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Creating and maintaining privacy friendly free and open source software since 2014.

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brace-mr is now available via my Divested-RPM repo.

It inverts the kernel automatic module loading by blocking 4.3k kmods and instead provides an allowlist. There is a static built-in list + a dynamic list upon install/update.

Downside is any obscure devices you might use may not work without manually modprobing it.

Feel free to try it out or customize a similar approach using the sources.

I've been meaning to make more videos so here is a start: a 30 minute introduction to running local LLMs and their limitations, subtitles included.

https://divested.dev/pages/video-local_llm_introduction

While I don't see too much usage from them in the current state, I think that people should be aware of how to utilize them privately and securely.

Video: Local LLM Introduction - Divested Computing

Firefox 147 for Android enabled per-site process isolation, notably without using Android's strong isolatedProcess confinement feature.

Today's 147.0.2 however disables it again and they didn't even mention it in the release notes: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2011886

2011886 - Switch off isolated processes by default

VERIFIED (polly) in Firefox for Android - General. Last updated 2026-01-27.

Tiny write-up on enabling KSM for all systemd services: https://divested.dev/pages/blog#2025-12-08-ksm-fun
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A bit different than my usual content: notes on geiger counters: https://divested.dev/pages/blog#2025-09-24-geigers
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A fun Saturday project: https://eeyo.re
Eeyore's Quiet Corner

Thoughts on having public stats like this? https://divested.dev/misc/webstats.txt
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Security issue in Invizible v2.5.4-beta: https://divested.dev/pages/blog#2025-07-21-invizible_guards
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