Primary account is now @Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg.
I take it as similar to the “cya next week” comments RE RuneScape (or really any other thing on the internet)… they’re kinda half serious half kidding acknowledgements of something’s addictiveness. I wouldn’t read too much into it.
I mean… if you’re running millions of sites on one box, and that itself isn’t an issue, I’d assume your port saturation/traffic is pretty low.
I don’t know anything about Netbird, but I’ll link you to my ZeroTier pitch the last time I noticed someone talking about Tailscale: https://lemmy.world/comment/1058287.
From what I’m gathering, they have very different pronunciations in British English as well. I’m not sure about this shower thought, it seems like OP might be the one that’s mistaken?
That only stands true when the issue is not being actively exploited.
I just dropped Reddit from my phone today, the Firefox moderator protest to change r/firefox to “We are a subreddit about fire foxes aka red pandas” was oddly enough the breaking point for removal from my phone (despite last night’s unfortunate hack).
If you send these files over SSH, you’re good as that’s encrypted by ZeroTier and then encrypted again inside the SSH connection (and SSH does have perfect forward security).
See their cryptography section of their docs for more info.
You can read more here about what they’re working on:
It’s been to long since I’ve read that to give anything more than a condensed “they’re improving their crypto significantly with ZeroTier 2” (not to mention memory safety via Rust).
I think it’s pretty secure and it will be getting better soon. In reality, I think it’s much more secure than what most people will end up with otherwise.
ZeroTier is open source, long running without incident, and the traffic is encrypted between peers.
The threat model is basically two fold though, in theory someone who has control of the ZeroTier roots (if you’re not using your own controller, if you’re using your own, then s/their roots/your roots/) could add routes to your devices, and add/remove devices that are part of your confirmation.
The encryption also doesn’t currently have perfect forward security, so if there’s a compromise in one of your connections, in theory some past state of that connection could be decrypted. In practice, I’m not sure this matters as traffic at a higher level for most sensitive things uses its own encryption and perfect forward security (but hey maybe you have some software that doesn’t).
The other thing I will note about that last point is that they’re working on a rust rewrite that will have updated crypto, including perfect forward security.
FOSS just means the software is open source. As I said, you can self host ZeroTier and not involve their servers (if you’re not doing things commercially, you pay for the license but still run your own controllers, or you use an older version which has been automatically relicensed by the change date to Apache 2.0).
That said, the traffic is peer-to-peer, in the majority of use cases there servers are acting as a bit more than syncthing’s servers (acting to facilitate the connection between two devices that want to talk together). See the other comment for some more thoughts here.
You got it right, lots of drama, not really anything to worry about unless you’re very fringe and have people you email via PGP with “super secure” PGP keys (and honestly I’d trust Proton more than I’d trust most people to roll their own PGP… it’s hard stuff to get PGP right).
I’ll pitch ZeroTier instead, it’s the same concept, but it’s more FOSS friendly, older, doesn’t have the non-networking “feature bloat” of Tailscale, and can handle some really niche cases like Ethernet bridging (should you ever care).
Just:
If you want to go full self hosting, you can do that too but you will need something with a static IP to control everything (https://docs.zerotier.com/self-hosting/network-controllers/?utm_source=ztp) this would replace the web panel parts.
You can also do a LAN routing based solution pretty easily using something like a Raspberry Pi (or really any Linux computer).
It’s really starting to feel like a legitimately good Reddit alternative around here, not just “Reddit like” or “Reddit light” and that’s really awesome 😊
Is it though? It’s almost a pendantic quirk of the written language that things need spelled differently that sound the same.
Like, we ask know what you mean if you say “I was talking to the Johnsons and there cows ran away. Its total madness in this town lately.”
You could checkout a very similar product, ZeroTier (Open Source Community Edition) assuming your use case is non-commercial.
… if you’re willing to use an older release, you could potentially do whatever you want as the software uses a BSL license with a change date fallback license of Apache 2.0.
I prefer ZeroTier, I’m not sure why Tailscale has taken off so much in recent years (perhaps just the cleaner UI and better marketing).
I think you should specify whether you’re looking for a wiki for personal use or shared use.
If you’re looking for personal use, something like standard notes can be a great option.
If you’re looking for shared use, and don’t care about encryption, wiki.js is IMO your best bet.
There’s currently no option that does both. Skiff exists as an encrypted collaborative notes option but it doesn’t (to my knowledge) allow any kind of self hosting.
Consider TrueNAS Scale with mirrored drive pairs DIY.