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It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle


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Kindle OS is stripped down version of Linux running an ancient kernel and old Gnu utilities but no package manager. I chose the easy path: disable the framework, display a PNG image periodically in full screen mode. It had been few years since I dabbled into image processing algorithms, but after reading some manuals- I figured out that I need to use the EncodeOptions of the cf-wasm library to encode the data into the correct format.

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