Astro Hacker News - Doom entirely from DNS records

ktpsns |next [-]

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.

drob518 |root |parent |next [-]

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

akdev1l |root |parent |next |previous [-]

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

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

b112 |root |parent |previous [-]

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 |root |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.

LetsGetTechnicl |next |previous [-]

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

hhh |next |previous [-]

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

nasretdinov |next |previous [-]

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

nullbyte808 |next |previous [-]

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

kaitari |next |previous [-]

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.