Alex Kretzschmar
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Podcast Appearances
He's an amazing writer, by the way.
You should totally go and look at the Tailscale blog.
He wrote a piece about how to jailbreak your Kindle.
and put Tailscale on it.
And it was on Hacker News yesterday, and we saw a huge spike on the back end.
But putting something about jailbreaking a device and breaking a EULA on a corporate blog, there are just certain topics you can't
really touch and that one it falls under sort of fair use and it's it's fine you know we think um legally speaking but there are huge tranches of self-hosting that i just cannot talk about even you know wink wink nudge nudge the stuff behind you is what i'm talking about for sure and you know we can't talk about circumventing
geo-political, geo-blocked content, right, restrictions and circumventing copyright, obviously, and everything that goes with it.
And for me, the reality was some of that stuff was the reason I even got into self-hosting in the first place.
So I have to find a whole other seam of stuff to talk about, which can be challenging, admittedly, sometimes.
But then we have product release weeks and you sort of think to yourself, right, well, now I'm going to actually put together an advert effectively for the products.
But how am I going to do this in a way that doesn't feel like an advert?
And so it can be tricky, but also very, yeah, it's very creatively challenging and rewarding at the same time.
Yeah, Unify fanboy over here.
You are?
Yeah.
It's hard not to like them, right?
It really is, apart from the price.
There's definitely a Unify tax.
The price definitely does get you.