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The website of Ben Tasker, IT Manager, Linux Specialist and software developer. I'm based in Suffolk in the UK but work with customers worldwide

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2026 19

  1. What Good Incident Response Looks Like
  2. Adding Dates to Nikola's Static Pages
  3. Backing Away From The Burn-Out Abyss
  4. Improving Down The Garden Connectivity
  5. Self Installing a Monoblock Air Conditioner
  6. Fitting a Sig Sauer Air-Reflex Sight To a P229 CO2 Air Pistol
  7. Playing with a Badgeware Badger
  8. Ruining a Blog by Using an LLM
  9. Migrating From 1Password to Vaultwarden
  10. Plug-in Solar: Our Performance So Far
  11. Looking At Tarpit and LLM Maze Stats
  12. 2026-07-12 13:28
  13. 2026-06-25 16:47
  14. 2026-05-23 14:32
  15. 2026-03-29 18:43
  16. 2026-03-12 20:04
  17. 2026-03-01 16:42
  18. 2026-02-14 17:06
  19. 2026-01-03 16:37

2025 35

  1. 2025-12-26 16:24
  2. 2025-11-22 11:48
  3. 2025-11-02 20:32
  4. 2025-10-27 14:12
  5. 2025-10-06 21:32
  6. introducing mandatory ID cards
  7. Ben Tasker
  8. Cookies
  9. Privacy Policy
  10. License
  11. Replacing the Valve In a Stuck or Dripping Tap
  12. Deploying Anubis to protect against AI scrapers
  13. Two years of solar
  14. Automating an audit of my image use
  15. Examining A Copyright Claim From Copytrack
  16. Doggy Boot Build
  17. 2025-03-22 11:48
  18. Isolating our Guest Wireless Network in OPNSense
  19. 2025-03-19 16:52
  20. My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster
  21. 2025-03-10 14:58 (updated 2025-03-16 08:47)
  22. 2025-03-07 17:26
  23. 2025-03-02 12:25
  24. 2025-02-28 23:44 (updated 2025-03-04 08:42)
  25. Manually Charging Our US2000C Solar Battery
  26. Moving bentasker.co.uk services to European Providers
  27. A Year of Bonnie
  28. Performing an Online Safety Act Assessment For mastodon.bentasker.co.uk
  29. Blog Question Challenge (January 2025)
  30. Setting Up Zigbee2MQTT With HomeAssistant
  31. My JetKVM arrived!
  32. Playing Around With Deepseek (NSFW)
  33. 2025-01-17 13:15
  34. Using HomeAssistant To Control Solis Inverter Charge Schedules
  35. 2024 Solar Performance

2024 64

  1. Happy New Year!
  2. Is Our Hot Tub Thermal Cover Worth The Cost?
  3. Tweaking The Ideapad
  4. Dog Proofing The Bottom Of A Chain-Link Fence
  5. Supporting auto-rotation and undocking on Ideapad Miix 320
  6. 2024-12-14 19:56
  7. Moving my 2FA Codes from Authy to Aegis
  8. adding encrypted swap and a userspace oom-killer
  9. Mini runs rough and misfires after driving for a while
  10. Replacing my Transformer Pad
  11. 2024-11-30 20:19
  12. 2024-11-28 18:57
  13. Making the Eyes of an Image Follow The Mouse
  14. replaced the alternator
  15. Using OPNsense with a 1Gbps FTTP Connection and PPPoE
  16. Building a Scheduled Toots System
  17. Thoughts on employees and ChatGPT
  18. Counting Home Assistant Automation Triggers For My Fingerbot
  19. Matt Mullenweg's Crusade Undermines Open Source
  20. Trying Out A Far Infrared Heated Poster
  21. Using JSONFeed Support To Drive An On This Day Module
  22. automatically creating recurring issues in Gitlab
  23. I'm a Pylontech Recommended Technician... Wait, Wut?
  24. 2024-09-17 09:00
  25. Unclogging A Washing Machine When The Pump Cover Is Jammed
  26. Building a Raspberry Pi Cycling Computer
  27. Migrating a HTML based site to Markdown
  28. 2024-08-26 14:50
  29. Should've Bought A Playstation
  30. Automating against Link Rot
  31. 2024-08-11 12:19
  32. Building My Own Streaming TV Station
  33. 2024-07-28 15:11 (updated 2025-01-01 17:21)
  34. Laravel Image Validation Fails on Large Images
  35. Deploying ShotShare into Kubernetes
  36. How Do We Free Engineers From The K8S Upgrade Hamster Wheel?
  37. Perplexity.AI Is Susceptible to Prompt Injection From Arbitrary Pages (and some other issues)
  38. I'm Doing Nothing This Weekend
  39. Getting Bamboo Out of Our Garden
  40. Dealing With Dishwasher Tablets Leaving a White Residue On Glasses
  41. Building a Metadata Search Engine
  42. Looking at our first year of Solar
  43. Dealing with Water in Vauxhall Corsa E Passenger Footwell
  44. KATE text editor hangs on opening
  45. Lenovo ThinkPad x280 Won't Power On or Charge
  46. Spending an Afternoon In The Sizewell Control-Room Simulator
  47. How a Heater Killed An Extension Lead
  48. Our Worst Powerup To-Date
  49. AITA: Ex-Owner Wants To Walk The Dog On His Own
  50. Nextcloud News Stopped Syncing My Feeds
  51. 2024-04-19 15:58
  52. 2024-04-17 16:40
  53. Automating A Hot Tub With Home Assistant
  54. 2024-04-13 10:47
  55. New Dog, 2 months in
  56. Syncing Notes to Obsidian on Android
  57. Dealing With Nuisance Abuse Complaints
  58. Querying Tasks from Yesterday's Daily Note in Obsidian
  59. Heating With Electricity Instead Of Gas
  60. Making an Upholstered End for A Sofa
  61. 2024-02-07 20:39
  62. Our Solar Battery Started Kicking In Late
  63. Making Our Dumb Dishwasher Smarter
  64. 2023 Solar Performance

