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Ben Tasker

@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk
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I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's.

I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering.

I mostly talk about #Tech, #Monitoring, #SoftwareDevelopment, #Privacy & #Security

If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below.

My Toots auto-delete after a month (https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opinion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html)

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · 4d ago

New #Documentation: Blocking requests from #Cloudflare's automated browser #crawl endpoint

Cloudflare recently announced an endpoint on their Browser Rendering service which allows users to make one API request to trigger a crawl of an entire site.

This documentation details how to block the resulting request.

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/general/blocking-cloudflares-automated-crawl-endpoint.html

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@mikebell@remotelab.uk Ah, yeah - I keep the library on the host's SSD and then periodically rsync to NFS as a backup
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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Mar 09, 2026
@mikebell@remotelab.uk AIUI, Calibre-Web (https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web) has a Kobo plugin so is probably worth looking at (despite having Booklore up and running I'm still quite tempted to play around with it)
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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Mar 09, 2026
@mikebell@remotelab.uk Ah, yeah - I keep the library on the host's SSD and then periodically rsync to NFS as a backup
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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Mar 09, 2026
@mikebell@remotelab.uk @markpitblado@mstdn.ca Oh nice, let me know you get on! I'd _definitely_ recommend getting a Kobo to replace the kindle. Booklore's continued to do what I need of it, though the RAM usage still bugs me. I've also grown a _little_ concerned by Booklore's release cadence - it feels a little high and seems to involve a fair bit of fixing the previous release. On the other hand, it means it's actively getting better so 🤷
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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Mar 06, 2026
@Edent@mastodon.social Where i've had to do similar in the past, I've tended to include a `Connection: close` along with a `content-length: 0` (it'd be before your flush()) php header("Location: example.com"); header("Connection: close"); header("Content-length: 0"); flush(); sleep(100); do_thing(); die(); But, that was a long time ago, so it might be that Curl has changed in the meantime
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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Mar 02, 2026
My #AI crawler maze has seen activity grow over the last 30d and is now handling in the region of 3 million requests a day The links into the maze are marked noindex,nofollow. The maze is also a disallow in robots.txt and each of the pages that the maze serves are marked noindex,nofollow. No honest bot should be in there. The number of crawlers executing javascript seems to have dropped off though - the various JS traps are firing much less frequently
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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Feb 27, 2026
New #Blog post: Moving our #ebooks to #Booklore Over the weekend, I saw someone else's blogpost about Booklore and got nerd sniped by the mention of working Kobo sync support. This week I've been playing around with migrating our book collection over to Booklore along with getting it working with a Kobo https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/moving-ebooks-to-booklore.html
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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Feb 22, 2026
@xs4me2@mastodon.social @lproven@social.vivaldi.net @dynamite_ready@mastodon.gamedev.place @reading_recluse@c.im What you're essentially suggesting here, is that LLMs are only good for consuming information if the user either already has the knowledge to judge output (in which case, why are they asking?) or spends time to verify the claims that the LLM makes (in which case, why bother asking the LLM?). I've seen them make some pretty important mistakes, including suggesting that a Director who wasn't on the call being summarised had authorised something
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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Feb 21, 2026
Yep, I think I'm definitely going to be looking at setting Booklore up tomorrow, it seems to check all the boxes
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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Feb 21, 2026
@MFDOOMALLCAPS@metalhead.club The new single sounds good. It took a few listens to grow on me, but I get that with any kind of change (style, singer etc) I never lost interest though, they've long been a go-to (but then, I also liked The Agonist when A-WG was there, so maybe that's no big surprise)
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After self hosting music, wanted to try books next! Booklore allows for Kobo integration, and borrowing from the library still works flawlessly. https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/selfhost-an-ebook-libr
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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Feb 21, 2026
@markpitblado@mstdn.ca Nice! I had set up Calibre as a web service, but this looks like a **much** better bet
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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Feb 21, 2026
@bloor@bloor.tw @dtl@8bitorbust.info FWIW, I quite happily run it at home on a NUC. Although I've got gigabit internet, it turns out it'd probably have been fine on ADSL too I have moved media to object storage though, which helps a lot
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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
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I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Feb 21, 2026
New #blog post: Converting a SMK CP2 #airgun from CO2 to PCP Late last year I bought a CO2 gun. Although it was sometimes fun to shoot, I got quite frustrated at how variable an experience it gave Rather than selling it on, I decided to make it use high pressure air (HPA) instead https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/converting-a-cp2-to-pcp.html
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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Feb 13, 2026
#AI has now "progressed" onto publishing personal attacks on #OSS maintainers as a result of them rejecting PRs https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html This technology is really making the world a better place....
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Another day, another hero barking at flames and telling his family that they were not cooking his steak https://columbuscountynews.com/2026/02/barking-dog-smoke-alarms-save-family/?utm_source=fark&utm
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I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
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I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Feb 11, 2026
@HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com Who writes a story like this and *doesn't* include a photo of the canine hero 😞
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I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Feb 09, 2026
@popey@mastodon.social That effect is part of what drove me to give up on my second attempt at Threads (the first was because I got banned for using a non-standard client...) - everything it was putting in front of me tended to be rage bait, more than a few of those were pushed as "you should see" notifications too. I still *have* threads, but I've turned everything off, so it no longer comes to me, I had to go to it (which doesn't really happen unless someone pings me a link)
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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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Ben Tasker
Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk

I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about # Tech , # Monitoring , # SoftwareDevelopment , # Privacy & # Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month ( https://www. bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opi nion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html )

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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk · Jan 30, 2026
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe ooof I remember getting almost exactly the same request years back. They'd pointed Nessus at the box (without telling us... rude) and our protections had _quite rightly_ identified and blocked their source IP. So, they contacted us and said that we needed to turn the firewall off so that they could check security. In that case, the test was being done as part of assessing the customer's PCI-DSS compliance.
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