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by dgentry 3y ago
https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan/ Being a mesh means most connections are direct and do not go through any infrastructure which costs Tailscale money, making a Free tier economically workable.
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by dgentry 4y ago
(Tailscale employee) It is not a web page with a shell open. It is the Tailscale client, compiled to WASM, maintaining the keys for connections to nodes on the tailnet. Connections opened from the browser engine don't get the ability t
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by dgentry 4y ago
The Tailscale VPN client, the same one which runs on other devices, is compiled to WASM. It handles all of the key exchanges to connect to the tailnet. The SSH session is running as a WASM Tailscale client. The browser, opening connections
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by dgentry 4y ago
I'll mention one more time: if you'd like to contact info@tailscale.com we can set up a time to talk about upcoming features and philosophy on releasing them.
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by dgentry 4y ago
For me it was trying to build an AWS Lambda function where I'd deploy a new version and visit the URL, then wait for the CloudWatch logs. And wait. And wait. It might only be two minutes but that is long enough for me to want some tea,
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by dgentry 4y ago
If you'd like to contact info@tailscale.com we can set up a time to talk.
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by dgentry 4y ago
Because if you are an IoT service with one human and 100,000 devices, the amount of support you may need is more dependent on the 100,000 than on the 1. Very large numbers of devices per human need somewhat different pricing.
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by dgentry 18y ago
If thats what he thought in 1996, I wonder what the 2008 version would say?
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by dgentry 18y ago
I do write a blog. As tx observed earlier 99.9% of blogs are crap, including mine. Nonetheless I think it has been a worthwhile use of time, and I'll continue doing it for a while. Written communication skills are very important, an "essay"