2023 47

  1. Pouring a new (black) polished concrete table
  2. 2023-12-20 15:20
  3. 2023-12-20 13:09
  4. 2023-12-12 19:28
  5. Amazon Has An Honesty Issue
  6. Checking in on our Battery Savings
  7. Building a hard pelmet for a bay window
  8. Using Mastodon as a RSS Feed Reader
  9. 2023-11-03 15:03
  10. Wall mounting and Wifi controlling an Oil Radiator
  11. Reviewing our Solar Battery Savings
  12. 2023-10-06 22:16
  13. Correcting My Grid Charge Calculations
  14. Shaving the Morning Peaks
  15. Improving our Solar Battery Savings
  16. Collecting data from a Bip 3 Smartwatch with Gadgetbridge, Nextcloud and InfluxDB
  17. Looking at the Instagram Account Review Process
  18. Using BlueSky Features As Disinformation Tools
  19. Posting into BlueSky, Nostr and Threads from Python
  20. Writing data from a Bip 3 Smartwatch into InfluxDB
  21. Evaluating the Break Even Period of Our Solar Battery
  22. 2023-08-04 12:47
  23. 2023-07-27 14:45
  24. Golang HTTP/2 connections can become blocked for extremely long periods of time
  25. Collecting Octopus Energy Pricing and Consumption with Telegraf
  26. Running a Lemmy Instance using docker-compose
  27. Upgrading a docker-compose based Mastodon server to gain today's security fixes
  28. Connecting my Glow Smart Meter Display to InfluxDB and HomeAssistant
  29. Linking my Watchy Open Source Watch to InfluxDB
  30. Monitoring Solar Generation stats with InfluxDB, Telegraf and Soliscloud
  31. Banks: Stop relying on SMS based 2FA
  32. Motorola Moto G7 Stuck in a Wifi connection loop
  33. Messing around with Bing's AI Chatbot/Copilot (possibly NSFW)
  34. 2023-04-22 09:00
  35. Roku DLNA Media Playback Gets Stuck at 13%
  36. 2023-04-07 15:45
  37. 2023-04-06 18:00
  38. Migrating from HomeAssistant OS to HomeAssistant Container
  39. Linking Grafana Alerting to PagerDuty
  40. Repairing a Mortar Pond Waterfall
  41. Monitoring an Aquarium with InfluxDB and Grafana
  42. Misusing Microsoft Defender For Domain Blocking Bypass Shenanigans
  43. Creating A Log-Analysis System To Autodetect and Announce Mastodon Scraper Bot Activity
  44. Playing Local Media with a Roku Streaming Stick
  45. Examining The Behaviour of a Self Authenticating Mastodon Scraper
  46. Playing Around With Automating Syndication (POSSE)
  47. Tightening Controls over Public Activity Feeds on Mastodon

