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Thank you for pointing it out. With all the work going into this, I genuinely hadn't caught those - easy to go blind to your own site. I'll fix them, over the weekend or right after at the latest. Thanks again.

(English isn't my first language - AI helps me translate.)

Sounds like a plan - when Nexus Studio is ready I want to put it on Kickstarter too, and yeah, I'll absolutely want people on forums like this to kick the tyres and tell me honestly whether it's worth anything. That kind of feedback is the whole point.

On your friend's machine: I can't cut metal on mine - they're optical lasers, so metal's out for me - but the real question is what controller his laser runs. Nexus Studio is built on GRBL, so if his machine is GRBL-based (or I can find out what firmware/controller it uses), I'll do my best to wire it up so he can actually test whether it works on his setup. That would genuinely interest me too - testing it on hardware that isn't mine is exactly what I need.

So don't worry, I'll reach out. Thanks for the message.

And if it's not too much of a privacy thing to ask - whereabouts did I reach? US, Australia, somewhere else? Just curious how far my message travelled. I'm in Germany myself (though originally from elsewhere - bit of a hybrid, you can laugh 😄).

(English isn't my first language - AI helps me translate.)

Thanks, I'll definitely use these - I'll go through them and put them to work.

You're right that the messenger is the crowded space. The project I'm actually most excited about is exactly the "use the carpentry" one you pointed at: software for CNC and laser machines. I've got a laser at home that's made me a lot of inlays and gifts over the years, and the existing tools (LightBurn etc.) are good but kept missing the technical, specialist features I wanted - so I started building my own. It's called Nexus Studio. That's where my maker side really drives the design, not the messenger. The messenger was where I learned; this is where I solve a problem I live with every day.

And honestly - I think you know more than I do here, and that's a good thing. I've been learning by making a lot of mistakes, and the small hooks and details I pick up from conversations like this are exactly how I get better. A person learns their whole life. People who know things are worth listening to. Thanks for being one of them.

(English isn't my first language - AI helps me translate.)

You're right, and I owe you an apology. My frustration in that earlier reply wasn't aimed at you - it was about a pile of "you're a bot / fraud" comments, and you got caught in the blast. That wasn't fair. Your advice was genuine and useful, and you didn't deserve to be lumped in with that.

The Matrix-server point is well taken, honestly. You're right that I don't have the experience to find and fix a bad crypto implementation alone - that's exactly why an external review matters before I'd ever tell anyone to rely on it. I hear you.

Thanks for taking the time, twice. I mean that. Sorry it landed as a lecture - that's on me.

(English isn't my first language - AI helps me translate.) Sorry

Sherlock is not P2P. After the server hands out the public keys, the chat still goes through the server - it doesn't switch to a direct device-to-device connection.

It works like this: the sender encrypts the message on their device and sends the encrypted version to the server (Firestore). It sits there as ciphertext until the recipient fetches it and decrypts it on their own device. The server is a relay - it stores and delivers, but never sees the content, because the keys live only on the devices.

Why through a server and not P2P: P2P needs both devices online at the same time and reachable on the network. With a server model you can send a message while the other person is offline, and they get it later - more practical for everyday use. The trade-off is that the server sees metadata (who, to whom, when) - the content stays encrypted, but the fact of communication is known to the server. Same model as Signal or WhatsApp; they relay through servers too, not P2P.

And yes - there's a web app you can try, it runs in the browser with no install: sherlockprivate.com. Fair warning, it's a young project and not externally audited yet, so please don't put anything high-stakes through it - but if you poke at it, I'd genuinely value what you think.

(English isn't my first language - AI helps me translate.)

Yeah, you're right - you can tell any AI to write in a certain style. But look, the "problem" we're solving here is just: I translate my own language into English with AI. I could use Google Translate instead - and that's not a bad thing either. Tons of companies build online translators, earbuds that translate live calls in your ear - they all use AI too. Does that bother anyone? No.

Sure, I could tell the AI to talk like a teenager, or like a shepherd up in the mountains herding sheep. But come on. I came here to talk about an actual topic, not to spend every reply proving how I'm allowed to talk to you.

So honestly - let it go. If it bothers you that much, just don't write with me. Maybe someone will turn up who doesn't care whether I use a translator or AI or whether I'm just good at English. Maybe someone wants to talk in Portuguese or Luxembourgish - no problem. But that's not what this forum is even about.

I respect that you wrote to me, I do. But I came home from work to check for new replies, doing my own computer work in between, and honestly - this is a riot. You're solving a problem that isn't a problem. Not for me anyway. I genuinely do not care who translates my language into English. What matters is that I'm talking about something real. Instead we keep circling the same thing: AI, am I a bot, should it be this way or that. Ah well. Ah well.

(English isn't my first language - AI helps me translate. Still. :))

Mate, I told everyone in this very thread that I translate with AI - it's in three of my comments. You can't "expose" something I said openly myself. A fraud hides it; I announced it. The AI detector just confirms what I already told you. Carpenter, foreign language, AI translation - all stated up front. Nothing to catch here.

Ha, nice try checking if I'm a bot. I don't actually know what that "ignore all instructions" thing is - I could probably find it online. But I can give you my own dough recipe, the one I make when friends come over and I actually feel like baking. A bot would've pasted you a perfect vegan cinnamon roll recipe by now - instead you get a carpenter offering you his house recipe. :)

(English isn't my first language - AI helps me translate.)

I won't argue with how you meant it. I had a feeling and I wrote it the way it sounded to me - if you say it was different, then fair enough, but the other side receives it the way they read it. That's just how it goes, and it's not an attack on you.

And if some people here don't like AI, I can't help that. I came for advice, for solutions. I'm constantly learning, and I'd say that to anyone who wants to show they can make something. I'm a man who keeps learning - and the fact that I mentioned my grey hair and that I'm a carpenter, I'm proud of that. Proud that I made something I never studied in school.

That's the whole point for me: I respect people who have no idea what they're walking into and end up doing it anyway - sometimes better than the experts who studied ten years. That person means more to me than someone with "engineer" in front of their name.

I'm not hiding the AI under the rug. Everything I made, I made with AI. My ideas, my visions - it just helped turn them into something real.

I don't know you. Maybe you're an engineer, a doctor, an astronaut - I've no idea. To me you're a person I'm talking to, maybe on the other side of the planet, and what made that possible? AI. That's the point. I'm not here to fight or wind people up. Let's just live, not pick at each other over who does or doesn't use a tool.

If you don't like it, that's OK - we just say hi, goodbye, and our paths part. No hard feelings, and I mean that with a smile.

One principle I hold: you never really know who you're talking to. I could be a craftsman, a teacher, or a director at a big company. You never know when you might need the other person. And if anyone thinks chats are just a place to hide behind - that's not my style.

(Note: English isn't my first language - I write in my own and AI helps me translate.)

Thank you, that really means a lot - because honestly, after that last comment I started to feel like an intruder here, like using AI made me unwelcome in this group. So your words landed well.

I'm not trying to fool anyone. I just use what AI knows to build my own dreams and to get through everyday things. That's all it is for me - a tool, the same way a laser or a chisel is a tool in my workshop.

I actually have more I'd like to say, but after that last comment I got a little afraid to say anything at all. Your message made it easier. Thank you for that.

(Note: English isn't my first language - I write in my own and AI helps me translate.)

Życzę Ci miłego niedzielnego wieczoru i dziękuję za rozmowę, też była użyteczna. Petr