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Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by ignoramous »

yolo_420 wrote: post #96
testdelacc1 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok I checked privacyguides. Here’s where it was added to PrivacyGuides - https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/issues/36... . The person opening the issue is the CEO of ente. So the CEO of ente gets his company mentioned in PrivacyGuides back when it was new and that makes it more legit?

PrivacyGuides goes through their own process of vetting (whether you would agree with their process or not that’s another topic) so I think the discussion to add Ente Photos is the more relevant link https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/ente-photo-management/11...

> PrivacyGuides goes through their own process of vetting ... so I think the discussion

The discussion is not all that relevant as PrivacyGuides does not rely solely on community input. The core team pretty much generates content and lists recommendations based on (what they claim is) their own research (which isn't saying much).

  The forum and community really give us a lot of external insights, with the voting system letting us poll how popular something is. 

  While we put a very heavy importance on the community consensus, it is mostly up to the team to decide what comes and goes, where more heavy decisions require more votes...

  A reason why it has never really been written out is that policies can be gamed, and the team really wants to be able to veto decisions...

  As far as "evaluating"/reviewing tools the methods to do so are not documented...
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/32774

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by ignoramous »

_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?

> new unvetted variant X; basically unknown auth system

Valid concerns. In the case of Ente Auth though, it is used by folks working at CERN [0], who also sponsored a recent security audit: https://ente.com/blog/cern-audit/

[0] https://cern.service-now.com/service-portal?id=kb_article&n=... / https://auth.docs.cern.ch/trouble-shooting/2fa-tips/

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by stirfish »

chatmasta wrote: post #153
jubilanti wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Is “this could have been one-shotted with Sonnet” the new “I could build this in a weekend?”

I always stop to ask myself, "but did I?" Usually I haven't, and that takes the edge off for me

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by jimbokun »

ttul wrote: post #106
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…

I hate to say it, but this looks like the sort of thing a CEO told their team to build on Monday morning in a panic because they are grasping for ways to participate in the AI craze. And the team did just that: they built it that morning using Claude Code. There is truly nothing original here and the product doesn't have a chance in hell of earning money. Local LLMs on-device will be dominated by the device vendors,…

You would think so but Apple certainly hasn’t managed it yet.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by codethief »

I've been a big fan of Ente and their work and am a paying customer but, man, this comment in a long-standing GitHub feature request is ringing truer every day:

> Ente is becoming like Proton: too many products and a lack of focus, leading to lower quality and not delivering what customers want

https://github.com/ente-io/ente/discussions/552#discussionco...

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by jimbokun »

moffkalast wrote: post #107
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…

Probably just another ollama-type service who wants to slide themselves in between the user and local models, so they can take all the credit and work on convenience based platform lock-in, then later introduce paid tiers.

That could be very valuable for a lot of users.

And I don’t think they are trying to hide the strategy to have paid tiers, that’s what they did for their other product.

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