I took part in the OverTheWire Advent Bonanza 2019. All in all, the CTF was very pleasant because the challenges were interesting to solve, there was quite some time available as well (I spent about two weeks on and off on it) and I also managed to solve a few …

I took part in the OverTheWire Advent Bonanza 2019. All in all, the CTF was very pleasant because the challenges were interesting to solve, there was quite some time available as well (I spent about two weeks on and off on it) and I also managed to solve a few …

I took part in the OverTheWire Advent Bonanza 2019. All in all, the CTF was very pleasant because the challenges were interesting to solve, there was quite some time available as well (I spent about two weeks on and off on it) and I also managed to solve a few …

I took part in the OverTheWire Advent Bonanza 2019. All in all, the CTF was very pleasant because the challenges were interesting to solve, there was quite some time available as well (I spent about two weeks on and off on it) and I also managed to solve a few …

I took part in the OverTheWire Advent Bonanza 2019. All in all, the CTF was very pleasant because the challenges were interesting to solve, there was quite some time available as well (I spent about two weeks on and off on it) and I also managed to solve a few …

I took part in the OverTheWire Advent Bonanza 2019. All in all, the CTF was very pleasant because the challenges were interesting to solve, there was quite some time available as well (I spent about two weeks on and off on it) and I also managed to solve a few …

PyFeeds is an extensible tool written in Python that creates Atom feeds for websites which do not provide them at all or do not provide them with full text content. It is based on Scrapy and built with extensibility in mind. Currently it has support for Ars Technica, Facebook Pages …

Python has support for enumerations built into the standard library since version 3.4. The Enum type is quite powerful but serializing enum members to human readable representations and deserializing them to an enum meber can be cumbersome.

If we want to have an enumeration of certain train stations between …

While writing a new spider for Feeds I stumbled upon the following problem. I wanted to parse an XML feed with a default namespace but couldn't get it to work.

init is an essential package in Jessie so it's automatically pulled in every time you want to debootstrap a new system. init has a dependency on systemd-sysv or sysvinit-core or upstart. Unfortunately debootstrap always selects systemd-sysv even if systemd-sysv is excluded by the --exclude flag (see also #776917). This can …