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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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ben, to random
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TIL that American dishwashers tend to be completely different to the ones over here.

  • plumbed into the hot supply and, although they have a heater, apparently skip the pre-warm cycle.
  • Have plastic insides
  • Don't include a water softener (so no dishwasher salt)

I might have fallen down a bit of a rabbit hole...

We tried to do the right thing and switch to Ecover tablets, but they've left white powder over everything, so was looking at whether I'd missed anything.

ben, to Blog
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New #blog: Building a self-hosted meta-data only #search engine

I've long used search to help find things in amongst my notes, websites etc.

But, full-text search was starting to get a bit counter-productive, so I used #python to write myself a search engine that only indexes metadata.

This post talks about why, how it performs and how the underlying storage engine works.

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/software-development/building-a-self-hosted-url-and-tags-search-engine.html

Edent, to startups
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🆕 blog! “I don't understand the sacrifices people make for work”

Just before I graduated from University, I went to a careers fair to help me decide what I wanted to do with my life. At one of the stalls was our local Police force1 - advertising the exciting new world of digital forensics2. Here is - almost verbatim - the conversation I had with the […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/i-dont-understand-the-sacrifices-people-make-for-work/
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#jobs #startups #work

ben,
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@Edent Funny, I had a similar conversation with the police too. I'm not sure I'd have fit well with them, though, so maybe it's a good thing.

As you said though, I think the thing that put me off a lot of roles was the idea you'd spend time/money training for a job with only 1 real employer offering jobs, followed by a career subject to the whim of whatever government was in power.

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