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ben

@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/opinion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html)

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jerry , to random
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Up at an obscene hour on a Saturday to get Ms, Lacie ready for her vet appointment. Of course she has none of the symptoms she did yesterday.

ben ,
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@jerry Dogs do seem to be a lot like children - even a hint they might be going near someone who can do something about "it" and they're suddenly fine.

jerry , to random
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The new infosec database server is running Ubuntu 24.04. Can I just tell you how excited I was to have to run systemctl daemon-reload after editing fstab and trying to mount a new disk?

ben ,
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@jerry ohhhh, was it this? https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/linux/480-disk-automatically-unmounts-immediately-after-mounting.html

Systemd's approach to mounts (or, I guess, operator experience) drives me nuts

alice , to random
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My company made a mistake with my insurance and it took a while to resolve. So they sent me $400 worth of DoorDash credits.

Guess who is having McDonalds SMEGs delivered every day for a few weeks?

I'm going to regret this when I have a heart attack on day 12.

#Adulting #BadLifeChoices

Screenshot of McDonald's breakfast menu, showing SMEGs, HMEGs, and browns.

ben ,
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@alice Oh no... now I'm never going to see a sausage & egg mcmuffin and not think "smeg"

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