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Ben Tasker

@bentasker

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This is still legal under Twitter's policies, so I'll do this before that changes. I'm not particularly active here anymore. You can find me in other places: bentasker.co.uk/pages/about-…

About Me

Ben Tasker Bio I'm a Staff Engineer at Chainguard. I have a keen interest in Network Security and photography and enjoy writing (in both the literary sense and programming) amongst many other interest

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New #blog post: Supporting auto-rotation and undocking on Ideapad Miix 320 ift.tt/Weu7EFt
Supporting auto-rotation and undocking on Ideapad Miix 320

Supporting auto-rotation and undocking on Ideapad Miix 320

Earlier this month, I installed Arch Linux on a Lenovo Ideapad MIix 320-10ICR convertible tablet. At the time I configured a fixed rotation to make the display work in laptop mode. In this post I impl

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New #blog post: Replacing the Dipstick On A Mini ift.tt/W6c4jBQ

Replacing the Dipstick On A Mini

Short post detailing how to replace a vehicle dipstick with an aftermarket one. In this case the swap is being performed on a Mini Cooper as a result of the original being rubbish

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New #blog post: Moving my 2FA Codes from Authy to Aegis ift.tt/RxDPfB5
Moving my 2FA Codes from Authy to Aegis

Moving my 2FA Codes from Authy to Aegis

I recently moved my TOTP tokens from Twilio's Authy to Aegis Authenticator. This post talks a bit about how (it was a pain) and why (it had to be done) as well as the tooling that I'm now able to use

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New #blog post: Adding Encrypted Swap and a Userspace OOM-Killer ift.tt/g2ZDW1Q
Adding Encrypted Swap and a Userspace OOM-Killer

Adding Encrypted Swap and a Userspace OOM-Killer

I've noticed that it's quite easy to accidentally demand too much memory and cause my Miix 320 to hang, so I've added some (encrypted) swap space along with a userspace oomkiller (earlyoom)

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New #blog post: Mini runs rough and misfires after driving for a while ift.tt/Z5jhKDy

Mini runs rough and misfires after driving for a while

We had some issues with misfiring and rough running on a Mini Cooper 1.6. Checking the engine over revealed oil in one of the spark plug wells as the result of a failed PCV valve causing pressure to p

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New #blog post: Replacing my Transformer Pad ift.tt/0DZuWmL

Replacing my Transformer Pad

The retirement of my Asus TF101 EEpad is long, long overdue. It's running a version of Android which can no longer connect to most services and can't even get app updates from the Play store. Although

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New #blog post: Mini Cooper: Removing Valve Cover ift.tt/eDMi561

Mini Cooper: Removing Valve Cover

Documentation detailing how to remove and replace the valve cover from the engine of an 2012 mini cooper (R57) One with a N14 engine.

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New #blog post: Mini Cooper: Resetting Fault Codes ift.tt/DSdK5e2

Mini Cooper: Resetting Fault Codes

Resetting fault codes normally requires you to put the ignition into position 2, however Mini's don't have a turnable key. This post details how to put the car into the mode which allows you to clear

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New #blog post: Making the Eyes of an Image Follow The Mouse ift.tt/IcNU5lV

Making the Eyes of an Image Follow The Mouse

A blog post detailing how to use javascript and a html canvas to animate the eyes of an image. Also includes other examples such as having an image follow the cursor around the screen

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New #blog post: Saab 93: Alternator Replacement (1.9 TTiD) ift.tt/x1X4YEv

Saab 93: Alternator Replacement (1.9 TTiD)

Post detailing the process of replacing the alternator/generator on a 2010 Saab 9-3 1.9 TTiD

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New #blog post: Using OPNsense with a 1Gbps FTTP Connection and PPPoE ift.tt/jZm3Xqa

Using OPNsense with a 1Gbps FTTP Connection and PPPoE

We recently had 1Gbps fiber internet installed. For various reasons, I built an OPNsense router to help connect to it, only to find that it's PPPoE support was only able to achieve half that speed. Th

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New #blog post: Building a Scheduled Toots System ift.tt/9LQ7zpr

Building a Scheduled Toots System

I decided to get around to building a system which would allow me to schedule toots for sending later. This post talks about the setup that I built as well as minor issue I ran into when trying to use

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New #blog post: Counting Home Assistant Automation Triggers For My Fingerbot ift.tt/ktev8yj

Counting Home Assistant Automation Triggers For My Fingerbot

The fingerbot that I added to our dishwasher stopped working recently, turns out the battery has gone dead already. In this post I look at setting up a way to count how often the automation which fire

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New #blog post: Matt Mullenweg's Crusade Undermines Open Source ift.tt/5EvVfDS

Matt Mullenweg's Crusade Undermines Open Source

Over the course of the last few weeks, Matt Mullenweg has launched into a crusade against a wordpress hosting company - WP Engine. In the course of this crusade he's made some extremely questionable d

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New #blog post: Trying Out A Far Infrared Heated Poster ift.tt/8srLRIh

Trying Out A Far Infrared Heated Poster

I decided to take a chance and try a far infrared heated picture as a secondary heat source in the living room. This post talks about how we got on with it.

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New #blog post: Using JSONFeed Support To Drive An On This Day Module ift.tt/ajJpx6y

Using JSONFeed Support To Drive An On This Day Module

I decided that I wanted to create a simple module to list out posts made on this day in other years. The functionality is driven by the output of a simple JSONFeed plugin.

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New #blog post: Creating Recurring Gitlab Issues ift.tt/SbzdCQZ

Creating Recurring Gitlab Issues

One of the features that Gitlab lacks is the ability to create recurring issues - tickets to track things which need repeating periodically. Whether that's updating the base image used for a container

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New #blog post: I'm a Pylontech Recommended Technician... Wait, Wut? ift.tt/Na8ZVvs

I'm a Pylontech Recommended Technician... Wait, Wut?

This week started with a GDPR breach of an email landing in my inbox. Not long after, it was followed by another. This blog post talks about the day that Pylontech unilateraly decided that I was a bat

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New #blog post: Unclogging A Washing Machine When The Pump Cover Is Jammed ift.tt/qmJAuE1

Unclogging A Washing Machine When The Pump Cover Is Jammed

Our Bosch Series 4 washing machine clogged. When I went to open the pump cover to clear a blockage I found that it was stuck. This post details the process of unblocking the machine

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New #blog post: Building a Raspberry Pi Cycling Computer ift.tt/GpHdXfw

Building a Raspberry Pi Cycling Computer

I bought myself an under-desk exercise bike, which had a small cycle computer attached. The problem is, if you're going to track stats you really should *track* them. So, I decided to use a Raspberry

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