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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 9h

I'm going to be doing a Q&A tomorrow (Friday October 17th) on Zoom and YouTube, if anyone is interested in asking questions, or seeing the type of questions that other people are asking about using Tailscale. You can register here:

tailscale.com/events-webin...

Ask The Experts: Solutions Engineer Office Hours | Tailscale

Office hours dedicated to demos of new Tailscale features and answering common technical questions.

tailscale.com

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Tailscale @tailscale.com · 1d

More than 90% of Tailscale connections are direct. When they are not, it's usually because of tricky NAT traversal. Here's how we've been improving connectivity, both for us and the greater web. tailscale.com/blog/nat-tra...

How Tailscale is improving NAT traversal (Part 1)

Updates on Tailscale's efforts to improve NAT traversal, for its client and for the web at large.

tailscale.com

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 5d

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 8d

The Rheostatics have new music out, and it's weird and wonderful:

Dave Bidini @davebidini.bsky.social · 8d

Here is a link to the beautiful first single from our new album, one of the two non instrumental pieces, written by Kevin Hearn. Record comes out Nov 21st! m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ0V...

Rheostatics - The Inland Sea

YouTube video by Rheostatics

m.youtube.com

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 12d

Hey, it's me!

BSides Toronto @www.bsidesto.ca · 12d

BSides Toronto is underway! Thanks to our sponsors that make this happen: tailscale, Repacket, CREST, Rapid7, Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst and revenni

Premier sponsor tailscale kicking off the conference

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 13d

In Toronto for BSides - come visit at the Tailscale booth tomorrow!

Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 22d

`stty sane` has been helpful for when I accidentally cat a binary file and it garbled my terminal.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 22d

I'll be talking Tailscale again today. We're doing a webinar where I'll be taking technical questions on YouTube and Zoom. You can register here if you're interested in watching or participating:

tailscale.com/events-webin...

Ask The Experts: Solutions Engineer Office Hours | Tailscale

Office hours dedicated to demos of new Tailscale features and answering common technical questions.

tailscale.com

Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 22d

I think my career in tech could have been predicted by the fact that I was the guy who brought a soldering iron to the lan parties.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 24d

Yes it is!

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 27d

🌑

possum on a power line in front of the moon captioned

babe come here you're missing the possum eclipse

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Tailscale @tailscale.com · 28d

Still managing EKS access with legacy VPNs + security groups?
There’s a better way.

Join us for a live webinar to see how the Tailscale Kubernetes Operator modernizes remote access to EKS:
🔗 tailscale.com/events-webin...

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Stephen @pinenoodle.bsky.social · Sep 15

“Evil men are ceded importance even after they die, when it no longer matters to them, and only affects us.”
― Malka Ann Older, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (though from context I don't know whether she originated this quote or if its from someone else)

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Sep 12

Just leaned back in a chair as a wasp was stinging me, causing it to get stuck in my back. If I lived alone, that would have been it, just living with a permanent wasp in my back.

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · Sep 9

You checked the news: -10 HP

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · Sep 6

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

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qntm @qntm.org · Sep 7

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file

UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · Sep 2

Notes on getting Tailscale working for Kobo Sync:

- Mount the Kobo.
- Rename .kobo/ssh-disabled to .kobo/ssh-enabled.

Still working on the next steps.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Sep 2

Building out my pi-based retro gaming laptop, I wanted a better way to turn just the display off and on.

Eventually, I would like this to get called from a GPIO, maybe a hall-effect to see if the lid is closed.

jws.sh/piscreen.html

#!

jws.sh

Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 31

Inside the case of a dead Compaq 286

Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 31

It's the screen from a first generation iPad and a raspberry pi 5 with a nvme hat, hooked up to a UPS from an alarm system for power.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 31

Waiting on a few parts before its finalized, like a keyboard cable, but my retro gaming laptop project is functional.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 29

Better add "planning coups, hoarding textfiles" to your linkedin.

Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 28

Criminally underrated band!

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 28

A suspicion: if you click the ... Menu on the router node on the machines tab in the admin console, select routing. Is the subnet checked as approved?

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