apenwarr
@apenwarr.ca
wvdial, bup, sshuttle, netselect, popularity-contest, redo, gfblip, GFiber, and now CEO @Tailscale.com doing WireGuard mesh. Top search result for "epic treatise."
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apenwarr
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My For You feed has once again devolved into mostly "is AI good or not" redundant angry arguments, so I've temporarily switched back to my Tailscale feed (see profile) which is all feel-good all the time because apparently Tailscale is uncontroversially good.
Asking if AI is intelligent is like asking if your friend’s dog Princess is technically part of the British monarchy
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Asking if AI is intelligent is like asking if your friend’s dog Princess is technically part of the British monarchy
In a feat of unbelievable irony, the word “slop” has lost all meaning
there was a moment when ‘slop’ referred to a specific way one could leverage LLMs to mass produce content, and then the people and context got removed from that entirely, and now we only have tautologies. Anything that’s ever used machine learning at any point in the process is now AI slop.
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In a feat of unbelievable irony, the word “slop” has lost all meaning
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Yes, I came across what you were cooking on hex1b from my GitHub feed. Excited to see how it shapes up!
BTW, I was thinking about you earlier today because I finally got around to setting up a tailnet for some of my devices and I'm blown away by how good Tailscale is.
BTW, I was thinking about you earlier today because I finally got around to setting up a tailnet for some of my devices and I'm blown away by how good Tailscale is.
December 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Yes, I came across what you were cooking on hex1b from my GitHub feed. Excited to see how it shapes up!
BTW, I was thinking about you earlier today because I finally got around to setting up a tailnet for some of my devices and I'm blown away by how good Tailscale is.
BTW, I was thinking about you earlier today because I finally got around to setting up a tailnet for some of my devices and I'm blown away by how good Tailscale is.
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man, i love being able to just enter a few settings in tailscale and get access to my jellyfin server at home no matter where I am
the internet remains cool, no matter how hard the techbros try to ruin it
the internet remains cool, no matter how hard the techbros try to ruin it
December 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
man, i love being able to just enter a few settings in tailscale and get access to my jellyfin server at home no matter where I am
the internet remains cool, no matter how hard the techbros try to ruin it
the internet remains cool, no matter how hard the techbros try to ruin it
My For You feed has once again devolved into mostly "is AI good or not" redundant angry arguments, so I've temporarily switched back to my Tailscale feed (see profile) which is all feel-good all the time because apparently Tailscale is uncontroversially good.
December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My For You feed has once again devolved into mostly "is AI good or not" redundant angry arguments, so I've temporarily switched back to my Tailscale feed (see profile) which is all feel-good all the time because apparently Tailscale is uncontroversially good.
This is a neat combination of tools!
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is a neat combination of tools!
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I made a thing: a #tailscale extension for #osquery. Now you can use SQL to query different aspects of your Tailnet 🚀
github.com/noelob/tails...
github.com/noelob/tails...
GitHub - noelob/tailscale-osquery: A Tailscale extension for osquery
A Tailscale extension for osquery. Contribute to noelob/tailscale-osquery development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I made a thing: a #tailscale extension for #osquery. Now you can use SQL to query different aspects of your Tailnet 🚀
github.com/noelob/tails...
github.com/noelob/tails...
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How Blacksmith used Tailscale Services to work around ISP degradation
https://tailscale.com/blog/blacksmith-tailscale-services-isp-degradation
https://tailscale.com/blog/blacksmith-tailscale-services-isp-degradation
Building a transparent proxy around ISP routing failures with Tailscale Services
How Blacksmith built a secure load-balancing proxy with Tailscale Services
tailscale.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
How Blacksmith used Tailscale Services to work around ISP degradation
https://tailscale.com/blog/blacksmith-tailscale-services-isp-degradation
https://tailscale.com/blog/blacksmith-tailscale-services-isp-degradation
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https://tailscale.com/blog/chat-tails-terminal-chat
Tailscaleで安全なチャット環境を構築できるChat-tailsというターミナルベースのチャットアプリが紹介されています。
このアプリは、IRCのようなインターフェースで、Tailscaleとtsnetを使って構築されています。
プライベートな空間で、安全にチャットを楽しみたいユーザーにおすすめです。
Tailscaleで安全なチャット環境を構築できるChat-tailsというターミナルベースのチャットアプリが紹介されています。
このアプリは、IRCのようなインターフェースで、Tailscaleとtsnetを使って構築されています。
プライベートな空間で、安全にチャットを楽しみたいユーザーにおすすめです。
Chat-tails is a terminal-based chat app, made secure with Tailscale
Brian Scott made an app that's safe, simple, and educational for kids to chat in, using Tailscale's tsnet and connectivity.
tailscale.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
https://tailscale.com/blog/chat-tails-terminal-chat
Tailscaleで安全なチャット環境を構築できるChat-tailsというターミナルベースのチャットアプリが紹介されています。
このアプリは、IRCのようなインターフェースで、Tailscaleとtsnetを使って構築されています。
プライベートな空間で、安全にチャットを楽しみたいユーザーにおすすめです。
Tailscaleで安全なチャット環境を構築できるChat-tailsというターミナルベースのチャットアプリが紹介されています。
このアプリは、IRCのようなインターフェースで、Tailscaleとtsnetを使って構築されています。
プライベートな空間で、安全にチャットを楽しみたいユーザーにおすすめです。
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Random shoutout to Tailscale, which creates an encrypted mesh network between your devices. Pretty much changed my workflow for everything, especially after installing on my home router (an Asus router with the aftermarket Merlin firmware).
