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It’s a basic web UX over a built in Linux kernel feature There are Docker containerized apps that manage Wireguard too Maybe contribute to one and fret less a

• shepherdjerred 4y ago
  It handles a lot more than that, right? It does all of the key distribution and rotation which is a pain.
  • oicU00 4y ago
    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.
    • shepherdjerred 4y ago
      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.
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    • samhw 4y ago
      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 mechanism of rewarding and incentivising that time and energy (since not everyone wants to work free of charge to make and maintain software for you, out of the goodness of their hearts, no matter how much you insist that you're owed their unpaid labour). There are small and local means of getting free food, or free woodworking, etc, but the general reality is that a high-quality high-dependency maintained product, over the long term, is more feasible when it's paid.
      • shepherdjerred 4y ago
        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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
        • samhw 4y ago
          Haha, yup, that's what I was quoting in my comment ("just use curlftpfs!").
          • oicU00 4y ago
            Apples and oranges A fully functional web app in a Docker image is what wg-ui is. Web companies could probably just provide API keys for customers at this point and abandon UX teams.
      • oicU00 4y ago
        If agency to make a thing must be purchased the long term viability of the thing is suspect. The work becomes about payments not the thing. If it’s a real human problem, humans will solve it. If it’s instigated due to someone with coins in their pocket to mesmerize lizard brains, it’s a synthetic solution that will vanish with the synthetic driver of the work; payments. Just because paying for things is common throughout history does not mean it’s necessary or the best choice long term; see Netflix propping up payment flows churning out crap. It means meat based tape recorders simply LARP the past.
• airstrike 4y ago
  "It's just FTP with curlftpfs and SVN"