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   Gwen the Trans Balrog (youshallnotpass@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2025 16:05:00 JST Gwen the Trans Balrog

   I use Tailscale for home purposes, mostly so I can access movies from other locations without having to deal with reverse proxies and security. It's great software. I'm just saying this as preface: I would recommend it to anyone looking for a remote networking solution.

   Yesterday they sent out an email about various events they would have a presence at, general marketing stuff, mostly in tech hubs and cons. Nothing remarkable. One of the events was that they were sponsoring a family movie night with another company. The movie picked was Harry Potter, but most people don't care, and it's a fine family movie. I shrugged and moved on with my day. Life's too short to get pissed off about stuff like that.

   Well, today they sent out an email apologizing for the choice of movie and promising to do better in future.

   I'm not stanning a corp. I wish there were a decent open-source option (well, they're built atop the open-source option, but goddamn do they make it easier). But it was nice to see. In a world which has gone full-on transphobia and doesn't seem to think that Jowling Kowling Rowling is worthy of comment, I guess enough technical people who use Tailscale aren't assholes and complained, or who knows, maybe someone at the company pointed it out, but whatever the reason, they rethought the movie choice. And they didn't just do it, they apologized for it to everyone on their mailing list.

   It's a small thing, but I thought I'd share it both to say that I will continue to use Tailscale because it really is good software, but also if you need a nice thing, I guess this is a nice thing.

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2025 16:06:09 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Vy

     @YouShallNotPass @shockwaver knowing some of the people who work there - and having informally talked to them about possibly joining - the apology email makes sense

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     Gwen the Trans Balrog (youshallnotpass@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2025 16:06:10 JST Gwen the Trans Balrog

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     • Vy

     @shockwaver
     Yeah, that's exactly how I felt. It didn't seem like it was worth the effort to say anything, but I guess I should have. I wrote them an email thanking them for their rethink though, because I bet they'll get some flack.

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     Vy (shockwaver@corteximplant.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2025 16:06:11 JST Vy

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     @YouShallNotPass I got the first email and I shrugged too. I was like oh that's kinda disappointing but fine I guess. I didn't think complaining to them was worth the effort. I didn't expect them to apologise for it!

     I was reading your post with a sinking despair that they had really doubled down and was kinda delighted when it was actually the opposite!