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Stefan Bauer shared thisSpent the weekend looking at the first results of a side project, and honestly, I wasn't ready for what an AI thinks my photography looks like. 29,000 photos. Classified locally on my own hardware. No cloud, no subscription, nobody else seeing my images. The first pass wrote 367,660 tags into the RAW files as standard IPTC metadata. Here's the full breakdown of what I apparently shoot, ranked by the model: Documentary (17,524), Street (14,816), Travel (6,822), Landscape (5,937), Portrait (5,925), Architecture (4,751), Event (3,725), Night (2,897), Still Life (2,624), Abstract (505), Macro (497), Street Art (426), Aerial (206). Apparently, I'm a documentary street photographer who occasionally looks up. The last 6 years of pointing a camera at things, summarised by a vision model in 47 hours. Top moods: Serene, Contemplative, Joyful. Top scenes: Outdoor, Urban, Indoor. Top landmarks: Plaza de Toros de Ronda, Stephansdom, Big Ben. That last one is basically my travel history in three buildings. The unexpected technical finding nobody talks about: same model, same RTX 5090, just switching from Windows to WSL2 gave 3.3x faster inference and 69% less energy. Every tutorial shows you how to run a model in WSL. None explain why the OS stack matters more than the hardware. That's what the paper is about. More to come soon #Photography #LocalAI #MachineLearning #AIonRTX #Leica #CaptureOne #leicacamera
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Stefan Bauer reposted thisStefan Bauer reposted this🌳 Inclusive Design Patterns For 2026 (Google Doc + Videos) (https://lnkd.in/d_gBnScv), a free 3.5h-online workshop recording on design patterns for more inclusive and accessible UX — still relevant, with all video recordings, slides and examples in one single place. Feel free to share with your friends and colleagues — no strings attached! Google Doc (slides, videos, links): https://smashed.by/incl26 All slides (PDF): https://lnkd.in/eVsF8Mvk Full video recording (3.5h): https://lnkd.in/eFg-Bx46 Key takeaways: 1. Companies often see accessibility as an “external edge case”. 2. They don’t realize that we all rely on accessibility all the time. 3. Eyeglasses are assistive technology, so are subtitles and zoom. 4. People are never “edge cases” and “average” users don’t exist. 5. Exceptions will occur eventually, it’s just a matter of time. 6. Accessibility is a reliable way to ensure design resilience. 7. Every person is unique, their experience is on a spectrum. 8. Accessibility overlays are a band-aid that rarely improve UX. 9. You can’t build empathy with facts, charts or legal concerns. 10. Nothing is more impactful that seeing real customers struggling. UX guidelines: 1. Blue is the safest hue for users to perceive color as you do. 2. Respect physics: map scrolling behavior to your animations. 3. Ask for consent before presenting “parallax” features. 4. For animated storytelling, add “skip to end” shortcut. 5. Drag-and-drop needs UI controls to drag with keyboard only. 6. Avoid newsletter pop-ups, feature newsletter areas instead. 7. Support spaces and copy/paste when typing into form fields. 8. Avoid complex pass requirements → suggest 2FA/passkeys. 9. Avoid superscript, use same letter size instead (1st, 2nd). 10. Rephrase fractions for understanding: 14.3% → 1 in 7 people. 11. Avoid time countdowns, time outs, sense of urgency. 12. Remind people of key events, unfinished drafts. 13. Show recent files, recently used filters/presets. 14. Guide user’s attention with Layer-Cake pattern, not F-pattern. 15. X icon is remarkably confusing, name it explicitly (Discard/Save). 16. Avoid pre-selected radio-buttons or add "None of the above". 17. Don’t assume that every deaf person can lip read well. 18. With children apps, you’re always designing for parents, too. 19. Parents value reviews from teachers, parents, doctors. 20. For teenagers, default search engine is YouTube, not Google. Recorded with the wonderful UX community a few months ago. And yet again, a huge THANK YOU to everybody sharing their work for all of us to use. 🙏🏼 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 #ux #accessibility
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Stefan Bauer shared thisDay 3: 12,000 photos classified. 17,000 to go. 📸 Running Qwen3-VL-8B locally on my RTX 5090 through WSL2 + vLLM. Currently processing my Boston 2022 folder at 650 images/hour. Some numbers so far: 5.43 seconds per image, 227W average GPU power, €4 total electricity for the full 29K library run. The most surprising finding: the same GPU is 3.3x faster running through WSL2 than native Windows. Same hardware, same model, same photos. And ~70% less energy for the same work. The Windows AI software stack is the bottleneck, not the GPU. Thursday evening the full library will be searchable in Capture One with hierarchical keywords, landmarks, and neighborhood-level geocoding. All local, all private, all for the cost of a coffee. #Photography #LocalAI #CaptureOne #RTX5090 #NVIDIA #IPTC #LeicaCamera #WSL2
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Stefan Bauer shared thisSecret cheat codes in Claude? A couple of posts last week claimed /godmode, /ghost, and L99 unlock hidden features. Turns out there are even more borrowed from somewhere else. 😂 Link in comments 🔗 #PromptEngineering #AILiteracy #ClaudeAI
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Stefan Bauer shared thisFinally completed: 29,000 photos tagged with AI. Locally. On my own GPU. Capture One is great for photo management, but it has zero AI categorization. So I built my own. The setup: Qwen2.5-VL-7B running on an RTX 5090, classifying every RAW file in my library. Genre, scene, mood, location. All written back to XMP sidecars that Capture One reads natively. Some numbers from the run: → 29,764 images scanned → 28,928 successfully tagged (97.2%) → ~60 hours total runtime → 8.8 seconds per image → ~5 EUR in electricity No cloud. No subscription. No data leaving my network. The pipeline handles DNG, CR2, RAF, NEF, ARW. It reverse-geocodes GPS coordinates to neighborhood level via Nominatim, matches GPX tracks for images without GPS, and writes hierarchical keywords that map directly to my existing Capture One taxonomy. The 836 "failures" are scanned slides from my grandfather with no embedded preview to extract. That's the next problem to solve. What surprised me most: a 7B parameter model running locally delivers genuinely useful classifications. Not perfect, but good enough to make 30K images searchable in ways they never were before. #Photography #LocalAI #CaptureOne #AI
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Stefan Bauer shared thisThe most dangerous thing about AI isn't hallucination. It's confidence without foundation. I watched someone spend 1.5 hours trying to connect an MCP server to Azure DevOps to auto-export release notes using AI-generated Python scripts. Azure DevOps already has multiple ways to do this. No AI needed. No Python needed. No MCP server needed. Not to mention that practices like conventional commits have solved the problem of automated release notes for years. The problem wasn't that AI failed. The problem was that AI got the wrong job. And nobody involved knew enough to notice. The irony? A simple question to AI, "How do I automate release notes in Azure DevOps?” would have shown five existing solutions in 30 seconds. None of them involves AI at all. We keep hearing "AI removes 80% of the work." But 80% of what? If you don't understand the problem layer underneath, AI just automates your confusion faster. AI amplifies what you know. It can't fix what you don't know you don't know.
