Allen Vailliencourt

Solutions Engineer @ Tailscale

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

@TMobileHelp Internet slowness and partial outage in Greer, SC area? Some services work but most of Google-related services are unresponsive. DNS resolves but no packets.

[Greg Koenig @gak_pdx]

I keep trying to explain to people, but America doesn’t have a viable 3D printer company because we don’t have any of the underlying architecture.
Shocking how many people think a complex product is some singular thing you build at a “factory.”
A 3D printer is really just a featherweight CNC mill, so much so that they speak yeh same language (G-Code). You need:
- micron accurate linear rails
- Sub micron bearings for those linear rails.
- High resolution servo/stepper motors.
- Motion control chips and boards and stuff.
- Sheet metal, injection molding, various coatings.

America has *no* industrial base for *any* of this at consumer product scale. We invented or definitively innovated everything above, then the McKinsey set came in and convinced us to ship it all to China for the last 40 years.

So yea, sure… you can screw a 3D printer together in America, at great expense… but you are doing so with primarily Chinese components.

What we need is a bunch of uninvestible (by venture funds) businesses that are boring and competently supply a bunch of even more boring, medium margin, no-moat components.

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

@44ProCustom hi. My son ordered a glove a while back and communication on delivery/shipment has stopped. It’s been a long time past the delivery date and no word on where his glove is at.

How can we get this resolved? He spent hard-earned money on this glove.

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

If you're an aspiring #3d modelor and looking to make some $. @Elegoo_Official is running a Creator Fund. Linky below for more info --> https://t.co/O1G6R3TPta

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

Help grow the @Elegoo_Official #Nexprint model community --> https://t.co/O1G6R3TPta -- good way to earn some $ for filament gift cards and more :D

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

UPDATE: Chris Ostroushko says that the backlash his family has been receiving for their actions last weekend has been “overwhelming” and “nonstop”

He’s now “second guessing” living in the United States, because he’s unhappy with how negatively the public has reacted to him assaulting a woman on camera.

He is in complete disbelief, stating that, "I've never had anything like this happen in my life".

Chris and Deyanna have been going on a press tour continuing to assert that they are the real victims, despite millions watching the footage of them instigating everything.

There is also a GoFundMe for them, where they are currently trying to raise $8k, stating that they’ve lost their jobs and, “are facing one of the most overwhelming and life-altering moments they have ever experienced”.

The family has still taken zero accountability for any of the violence they committed and are in complete shock that they are facing consequences for their actions.

Last week Chris also did an interview where he lied, stating that his family is “absolutely not violent" and that all he did was "stay back and watch" everything, despite being on camera shoving me multiple times.

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

@HamptonParkCS y’all need to post a congrats to the boys big win and division win over BJA from last night.

Lots of invested fans and families for the #baseball team!

Show some love. 😎

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

Summary of an all day print. #elegoo #centauricarbon2 #3dprinting #purple https://t.co/VAQo8n6DMw via @YouTube

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

Just got an @Elegoo_Official Centauri Carbon 2 Combo printer. Our 1st one! Decided to throw up a YT channel to learn and have fun!

First vid is up: https://t.co/RZcRiw0uej

Hopefully more to come! :)

#3dprinting #elegoo

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.

You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.

Bro.

You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

You live in a constitutional republic.

Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.

The modern left's definition of fascism:

You love your country? Fascist.

You want to enforce the border? Racist.

You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.

You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.

Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.

But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.

But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.

Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.

Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.

Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.

But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.

You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water.

The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.

No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.

Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.

During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.

But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.

The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.

Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.

That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.

Biden built a censorship machine.

Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."

They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...

Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.

And it doesn't stop at speech.

The extreme left justifies taking children from families.

Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.

The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.

Same playbook.

During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.

But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.

$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.

January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.

Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.

Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.

CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.

75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.

Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me."

Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.

One side talks. The other side screams.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday.

Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. Marxism.

The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud.

500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry.

The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent.

You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing.

"Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind." Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right.

Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over.

Today his own party would call him a fascist.

The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth.

The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote.

The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children.

Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here's who checks the boxes in 2026:

Censorship of political opposition. Democrats.

Contempt for democratic process. Democrats.

Tolerance of political violence. Democrats.

State ideology forced on families. Democrats.

Corporate-state fusion. Democrats.

Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides.

Cult of personality. Both sides.

Ultranationalism. Republicans.

Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared.

You marched against kings on Saturday.

You marched FOR kings.

You just didn't know which was which.

Stop being gaslit.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

@AndrewCGower Looks at my milestone 0 level 44 mason and cries. 🤓

[Tailscale @Tailscale]

Tailscale + Border0.

Border0 is joining Tailscale to help us build a more modern, usable approach to privileged access management.

It’s already integrated with Tailscale today, and we’re excited about what comes next.

https://t.co/Re6JuANQKJ

[Andrew Gower @AndrewCGower]

Brighter Shores - Filtration Station, Kobold Arena and Blacksmith bounties are now live!

There are three kinds of blacksmith bounties:

Craft only
- Craft the weapons listed in the bounty for extra rewards.

Craft and deliver weapons to the Kobold Arena
- The kobolds in the Kobold Arena are hungry for battle, but they need the shiniest metal weapons you can make to really show off their skills.

Filtration Station
- Spongle has been placed in charge of the new filtration station, a machine designed to clean the corruption from the river. However, getting the water to the right place can sometimes be more work than one goblin can handle, and Spongle wants your help.

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

And I can’t type. Meant to say - doing a hands-on demo. 😎

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

Woohoo! Excited to be do a hands-on @Tailscale demo today at #scale23x

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

@jmrphy Welcome to @Tailscale Hit us up if you have any questions. 😎

[Justin Murphy @jmrphy]

Wait Tailscale wtf? this is a thing?

You’re telling me you can have a private mesh computing network in 5
minutes with all the computers in your house and no middleman?

or hundreds of friends around the world? for free?

Wtf

[LM Studio @lmstudio]

Introducing LM Link ✨ Connect to remote instances of LM Studio, securely.

🔐 End-to-end encrypted
📡 Load models locally, use them on the go
🖥️ Use local devices, LLM rigs, or cloud VMs

Launching in partnership with @Tailscale

Try it now: https://t.co/Vl2vr6HlF5

[Allen Vailliencourt @Valien]

Psst…@Tailscale

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

LM Studio emailed me yesterday and invited me to test this — I've been using Wireguard and llama.cpp to run large models on my studio workstations, from anywhere.

(I run a few *local* LLMs to help with MicroPython, debugging PTP, that sort of thing...)

I'm attaching a video showing LM Studio running on my low-spec Mac mini at home, using a large model running on a Dell GB10 at the studio. Also tested it running through my Mac Studio at the studio.

They use Tailscale on the backend, but it's separate from Tailscale (managed through LM Studio)—works well, but I still prefer llama.cpp since it's open source. The llama.cpp Web GUI makes it easy enough (for me) to use on the road via VPN, through a browser.

I haven't really messed with LM Studio or vLLM before, but I can see the appeal, especially if you link LLMs to external tools (I don't, at least not at this time).

[Tailscale @Tailscale]

Remember LAN parties? Plug in and everything just worked.

At @AllThingsOpen, Allen on the Tailscale Solutions Engineering team recreated that across AWS, a home lab, hotel WiFi, and MongoDB Atlas.

Watch it here - https://t.co/rnSgrAwrVv