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Re: DOOM Over DNS

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Post by drob518 »

ktpsns wrote: post #5

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.”

Re: DOOM Over DNS

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Post by akdev1l »

ktpsns wrote: post #5

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.

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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Post by kaitari »

I never stop being impressed by these " 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.

Re: DOOM Over DNS

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Post by FartyMcFarter »

tombert wrote: post #2

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.
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