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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

Coming up: playing doom on Ping-as-Storage

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

Finally, a DOOM download that bypasses captive portals

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?