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Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Devin Wittmayer, AKA Lucid_Duck.

I reverse engineer systems that don’t come with source code, documentation, or working tools. Mostly just for fun, sometimes for more.

Based on Vancouver Island, in a forest of Wi-Fi adapters.

Open to remote contract work, collaboration, or conversations with people who think client-side Linux deserves better.

contact

Email: lucid_duck@justthetip.ca
GitHub: Lucid-Duck
LinkedIn: devin-wittmayer
Kernel patches: lore.kernel.org

The Ten-Stage Bugcrowd Cycle of Despair

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A Bug Bounty Researcher’s Field Guide to Bureaucratic Futility

Prologue: The Pitch

Bug bounty programs sell you a dream.

“Help us find vulnerabilities! Get paid for your expertise! Join our elite community of security researchers!”

The brochure shows a hacker in a hoodie, bathed in green terminal glow, collecting five-figure bounties while sipping artisanal cold brew. What they don’t show you is the six weeks of triager tennis that follows every submission, the cookie-cutter rejections, and the slow realization that the system isn’t broken… It’s working exactly as designed.

How a WiFi Adapter Lied About Its TX Power and I Took It Personally

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I noticed something was wrong because reality stopped matching numbers.

Every WiFi adapter I tested behaved like a normal, law-abiding citizen. Set TX power. Read TX power. The universe nodded politely.

Then there was this one.

$ iw dev wlan0 set txpower fixed 1500
$ iw dev wlan0 info | grep txpower
 txpower 3.00 dBm

Three.

Always three.

Set five? Three.

Set ten? Three.

Set twenty? Three.

Disconnect from the network? Still three.

How I Debugged the Wrong Driver and Still Found the Real Bug

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I didn’t set out to fix anything.

I just kept pulling on a thread until the sweater confessed.

This is a story about debugging, hubris, community correction, and a Wi-Fi driver that answered a serious systems question with vibes.

Act 1: Three Days of Correct Debugging, Wrong Hardware

For three days, I debugged a Linux Wi-Fi driver with focus, discipline, and total confidence.

Unfortunately, I was debugging the wrong hardware.

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