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OverTheWire Bandit

14 minutes Sep 28, 2025

Brief notes/solutions to the OverTheWire Bandit CTF.

Patching a Binary

5 minutes Feb 22, 2025

How to patch a (simple) binary with objdump, xxd, and vim.

OverTheWire Leviathan

8 minutes Jan 05, 2025

Brief notes/solutions to the OverTheWire Leviathan CTF.

There's a bug/feature in Linux Mint (and maybe other distros too) that resets a custom key repeat delay and speed to their defaults when reconnecting an external keyboard. This article shows how to fix this using udevd.