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Re: DOOM Over DNS

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Post by vicapow » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 8:35 PM UTC

that SVG wow how?!

Re: DOOM Over DNS

#32

Post by kuberwastaken » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 8:42 PM UTC

This is so peak

Re: DOOM Over DNS

#33

Post by tombert » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 8:49 PM UTC

FartyMcFarter wrote: post #16

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.

That's fair. I guess "can it store DOOM?" is still an interesting question though.

Re: DOOM Over DNS

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Post by antonvs » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 8:57 PM UTC

tombert wrote: post #33

FartyMcFarter wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You were right to assume that in this case. DNS is not running doom here, it's just storing it.

That's fair. I guess "can it store DOOM?" is still an interesting question though.

Is it? DNS has an explicit mechanism for storing data.

Re: DOOM Over DNS

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Post by naultic » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

kgeist wrote: post #27

I once had this silly idea to create distributed storage of arbitrary data by exploiting a range of completely unrelated sites. Say, when you want to upload your file to the System, it may store one encrypted chunk as an image on a free image hosting site, another chunk as an encoded blog post on a random forum about farming (or in the user profile?), another chunk as a youtube video, etc. Imagine having something li…

lol now I wanna build this. It's like the dark web but without user or in this case, site consent. This could be a fun few weekend project

Re: DOOM Over DNS

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Post by tombert » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

antonvs wrote: post #34

tombert wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's fair. I guess "can it store DOOM?" is still an interesting question though.

Is it? DNS has an explicit mechanism for storing data.

Ok well it was new to me ok!

Re: DOOM Over DNS

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Post by Sajarin » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 9:04 PM UTC

There's a writeup here:

https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/

Re: DOOM Over DNS

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Post by lthi747 » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 9:10 PM UTC

kaitari wrote: post #15

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.

I am still waiting someone to port Doom on CSS

Re: DOOM Over DNS

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 9:10 PM UTC

ethin wrote: post #29

I read this title, did a double-take, then had to go look at the git hub because it still didn't click for me. Because this sounds absolutely amazing, and absurd, and weird, all at the same time. Like..... Wow? Talk about turning protocols into pretzels...

> had to go look at the git hub because it still didn't click for me

Obviously it still didn't click for you or you're lying about looking at the GitHub, because if you did, you'd have learned that it's not using DNS to run DOOM, only to store it. Which...shouldn't really be a surprise to anybody who knows that DNS TXT records exist.

Re: DOOM Over DNS

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Post by gnabgib » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 9:15 PM UTC

lthi747 wrote: post #38

kaitari wrote: post #15

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.

I am still waiting someone to port Doom on CSS

Someone delivered that 2 years ago: https://codepen.io/cobra_winfrey/pen/oNOMRav