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Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by mschulze »

moqster wrote: post #2

Heard the first time about them (ente) yesterday in a discussion about "which 2FA are u using?". Directly switched to https://ente.com/auth/ on Android and Linux Desktop and very happy with it. Going to give this a try...

Oh, wow, thanks for posting that. I switched to Ente for my photos recently, had no idea they also have a 2FA app. I was looking for a replacement for Aegis (after a switch to iOS), and this can even import from Aegis backup files. Neat. This means I can finally ditch my old phone I still had to have around just for 2FA :)

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by embedding-shape »

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #5
VladVladikoff wrote: post #3

Maybe I’m missing it but the page is really light on technical information. Is this a quantized / distilled model of a larger LLM? Which one? How many parameters? What quantization? What T/s can I expect? What are the VRAM requirements? Etc etc

You can see what it uses here - https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/main/web/apps/ensu/src/... Either LFM2.5-1.6B-4bit or Qwen3.5-2B-8bit or Qwen3.5-4B-4bit

Huh, 1.6B/2B/4B models, I guess they weren't joking when they said "not as powerful as ChatGPT or Claude Code". Also unsure why they said "Claude Code", it's not an CLI agent AFAIK?

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by stonogo »

ahofmann wrote: post #9
_factor wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You presumably had a working 2fa app already, but off the cuff decide to switch to new unvetted variant X; basically unknown auth system after reading a few paragraphs of text in an afternoon? Does this seem sound?

While I would have the same reaction, in this case I think it is a sane decision. Ente is cornering the privacy market and I think they're doing a great job. They have a lot to lose (trust) and it would be stupid if they did something shady with the data entered in the 2FA app.

> cornering the privacy market

this seems self-contradictory

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by yolo_420 »

_factor wrote: post #6
moqster wrote: post #2

Heard the first time about them (ente) yesterday in a discussion about "which 2FA are u using?". Directly switched to https://ente.com/auth/ on Android and Linux Desktop and very happy with it. Going to give this a try...

You presumably had a working 2fa app already, but off the cuff decide to switch to new unvetted variant X; basically unknown auth system after reading a few paragraphs of text in an afternoon? Does this seem sound?

Ente is extremely well known in the privacy circles, so this is not just some random company with a random app out of nowhere. Check PrivacyGuides for example.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by chocks »

This looks amazing! As I learn and experiment more with local LLMs, I'm becoming more of a fan of local/offline LLMs. I believe there's a huge gap between local LLM based apps and commercial models like Claude/ChatGPT. Excited to see more apps leveraging local LLMs.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by HelloUsername »

juliushuijnk wrote: post #8

I'm working on a rather simple idea; a Wordpress plugin that allows you to use a local LLM inside your wordpress CMS. It requires a Firefox add-on to act as a bridge: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ai-s-that-hel... There is honestly not much to test just yet, but feel free to check it out here, provide feedback on the idea: https://codeberg.org/Helpalot/ais-that-helpalot The essence works, I was able…

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Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by sync »

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #5
VladVladikoff wrote: post #3

Maybe I’m missing it but the page is really light on technical information. Is this a quantized / distilled model of a larger LLM? Which one? How many parameters? What quantization? What T/s can I expect? What are the VRAM requirements? Etc etc

You can see what it uses here - https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/main/web/apps/ensu/src/... Either LFM2.5-1.6B-4bit or Qwen3.5-2B-8bit or Qwen3.5-4B-4bit

Hmm, the Mac app downloaded gemma-3-4b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf for me (on an Apple M4) - maybe the desktop apps download different models?

Though, I don't see any references to Gemma at all in the open source code...

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by juliushuijnk »

HelloUsername wrote: post #18
juliushuijnk wrote: post #8

I'm working on a rather simple idea; a Wordpress plugin that allows you to use a local LLM inside your wordpress CMS. It requires a Firefox add-on to act as a bridge: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ai-s-that-hel... There is honestly not much to test just yet, but feel free to check it out here, provide feedback on the idea: https://codeberg.org/Helpalot/ais-that-helpalot The essence works, I was able…

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Spam for what? This is hackernews, I'm "hacking something" to push more control to users.

I'm talking about connecting Ollama to your wordpress.

Not via MCP or something that's complicated for a relatively normal user. But thanks for the link.

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