Divested Computing: Primary

Preface Virtual machines can be great boundaries for security, but libvirt's default QEMU/KVM machines include the entire kitchen sink which is often unnecessary.

Preface Google Safe Browsing is a (controversial) mechanism used by web browsers to block known bad content in near real-time.

As I write this, the date is October 3rd 2025.

I recently acquired a ThinkPad T480 as a travel laptop and it has been a joy to use.

USBGuard is a daemon to manage USB device authorization.

I closed nearly all of my social accounts today.

Due to recent changes in Linux 6.18.4 regarding loading of microcode for AMD platforms I am deprecating real-ucode, since that was my primary usecase.

With the recent RAM pricing situation, I've been exploring some unconventional stop-gaps.

Disclaimer I am just some random software developer.

Kernel updates failed to install on one of my servers today since /boot was full.

Google is currently speedrunning the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) into the ground even in spite of the current antitrust litigation.

Every so often people talk about drives and how SSDs are worse because they have a terabytes written (TBW) limit, except hard drives have them too!

I've migrated the web server to a new VPS.

Yesterday I started streaming from my Jellyfin instance and some time in it completely went away.

I have two identical Ryzen 7530U laptops and one recently started immediately resuming when suspended.

Quick reminder to check/increase the iterations on your LUKS keyslots.

I was reviewing through some projects yesterday and noticed this commit in Invizible.

Today's real-ucode update now includes an optional subpackage amd-ucode-firmware-resigned which contains new microcodes resigned with the old format to allow loading on pre 2025-01 BIOSes.

Fresh results of ECH availability on the top 10k domains (as ranked by Open PageRank) is available here.

Today I spent a few hours packaging Udderance as an Android app for true/reliable offline usage with all assets bundled.

Long ago in August of 2021 I disabled the JIT for Firefox in Brace.

I've a new zebra profile picture, crudely hand drawn by me.

Over the past few years YouTube has been adding more and more restrictions in place to watching videos ranging from fake buffering to adding DRM to completely blocking playback.

I've prioritized and added more reading sources, as well as tidied up the pages.

I needed to do this earlier and pulled pandoc out, except the output was not great.

I've added dark mode to my current websites.

I figured it was about time I started a blog.

added 14 more phrase boards after implementing a Open Board Format converter made sub menu navigation cleaner by collapsing others added support for Escape key to close dialogs/submenus generated the remaining 5647 translations, still to be imported Comme…

Back in January when I tore down all of the DivestOS infrastructure, I also took down my onion services.

Fedora just shipped chrony 4.7 today and Brace's previous override caused the service to be terminated by systemd due to the upstream service file switching from forking to notify type.

Boards are now machine translated into 35 languages Pictograms now work in Safari Phrase buttons are now in a dialog view instead of a collapse view for quicker navigation Phrase board generation has been overhauled to allow for sub boards as a prerequisi…

Recently my friend swapped out one of their 1Gb switches with a 10Gb switch, but it refused to link up with their other 10Gb switch.

Just added pictogram support for 700+ phrases to Udderance thanks to the Mulberry Symbols project.

Support for dynamic phrase board generation and presets A board preset cloned from Cboard AAC Improved voice list handling Support for Sherpa TTS via WASM for more voices and as a fallback when WebSpeech is unavailable (many Linux distros don't seem to se…

My six month review/notes of daily driving an iPhone as someone who spent a decade maintaining their own Android distro: Overall: Mostly OK, some parts are better than I expected, but others are abysmal.

I've published some recommended settings lists for GrapheneOS and iOS.

Happy Tuesday!

I recently added some drives to a ZFS pool.

Someone on a forum asked for a summary of a YouTube video so I figured I'd see how well Ollama/Gemma3 can do it.

There are now 21 tests and it now has a dedicated domain.

I removed the donation options six months back when I shuttered DivestOS.

May is mental health awareness month, so to promote it I’ve implemented a handful of mental health screeners in the form of completely client side tests.

I've had many cables fail over the years, so I figured I'd start documenting them.

Fedora pushed out an iptables update today which altered some paths. firewalld, Docker, and other tools broke.

I've started migrating to Porkbun since Gandi has yet to cease constantly hiking their prices.

I've started working on a feature in the GrapheneOS hardened_malloc project that enables system wide buffer over/under-flow detection by overriding common block operation functions (eg. memcpy/memset) and performing size checks against the known sizes ava…

trash.sh now blocks many known AI crawlers and the ancient versions list has been refreshed.

JavaScript JIT is now disabled for WebKitGTK and GJS thanks to @RKNF404 Tweaks to browser extension overrides Comment on this: GitHub