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Funny how two people can hack two separate home phones to run DOOM without realizing it until after the fact. For perspective, I posted a blog article about mod

Funny how two people can hack two separate home phones to run DOOM without realizing it until after the fact. For perspective, I posted a blog article about modifying a CaptionCall phone to run DOOM at the same time [1] as this was posted! What a unique coincidence! 1: https://joshumax.github.io/general/2021/08/11/running-doom-on-captioncall.html https://joshumax.github.io/general/2021/08/11/running-doom-o...

bitexploder 5y ago
Amusingly I see this happen all the time in the information security domain. Two researchers coming out with the same results at basically the same time and they were isolated and doing the work independently. It happens in science and other areas so often. It’s an interesting phenomenon for sure. Maybe someone has named it and thought more about it. I just imagine we are all primed with roughly the same information and resources and these lovely little coincidences pop up from time to time, relatively often.
- J5892 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery "Multiple Discovery" is kind of on the nose, but it works.
  - spockz 5y ago
    I think “Zeitgeist” is the prevalent term here. Or maybe it more the cause of multiple discovery, reading the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist
    - randomswede 5y ago
      Or possibly "steam-engine time".
- userbinator 5y ago
  I found it amusing that this time, both the article submitter and the second person to do a similar hack are named Josh. Perhaps that's slightly less common.
- hapidjus 5y ago
  Synchronicity?
  - mstade 5y ago
    Serendipity perhaps? As an aside, it's one of my favorite words. In my opinion it's a beautiful configuration of letters that's sounds lovely when saying it, and the meaning of it is equally wonderful. As a word, it makes me happy.
    - hoyd 5y ago
      What happened to "Cellar door"? :-)
userbinator 5y ago
It’s also quite capable, sporting an ARMv7 i.MX6 Quad SoC, 4GB of NAND, and a whopping 1GB! of DDR3 I guess as a follow-up challenge, you could try to run Android on it.
jalbertoni 5y ago
I mean, Newton and Leibniz figured out calculus at the same time in slightly different ways. It is common enough, but still a nice coincidence when it happens.
jbverschoor 5y ago
next step: multiplayer
pwdisswordfish8 5y ago
It’s almost as if Doom were a go-to example to demonstrate running arbitrary code on obscure devices. https://i.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom https://i.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom
- sva_ 5y ago
  I didn't know that reddit subdomain. Seems to be identical to https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/.compact https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/.compact
  - CyberDildonics 5y ago
    That's just a different link to the same subreddit.
  - mintplant 5y ago
    It's a shortcut to the old mobile site, yeah. "i" for iPhone. Not to be confused with i.redd.it, which hosts images.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
  Yes, there’s a long history of it ever since the source code was either open-sourced or just made public.
mdp2021 5y ago
Bolyai and Lobacevskij, again and again!

bitexploder 5y ago

Amusingly I see this happen all the time in the information security domain. Two researchers coming out with the same results at basically the same time and they were isolated and doing the work independently. It happens in science and other areas so often. It’s an interesting phenomenon for sure. Maybe someone has named it and thought more about it. I just imagine we are all primed with roughly the same information and resources and these lovely little coincidences pop up from time to time, relatively often.

J5892 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery "Multiple Discovery" is kind of on the nose, but it works.
- spockz 5y ago
  I think “Zeitgeist” is the prevalent term here. Or maybe it more the cause of multiple discovery, reading the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist
  - randomswede 5y ago
    Or possibly "steam-engine time".
userbinator 5y ago
I found it amusing that this time, both the article submitter and the second person to do a similar hack are named Josh. Perhaps that's slightly less common.
hapidjus 5y ago
Synchronicity?
- mstade 5y ago
  Serendipity perhaps? As an aside, it's one of my favorite words. In my opinion it's a beautiful configuration of letters that's sounds lovely when saying it, and the meaning of it is equally wonderful. As a word, it makes me happy.
  - hoyd 5y ago
    What happened to "Cellar door"? :-)

userbinator 5y ago

It’s also quite capable, sporting an ARMv7 i.MX6 Quad SoC, 4GB of NAND, and a whopping 1GB! of DDR3 I guess as a follow-up challenge, you could try to run Android on it.

jalbertoni 5y ago

I mean, Newton and Leibniz figured out calculus at the same time in slightly different ways. It is common enough, but still a nice coincidence when it happens.

jbverschoor 5y ago

next step: multiplayer

pwdisswordfish8 5y ago

It’s almost as if Doom were a go-to example to demonstrate running arbitrary code on obscure devices. https://i.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom https://i.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom

sva_ 5y ago
I didn't know that reddit subdomain. Seems to be identical to https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/.compact https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/.compact
- CyberDildonics 5y ago
  That's just a different link to the same subreddit.
- mintplant 5y ago
  It's a shortcut to the old mobile site, yeah. "i" for iPhone. Not to be confused with i.redd.it, which hosts images.
TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
Yes, there’s a long history of it ever since the source code was either open-sourced or just made public.

mdp2021 5y ago

Bolyai and Lobacevskij, again and again!