Just for fun I created a new personal benchmark for vision-enabled LLMs: playing minecraft. I used JSON structured output in LM Studio to create basic controls for the game. Unfortunately no matter how hard I proompted, gemma-3-27b QAT is not really able to understand simple minecraft scenarios. It would say things like "I'm now looking at a stone block. I need to break it" when it is looking out at the horizon in the desert.
i've found the vision capabilities are very bad with spatial awareness/reasoning. They seem to know that certain things are in the image, but not where they are relative to each other, their relative sizes, etc.
To me the most important thing about IPv6 is how it enables reliable peer to peer networks. IPv4 is the bane of existence to p2p networks since you have to so much extra shit to make it work (Public address discovery, NAT hole punching, relaying connections through some machine with an open port).
With IPv6 you can just stick your address on a DHT and peers can connect to you 100% of the time, no matter what.
The only thing that sucks is that you can't count on an internet-connceted device having IPv6 yet.
Peers connect to you by opening a connection to the advertised IP(s) and port. Bots connect to you by opening a connection to the advertised IP(s) and port. How do you tell which is which?
With hole punching, at least you have some amount of mutual recognition by using the same external server, and you get some amount of DoS protection from the server itself (though of course the server will likely support many more connections than your local system).
So in the end, aren't you more secure using a hole punch method for direct connections over the internet for P2P communication, even on IPv6?
> So in the end, aren't you more secure using a hole punch method for direct connections over the internet for P2P communication, even on IPv6?
No?
It sounds like you're reinventing authentication, badly. If you want to control which clients are permitted to access a service available, we have well-established ways of doing that. Dynamically messing around with the network and "hole-punching" is not one of them (unless you broaden that to mean VPNs, but if you want a VPN, use a VPN!). If you don't want anyone on the internet to be able to SYN/ACK to a TCP service you put on the internet, don't put it on the internet.
Also, insert standard soapbox speech here about how the contextless phrase "more secure" is meaningless. More secure against what? What's the threat or risk you're trying to control?
First of all, this wasn't about a service on the internet, but a P2P network. I want to download and upload data over BitTorrent, or to have conversations over TeamSpeak, but that doesn't mean I want to manage my PC like a public server.
Having a public server on the path, which is what hole-punching does, helps with this, especially in the area of DDoS, since attackers first have to fool the hole-punch server before attacking any specific peer directly.
If one peer is only allowed to talk to another peer via a centralised "hole-punching" server, it isn't p2p.
There's nothing wrong with that topology, but the very original point was about how sometimes you want p2p and IPv6 helps enormously with this. If you think p2p topologies in general are "insecure" because the peers need to be directly reachable on the internet, then that's a different argument.
If the vast majority of traffic flows directly between peers, with only an initial handshake requiring an external server, the system is somewhere between P2P and Client/Server. Depending on your goals this may be perfectly ok (e.g. if you want P2P connectivity for routing efficiency and throughput) or completely defeat the purpose (e.g. if you want P2P connectivity for censorship resistance).
Why can't people just get green-pilled on the minimum wage already? I've noticed that when topics like these come up people usually say something about how the minimum wage needs to be higher when the existence of a minimum wage is arguably causing/contributing to these problems.
The market sets the price of labor just like the market sets the price of goods. People think that the minimum wage will force employers to raise wages when in reality it just makes those jobs illegal, even if both parties, employer and employee, have an agreement. E.g. what are you going to pay California's hundreds of thousands of homeless people with little to no skills $15/hour to do? Are they really better off with a $15/hour minimum wage working 0 hours and making no money? They have no path up the economic ladder if we chop off the bottom rungs.
Here is the JSON schema: https://pastebin.com/SiEJ6LEz System prompt: https://pastebin.com/R68QkfQu