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Welcome to Solace.net

Greetings, traveler! This is the wiki of K.C. Budd. This will be a place to catalog projects, hobbies, technical tips and reminders, discoveries, and general information that doesn't have the ephemeral or temporal limitations of social media.

For starters, here's a rundown of my personal online presence:

• Email: kc@solace.net
• Blog: https://phreakmonkey.com/
• GitHub: https://github.com/phreakmonkey
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/phreakmonkey
• Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@phreakmonkey
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@phreakmonkey/videos

If you're interested in my professional life, here's my LinkedIn and my current resume.

On Content:

Have you noticed that there are topics here that aren't links? Bear with me, I'm just starting to fill this out, but I will randomly and sporadically add topics and pages. A note on content: Mostly, this is a repository to hold links, discoveries, and cheatsheets. There's a balance between providing valuable information and needlessly repeating existing / available documentation, and for the most part I'm going to err on the part of not repeating that which is widely available and/or obvious.

Some notable exceptions to this will be where I add things that I get frustrated searching for often, like pinout diagrams of common microcontrolers and tidbits of information that tend to be mostly available on ephemeral forums / blogs. So, what you won't find here is a repeat of, say, algorithms that are in the famous CLRS Introduction to Algorithms Book, but you are likely to find tips for dealing with the eccentricities of a particular implementation of something in my environment. Vague and subjective, I know, but hey - the world is both analog and chaotic.  :-P

Hobbies and Projects

• My Aviation page. I'm a licensed pilot and an aircraft owner.
• Hardware Hacking Topics:
  • Microcontrollers / Arduino
  • Drones
  • SDR / RF / Radio
• CAD / Maker / 3D Printing
  • Printrbot 3D Printer
  • OpenSCAD & designs
• Linux / System Administration / Networking
  • (IPv4) GeoIP restriction in Linux with xtables
  • Restoring the GRUB bootloader on LVM-encrypted Debian 12
  • Adventures with IPv6

Photography Showcase

• For a while I was into Urban Exploration and DSLR photography