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Hi! I’m Kirk Strauser, a software engineer living in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife and kids. This is my personal blog where I write about whatever pops into my head.
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US national debt hits $40 trillion milestone for first time ever
U.S. national debt topped $40 trillion for the first time amid persistent federal budget deficits driven by rising spending on Social Security, Medicare and interest costs.
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Synology back to requiring first-party drives
Synology just released DSM 7.4 highlighting their new "storage efficiency" feature. Note that you can't actually use this feature unless you're dumb and/or rich enough to fill your NAS with only Synology's own overpriced drives. It's unavailable to the ot
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Cloudflare Drop
Cloudflare Drop : Drop a folder. Or a zip. Summon your site - HTML, CSS, JS. See it live instantly. Cloudflare announced their new Exfiltration as a Service app today. Admins, be sure to lock this jackassery down ASAP.
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Booting uConsole CM4 from encrypted NVMe
I have a uConsole computer and a new NVMe adapter for it. I'm not going to walk around with a terabyte of unencrypted data. That wasn't an option. I found several good HOWTOs for booting a uConsole off an encrypted NVMe drive, yet none of them worked well
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uConsole built-in SD card vs HackerGadgets NVMe speed
I have a ClockworkPi uConsole and although I'm having great fun with it, it comes with just 32GB of SD card storage. Even if it were bigger, SD cards are dog slow compared to almost anything else. I bought a HackerGadgets NVMe adapter and Crucial P310 1TB
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