Doom entirely from DNS records
github.com79 points by Venn1 3 days ago
79 points by Venn1 3 days ago
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.
Yup. A better title might be “Author discovers data can be stored in DNS TXT records which were created to store data.”
Also we could probably achieve this by using dnsfs and regular doom install
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-st...
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.
> 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.
This novel form of data storage reminds of me of this classic YouTube video, Harder Drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio
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
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.
Malware could still use DNS records for storage and access to bootstrapped payloads correct?
Yes, but it's not a problem, any more than downloading any arbitrary text is. You'd still have to have something execute the binary.
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.
You were right to assume that in this case. DNS is not running doom here, it's just storing it.
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.
“Run” is doing a lot of heavy lifting at this point.
I remember the pregnancy test Doom. Wasn't it "running" on the display only?
A database storing data? Now I’ve seen everything!
Finally, a DOOM download that bypasses captive portals
Super cool. Never thought of this. Would this be useful for seeding LLMs?
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?