oscillatingfans's comments

On: Autonomous LLM agents with human-out-of-loop

[oscillatingfans]

Excited to see what kind of agents can be built given an execution framework.

On: Gorilla Openfunctions: Apache 2.0 function calling LLM

[oscillatingfans]

We need more open-source models that are capable of accurate function calling. Excited to try this

On: Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)

[oscillatingfans]

A paper came out recently that uses keystroke timings+deep learning to fingerprint users (and authenticate them in this case): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity23-piet.pd...

In this specific paper's use case, it's not a security threat, but you can definitely cast it as information leakage.

On: Enabling a permanent revolution in internet architecture

[oscillatingfans]

A system cannot switch the service type to "prevent DDoS from spoofed IP packets" though.

The authors are not arguing against packet switching; they're questioning whether point-to-point still applies when a majority of the Internet is used for accessing content. CDNs aren't cheap, a content-centric network (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking) could substantially increase efficiency.

[contingencies → oscillatingfans]

There are many effective DDoS resistance strategies. However, if you had to build those costs in to the core of the internet, then there is a fair argument that it may never have taken off as overheads would have been too high.

For the NDN concept, again the whole point of IP is that you can implement it on the same base: Upgrade cost of network complexity: The Internet has smart edges ... and a simple core. Adding an new Internet service is just a matter of distributing an application ... Compare this to voice, where one has to upgrade the entire core. - RFC3439 (2002)