2022 95

  1. Investigating An Abusive Email
  2. Comparing the Power Consumption of Heat Pump and Condensing Tumble Dryers
  3. 2022-12-23 12:22
  4. Mounting S3 Compatible Storage To Provide Additional Offsite Capacity
  5. Implementing Webmention statistics and moderation with Telegraf, InfluxDB and Kapacitor
  6. Adding a Tagcloud to Nikola
  7. Adding WebMention Support to Nikola
  8. Removing My Old Tweets
  9. Deciding Whether to Enable Automatic Post Deletion on Mastodon
  10. Replacing a uPVC Door Gearbox and/or lock barrel
  11. Writing A Simple RSS To Mastodon Bot
  12. 2022-11-19 12:44
  13. Running a Mastodon Instance using docker-compose
  14. A Week on Twitter
  15. 2022-11-07 18:47
  16. Building an Archive of my Twitter Activity
  17. 2022-11-03 20:01
  18. Analysing Clearnet, Tor and I2P WAF Exceptions using InfluxDB IOx
  19. Reducing a household's energy consumption
  20. 2022-10-16 13:42 (updated 2025-04-13 10:08)
  21. Is A Slow Cooker More Energy Efficient Than An Oven?
  22. 2022-09-24 11:01
  23. Making A Shelf From A Tree Trunk
  24. Is An Air-Fryer More Energy Efficient Than An Oven?
  25. Energy usage Monitoring With TP-Link Smart Sockets and InfluxDB
  26. 2022-09-02 10:17
  27. Getting KeepassXC Working with Snap Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  28. 2022-08-30 12:05
  29. Overriding Issue Creation Date when raising a Gitlab Issue
  30. 2022-08-27 16:37
  31. 2022-08-13 13:17
  32. Stop Requiring Phone Numbers
  33. 2022-07-20 17:05
  34. The Effectiveness Of SSH Tarpits
  35. Designing Software to Minimise Harm Whilst Complying With Legal Obligations
  36. Examining Toxicity in Software Related Discussions
  37. 2022-06-29 18:41
  38. 2022-06-26 11:37
  39. Building a Topper to Extend My Desk (and Increase Leg Room)
  40. 2022-06-16 12:12
  41. 2022-06-12 11:33 (updated 2022-11-02 08:48)
  42. 2022-06-11 10:42
  43. Replacing My Adblock Lists
  44. How much more efficient is refilling a kettle than reboiling it?
  45. Building a serverless site availability monitoring platform with Telegraf, AWS Fargate and InfluxCloud
  46. 2022-05-14 12:27
  47. Monitoring the Tor daemon with Telegraf
  48. Monkeying about with Pyodide and PyScript
  49. Re-Seasoning a Roasting Pan
  50. The Importance of Human Oversight
  51. 2022-04-25 11:27
  52. 2022-04-23 09:15
  53. 2022-04-18 13:50
  54. 2022-04-16 09:01
  55. OSINTing the OS-INTers and The Dangers of Meta-Data
  56. 2022-04-03 11:20
  57. 2022-03-28 11:50
  58. 2022-03-25 21:21
  59. Receiving weather information in EcoWitt protocol and writing into InfluxDB and WOW
  60. 2022-03-25 19:50
  61. Life after GSuite: Two months into Zoho
  62. 2022-03-18 12:05 (updated 2022-03-20 23:05)
  63. Containerising Calibre-Server To Read And Annotate Ebooks Via Web Browser
  64. 305 multi homing a joomla site between the www and a tor hidden service
  65. 2022-03-17 19:51
  66. monitoring the I2PD daemon with Telegraf
  67. Syndicating Content Into A Telegram Channel With Python
  68. since 2015
  69. 2022-03-12 12:47
  70. 2022-03-10 19:43
  71. 2022-03-09 19:43
  72. Repairing a punctured football
  73. 2022-03-05 12:36
  74. Прекратить войну (Stop the War)
  75. Another blocklist allegedly misused - this time by OnlyFans
  76. Updating my IHD to graph device category energy usage and cost
  77. How much more efficient is a Washing Machine's Eco cycle?
  78. How much more efficient is a Dishwasher's Eco cycle?
  79. 2022-02-12 12:30
  80. Scanners, Old hardware and The Environment
  81. Fixing a stopcock that leaks near the gland nut
  82. 2022-01-24 13:00
  83. 2022-01-23 17:10
  84. Migrating from GSuite to Zoho
  85. The Pains Involved In Moving on from Google Apps for Domains
  86. 2022-01-16 16:45
  87. screenwash bottle
  88. 2022-01-15 19:58
  89. replace the bumper on a Vauxhall Corsa
  90. What will Web3 actually deliver?
  91. set up an ordered set of swap partitions
  92. 2022-01-03 15:45
  93. 2022-01-02 17:24
  94. 2022-01-02 16:24
  95. Mailarchive has been discontinued

