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by ignoramous 1834 days ago
> And it doesn’t take any battery unless it’s being queried. I think people underestimate how cheap http can be...

Curious about the underlying design decision on why a separate peerapi layer if a golang http/2 server is listening already (or is peerapi running over http, too)?

> What we’re going to do though is add private audit trails and tamper proofing, kind of like TLS certificate transparency, so that the central instructions can be validated in a decentralized way.

Exciting. Reminds me of: https://blog.okturtles.org/2014/09/the-trouble-with-certific... and https://book.keybase.io/docs/teams/sigchain

> ...there are lots of ways to build app layer protocols once you have tailscale making the connection itself easier.

True. My previous employer built an internal service similar to tailscale but it worked over bluetooth, wifi-direct in addition to ICEing NATs out. It made device discovery, cross-app, cross-device, cross-service communication super easy.

Thanks again.