mastodon 4.6.8I'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)
New #blog post: Adding A Balcony #Solar Install to our garage
We've had solar for nearly 3 years now, but our easterly exposure has been niggling at me: output starts waning around lunch so the afternoon feels wasted (particularly after a cloudy morning)
So, I've added some west facing panels to the garage using a plug-in solar kit
This post talks about the install, setting up monitoring with #telegraf as well as results in the week since
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/house-stuff/adding-plugin-solar-to-our-capacity.html
The biggest benefit that I got from setting up Ko-Fi and BuyMeACoffee *isn't* the money that people kindly send.
It's the occasional unexpected mood boosts that I get from people including a message to indicate that I made their day a little better.
This really helped yesterday:
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.
@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())
Up until my mid-twenties, I had never seen or eaten a Twinkie.
IMO, you'd have been better off never eating one 😀
Nice post too. More Duckula references please
@markpitblado@mstdn.ca Nice!
I had set up Calibre as a web service, but this looks like a much better bet
I know it's not an option for everyone, but shit like this - https://www.neowin.net/news/samsung-will-delete-your-health-data-if-you-dont-let-them-use-it-to-train-ai/ - makes me really glad I put the effort into shifting my wearables over to #Gadgetbridge