2021 41

  1. 2021-12-27 12:30
  2. 2021-12-27 11:42
  3. Designing privacy friendly analytics
  4. Attempting to control Youtube access on Android
  5. Tracking My Website Performance and Delivery Stats in InfluxDB
  6. 2021-12-03 19:21
  7. 2021-11-27 19:43
  8. 2021-11-23 12:00
  9. 2021-11-19 19:46
  10. Migrating from Joomla! to Nikola
  11. 2021-11-15 18:00
  12. New Site Live
  13. Tracking my remaining AAISP Data Quota with Telegraf
  14. initial teething problems
  15. Creating a In-Home-Display (IHD) to view real-time energy usage
  16. 2021-10-15 16:24
  17. 2021-10-10 11:25 (updated 2021-10-10 11:30)
  18. 2021-09-24 16:48
  19. Making a Polished Concrete Table
  20. Triggering HomeAssistant Automations with Kapacitor
  21. Monitoring our electricity usage with InfluxDB
  22. Making a double sided shelf
  23. Distressing Wood to make a shelf
  24. 2021-07-04 09:03 (updated 2021-07-04 09:09)
  25. 2021-07-02 11:20 (updated 2021-07-04 07:55)
  26. 2021-06-22 16:59 (updated 2021-06-22 17:13)
  27. Barclays Online Banking gives 3rd Parties access to login pages
  28. Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale
  29. Notes on An Elegant Puzzle
  30. 2021-06-15 13:55
  31. Sparkler Bombs...
  32. 2021-06-07 13:38 (updated 2021-06-17 13:49)
  33. 2021-06-07 13:37 (updated 2021-06-07 13:38)
  34. Making my books freely available
  35. Looking At Changes In The UKs Solar Capacity
  36. Bonnie's Lap Spay Diary
  37. Automating Our Heating
  38. Launching the "House Stuff" blog category
  39. 2021-03-05 12:00 (updated 2021-06-17 13:50)
  40. 2021-02-20 12:35 (updated 2021-02-20 12:36)
  41. Categorising My Daily Todo List with Deepseek-r1

2020 27

  1. Musings on Home Automation
  2. recipes
  3. 2020-11-30 11:59 (updated 2020-11-30 12:00)
  4. 2020-11-30 11:57
  5. 2020-11-20 17:38
  6. 2020-11-20 17:34 (updated 2020-11-20 17:36)
  7. 2020-11-14 11:47 (updated 2020-11-30 11:58)
  8. 2020-11-14 11:44 (updated 2020-11-14 11:48)
  9. 2020-11-14 11:40 (updated 2020-11-14 11:42)
  10. Photography
  11. Tuning Pi-Hole to cope with huge query rates
  12. 2020-10-09 10:16 (updated 2020-10-09 10:23)
  13. 2020-10-02 14:59 (updated 2020-10-02 14:59)
  14. 2020-09-06 08:46
  15. Feedback on The Online Safety Act (an email to my MP)
  16. 2020-07-26 08:32
  17. 2020-07-26 08:00
  18. 2020-07-25 08:16 (updated 2020-07-26 07:55)
  19. A comparative analysis of search terms used on bentasker.co.uk and it's Onion
  20. 2020-06-12 15:54
  21. Giving feedback up the chain
  22. Cynet 360 Uses Insecure Control Channels
  23. Writing (and backdooring) a ChaCha20 based CSPRNG
  24. The Pitfalls of Building an Elasticsearch backed Search Engine
  25. Music Kiosk using a Raspberry Pi and a touchscreen
  26. Building An Air Rifle Target Back-Stop
  27. An easier method for recovering deleted files on Linux

2019 64

  1. 2019-12-15 13:49 (updated 2019-12-15 13:51)
  2. 2019-12-13 10:55 (updated 2019-12-13 11:54)
  3. split-brain
  4. (Hopefully) Rescuing a bottle of drink
  5. 2019-11-23 12:07
  6. 2019-11-19 14:02 (updated 2019-11-19 14:03)
  7. 2019-11-19 14:00
  8. 2019-11-16 12:47
  9. a solution
  10. caught out
  11. Spamhaus still parties like it's 1999
  12. Twitter Screws Up With Data It Shouldn't Hold
  13. Brexit: My Predictions
  14. 2019-10-02 17:18 (updated 2020-12-10 11:25)
  15. other purposes
  16. Screenshot Social Media, Don't embed
  17. 2019-09-13 14:39 (updated 2019-09-13 14:40)
  18. Marking 20 Years of Blogging
  19. Google's user-hostile changes
  20. Twitter Jail: My Memoirs
  21. A small reminder of Legitimate URLs for my content
  22. Last Nights Storm
  23. a raspberry-pi based transcoding cluster
  24. 2019-07-25 12:40
  25. 2019-07-19 08:44
  26. 2019-07-17 08:13
  27. The Curious Case of BitFi and Secret Persistence
  28. 2019-07-01 00:00 (updated 2020-12-10 11:25)
  29. how to stand up a DNS-over-TLS server using a Nginx reverse streams proxy to terminate the SSL
  30. 2019-06-13 08:15
  31. 2019-06-12 14:42
  32. 2019-06-11 17:50 (updated 2019-06-11 17:51)
  33. Starting on Medical Cannabis
  34. Building and Running your own DNS-over-HTTPS Server
  35. replacing the keycase itself
  36. 2019-06-05 15:46 (updated 2020-11-14 11:44)
  37. The Importance of Provider Redundancy
  38. 2019-05-29 08:49 (updated 2019-06-05 15:43)
  39. Setting up Anti Hot Linking Protections for ChatGPT
  40. 2019-05-26 11:29 (updated 2019-05-26 11:33)
  41. 2019-05-26 11:11
  42. 2019-05-15 16:31 (updated 2019-06-11 17:49)
  43. 2019-05-12 10:49 (updated 2019-05-15 16:25)
  44. 2019-05-11 11:44 (updated 2019-05-12 10:50)
  45. 2019-05-08 08:44
  46. 2019-05-07 16:27
  47. Replacing the front discs on a Saab 93
  48. 2019-05-02 08:00 (updated 2019-05-02 16:32)
  49. ascertain what size you will need
  50. 2019-04-25 14:45 (updated 2019-05-02 07:55)
  51. 2019-04-24 17:05 (updated 2019-04-24 17:11)
  52. 2019-04-19 11:09 (updated 2019-12-15 13:52)
  53. Solution to my April 2016 Puzzle
  54. 2019-04-12 08:59 (updated 2019-04-24 17:12)
  55. 2019-04-04 09:48 (updated 2019-04-24 17:11)
  56. 2019-04-03 16:48 (updated 2019-04-24 17:11)
  57. 2019-04-02 17:57 (updated 2019-12-15 13:52)
  58. 2019-03-27 18:49 (updated 2019-12-15 13:53)
  59. 2019-03-27 18:00 (updated 2019-04-24 17:12)
  60. 2019-03-27 16:38 (updated 2019-04-02 17:11)
  61. 2019-03-21 13:46 (updated 2019-04-24 17:12)
  62. Beware USB Quick Charge Ports
  63. 2019-02-02 15:46 (updated 2020-12-10 11:25)
  64. 2019-01-06 15:24 (updated 2019-01-06 15:28)

