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517 points ingve | 1 comments | 26 Jul 24 18:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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figassis ◴[26 Jul 24 23:11 UTC] No.41083146[source]▶
I 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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jgalt212 ◴[26 Jul 24 23:28 UTC] No.41083232[source]▶
If you had to move off of tailscale, what would you move to?
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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[27 Jul 24 03:16 UTC] No.41084219[source]▶
I think nebula is the obvious FOSS competitor? With the unfortunate exception of the Android client being closed source.
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sph ◴[27 Jul 24 07:45 UTC] No.41085073[source]▶
I use Nebula because its iOS client does not drain my battery. Tailscale has had that known bug for years and they never managed to fix it, which is a major deal breaker.
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1. jacooper ◴[28 Jul 24 00:04 UTC] No.41090285{3}[source]▶
They have released a slew of updates recently to fix this, and they did a complete rewrite of the Android app