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		simonw 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tailscale is pretty useful I used Tailscale the other week to solve a problem where a government website was blocking me from scraping it from GitHub Actions... so I ran an exit node on an Apple TV on my homework and configure the GitHub Actions worker to use that instead. Worked great! https://til.simonwillison.net/tailscale/tailscale-github-act...

djsjajah 7 months ago [–]

You could have also self-hosted the GitHub Actions runner which might have been easier as long as you had something to run the runner on.

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