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Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by utopiah »

_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?

What's the risk?

They just store tokens, without other FA at "worst" you get locked of your account but nobody else has access either. You're also supposed to, as good practice, not be limited to token generation and typically have a dozen or so of recovery tokens. Also if they were somewhat not working at doing the 1 task they should do, namely generate tokens, then you won't be able to use them so it won't even be added.

So... I might be missing something, can you please explain what worries you and why I should thus worry too?

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by kennywinker »

imadch wrote: post #52

What do you mean by IA in your device ? is it a local LLM ? if yeas how much params 4B or 8B...?? device requirements not mentionned too

Looks like it checks your device specs and downloads whatever the best model that will work? On mine it’s using a 3.5b version of llama

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by vaporwario »

gwerbret wrote: post #36
glitchc wrote: post #28

This sounds like an ad.

As do most of the associated comments. I think we're surrounded by bots.

agreed. i have never seen anyone (let alone an assortment) of hacker news users saying "i switched my 2fa to this after seeing how great it was!" Not really sure how one 'switches their 2fa' to an LLM...

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by FusionX »

Given how the blog is presented, I assumed this was something novel that solved a unique problem, maybe a local multi-modal assistant for your device.

I installed it and it's none of that. It is a mere wrapper around small local LLM models. And, it's not even multi-modal! Anyone could've one-shotted this in Claude in an hour (I'm not exaggerating).

What's the target audience here? Your average person doesn't care about the privacy value proposition (at least not by severely sacrificing chat model's quality). And users who do want that control can already install LMStudio/Llama.cpp (which is dead simple to setup).

The actual release product should've been what's described in "What's next" section.

> Instead of general chat, we shape Ensu to have a more specialized interface, say like a single, never-ending note you keep writing on, while the LLM offers suggestions, critiques, reminders, context, alternatives, viewpoints, quotes. A second brain, if you will.

> A more utilitarian take, say like an Android Launcher, where the LLM is an implementation detail behind an existing interaction that people are already used to.

> Your agent, running on your phone. No setup, no management, no manual backups. An LLM that grows with you, remembers you, your choices, manages your tasks, and has long-term memory and personality.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by mschulze »

vaporwario wrote: post #63
gwerbret wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As do most of the associated comments. I think we're surrounded by bots.

agreed. i have never seen anyone (let alone an assortment) of hacker news users saying "i switched my 2fa to this after seeing how great it was!" Not really sure how one 'switches their 2fa' to an LLM...

This thread is about the 2FA app, not the LLM app. I don't care about the LLM app. What's this witch hunt? This app literally solved a (self-inflicted) problem I was having for some years now where I was keeping an old phone around just for MFA. I even thought about creating an iOS app that's compatible with Aegis files (actually I even _started_ working on that, but didn't get far) just to solve my problem. Now I don't have to, thanks to a comment here, and that's why I posted. Geez. I guess I'll stay with negative comments for the future, they seem to be more trustworthy.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by jubilanti »

FusionX wrote: post #66

Given how the blog is presented, I assumed this was something novel that solved a unique problem, maybe a local multi-modal assistant for your device. I installed it and it's none of that. It is a mere wrapper around small local LLM models. And, it's not even multi-modal! Anyone could've one-shotted this in Claude in an hour (I'm not exaggerating). What's the target audience here? Your average person doesn't care abo…

> Anyone could've one-shotted this in Claude in an hour (I'm not exaggerating).

This probably could have been one-shotted with Sonnet, not even Opus. Given how over indexed they are on LLM coding, Haiku might even be able to do it.

This is actually an interesting coding model benchmark task now that I think about it.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by sunaookami »

koehr wrote: post #22

I just tried it. It downloaded Qwen3.5 2B on my phone and it's pretty coherent in its sentences, but really annoying with the amount of Ente products mentioned in every occasion. Other than that it's fast enough to talk to and definitely an easy way to run a model locally on your phone.

>but really annoying with the amount of Ente products mentioned in every occasion

https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/f254af939ff6950b63edf5f... Here is the system prompt, kinda embarassing

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