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  • Tailscale is both a client and server. If you use only Tailscale, you have to pay for the service after so many devices are connected, which by all means support the company and do so and avoid using Headscale.

    Headscale is an open source implementation of the Tailscale service, so it’s free to use with all the usual Tailscale clients published. You setup Headscale somewhere, register your Tailscale clients to it, and use it like usual. It’s just skipping the need to pay for Tailscale servers as a service, and gives you greater control over how traffic routed. Completely optional.



  • ICANN is decentralized and has a lot of in-built security that prevents one site from infiltrating or poisoning the rest of the overall system. That’s why no governments have tried to fuck with it. Not only would it not work, but it would potentially become an international incident. But ICANN is really only the keeper of TLDs anymore, they don’t run any other base infrastructure of the overarching internet. You don’t need domain names to make IP networks talk to each other (ie: darkweb).

    The only thing Trump could try and do is push ISPs to conform to laws Congress passes that influences the way network traffic is run (filtering, blocking…etc), which is what China has done with their Great Firewall shit. This would not end well for a number of reasons, and just isn’t likely or feasible to happen in the US.