Are there any Tailscale users here ? Is it good ? Is it easy to use ? What are your use cases ?

My only real missing feature with my tailnet right now is the ability to somehow bridge mDNS / Bonjour.

I know those the multicast layer2 services and I can’t really run any magic reapeater on my WiFi hotspot either but it’s LITERALLY the last missing piece to have a unified virtual network of my things that works just as if I had them all home on my WiFi.

(Mainly needing it because Apple dev tools / Xcode etc. all rely on it and won’t let me simply say “connect to the device with this IP” - no idea where that feature went.. it used to be a thing).

The Fun Phase is Here!

Check out part 5 of my homelab journey series.

This homelab journey has entered the “doing things with self-hosted apps” phase!

#linux #homelab #casaos #selfhosting #nextcloud #dataprivacy #syncthing #timeshift #tailscale

https://robmcbryde.com/self-hosted-apps-in-casaos

Every time I provision a new machine I have to relearn that my #Tailscale auth keys have almost assuredly expired since the last time I did it.

I love how #tailscale removes the overthinking to add self-hosted services to my cloud server because I no longer have to expose them to the open internet at all.

All my devices are in my tailnet at any time so they can privately and safely access the required ports whiteout gambling on security thanks to ACL groups and rules.

Awesome, just got my Nextcloud instance transferred to my own home office server, only accessible on my tailnet. Also turned off all remote access to everything and am using the tailnet exclusively for internal access to my services. Things are really working well so far. Knocked out a lot of hanging issues with this migration.

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Well.. let’s say I did it.

And maybe it’s on my github

#scaleway #terraform #opentofu #tailscale #cloudDev
https://indiepocalypse.social/@heals/114331657793255561

It's a nitpick in an otherwise excellent product, but damn do I wish that #Tailscale's machine filter let me use negations. I want to see all of my nodes that _don’t_ have a property or a label.

Learning to setup a DIY ephemeral dev box for my favourite languages while one the go using #scaleway, #tailscale and #terraform / #opentofu..

Why?

Because I have that much time at hand and it’s a fun project that is bottomline identical to what a Blink.sh's Build Beta subscription offers but at the fraction of the cost.

Spin it up at need, safely access it via tailnet only (including a Code-Server with tunnel if needed), shut it down when done and it vanishes and only charges fractions of a cent/hour while it’s up.

And all the while persisting you home / dot files in an encrypted volume snapshot safe at scaleway in France and accessible from Blink or any terminal as easy as a Blink Bluid instance.

(If you’re asking “why don’t they use DevPod/GitPod/CodeSpaces?” - I don’t want to be tied to working on GitHub/Lab projects alone but want a full system if needed)

This Week in Self-Hosted (11 April 2025)

Hoarder's new name change, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Streamystats -- a Jellyfin statistics-tracking platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/newsletter/2025-04-11/

Rooting and Securing Your Onyx Tablet: A Developer's Guide

In an era where privacy concerns are paramount, this article delves into the technical steps necessary to root and secure an Onyx tablet against potential data leaks. From debloating the system to imp...

https://news.lavx.hu/article/rooting-and-securing-your-onyx-tablet-a-developer-s-guide

The more I roam around the internet, the more I actually want to set up something like #Tailscale; it seems so useful and cool. But even if I wanted to do it on this random family network, I'd still need a home server, and I'm already raging at my generic VPS, so no idea if that's seriously a good idea.

#Blog post: #Dropserver progress report for March 2025. I flex my HTML and CSS muscles and work on integrating #tailscale into the admin side of ds-host.

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2025/dropserver-progress-march-2025/

Tailscale is still in the running for a Webby People’s Voice Award!
If you’ve been meaning to vote but haven’t yet, there’s still time:
https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/apps-software/software-services-platforms/developer-tools

Thanks to everyone who's helped spread the word so far—let’s keep going!
#WebbyAwards #Tailscale

So does anyone here run #NextCloud using #TailScale exclusively? I only plan to use it on my devices, so the insistence on having a real domain has always tripped me up when I think about deploying it.

Alternately, are there any happy #Seafile users?

What I'm after is a Dropbox replacement. Everything else is gravy, and likely something I would want to handle with a dedicated app of its own. #SyncThing also might work. The NextCloud attempt to match Google by feature is just a mess.

Would like to compare notes with anyone who is actively getting Dropbox-like functionality in a #SelfHosted way.

I'm curious, other users of #Tailscale; if you run Headscale as your control plane... where do you host it? Do you punch a port through your firewall and use DDNS? Do you host it outside your network on a VPS?

Currently everything I connect to on my homelab is accessed via Tailscale... which is a circular dependency if I pivot to Headscale.

(not planning on it right now, but hoping to understand how others use it)

#Tailscale just secured $160M of venture capital.

https://tailscale.com/blog/series-c

I can't be the only one noticing how much the blog post talks about "AI", right?

I'm somehow glad that this happened before I ever found the time to thoroughly integrate Tailscale into my infrastructure.

(via https://mastodon.social/@JonathanGerlach/114302498688902923)

tailmacs is an #emacs package which lets you serve #tailscale from your editor