HPhpfr·Sep 10, 2020
Cloudmacs basically puts tty emacs in your browser:
https://github.com/karlicoss/cloudmacs
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Selfhost your Emacs and access it in browser
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Nov 2019 | 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Dec 2019 | 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2020 | 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2020 | 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2020 | 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2020 | 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2020 | 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2020 | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2020 | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2020 | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesBased on [1] it looks like you could gain root within the docker container. From there, you need a bit of luck to get root on the host [2].
[1] https://github.com/karlicoss/cloudmacs/blob/master/asEnvUser
[2] https://security.stackexchange.com/a/153016
In Cloudmacs: access your Emacs in browserYep, should have summarized in a comment, thanks! I've got a 'how does it work section' in readme: https://github.com/karlicoss/cloudmacs#how-does-it-work
- Gotty is a tool that allows accessing any TTY app as a web page (also allows forwarding input)
- We use Gotty to run emacsclient --tty -a '' command, that connects to the existing Emacs instance or starts a new one. That makes the session persist tab closing, connection problems etc.
- Your Emacs configs and files you want to expose to Cloudmacs are mapped in docker-compose.yml file.
Rest of the setup is basically dirty business of setting up Docker container, permissions etc.
In Cloudmacs: access your Emacs in browser