Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale

76 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by nulbyte
(tailscale.com)

13 Comments

bigiain

8 hours ago

Looking forward to hearing Tailscale getting forced to do age verification and banning use of this to people under 16 years old in Australia under their new social media rules...

wkat4242

7 hours ago

Don't worry, VPNs are next in line to be banned anyway due to their big evasion potential of all this age verification nonsense

wkat4242

7 hours ago

ps just as I wrote this the English had to prove my point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294780

subscribed

6 hours ago

Ssh and ssl/tls without licence will be next :)

wkat4242

37 minutes ago

Personally, I think they will go for the endpoint instead. This is part of the UK proposal now. Only allow "trusted" endpoints to access services, something which is kinda in place in the mobile world already. Many things are blocked if you are running an unsanctioned build of Android.

Then once they have that in place they can just do all the monitoring through the screen of the device itself, since all content has to pass through there.

It's much easier to do that than to try to mandate a backdoor to every service in the world. Of coruse it is even more disastrous to user privacy but I honestly think that's the goal not the bug.

LeoPanthera

7 hours ago

Things like this make me wish there was a sort of public version of Tailscale where everyone got a routable IP address to everyone else no matter what kind of firewall they were behind. Like the old days of the internet, I guess.

c45y

7 hours ago

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ for the most part enables this - otherwise I2P and Tor for the most part facilitate this with the bonus encryption element.

We might one day have it natively with ipv6 adoption increasing.

VikingCoder

2 hours ago

I think Tailscale shares is what we currently are supposed to use?

You share some "semi-public" host with all of your friends...

And then you're not necessarily chatting with famous people, but you can have a near-and-dear-social network of people you actually know...

lorenzo95

8 hours ago

I'm gonna need an app for that . No, I just tried it. Works as advertised. Thank you for the dockerfile. Using putty, the formatting is messed up.on the banner/help. Must be some dynamic end of line thing. Still works so.

jmole

8 hours ago

This is great, I've been looking for an easy to use local chat app for me and my kids, and Adium on Bonjour has been flaky with my VLAN setup at home. Will have to give this a try...

misterthp

9 hours ago

this reminds me of gopher chats

the_gipsy

8 hours ago

Enough with the tailscale spam