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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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News Fox Business 2 months ago
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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Blog 3 months ago
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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Blog 3 months ago
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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Blog 3 months ago
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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Blog 3 months ago
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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News Honeypot.net 6 months ago
Getting the Flock out
I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their …
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News Honeypot.net 1 year ago
PHP: Not exactly bad, but still a strange one
PHP is so hard for me to describe. I used it a lot in the …
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News Honeypot.net 1 year ago
Trying (and Failing) to hack the Wall of Sheep
The Wall of Sheep is a popular exhibit at DEF CON. …
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News Honeypot.net 2 years ago
Opt out of Hulu's new binding arbitration clause
Hulu's new subscriber agreement claims to require …
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News Honeypot.net 2 years ago
Making Notes look like a Markdown editor, if you squint
I use Apple's Notes app to, well, take notes. …
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