So is this just like a network tunnel but for iMessage? Does the daemon on the laptop need to be running while I am gone?

I assume you proxy through the stella number and it just routes to the daemon over a little tunnel?

yes, Stella Foster app (daemon) is running on the mac, iMessage, and the laptop needs to be opened, and running. We pass it to you through Stella Foster’s phone number

Literally this is the best show I’ve ever seen. If I’m ever burnt out at work I rewatch it

Sure but let’s have checks and balances against our government poorly handling sensitive documents.

That’s a lot of places to live. Moving to the UK from the US for me was already mentally draining logistically so curious how you balance that

When I was in my twenties, I didn’t really buy stuff and apartments in Asia are mostly fully furnished. All my stuff fitted in a 32kg luggage until 2022 or so.

where in asia is fully furnished? in Japan and China the apartments I was in didn't even come with washing machines, dishwashers, and in one case, AC

Most Chinese apartments come furnished, at least in Beijing. You have to negotiate with the landlord if you want to use your own furniture. I’ve never had an apartment in Beijing that didn’t have a washer machine. No dryer of course, and these are cheap washer machines, you could buy one yourself for 1k RMB or so, well 20 years ago you could.

Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan was all fully furnished. Most property sites have an option to filter for that.

Also there are a lot of service apartments available too!

Ansible, git ops, actually testing it out. Backups with snapshots using restic, encrypted secrets using vault.

Easy to use a local proxy to use other models with CC. Wrote a basic working one using Claude. LiteLLM is also good. But I agree, fuck their mindset

Care to share an example of cloudflare impacting you from this to date? CEO is a lawyer and feel like they adhere to their principles pretty firmly. Just check the latest in Italy

The problem isn't "to date" the problem is what might be.

Sure, maybe the CloudFlare CEO seems like they "do the right thing" and then the administration gets pissed off at something CF related, they lean on the CF board and you've got a new CEO and maybe CF is sold off to "a friend of the show".

Nothing specific to CF here it's just how all US companies need to be viewed.

And what exactly stops this from happening to any company or organization, regardless of being US-based?

If 90% of customers are in the US, they're probably going to comply.

I think these days people are generally more suspicious and nervous, and are looking around for potential alternatives. But price, quality, and UX/DX will win eventually, imo.

Beautiful diagram. Is this just SVG or?

It's all done using the HTML canvas API.

Nice article, been playing with ClickHouse a bit and really like it.

Unrelated - how well do articles like this work for driving signups to your product/platform?

I don’t think you need a box of any kind. Just tunnel into a server that is in the location you want it to be in and proxy traffic through that?

I think the assumption is that the work laptop has bossware or at least logs that get audited for that stuff.

yes this was my assumption

The problem with a server is that it's detectable based on the source IP - if your employee suddenly starts appearing from a datacenter IP you might have to ask questions.

This box allows them to build a virtual network cable back to their usual, residential connection - completely invisible from the other side (besides latency, but this can be explained away).

You can simply run wireguard yourself, no devices needed other than your laptop and a server in your home.

You can run wireguard on a raspberry pi (which are hard to source these days) or something like an HP SFF workstation which will run you ~$50 on ebay. Both of which are useful for other things asides from vpn tunneling.

I have messed around with this just using some simple routers. Works fine. You could also just leave the router at a friends house or family