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Ben Tasker
Personal blog · bentasker.co.uk/posts/blogsystemssecurityprogramming
Ben Tasker's personal blog at bentasker.co.uk covers systems, security and programming. Since 2019, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Using Mastodon as a RSS Feed Reader”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a personal blog that covers a range of topics, usually with a tech angle. Comments point to posts on Linux documentation, a security write-up on scam infrastructure, and a DNS-over-HTTPS discussion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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
Most-linked posts?
- Using Mastodon as a RSS Feed Reader2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-13
- Examining a Copyright Claim from Copytrack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-10
- Monitoring an Aquarium with InfluxDB and Grafana2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-21
- My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-12
What Hacker News says?
Oops, I meant this one: https://www.bentasker.co.uk/documentation/linux/407-building...
Comment linking /documentation/linux/407-building-and-running-your-own-dns-over-https-server
on “Mozilla rolls out DoH to Canadian users of Firefox”Submitted My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster as a story · 455 points
HN discussionI found it again: https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/security/seducing-a-r...
Comment linking /posts/blog/security/seducing-a-romance-scammer.html
on “U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams”Submitted Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale as a story · 121 points
HN discussionhttps://www.bentasker.co.uk I write about a range of stuff, though there's usually a tech angle to it
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Spending an afternoon in the Sizewell control-room simulator as a story · 116 points
HN discussionIt seems Mark Pizzolato was at the time the primary maintainer and recent contributor (by a large margin) ( https://groups.io/g/simh/message/1501 ). Mark made a change to how the virtual disk system worked that broke an esoteric use case (using dd to image multiple disk images to an SD, without an actual file system). The user didn't want to use a workaround (specifying the transfer size in the dd command), and proc…
Comment linking /posts/blog/the-internet/toxicity-in-software-related-discussions.html
on “SIMH – Old Computer Emulator”Submitted Trying Out a Far Infrared Heated Poster as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted Matt Mullenweg's Crusade Undermines Open Source as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Examining a Copyright Claim from Copytrack as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should've Bought a Playstation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perplexity.ai Is Susceptible to Prompt Injection from Arbitrary Pages as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vulnerability: Infiltrating a network via Powerline (HomePlugAV) adapters (2014) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Effectiveness of SSH Tarpits as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Examining a Copyright Claim from Copytrack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Mastodon as a RSS Feed Reader as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruining a Blog by Using an LLM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting Up Anti Hot Linking Protections for ChatGPT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feedback on the Online Safety Act (An Email to My MP) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Categorising My Daily Todo List with Deepseek-R1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Our Hot Tub Thermal Cover Worth the Cost? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating a HTML based site to Markdown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building My Own Streaming TV Station as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Has an Honesty Issue as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Mastodon as a RSS Feed Reader as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking at Tarpit and LLM Maze Stats as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating from GitLab to Forgejo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Changing Browser from Firefox to Waterfox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Woodpecker CI to publish site updates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating Our Music from Subsonic to Gonic as a story · 1 points
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