It's no different from traditional VPNs. The tailnet admin has control over the routes that are exposed to clients and ACLs are available to further limit access. It's an overlay network, it doesn't magically give you access to user space on people's laptops.
Given how tailscale works and many of the features (the SSH features especially) it's not terribly hard to imagine a critical flaw or misconfigured setup giving access to userspace
Everything beyond tailscales core VPN features are opt-in. The risk of misconfiguring Tailscale is the same (arguably it’s much smaller) as just misconfiguring SSH on a machine.
At the end of the day, Tailscale works just like any other VPN, from the perspective of the type of data that can traverse between machines connected to the same virtual network. Tailscales use of a P2P wireguard mesh is just an implementation detail, it’s no more or less risky that having every machine connect to a central VPN gateway, and bouncing all their traffic off that. Either way, all the machines get access to a virtual network shared by every other machine, and misconfigured ACLs could result in stuff getting exposed between those machines, which shouldn’t be exposed.
If anything the Tailscale mesh model is much more secure, because it forces every device to use a true zero trust model. Rather than the outdated, “oh it managed to connect to the VPN, it must be safe then” model that traditional VPNs often end up implementing.
> Nobody I know is leaving a $70k a year job to take a sabbatical.
I took my first sabbatical at 25, with only a few years in the industry, making a lot less and I think $35k in the bank. Everyone told me I was crazy putting a gap in my CV, spending savings, etc. but I did anyway.
It was easily the best two years of my life, I travelled South America and Asia without a care in the world until the money was gone. Then I went back to work without an issue and have continued taking long periods off throughout my career. These days I'm a remote contractor, and even though I can and do work from anywhere I regularly still take months off at a time. I have a lot of savings too and a fully paid house in a country I love.
My point is that we create the anxiety for ourselves. A different lifestyle is possible if you make certain choices.
Something relatively easy you can try is to get your body into ketosis, where mental clarity and energy levels are greatly improved. While I don't think it's good for most people (it's a pretty antisocial diet) I'd jump right in in your situation.
Training those models costs 10s of millions. Running them at scale some order(s) of magnitude that. At one point those AI initiatives will need to return a profit. You really think developers will not have to learn a new API? Users inertia works for retail users, I don't think it works so much for people who get paid to do it or have a financial incentive to switch. Provided there is a suitable alternative.
It really was a matter of when. What real progress have we seen since people first experienced ChatGPT and the hype started? Investors have been very dumb throwing money on anything AI and they're starting to realize it.
It is pretty much impossible for the investment cycle to be perfectly aligned with the value creation cycle. The dotcom bubble laid the foundations for the cloud and the modern internet. But keep in mind the valuations right now are nowhere close to the valuations in the dotcom bubble. Compared to back then we are not in a bubble at all or at just the beginnings of one.
This would be pretty normal in Europe, my dad went through the same and his job was never a concern. And treatment was fully covered by the public health system. Salaries reflect that of course, can't have it all.
