Doom entirely from DNS records

To clarify, a good title would be "Loading Doom entirely from DNS records"

Neither one plays Doom over DNS nor is the first paragraph in the README correct, because DNS is only abused for storage, not for computing/processing/executing instructions:

> At some point, a reasonable person asked "DNS resolves names to IP addresses, what else can it do?" The answer, apparently, is run DOOM.

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drob518 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yup. A better title might be “Author discovers data can be stored in DNS TXT records which were created to store data.”

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akdev1l an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also we could probably achieve this by using dnsfs and regular doom install

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-st...

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b112 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You make me wonder if it is possible. All you need to do is to programmatically change bits, and you have compute. Some cache monkeying or somethong.

Of course, I imagine it would be incredibly slow.

	▲	testaccount28 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> All you need to do is to programmatically change bits, and you have compute. all you need is to rapidly push off one foot and land on the other, and you have running.

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LetsGetTechnicl an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This novel form of data storage reminds of me of this classic YouTube video, Harder Drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio

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nullbyte808 8 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Malware could still use DNS records for storage and access to bootstrapped payloads correct?

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hhh 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

very cool, i did something similar but turning the doom frame running on a server into ascii (with colour) and then a small shim to give inputs via subdomains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoPWuJR6Npc

without the colour i did it in a worse way for bad apple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ2Q12vYojY

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nasretdinov an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Waiting for Doom over https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs next

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kaitari 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I never stop being impressed by these "<something-crazy> running Doom" posts. AFAIC, whenever we get to Mars, we won't truly have arrived until someone is playing Doom on Mars, and without wasting valuable resources by doing so. Running Doom, the canonical measurement of truly mastering a thing's capabilities.

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lxgr 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A database storing data? Now I’ve seen everything!

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tombert an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Gotta admit that it didn't occur to me that "can it run DOOM?" would stretch all the way to DNS.

At this point I am wondering if people will somehow port DOOM over to the MONIAC.

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FartyMcFarter 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You were right to assume that in this case. DNS is not running doom here, it's just storing it.

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bigwheels an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Which is more ambitious, targeting the MONIAC platform or ENIAC?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine (MONIAC)

I'd say both are looking increasingly doable.

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sssilver an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

“Run” is doing a lot of heavy lifting at this point.

	▲	mistyvales an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I remember the pregnancy test Doom. Wasn't it "running" on the display only?

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TZubiri an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Coming up: playing doom on Ping-as-Storage

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hun3 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Finally, a DOOM download that bypasses captive portals

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bethekidyouwant 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Makes me wonder if anyone has ever put enough copyrighted material into a DNS tax record to get the domain taken down

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cat-turner 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Super cool. Never thought of this. Would this be useful for seeding LLMs?

	▲	FartyMcFarter 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This is a data storage system, so I guess yes, data is useful to train LLMs? Why does everything get turned into an LLM discussion?