The folks at @tailscale made an April fools joke about porting #tailscale to #plan9... And then fucking committed to the bit
https://tailscale.com/blog/plan9-port
Absolute legends
@ngate um......people still use #plan9 and #plan9front
don't make the same clueless assumption I did
Tech hipsters unite! Let's take the most esoteric operating system no one's used in decades (Plan 9) and port a modern #VPN (Tailscale) to it, because who doesn't want their network security reliant on a system that was last relevant when pagers were cool?
Bonus points if you can figure out why you'd need a VPN for your 90s-themed home lab!
https://tailscale.com/blog/plan9-port #TechHipsters #Plan9 #Tailscale #NetworkSecurity #RetroComputing #HackerNews #ngated
Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
https://tailscale.com/blog/plan9-port
#HackerNews #Porting #Tailscale #to #Plan #9 #Tailscale #Plan9 #Networking #Innovation #TechBlog
A rare blog post from me, this time about 9front. It's a bit incomplete, but that's how it goes.
I've tried to consume mouthfuls of info about #9front in the past few hours and I kind of dig it. There seems to be a rebellious and artistic aspect to it from its users that kind of draws me. I can't see myself using it daily as it seems to lack modern exploit mitigations....which it might not need but my monkey brain feels I need these things in place for peace of mind. I will definitely be playing around with it in a VM until I feel more comfortable. It feels like it could eventually replace something in my workflow. Very very cool OS.
So are hipsters using Plan 9 or derivatives? Can someone please explain the use case beyond this? This is a real question, not being facetious. #plan9 #9front #plan9front