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Stefan Bauer reacted on thisWrote up how to test SharePoint theme contrast in 30 seconds using CSS Overview. Covers why Brand Center misses issues and what the European Accessibility Act means for your customizations.
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Stefan Bauer shared thisLast week I posted about contrast failures in SharePoint Hackathon submissions. That post reached 3,000+ people and sparked conversations with many people. I promised a full walkthrough. Here it is. SharePoint's Accessibility Assistant shows a green checkmark: "Looks good. No issues found!" Two lines below, it lists the issues it just said don't exist. CSS Overview finds them in 30 seconds. No extension. No install. Built into every browser since 2020. Brand Center won't catch it. The built-in checker contradicts itself. CSS Overview gives you the element, the ratio, and the exact spot on the page. 🔗 Link in comments. #SharePoint #Accessibility #EuropeanAccessibilityAct #M365 #CSS #WCAG
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Stefan Bauer shared thisAn AI has no emotions. It doesn't care if you're rude. But you do. Give it a feminine name, let users treat it however they want, and reward every interaction with polite compliance. You're not building an assistant. You're building a rehearsal space for bad behavior. Gary Russo PhD is right. The naming isn't just branding. It's the first step in a pattern nobody should be practicing.Stefan Bauer shared thisDisgusting. Shame on you, Narwhal Labs. Since I put down my coffee to climb up on my soapbox, this is for every AI developer, whether you are Anthropic, OpenAI, or making something for yourself: 🔴 STOP giving virtual assistants feminine names 🔴 STOP ignoring that the enablement of abusive exchanges with AI emboldens further mistreatment of women 🔴 STOP pretending that slapping an AI sticker on something hides the bigotry We have all seen the danger of creating a permissive environment for harmful behaviors. The only way to curb the emboldened is to socially penalize these AI tools just as loudly as you would someone standing next to you. Actually, more loudly than even that. Some of y'all are still FAR too passive about this behavior in general. #AI #AIEthics
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Just learned how to save 69% of energy on inference on large datasets. In my case, 32GB of VRAM was plenty of space to run a model. The other RAM was not the issue.
Does it fly as fast as Voyager 1, 34,000 mph, like VRAM does, or keep to the 80 mph limit like system RAM?
All engineering problems and overall, do you bite the Apple, play cool with penguins, or rather prefer some point to jump out through Windows?
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Stefan Bauer reacted on thisStefan Bauer reacted on this— My session about “AI infused document processing techniques in #Microsoft365 and #PowerPlatform” done and dusted. Now enjoying some Bosnian coffee and Cevapi 🖤 Adriatics Tech Summit #autofill #sharepoint #aibuilder #aiprompts #aimodels #powerapps #copilotstudio #documentprocessing
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Stefan Bauer reacted on thisStefan Bauer reacted on thisVoyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder... 😳 ... and I'm trying to decide if I should give a new VM 24GB or 36GB of memory to run Claude with computer use enabled in a locked-down environment 😒 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://lnkd.in/e8HCfChz
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Stefan Bauer reacted on thisStefan Bauer reacted on thisIt is with mixed feelings that I share with you I am not applying to renew my membership in the Microsoft MVP Community. I have been part of this community since 2013. Each year I have filled out what I have "affectionately" called my MVP timesheet, to show I have done enough and reached far enough to amplify Microsoft's messaging. But not this year. We have had some good years together, advocating to "empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more." We have seen accelerating change. Now at a pace that outpaces us. We now seem to need AI to keep up with our communications, information, even changes in our workplace tools themselves. So this is my stop. This is where I get off this train. I am not all-in with AI. I am setting my pace. You will still find me helping a wider community with productivity topics and advocating for augmented intelligence — a moderate use of AI to assist work. AI will be one tool of many in that toolkit. But it won't be the focus. I won't be pushing it. As such I no longer align with the direction of the Microsoft MVP Program. It is better for me to step down so that someone can take my place who is all-in with AI. I value that which the MVP Community has brought me over the years. True connections with real people. Lessons learned together. Contending with the challenges of adopting new ways of working. Close, life-long friendships. Opportunities to give feedback on products, to see the future and prepare people for it. Thank you to the wonderful community members and former MVP program leads that contributed to my experience and growth. If the almighty algorithm decides my future posts and content align with your interests, don't be a stranger. Say hi. DM me sometime, where we can have a proper catch-up.
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