Tag: boundary declaration

The Sakura Seat and the Zig Shim: The Fully-Local Assembly of a Manga Pipeline, the pydensecrf Siege, and One Declaration of Boundaries

The manga translation pipeline finished its fully-local assembly today: the standard trio of MIT, BallonsTranslator and GalTransl seated on an RTX 3070 — the conda environment rebuilt as Python 3.12 because the new MIT requires it, torch 2.14.1 installed from the official CUDA source (lest pip ship the CPU build), the Magpie link verified and then set aside for a local model because the computer must also work (GalTransl-v4-4B, the Q5 build occupying only a 4GB VRAM tier, natively eating glossaries and history context); pydensecrf had no Windows wheel and no MSVC, so a 50MB zig posing as the compiler plus a sysconfig injection produced both extensions, keeping the CRF mask-refinement main path alive against ghosting. The first batch of 3,077 pages (ten folders) translated and rendered in full, three truncated images repaired, per-folder _issues.md quality reports filed. And facing one JK-themed archive, the pipeline issued a clean declaration of boundaries: not unzipped, not viewed, not translated — capability intact, scope fenced.