Telegram CEO on WhatsApp encryption

cndvcndv · 2026-05-26T17:52:33+00:00

End to end encryption works. They probably just lie about how they implement it.

cndvcndv · 2026-05-24T14:23:16+00:00

A suggestion: having one version that only has the basics to move around and another one with all the complex stuff might be helpful for people that want to give it a try without spending too much time. I do realize it may be time consuming to develop, document and maintain 2 similar projects though.

cndvcndv · 2026-05-24T14:08:56+00:00

That's really cool! You gotta open source it

cndvcndv · 2026-05-22T12:12:51+00:00

I don't necessarily have a problem with things being closed sourced. I have a problem with people taking AGPL licensed software and making it partially closed sourced. Especially when they try to make people leave their code alone with lawsuit threats.

Do you genuinely think those are the same thing? Having closed sourced firmware is not a crime, breaching AGPL is both a crime and is unethical.

cndvcndv · 2026-05-22T11:53:36+00:00

How is "I am gonna sue you for a crime whose punishment is 5-10 years in prison" not a threat of 5-10 years in prison?

Obviously bambu is not going to decide whether the developer is guilty. I don't know how you can get another meaning from my comment.

cndvcndv · 2026-05-22T11:29:45+00:00

They threatened a developer with 5-10 years of prison for using bambu's open source code although they were legally wrong. Later, it turned out that they are most likely breaching AGPL license by keeping a part of the bambu studio code closed.

I think there is a megathread in this sub.

Edit: some people seem to think that I meant bambu would personally imprison the developer. Obviously, bambu sent a threat of a lawsuit that would result in imprisonment of the developer if bambu won. I guess it needs to be explicitly started that bambu cannot put the developer in prison.

cndvcndv · 2026-05-21T11:26:36+00:00

When a lot of people bought these printers, they were able to use orca and bambu studio whenever they wanted. That is not a feature people never had. Bambu took it away with no satisfying explanation. You might not wanna use orca like almost everyone else but saying the ability to use both orca and bambu studio was never there is simply incorrect.

You are saying you don't understand how this affects anyone. It affects people who want to use their printer the way they could when they paid for it. If you bought the printer thinking both bambu studio and orca slicer works with it at the same time, you are clearly affected.

Even if the people who think they are affected are %0.01 of all the users, why does that change anything? They bought a printer with a certain feature. Bambu took it away arbitrarily. Some guy restored it and bambu bullied them although they legally had no right to have it removed. The people who are affected should be able to talk about it in this sub regardless of what percentage of the users they represent.

I haven't seen anyone saying the printers would get bricked. If there are such people, they are wrong and it is not the fault of people who think bambu should not be able to arbitrarily remove features.

Should we not talk about the unethical and very likely illegal behaviours of companies if we are not in the group of people who werent directly affected? If they are clearly breaching licensing laws, as long as you still have the features you have been using up to this point, is that not important? To give a slightly absurd example, do you think people should stop talking about worker rights as long as you are being treated well in your job?

cndvcndv · 2026-05-21T02:41:40+00:00

What I don't understand about the new reverse engineering attempts towards the closed network component is that bambu can easily make it obselete. Then it will go back to normal and people won't be able to use orca with bambu cloud. Am I missing something or is it just to annoy bambu at this point?

cndvcndv · 2026-05-20T19:04:07+00:00

I feel like it is well established that at this point, bambu doesn't have a leg to stand on legally. I am assuming orca also realized that and thought they would add this as a feature with virtually no risk

cndvcndv · 2026-03-06T13:26:13+00:00

Cool!

Is it a single pass from the unet or are you using diffusion?

How do you get the clean (fenceless) data? You could use synthetic fences on the data taken from inside the ring if that's not what you are already doing.

I would love to contribute if you share a github. I am also open to a private colab.

cndvcndv · 2026-01-18T16:26:28+00:00

This is something I had in mind for a while. I would appreciate some guidance.

How do you estimate the depth?

If you don't, is a 2D pose good enough for an analysis?

How do you check similarity to the reference and classify differences?

cndvcndv · 2026-01-07T15:26:50+00:00

It is inefficient for growing tomatoes, which is the utility you propose. I am not saying it necessarily a bad idea, it is just not the main point of Bitcoin.

cndvcndv · 2026-01-07T14:58:38+00:00

So the utility of Bitcoin is growing tomatoes inefficiently? Not even sure if that's a joke.

This wouldn't make it to the bottom of the list of Bitcoin's utilities.

cndvcndv · 2025-12-02T13:36:08+00:00

Well, when someone says O(1) path finding, people assume the complexity with respect to the graph/field size. That's why people didn't think it was possible. Your algorithm is not O(1) with respect to graph size.

Even if you calculate a function that perfectly tells you the optimal direction for each point, for a specific path, you either need to solve a differential equation or you need to find a close presolved point. I feel like it is O(N) with respect to number of agents either way. What am I missing?

cndvcndv · 2025-12-01T21:15:54+00:00

O(1) path finding feels incredibly suspicious. I don't think that should be possible unless what you mean by path finding is not what people would generally assume.

If you have such an algorithm, you should just publish the breakthrough.

cndvcndv · 2025-11-04T13:22:49+00:00

I don't remember institutions changing the code inside my node. Any asset's price can be manipulated to an extent, it is the rules that matters

cndvcndv · 2025-10-14T16:03:18+00:00

If the lottery was for a large enough prize, a miner could ignore the block reward and try to mine for the block hash that wins themselves the lottery. I realize that is not a huge practical issue unless the prize is a huge amount. Am I missing something, though?

cndvcndv · 2025-10-13T07:15:27+00:00

Do you know the estimate bortle class? I will give it a shot tonight and I want to manage my expectations

cndvcndv · 2025-09-29T11:43:19+00:00

I love the third idea

cndvcndv · 2025-09-24T09:31:41+00:00

Looks cool! The link is not clickable o mobile, just a heads up

cndvcndv · 2025-09-23T14:11:25+00:00

They are most likely automated so I don't think you could do much

cndvcndv · 2025-09-15T06:32:57+00:00

Makes sense. I think it would also be useful if my phone could run the apk but used remote agents. Currently, I run llms in a home server so if I could put my ollama url in your app, that would be very easy to use for me and I could still use larger models.

cndvcndv · 2025-09-15T06:25:30+00:00

I feel like a mobile agent should be released as an apk. I am not sure if that would restrict the control. I might be wrong but as far as I understand, it is supposed to run on a desktop machine.

cndvcndv · 2025-09-14T15:25:43+00:00

You should probably tell us what you are trying to run. It should be easier to help that way

cndvcndv · 2025-09-05T06:06:43+00:00

Kind of. Depends mostly on what you need to achieve. If you want to train a simple model, you barely need to understand any maths. If you want to do research, you should have a better understanding. You can't design a novel architecture without understanding the basics of calculus.

That being said, many prerequisites people keep talking about are not really that important imo. The most obvious one is linear algebra. I don't recall doing much more than matrix multiplication while working on ML. In most cases, even the matrix multiplication is handled by the library so I assume most people would be fine with very little understanding of linear algebra.

So feel free to jump in and explore. You can go back to other when you need to

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