not only do i think doom in css is possible, but both me and another css person were also planning on actually making it into reality

but it sort of feels demotivating to see js-powered css projects like this hit the frontpage, because if we do eventually make a css-only doom people will think its a repost or nothing special

edit: and to be clear, that demotivation is more of a problem of how the internet, virality, and news cycles work. the actual project here is still pretty cool!

this here is something that's pretty useful to most ssh users, yet seldom spoken of

a better analogy would be comparing it to calling a very good, but not well-known restaurant a secret place - using the word to mean a hidden gem rather than an intentionally hidden secret

and requiring a clock is imo dismissable, because pretty much all modern technology needs a clock too (either from the power grid, or from a hardware component designed for it)

I don't think calling it x86 is misleading, and this is coming from the perspective of someone who dabbles in rev and pwn of x86.

The easiest way is to make an @property that's animated at ridiculous speeds that can be sampled to get (sort of) random bits.

The idea is that, since a long time ago, there has always been demos that prove turing completeness and other programmy qualities in CSS, but that which people dismiss as requiring user inputs. The ones around by the time the comment got made were definitely at the "keep on clicking on the same spot on the screen" level - essentially just providing a clock.

And seeing discussion from after Jane Ori's hack, many still claim that even as much as hovering your mouse on a specific part of the screen makes css not a programming language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86

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