sort of ASCII webcam filter, made with TouchDesigner

After a long wait (almost 6 months) my matsuba turtle shell keyboard cover arrived! Fits my HHKB like a glove. It also doubles as a wrist rest, which is super convenient.

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Spent some more nights this week improving my alt text generator. Getting nice results with llava:7b now, which should run well on macs with 16GB of ram. Going to stop my POC here and think more about workflows & sketch some ideas in Figma.

Spent a few nights this week building a simple menubar app that writes alt text for images using llava 1.6. The descriptions are really accurate, but IMO they're often far too long and flowery to be good alt text, so my focus now is shaping the description to be better alt text.

Recently switched from Google to Kagi as my default search engine, and I noticed that I've developed a nasty habit of instinctively skipping the first few results because I'm so used to them being sponsored on goog 😂

For folks running LLMs or diffusion models locally, what models & hardware are you running, and are you happy with the performance?