Love the splash Jameson quote in the first pic.
> If everything means something else, than so does technology
Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
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Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#32Kudos to all involved in freeing up Kindles around the world.
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#33> is available for all but the most up-to-date Kindles Bought one from eBay to try it out. Silly me connected it to wifi and suddenly it’s up to date and no longer breakable
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Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you want a cheap rooted eReader I think you're better off getting a Kobo instead, they don't officially support rooting but AFAICT they make basically no effort to prevent it.
The latest Kobos use MediaTek SoCs with locked bootloaders. The Kobo Clara BW's MT8113, for example. As far as I know, one of the early bootloaders it, BL1, refuses to execute the next bootloader (BL2) unless its signature is valid. We can get the device into a mode where BL1 waits for upload of a BL2 via USB using an exploit called Kamakiri, but in public there is neither an exploit to get BL1 to boot an arbitrary B…
Can you just access /dev/mem or load a kernel module? Is there a SELinux policy stopping that?
If you can do either of those, it should be trivial to get kexec working by just loading it as a module.
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#35I used Tailscale on my remarkable tablet for a while; synchronizing documents over ssh is a lot easier with a static IP. It's fairly hard to get stuff to start on boot on the RM, or at least it was at the time, so I eventually moved off that plan. But it was pretty awesome to be able to ssh in from anywhere in the world.
Oh that sounds cool! What do you do now instead?
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#36I thought this was a random blog post, but it's coming directly from Tailscale, https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you want a cheap rooted eReader I think you're better off getting a Kobo instead, they don't officially support rooting but AFAICT they make basically no effort to prevent it.
The latest Kobos use MediaTek SoCs with locked bootloaders. The Kobo Clara BW's MT8113, for example. As far as I know, one of the early bootloaders it, BL1, refuses to execute the next bootloader (BL2) unless its signature is valid. We can get the device into a mode where BL1 waits for upload of a BL2 via USB using an exploit called Kamakiri, but in public there is neither an exploit to get BL1 to boot an arbitrary B…
Older Kobos sound ok though?
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#38> is available for all but the most up-to-date Kindles Bought one from eBay to try it out. Silly me connected it to wifi and suddenly it’s up to date and no longer breakable
If you want a cheap rooted eReader I think you're better off getting a Kobo instead, they don't officially support rooting but AFAICT they make basically no effort to prevent it.
I used to like my Kobo a lot but recently it's got some pretty severe unreliability issues, usually around reading non-Kobo epubs and PDFs. Like, if I open of those files, the device usually crashes and when it recovers after a reboot, the file disappears.
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
The latest Kobos use MediaTek SoCs with locked bootloaders. The Kobo Clara BW's MT8113, for example. As far as I know, one of the early bootloaders it, BL1, refuses to execute the next bootloader (BL2) unless its signature is valid. We can get the device into a mode where BL1 waits for upload of a BL2 via USB using an exploit called Kamakiri, but in public there is neither an exploit to get BL1 to boot an arbitrary B…
Can you just access /dev/mem or load a kernel module? Is there a SELinux policy stopping that? If you can do either of those, it should be trivial to get kexec working by just loading it as a module.
As far as I know, yes, it's possible. No SELinux. Kernel is a branch from 4.9.something pretty far off mainline with a few proprietary binary blob modules. As far as I know the real impediment here is lack of demand.
Re: Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
#40> is available for all but the most up-to-date Kindles Bought one from eBay to try it out. Silly me connected it to wifi and suddenly it’s up to date and no longer breakable
Been there before with the OG pixel.