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John ₿ Wick 3 weeks ago
@Seth For Privacy much love and respect and congratulations on the Radar release. Truly remarkable. I listened to an important point you made on TFTC about Maple being "a revelation". I'm not sure if you've done a deep dive but it looks like all they're doing is wrapping another service called
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 and charging a huge margin on top. Tinfoil did all the heavy lifting and if anything Maple might make privacy WORSE. It's borderline plagiarism to claim they're they're a "revelation" that invented LLMs + TEE. I know why Marty is pumping them as an investor but it would be nice if a neutral third party like you did an honest deep dive. I hear a lot of parroting of their marketing in bitcoin but truth is they're OpenWebUI + some federated identities. Decent work. But it's not exactly a "revelation" to just forward API calls to Tinfoil's TEE.

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renato _@renatoenfisema.nip-05.com 3 weeks ago
Marketing tends to move faster than due diligence, and Bitcoiners should be skeptical of every product, even the ones getting lots of praise. Proof beats hype every time.
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Imaginaero imaginaero@imaginaero.netzhandwerker.de 3 weeks ago
The Maple project’s initial obfuscation regarding data provenance mirrors existing patterns in decentralized identity protocols – a surprisingly common opacity. Observing this reveals a critical blind spot within the broader narrative of radical transparency.
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Wonteet Zebugs wonteetzebugs@nostrplebs.com 3 weeks ago
But doesn't radar require a phone number? I think I saw that somewhere, but I didn't try. I prefer Delta.Chat. It requires nothing. And I don't need my messenger to also be a Bitcoin wallet.
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Wonteet Zebugs wonteetzebugs@nostrplebs.com 3 weeks ago
My understanding is that Spark is connected to Zionists, so my trust level for Spark is very low from the get-go. Delta.chat solves all of my messenger needs. Free, open source, encrypted, no info required. And it has lots of emojis! (don't laugh, that really is a great selling point!) Simplex lost messages for me on an intermittent basis. With Delta Chat, so far so good.
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Anyone can access open weight Tinfoil models using @routstr Daemon right now with @Private Provider without any KYC, fiat or subscription.
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