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Random shoutout to Tailscale, which creates an encrypted mesh network between your devices. Pretty much changed my workflow for everything, especially after installing on my home router (an Asus router with the aftermarket Merlin firmware).
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shoutout to tailscale for providing actual changelogs in updates
December 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
shoutout to tailscale for providing actual changelogs in updates
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And in today's baby-sysadmin/homelab adventures: tailscale is indeed extremely easy to use and really just worked. Goal is to eventually move to bare wireguard when I learn more, but dang if this wasn't a good first experience.
December 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
And in today's baby-sysadmin/homelab adventures: tailscale is indeed extremely easy to use and really just worked. Goal is to eventually move to bare wireguard when I learn more, but dang if this wasn't a good first experience.
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tailscale + jellyfin is just 🤌🏾
December 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
tailscale + jellyfin is just 🤌🏾
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Can confirm. Tailscale feels like magic being able to so easily access my home network.
December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Can confirm. Tailscale feels like magic being able to so easily access my home network.
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Today's project involved turning my old ESP32 into a useful @tailscale.com status tracker. Meet TAIL-BOY 3000! A Fallout PIP-BOY inspired monitor that shows what devices are online at a glance.
BD-1 LEGO not required, but highly recommended 🤖
github.com/moorew/tails...
BD-1 LEGO not required, but highly recommended 🤖
github.com/moorew/tails...
December 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Today's project involved turning my old ESP32 into a useful @tailscale.com status tracker. Meet TAIL-BOY 3000! A Fallout PIP-BOY inspired monitor that shows what devices are online at a glance.
BD-1 LEGO not required, but highly recommended 🤖
github.com/moorew/tails...
BD-1 LEGO not required, but highly recommended 🤖
github.com/moorew/tails...
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Don’t worry it’s my Tailscale IP so I didn’t dox myself
December 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Don’t worry it’s my Tailscale IP so I didn’t dox myself
Thought I might try hastening the dystopia by making an LLM tool that lets it hire Amazon Mechanical Turk. Then I realized there’s nothing left that Mechanical Turk can do that LLMs can’t.
Anyway yada yada I’m now a top percentile user of taskrabbit
Anyway yada yada I’m now a top percentile user of taskrabbit
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Thought I might try hastening the dystopia by making an LLM tool that lets it hire Amazon Mechanical Turk. Then I realized there’s nothing left that Mechanical Turk can do that LLMs can’t.
Anyway yada yada I’m now a top percentile user of taskrabbit
Anyway yada yada I’m now a top percentile user of taskrabbit
The thing I keep forgetting about rationalists is that they are definitionally the opposite of empiricists
December 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The thing I keep forgetting about rationalists is that they are definitionally the opposite of empiricists
I love the internet sometimes for these multi-layered way-to-deep retweet forays into nerdity.
Some years ago I worked with population estimate experts around the world to calculate the generation gap. Surprisingly, it came to 24.9. I use 25 years for a generation because, well, it makes things a lot easier. It matters not, this artwork is fine and appreciated as it is. And the thread is ace.
This is an illustration from our book The Cell, written by the brilliant Ben Martynoga. We had to fight a bit to keep this drawing, because it was felt it didn't represent a broad range of women. It does raise interesting points.
I created it by assuming a generation would be 30 years.
I created it by assuming a generation would be 30 years.
December 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I love the internet sometimes for these multi-layered way-to-deep retweet forays into nerdity.
Status: buying a 125 kHz LF wave emitter to wake up a lost key fob so that I can detect its signal with an SDR and thus avoid either cleaning my closet, or buying a replacement set of car keys
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Status: buying a 125 kHz LF wave emitter to wake up a lost key fob so that I can detect its signal with an SDR and thus avoid either cleaning my closet, or buying a replacement set of car keys
Dunno how accurate this is, but it says we’ve invested far less in AI infra, even with the next 3 years included, than cellular infra. How long until everyone is willing to pay as much per month for AI as for their phone subscription?
December 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Dunno how accurate this is, but it says we’ve invested far less in AI infra, even with the next 3 years included, than cellular infra. How long until everyone is willing to pay as much per month for AI as for their phone subscription?
AI is going to ruin everything.
Which is okay because 90% of everything is crap.
— Sturgeon’s Law, updated
Which is okay because 90% of everything is crap.
— Sturgeon’s Law, updated
December 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
AI is going to ruin everything.
Which is okay because 90% of everything is crap.
— Sturgeon’s Law, updated
Which is okay because 90% of everything is crap.
— Sturgeon’s Law, updated
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“Web browsers have always been an epic instantiation of Postel's Law. List items that never end? Sure. Forgot some semicolons? I'll interpolate some. Partially overlapping italics and bold? Leave it to me. No indication what language or encoding the page is in? I'll just guess.”
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Systems design 3: LLMs and the semantic revolution
Long ago in the 1990s when I was in high school, my chemistry+physics
teacher pulled me aside. "Avery, you know how the Internet works, righ...
apenwarr.ca
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“Web browsers have always been an epic instantiation of Postel's Law. List items that never end? Sure. Forgot some semicolons? I'll interpolate some. Partially overlapping italics and bold? Leave it to me. No indication what language or encoding the page is in? I'll just guess.”
@apenwarr.ca:
@apenwarr.ca:
Their dumb is your opportunity
December 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Their dumb is your opportunity
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It's so hard to keep a straight face when someone will be like "North Korean spies stole my shitty blockchain ape drawings" and that is 100% what actually happened. Everything about it is just so absurd.
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It's so hard to keep a straight face when someone will be like "North Korean spies stole my shitty blockchain ape drawings" and that is 100% what actually happened. Everything about it is just so absurd.