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Doom, Played over Curl

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Re: Doom, Played over Curl

#11

Post by z3c0 »

varun_ch wrote: post #6

One interesting side effect of having a LLM write the thing including the README, is that the models tend to leave little hints of the authors intention or prompt as over-explained passages that make it obvious that AI help was used. https://github.com/xsawyerx/curl-doom?tab=readme-ov-file#how... eg. > A browser hitting the same URL gets a tiny landing page that just shows the one-liner it’s subtle but once you notic…

Not to mention that the objectively bad practice of piping a curl call to bash is nowhere close to "playing doom via curl". It's almost as if they simply prompted "play doom with curl". In my experience, almost any overly-ambitious prompt ends similarly.

Re: Doom, Played over Curl

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Post by varun_ch »

z3c0 wrote: post #11
varun_ch wrote: post #6

One interesting side effect of having a LLM write the thing including the README, is that the models tend to leave little hints of the authors intention or prompt as over-explained passages that make it obvious that AI help was used. https://github.com/xsawyerx/curl-doom?tab=readme-ov-file#how... eg. > A browser hitting the same URL gets a tiny landing page that just shows the one-liner it’s subtle but once you notic…

Not to mention that the objectively bad practice of piping a curl call to bash is nowhere close to "playing doom via curl". It's almost as if they simply prompted "play doom with curl". In my experience, almost any overly-ambitious prompt ends similarly.

Oh wait I didn't even register that! yeah of course you can do anything in a terminal using curl if you're piping to bash!!!

Re: Doom, Played over Curl

#13

Post by nurettin »

reactordev wrote: post #9

oddly enough, this is how it looked when I ran it on my 486 when I was a kid. Pretty accurate except this runs at a faster fps than mine did... ;)

I remember Liquid crystal displays having an unintended blur effect when something animates or rotates, but it wasn't as bad as ansi chars.

Re: Doom, Played over Curl

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Post by anthk »

Leomuck wrote: post #8

What the hell. First, I thought this was crazy. How could you do anything crazy with curl? But of course, curling a bash script opens lots of opportunities. Given the right permissions, you could run an enterprise Jira server via only a curl to a bash script. Still cool that people find more ways to play doom, but calling it "via curl" seems a little missleading to me. "Playing doom via a simple bash script" would ha…

Play nethack with a simple oneliner: nc nethack.alt.org 23

Re: Doom, Played over Curl

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Post by bitwize »

varun_ch wrote: post #6

One interesting side effect of having a LLM write the thing including the README, is that the models tend to leave little hints of the authors intention or prompt as over-explained passages that make it obvious that AI help was used. https://github.com/xsawyerx/curl-doom?tab=readme-ov-file#how... eg. > A browser hitting the same URL gets a tiny landing page that just shows the one-liner it’s subtle but once you notic…

Is there any interest in 100% human-made malarkey like this still? I know the nonstop firehose of AI "art" has sharpened my interest in even the worst human-created art.
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