I’m astounded, I would have thought that putting an explanation that the article was satire would like…work. Should I have made it giant screaming red text?

Tailscalar here. Use tailscale serve. It is a reverse proxy inside tailscaled. It will handle HTTPS certificates for you too. As an example, here’s a sample HTTP server proxied to both my tailnet via tailscale serve and to the world with Funnel.

Also as far as I know you need to use Serve in order to use Funnel.