I am pausing the alt-text.org project. I am not able to maintain it alone, and costs are exceeding my ability to cover, even with the help I'm receiving.
The technology is there. The need is there. Right now, the resources are not. If someone is interested in taking over the project, please reach out.
Thank you, especially to those who have offered help along the way.
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@d3cline It's fairly GCP-native in its current implementation, though the idea is certainly not bound there. It needs a NoSQL DB of some kind (ATM Firestore) as well as a vector DB (ATM Pinecone).
It's primarily CPU bound, though that's in a large part due to the implementation of its core image hashing algorithm being in need of optimization. I had plans to rewrite it in Rust (from Node) to hopefully shave cycles down.
Not much RAM usage, network is primarily inbound
@hannah Thank you for putting the effort needed for this.
I also understand the feeling of despair / abandonment when you have to leave a project due to economic needs, so... hug
Let's hope someone else takes the baton for this.
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