The Waybig Machine | LINUX Unplugged 395

It's our worst idea yet. We share the password to our brand-new server and see who can own the box first. Whoever wins gets a special prize.

Plus how Archive.org uses Linux, and more.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Carl George, and Neal Gompa.

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• tsukae — Show off your most used shell commands
• GNOME Shell X11Gestures Wxtension — Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension.
• TouchEgg — Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transform the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.
• Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021 — Sent out on Saturday by independent developer Ronald Tschalär was the latest reverse-engineered, open-source driver code that gets the Touch Bar and ALS support working for MacBook Pro 13,* / 14,* / 15,* models.
• Internet Archive Infrastructure — Jonah Edwards breaks down how the Internet Archive works, behind the scenes.
• jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• liamg/traitor — Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins.
• Don't expose the Docker socket (not even to a container) — Docker primarily works as a client that communicates with a daemon process (dockerd). Typically that socket is a UNIX domain socket called /var/run/docker.sock. That daemon is highly privileged; effectively having root access. Any process that can write to the dockerd socket also effectively has root access.
• Feedback: Minecraft Bedrock Bridge
• GeyserMC — Enable clients from Minecraft Bedrock Edition to join your Minecraft Java server.
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• Feedback: Episode 394
• Feedback: Arch Discussion