2018 41

  1. 2018-11-06 10:23 (updated 2018-11-06 10:24)
  2. 2018-11-06 09:52
  3. 2018-11-06 09:19 (updated 2018-11-06 09:51)
  4. 2018-10-10 09:02
  5. Optimised Routing and Opportunistic Tor Enabled
  6. 2018-10-06 23:33
  7. 2018-10-01 20:37 (updated 2018-10-06 23:40)
  8. replacing headlights bulbs on a Corsa D
  9. Burnout Followup
  10. dis-assemble a Saab door locking unit in order to gain access to the actuator motor's contacts
  11. Burnout
  12. 2018-07-23 22:44 (updated 2019-05-06 09:55)
  13. 2018-07-19 17:00 (updated 2019-04-24 17:12)
  14. 2018-07-19 16:22 (updated 2019-04-24 17:12)
  15. pinion being improperly fastened to the motor's shank
  16. 2018-07-06 06:17 (updated 2020-01-10 17:43)
  17. Improving Employee Sentiment With In Person Events
  18. 2018-07-03 16:40 (updated 2020-01-10 17:40)
  19. 2018-07-01 17:06 (updated 2020-01-10 17:42)
  20. 2018-07-01 17:05 (updated 2019-05-05 23:59)
  21. 2018-06-29 09:21 (updated 2018-11-22 17:14)
  22. 2018-06-11 16:41
  23. Protecting Identity and Copyright Online
  24. 2018-06-08 17:49 (updated 2018-11-22 17:14)
  25. 2018-05-25 14:12 (updated 2019-05-06 10:18)
  26. Privacy Policy 20180525
  27. 2018-05-22 09:10 (updated 2018-05-22 10:32)
  28. 2018-05-15 10:00
  29. 2018-05-12 14:12 (updated 2018-11-22 17:13)
  30. A Week Without Medicinal Gummies
  31. 2018-04-20 17:35
  32. replacing the Lower Control Arm
  33. Changes to BenTasker.co.uk
  34. An Open Letter on Medicinal Cannabis in the UK
  35. 2018-02-16 00:00 (updated 2019-05-12 10:50)
  36. 2018-02-15 11:00 (updated 2019-05-12 10:50)
  37. 2018-02-15 00:00 (updated 2019-05-12 10:50)
  38. 2018-01-16 00:00 (updated 2018-10-01 21:04)
  39. Request Router
  40. 2018-01-15 00:00 (updated 2018-10-01 21:03)
  41. 2018-01-14 09:15 (updated 2019-05-31 12:42)

