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This is how you "transform" an Android backup file into a regular gzipped tarball.

Anyway, wouldn't it be fantastic to create a souped-up ROM board? 8MB Flash and 8MB NewtonOS, also in Flash, being able to patch it, fix it, extend it, have fun. Maybe have even more that 16MB if that is possible. Is it possible? How can we find out?

An early draft of the licensee information for this ROM card exists, but it is not detailed enough to build such a card. Before starting a patch wire solution, I wanted to know how the original board worked, and then fill in the missing information in that draft.

Well, I went all the way and reverse engineered the entire ROM board. Here are my findings.

The first full part of the series, "Year Zero", comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virgina. [..]
Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero day" exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive.

Kea is designed to be easily extensible through an applications API. This API can be called at multiple places during the DHCP processing, to consult or update enterprise provisioning systems, for example. Kea DHCP leases may be stored in a memory file database, or in a MySQL or Postgres database.

It’s unclear if the people running American News LLC use the same writers for their conservative and liberal websites, or if they have separate teams. What is clear is at least one of their sites is using fake author photos. The author page for God Today lists two writers, Henry Freeman and John Sullivan. The photos for these writers are taken from stock video footage.

It’s obvious that a bunch of fabric extenders (leafs) connected to a pair of Nexus switches (spines) form a leaf-and-spine fabric.
However, there are several important differences between a fabric extender-based fabric and a leaf-and-spine fabric built with standard data center switches:
* In a well-designed leaf-and-spine fabric the spine nodes are completely independent – they share no configuration, state or risk. Nexus switches configured as a vPC pair share a lot of configuration and state (and risk).
* Leaf nodes in a traditional leaf-and-spine fabric are independent devices, whereas fabric extenders act as linecards of the spine switches. The blast radius (how many things can go wrong based on a single failure) on a fabric extender-based architecture is much larger than in a fabric built with independent switches.
* Independent leaf nodes can do local packet switching whereas in a fabric extender environment all traffic has to traverse the spine layer.

There was also the question of whether to post popular links seen elsewhere or focus on hidden gems. ICYMI YOLO FOMO. A curated best of list is good for people who want to replace social aggregators, but redundant for those who don’t. Focusing on the underserved link market means the site is less useful as an archive. It feels weird to exclude a link because other people liked it, and being able to flip back and find a link a week later has actually been immensely helpful.

There’s always some proposal or another about how to fix or replace sites like Twitter and HN. One possibility is for everybody to run a little site where they post their favorite links. Subscribe to the people who post good stuff, and boom, all those complaints about clickbait rising to the top disappear.