It would be amazing to have something like this for bedrock so people with consoles without online subscriptions could join a self hosted bedrock mc server

In particular:

https://github.com/n0-computer/dumbpipe

https://github.com/cablehead/pai-sho

It's not our standard dev environment but some of us use Nix. We don't really use Docker much, though. Mostly just "go test" etc.

Loving this. Honestly I keep encouraging folks to just TRY native Nix for dev environments. So easy to set up and get value on day 1 that you'd be shocked. Also models/LLMs have made lightyear strides in the last few months to help with everything around it. We've been building up Nix based skill systems into our Flox skill and it's been super meaningful both on adoption and when we need to scale it up. (disclaimer I do Flox.dev which is Nix based and we do cool Nix stuff)

I'd guess that there is an insignificant minority of people who strongly prefer nix over anything else.

And it might be because it is easy to provide and maintain compared to a .deb package.

When I was writing rust stuff a few years ago it seemed like nix was the hip cool thing all the up and coming rustaceans (mostly unemployed students trying to land faang jobs) were using. If you're not familiar with the rust community it's very different from other programming communities I've been in (python/go/ruby/etc). Almost felt like you'd be kicked out of their lunch table if you weren't using it, but I've only see it that ubiquitous there.

A lot of them, instead of learning the usual linuxii you'll be using in containers at work dive headfirst into nix.

I dug into it a bit because I had the same question. The network layer here is wrapping around the Tailscale daemon's magicsock, which is the thing that does all the DERPing and NAT hole punching. Tailcat builds sort of a fake control plane that does a one way key exchange over DERP (the Meow message type) between client and server, then both sides do the normal CallMeMaybe dance to connect.

There's an example in the README how to do exactly that :)

I solved this problem by building/running a custom tailscale client that connects to two tailnets at the same time (https://github.com/maisem/tailmix)

why not try out some existing project already on top of iroh ?

I see a bunch here on awesome-iroh page

https://github.com/n0-computer/awesome-iroh

you could try rayfish.xyz, it is compatible with tailscale nowadays so you can run both tailscale and rayfish

Yes, though MW has the important distinction that it uses short human-readable session identifiers. This means MW supports file transfer where the out-of-band channel is just a phone call. This is also why it needs PAKE as opposed to the simpler cryptography used in tailcat

Keeps with the tradition of netcat alternatives like powercat, socat, cryptcat.