2017 34

  1. 2017-07-19 00:00 (updated 2019-04-24 17:13)
  2. 2017-07-04 19:20 (updated 2018-11-22 17:13)
  3. 2017-07-02 17:03 (updated 2020-12-10 11:22)
  4. 2017-05-23 12:04 (updated 2019-04-24 17:13)
  5. 2017-05-23 11:40 (updated 2019-04-24 17:13)
  6. 2017-05-14 00:00 (updated 2019-04-24 17:13)
  7. A guide to designing Account Security Mechanisms
  8. Don't Use Web2Tor / Tor2Web (especially Onion.cab)
  9. 2017-03-04 14:05
  10. 2017-03-04 14:03
  11. 2017-03-04 14:02
  12. 2017-03-04 14:01
  13. 2017-03-04 14:00
  14. 2017-03-04 13:58
  15. 2017-03-04 13:57
  16. 2017-03-04 13:56
  17. 2017-03-04 13:54
  18. 2017-03-04 13:26 (updated 2017-03-04 13:30)
  19. 2017-03-04 13:14 (updated 2021-05-25 11:49)
  20. A Linux Sysadmin's guide to mischief
  21. 2017-03-04 12:51 (updated 2017-05-06 09:34)
  22. 2017-03-04 12:50
  23. 2017-03-04 12:50
  24. 2017-03-04 12:50
  25. 2017-03-04 12:49
  26. 2017-03-04 12:49
  27. 2017-03-04 11:18 (updated 2017-03-04 11:18)
  28. 2017-03-04 11:18
  29. 2017-03-04 11:17
  30. 2017-03-04 11:17 (updated 2019-01-28 12:04)
  31. 2017-03-04 11:16 (updated 2019-03-04 11:11)
  32. 2017-01-12 15:48 (updated 2019-04-02 17:12)
  33. 2017-01-11 00:00 (updated 2019-04-24 17:13)
  34. 2017-01-01 00:00 (updated 2018-10-01 20:59)

2016 12

  1. Scheduled Downtime
  2. 2016-11-15 23:59 (updated 2019-05-06 10:20)
  3. 2016-11-05 16:02 (updated 2016-11-05 17:01)
  4. 2016-09-05 00:00 (updated 2020-12-10 11:25)
  5. Replacing a Google Nest Thermostat with Home Assistant
  6. building a Hidden Service CDN
  7. 2016-06-27 14:43 (updated 2019-05-06 10:22)
  8. 2016-06-26 19:06 (updated 2019-05-06 00:04)
  9. The State of Mobile Banking (in the UK)
  10. 2016-04-16 14:28
  11. 2016-04-16 12:34
  12. 2016-02-11 10:20 (updated 2019-05-06 10:02)

2015 17

  1. 2015-11-13 13:33 (updated 2016-03-06 16:11)
  2. 2015-10-15 00:00
  3. 2015-08-27 22:25 (updated 2019-05-06 10:14)
  4. 2015-07-20 03:50 (updated 2019-05-06 10:10)
  5. 2015-07-20 03:46 (updated 2019-05-06 10:11)
  6. 2015-07-20 02:32 (updated 2019-05-06 10:11)
  7. 2015-07-20 02:26 (updated 2019-05-06 10:11)
  8. 2015-07-20 01:38 (updated 2019-11-28 16:21)
  9. Migrating Our Music from Subsonic to Gonic
  10. 2015-05-16 14:53 (updated 2019-05-06 10:23)
  11. 2015-04-21 04:07 (updated 2019-05-06 10:24)
  12. 2015-04-21 03:39 (updated 2019-05-06 10:24)
  13. 2015-01-30 23:33 (updated 2015-01-30 23:34)
  14. 2015-01-16 10:09 (updated 2018-11-22 17:10)
  15. 2015-01-16 08:15 (updated 2019-05-06 10:27)
  16. Playing Around With Woodpecker CI
  17. All Digital Downloads Withdrawn From Sale

2014 40

  1. The DVLA is routinely sending sensitive details via email
  2. Thoughts on Mailpile
  3. 2014-12-24 18:58 (updated 2019-05-06 10:00)
  4. Shop section closing 31 December 2014
  5. Virtualisation: Google Play Music Manager cannot identify your computer
  6. Tor Hidden Services
  7. requiring a Yubikey OTP for SSH logins on CentOS
  8. 2014-10-03 02:14 (updated 2019-05-06 10:28)
  9. 2014-09-01 00:59 (updated 2019-05-06 10:31)
  10. 2014-08-31 23:42 (updated 2019-05-06 10:34)
  11. 2014-08-25 14:12 (updated 2019-05-06 10:32)
  12. 2014-08-09 22:11 (updated 2014-08-09 22:14)
  13. 2014-08-09 22:00
  14. 2014-07-23 09:15 (updated 2017-02-11 11:35)
  15. 2014-07-07 03:13 (updated 2019-05-06 10:39)
  16. ON-Networks PL500 Powerline Adapters
  17. 2014-06-29 08:02 (updated 2019-05-06 10:37)
  18. Understanding Password Storage
  19. 2014-06-14 20:00 (updated 2019-05-06 10:43)
  20. 2014-06-13 22:12 (updated 2019-05-06 10:04)
  21. 2014-06-13 01:46
  22. A Bad Boss Can Ruin Your Job
  23. some tooling
  24. My Own Little HeartBleed Headache
  25. Falling Out Of Love With Siteground
  26. 2014-03-17 02:02 (updated 2019-05-06 10:46)
  27. 2014-03-16 00:21 (updated 2019-05-06 10:34)
  28. 2014-03-02 09:44 (updated 2019-05-06 10:35)
  29. 2014-02-18 18:58 (updated 2019-05-06 10:34)
  30. 2014-02-18 18:33 (updated 2019-05-06 10:44)
  31. 2014-02-18 17:03 (updated 2014-02-18 17:11)
  32. Recovering from InnoDB Page Corruption: A Post Mortem
  33. 2014-02-01 22:09 (updated 2019-05-06 10:44)
  34. 2014-02-01 16:42 (updated 2019-05-06 10:46)
  35. Part 4
  36. run OpenVPN
  37. 2014-01-20 04:34 (updated 2019-05-06 10:35)
  38. configuring DNS, DHCP and NTP on a Raspberry Pi
  39. 2014-01-19 07:34 (updated 2019-05-06 10:36)
  40. 2014-01-04 00:14 (updated 2019-05-06 10:14)

