Holy cow, Tailscale is cool.
It's a VPN system. It's absolutely, totally plug-and-play. You make an account, install it on a machine, add it. Add a new machine and now you can magically ssh between them no matter where they are.
It also does file sharing, and you can expose web services to your network -- this is nice, since I can run something on one machine and everything else accesses it. No worries about NAT, about changing IPs when you're on one network or anothe…
Don't leave for the weekend before you check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments shaping the cyber landscape, including
--GPT-5.5 aces UK cyber trials, tops rivals in AISI tests,
--NSA is testing Mythos,
--Anthropic publishes Claude Security for Claude Enterprise,
--Flock spied on a kid's gym room,
--DPRK hackers have stolen $577m in crypto year-to-date,
--Rhysida demands ransom from Stelia Aerospace NA,
--Two ransomwa…
I sometimes get a wild hair to buy a ~$150 Chromebook or Win notebook, probably to run Linux, as a 2026 version of the #iOpener. Then I remember the junk I've bought but didn't really use:
* $50 Black Friday Android tablet ~2012, I literally never opened.
* used ASUS eee pc $50 ~2015, ran Linux on it, but didn't use much
* Amazon Kindle 8 inch tablet 2017, screen wasn…