it takes 15 minutes to get every device you own up and running and talking. This is the lowest friction personal VPN to ever exist, and once you see how easy it is for your own devices, you’ll wish you had it at work. The biggest risk that this company has is that…
I’m pretty ignorant on this topic, but what are the benefits of having a personal VPN?
Handheld Elden Ring is amazing :)
Though my use-case is extremely simple, and so I just use bare WireGuard
Tailscale has a fantastic product, I’ve been extremely happy from day one. If you’re waiting for a weekend to have a few hours to try out Tailscale, don’t, it takes 15 minutes to get every device you own up and running and talking. This is the lowest friction personal VPN to ever exist, and once you see how easy it is for your own devices, you’ll wish you had it at work. The biggest risk that this company has is that…
This is basically just `git pull` on steroids.
With such a huge investment comes the obligation to eventually pay it back. Is this another one of my favourite tools going the way of Dropbox, 1Password and all other companies that were formed around what should be a platform feature, which took on way too large investment sums and were eventually forced to become the everything, losing sight of their core values? I sincerely hope not, but there's so much bad prece…
I haven't really felt like 1Password's product materially strayed from the original mission. If anything, I'm even more delighted with the team functionality, shared vaults, quick keyboard access in 1Password 8, etc. I wouldn't put them in the Dropbox bucket. Also, I think the value Tailscale provides is fairly unique and far from obviously a platform feature like file storage and perhaps even password management.
Tailscale has a fantastic product, I’ve been extremely happy from day one. If you’re waiting for a weekend to have a few hours to try out Tailscale, don’t, it takes 15 minutes to get every device you own up and running and talking. This is the lowest friction personal VPN to ever exist, and once you see how easy it is for your own devices, you’ll wish you had it at work. The biggest risk that this company has is that…
The network will coalesce around using a handful of hub nodes for the packet forwarding, and a malicious party need only to coopt that central cluster of nodes to unmask all web users.
The "blockchain bullshit" enables trusted decentralized interaction at scale.
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For me, it was their switch to an Electron app. "High security" and "built from dozens of third party libraries and running on a browser" don't belong together.
Electron actually offers some of the best dependency-isolation capabilities of any language/platform given that you can set a content-security policy and leverage Chrome's extremely robust sandboxing to prevent front-end dependencies from accessing the file system, making network calls to untrusted domains, making system calls, calling 'eval', etc. A fully native app will offer you no such protection. If a dependency…
While that's absolutely true, the Node ecosystem (which I use, love, and make my money in) definitely takes the sheer dependencies of dependencies of dependencies problem to a rather fascinating extreme, compared to nearly any other language I use.
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If the open source implementation is equally good, I'm sure people will use that instead of Tailscale. That Tailscale exists makes me suspect that the open source implementation - as is usually the case with these "just use curlftpfs!" comments – is not equally good. The reality is that making software, like any other human endeavour, takes time and energy. Paying one another money is a rather well-established mechan…
It's the same argument as the famous Dropbox comment[0]. I'm generally going to prefer a polished service over a technical solution. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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?
Tailscale's data plane is [1] mostly p2p except for some cases where it doesn't work and it goes through an encrypted relay. So your data does not run through Tailscale servers. There is an oss [2]coordination server that does let you totally self-host. [1] https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ [2] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale