https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/tags/tailscale/Recent content in Tailscale on ShadowfishHugo -- gohugo.ioen-us© 2026 Creeping depths of the deepFri, 31 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0200https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/post/mesh-vpn-homelab-paranoia-compared/Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0200https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/post/mesh-vpn-homelab-paranoia-compared/<p>It is 11:42 PM on a Sunday. Your homelab is purring softly. The Grafana dashboards are all green, Plex is transcoding smoothly for your cousin in Ohio, and your local DNS is resolving ad-free at blistering speeds. You take a satisfying sip of tea and open HackerNews for a quick nightcap.</p> <p>Then you see it.</p> <blockquote><p><strong>&ldquo;Show HN: Minor Telemetry Edge-Case Found in [Your Current VPN&rsquo;s] Key Exchange Protocol&rdquo;</strong></p> </blockquote><p>Panic sets in. Your heart rate spikes to 140 BPM. Your teeth chatter. Within four minutes, you have opened a terminal, SSH’d into your core router, deleted your configuration files, and embarked on a full 3 AM infrastructure rewrite—leaving your spouse entirely unable to watch <em>The Office</em> on local Wi-Fi.</p> <p>Welcome to the <strong>Great Homelab Mesh VPN Paranoia</strong>.</p>