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[–] varsock 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

discovered tailscale from this post and after reading their "how tailscale works" I was hoping to get some clarification from an activer user (you).

CF tunnels setup an outbound-only tunnel from my private network via cloudflared, I have no ingress holes in my firewall to access my services. cloudflared does all the proxying. Plus my IP changes monthly as I don't pay for a static one from my ISP. This "outbound-only" connection is resilient to that.

Tailscale is point-to-point (for data plane) connection and only the control plane is "hub and spoke". This sounds like I need to allow ingress rules on my private network so my server can be connected to? Is this true or where did I misunderstand?

[–] varsock 2 points 1 year ago

I would recommend finding a company with a solid internship program and use the internship program to get your foot in the door and get hired. Companies like Cloudflare, VMWare or other with a security interest have strong internship programs.

Point is, using internships is arguably easier to get in. Many college students, myself included, used internships just to get any experience. But what you really want to strive for is interning where you want to work and kicking butt.

[–] varsock 1 points 1 year ago

well written from Cloudflare's side. Unbiasly blamed each party involved (including itself) for mistakes each party made. Recommend the long read to whoever stumbles across this

[–] varsock 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

navigating to this community from programming.dev, i see that there are only 73 subscribers. Clicking on your link get take to a page that says 6.27k subscribers. Any idea why there is a discrepancy in. Is something with federation going wonky?

[–] varsock 1 points 1 year ago

if you're not doing any weird shit at home, why have blinds in your windows?

[–] varsock 2 points 1 year ago

honestly, having a spare phone that sits at home is a great solution. Your main phone can be a native pixel/grapheneos (not lineage, graphene has no issues with feature comparability). And the spare phone at run all the apps for, idk, your robot vaccum, smart home, etc. At home you have more control of data and connectivity.

we all have old phones that can be used as spares. My 8 yr old phone is the "remote control" for my house. Using accounts that don't tie to me, on it's own vlan, pi-holed, etc

[–] varsock 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

for speech recognition there is "futo voice" which not only works better than Google's speech talk-to-type by allowing the user to fluently speak, but it also works offline and doesn't upload voice recordings anywhere. You won't be able to use it with gboard because google will not allow the use of another talk-to-speech engine with gboard, you'll have to download another keyboard first.

mobile banking is an unnecessary luxary. Moving money around/paying CC biils often takes days to go through anyway so the urgency of "doing it now" mobily can wait until you're at your desktop.

Push notifications, I'll give you. Without any services some apps cannot recieve push notifications. As the other user suggested, using a pixel with grapheneos, you can install sandboxes google services or microG and then have full functionality.

On grapheneOS you can choose which apps have access to internet/data much more fine-grained that what google allows you.

[–] varsock 4 points 1 year ago

hey I'm right there with you. I didn't want to type out all the details but the customer didn't want to use any tools they had to "learn". All they wanted to do was be able to do is view a file structured similarly to CVS. View, filter, and sort alphabetically. This was like a subtask of a bigger project.

Bottom line is we were like "hey don't waste your money on this request, there are tons of tools that can do this"

Their response was essentially "we contracted you, you guys figure it out." LOL okay, pay us for 1 additional month and you can have a program to load your csv and sort it

[–] varsock 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Had a client that couldn't understand a small dataset of data. They needed "something interactive to filter and sort the data for a human to review." We suggested putting it into an excel spreadsheet, and did it for them. Customer didn't know how to use excel so we had to create a knock-off excel table GUI that had buttons labeled "filter and sort".

some people seem to have money they don't know what to do with smh

[–] varsock 3 points 1 year ago

he was not, nobody cares about his 2 bytes

[–] varsock 1 points 1 year ago

Gotcha, thanks. Well, I'll look into it some more. I appreciate you supporting Rebble!

[–] varsock 1 points 1 year ago

that is on-par with my experience.

If on android, you can visit a google app store mirror (like aurora) which has all apps not locked to a region. Meaning, you can get that transit app.

On iOS, there is no side loading to get around that at the moment.

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