2013 54

  1. NTPD Refusing to accept time from GPSD
  2. 2013-11-17 18:29 (updated 2018-11-22 17:12)
  3. 2013-11-16 00:15 (updated 2019-05-06 10:05)
  4. The Storm Ate my Broadband
  5. It's funny how times change
  6. Using Woodpecker CI to publish site updates
  7. documentation
  8. My Volvo is Dead
  9. 2013-10-01 00:00 (updated 2020-12-10 11:25)
  10. 2013-09-11 23:18 (updated 2019-05-06 10:04)
  11. 2013-09-09 21:56 (updated 2018-11-30 11:04)
  12. refresh the cache periodically, ensuring that dynamic content (such as Twitter modules) updates
  13. implementation of Reverse Proxy Caching with caching of certain pages disabled
  14. Modern Feminism is Dangerous
  15. documentation
  16. view the plugin documentation here
  17. 2013-07-18 22:01 (updated 2019-05-06 10:48)
  18. 2013-06-11 23:09 (updated 2020-12-10 11:22)
  19. 2013-06-10 23:51 (updated 2020-12-10 11:22)
  20. 2013-06-10 14:24 (updated 2020-12-10 11:22)
  21. 2013-06-10 11:29 (updated 2020-12-10 11:22)
  22. Why You Shouldn't be using SHA1 or MD5 to Store Passwords
  23. 2013-05-29 11:24 (updated 2019-05-06 10:05)
  24. 2013-05-23 14:25 (updated 2019-05-06 10:09)
  25. 2013-05-21 22:23
  26. PHP Changed Binaries
  27. Schema.org - Something's afoot..
  28. Darkleech Apache attacks on the rise, but is it really that hard to detect?
  29. Changing Browser from Firefox to Waterfox
  30. Documentation
  31. Changes to the site
  32. 2013-04-19 00:00 (updated 2020-12-10 11:21)
  33. Creating a DOS Games Server
  34. 2013-04-14 23:16 (updated 2019-05-06 10:50)
  35. tweaks you need to make if you're serving a Joomla! based site
  36. 2013-04-12 21:51 (updated 2019-05-06 10:52)
  37. 2013-04-10 17:43 (updated 2014-07-07 02:01)
  38. use NGinx as a Reverse Caching Proxy
  39. 2013-03-23 01:01 (updated 2020-12-10 11:26)
  40. 2013-03-23 00:48 (updated 2020-12-10 11:26)
  41. 2013-03-20 23:59 (updated 2020-12-10 11:26)
  42. 2013-03-20 17:59 (updated 2020-12-10 11:26)
  43. 2013-03-20 15:17 (updated 2020-12-10 11:26)
  44. 2013-03-20 00:00 (updated 2020-12-10 11:26)
  45. 2013-03-20 00:00 (updated 2020-12-10 11:26)
  46. 2013-03-19 00:00 (updated 2020-12-10 11:22)
  47. I've gone Joomla 3!
  48. Why you should always consult a professional
  49. since at least 2013
  50. V3 information page
  51. 2013-02-23 00:46 (updated 2019-05-06 10:00)
  52. My love/hate relationship with Responsive Web Design
  53. documentation
  54. Introducing PHPCredLocker Version 1

2012 19

  1. PHPCredlocker
  2. https://www.bentasker.co.uk/documentation/phpcredlocker/plugins/167-autoauth
  3. My Most Used Android Apps
  4. basic MySQL Tips and Tricks
  5. documentation
  6. here for how to alias in Centos 6
  7. how to install and configure OpenVPN on CentOS 6
  8. Dealing with Slow modules and Caching
  9. documentation
  10. Documentation is available here
  11. Natwest - The Big Mistake
  12. 580 vehman
  13. then 2.5
  14. Use Joomla? Pull your finger out!
  15. Apple Patenting the Obvious Again
  16. Old Benscomputer.no-ip.org Articles given new life
  17. New Service: Vehicle Fault Code Reading
  18. Linux for Business People
  19. howto use S3cmd to backup your data from a Linux machine

