• Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale To find a safe space for his kid to chat during Minecraft, Brian Scott had to go back to the future. • The chat went back, that is, to an IRC-like interface, run through a terminal. • The connection and setup remain futuristic, because Scott usedTailscale, andtsnet, to buildchat-tails. • Chat-tails is the opposite of everything modern chat apps are offering. • Nobody can get in without someone doing some work to invite them. • All the chats are ephemeral, stored nowhere easy to reach, unsearchable.
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- To find a safe space for his kid to chat during Minecraft, Brian Scott had to go back to the future. The chat went back, that is, to an IRC-like interface, run through a terminal. The connection and setup remain futuristic, because Scott used Tailscale, and tsnet, to build chat-tails. Chat-tails is the opposite of everything modern chat apps are offering. Nobody can get in without someone doing some work to invite them. All the chats are ephemeral, stored nowhere easy to reach, unsearchable. There are no voice chats, plug-ins, avatars, or images at all, really, unless you count ASCII art. And
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