/dev/urandom

Pseudorandom thoughts generator.

I'm Niccolò Maggioni, systems spelunker.™

Recent Articles

Testing some USB-C PD PSUs

Published on Saturday, September 27th 2025 at 15:12, 4 min read

Because manufacturer's specs can't be trusted with these.

Reducing LVM-Thin volumes in Proxmox

Published on Friday, July 1st 2022 at 21:27, 4 min read

Extending them is easy, reducing them back... not so much.

Adding USB-C to an Arduino Pro Micro

Published on Saturday, November 6th 2021 at 12:44, 2 min read

A simple task that can still cause you some headaches.

How we hosted DanteCTF 2021

Published on Thursday, July 15th 2021 at 19:06, 8 min read

A brief tour of the infrastructure that supported the first edition of DanteCTF.

What's triggering my GitHub API rate limit?

Published on Sunday, December 6th 2020 at 19:53, 6 min read

A journey trough logs management, packet sniffing and obscure monitoring tools.

Deploying to Google App Engine with GitLab's CI

Published on Wednesday, August 21st 2019 at 18:27, 3 min read

Flawless CI & CD within a single config.

Networking setup for FAUST CTF 2019

Published on Sunday, May 26th 2019 at 18:48, 5 min read

Remote A/D teams are possible with a bit of networking voodoo.

pwnable.kr #1-4

Published on Monday, March 4th 2019 at 0:00, 8 min read

Testing grounds for CTF competitions.

Disabling touchpad's middle click in Gnome 3

Published on Monday, February 25th 2019 at 12:04, 1 min read

No more unexpectedly pasting text as you scroll through.

Using Dell's iDRAC6 with newer Java versions

Published on Monday, July 30th 2018 at 13:38, 2 min read

Getting "Connection failed" or nothing at all when launching the applet?

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