2011 27

  1. Have a Happy New Year!
  2. Do We Take Security and Safety for Granted?
  3. BUGGER is back online
  4. Who's auditing the auditors? (it should be you)
  5. The Difficulties of Anonymity Online
  6. Making the Move to Chrome
  7. UK High Court Approves National Censorship in the name of Copyright Protection
  8. The Slippery Slope of Censorship
  9. The Importance of Salting Stored Passwords And How To Do So Correctly
  10. 105-why-internet-censorship-does-not-work
  11. used Joomla 1.5
  12. Considering Disabling Scraper Snitch
  13. Computrend Powergrid 902 Powerline Adaptors
  14. Security Flaw in the Computrend Powergrid 902 Adaptor
  15. Building Network Resilience Through Sensible Reporting Policies
  16. The Ads we love to hate
  17. When did Project Management become such a buzzword?
  18. Converting a CP2 from CO2 to High Pressure Air
  19. Sky Broadbands Terms and Conditions: Are they legal?
  20. A Developers Point of View on PHPScheduleit
  21. PayPal hinder developers using subscription model
  22. Update on the Play Breach
  23. Play coughs to Security Breach
  24. A Step Forward for Anonymity
  25. Some Database Basics
  26. ISPA Invited to Porn Discussions with Minister Vaizey - Analysis
  27. Anonymous send warning to the UK Government

2010 24

  1. Assange: The Need To Identify Two Separate Issues
  2. Wikileaks and Payments - Who's in the right?
  3. OpenBSD and the FBI
  4. Are you getting what your pay for? How to detect ISP Packet Shaping
  5. Why is Encryption not used more?
  6. Thoughts on Whistleblowers
  7. Tips on Good Password Management
  8. Why Censorship on the Net is a bad idea
  9. Is Ridding the Internet of Porn a realistic objective?
  10. Update on the Fisher Hargreaves Proctor Security Breach
  11. Fisher Hargreaves Proctor Suffer Security Breach
  12. The Software Evaluation and Testing Process
  13. Moving My E-books to Booklore
  14. Howto recovered deleted filenodes on an ext2 filesystem
  15. Welcome To BenTasker.co.uk
  16. white-paper
  17. Understanding the Nigerian 411 Scam
  18. Storage and Manipulation of Passwords: A Developers Guide
  19. Republished: The courts and the internet - The Love Story unfolds
  20. Migrating From Booklore to Calibre-Web
  21. Adding a Balcony Solar Kit To Our Capacity
  22. What is a Computer Virus
  23. Truth and Fiction in Chain Email
  24. Republished: Tips for fighting password theft

2009 31

  1. Republished: Amazon Kindle DRM Broken
  2. Republished: Climate Change affects us in ways you would not expect
  3. Republished: A basic guide to the Internet for the Simple Minded
  4. Improve your Claims_DB Front-End by using Checksumming
  5. Republished: A couple of issues with Karmic Koala
  6. Republished: Windows 7 vs Karmic Koala
  7. Republished: Windows 7: the Verdict
  8. Republished: It's a Dangerous World
  9. Republished: Why you should never share Login Details
  10. Republished: Basic Malware Detector For Linux
  11. Adding human.json To My Site
  12. Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 6 - Closing Notes
  13. Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 5 - gen_report.sh
  14. Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 4 - add_process.sh
  15. Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 3 - add_record.sh
  16. Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 2 - index.sh
  17. Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 1 - Introduction
  18. Republished: Looking at the Digital Britain Report
  19. Using A Shooting Range To Build Team Cohesion
  20. Changing The Way I Calculate Solar Value
  21. Our Third Year Of Solar
  22. Deduplicating My VictoriaMetrics Data
  23. Republished: A look at the Windows 7 RC
  24. Migrating From Gitlab to Forgejo
  25. Republished: Censorship on the Net
  26. Building A Bench For Our Campervan
  27. Republished: A note about the PRS v Youtube Dispute
  28. An Atheist's view of faith
  29. Email and Captcha Generation Scripts
  30. Republished: IWF Punts it's blacklist some more
  31. Republished: Hacking the Computrend Powergrid 902 Powerline Adaptor

2008 2

  1. Republished: How Safe are Webcam Sites?
  2. The Little Mouse

2007 3

  1. Republished: Software Patents Raised Again in the UK
  2. Republished: The Problems America Faces
  3. McKinnon Loses Extradition Fight

2006 8

  1. Republished: The Problem With Software Patents Is
  2. Republished: Apple elects for more Vendor Lock In
  3. Republished: A Word about the GPL
  4. Pearl Jam Release a Video under the Creative Commons License
  5. Republished: UK government wants to put our networks at risk
  6. Republished: Some Thoughts on Life
  7. Republished: An Update on DRM
  8. A Tribute to old friends

2005 2

  1. DRM has to be stopped
  2. DRM is Evil

Undated 2

  1. dishwasher
  2. Online Resume