Constellation · 02
Mind
FFAI, Mercury, Carmenta, Diana: AI that stays local
Why this band exists
Cloud inference means your voice, your documents, and your camera feed leave the room before the model ever answers. Remade Mind remakes Whisper-class, YOLO-class, and OCR stacks in Rust so the neighborhood can see and hear without renting a GPU in someone else's region.
Why now
"On-device" that still uploads is a lifestyle brand. Households and OEMs need ASR, OCR, and detection that compile into a tab, a phone, or a board: without a Python glue stack and without a training-set commute. Local AI is how Digital Freedom survives contact with a neural net.
How it fits
Media decodes the bytes Mind reads. Memory keeps transcripts and embeddings beside the user. Identity decides who may run the model. Edge puts FFAI next to the sensor. Trust keeps the lockfile under the weights honest. Mind is perception that refuses exfiltration as architecture.
Stars in Mind
Each crate is open under Remade-With-Rust. Open the repo, then the field note, then compose with the rest of the sky.
FFAI
The Remade-with-Rust AI media suite. Engines for ASR, TTS, OCR, VLM, and YOLO-class detection share one Rust surface so perception stays local.
Mercury · replaces Whisper.cpp
FFAI ASR engine: pure-Rust Whisper speech recognition
Carmenta · replaces Tesseract / Python OCR
FFAI OCR engine: text from images without the C tax
Diana · replaces YOLO C++ stacks
FFAI detection engine: object detection in Rust
Argus · replaces cloud VLM caption APIs
Vision-language that captions locally
What to build first
- An on-device media suite path through FFAI (ASR, TTS, OCR, VLM, detection)
- Speech notes that transcribe in-process with Mercury
- Scan and screenshot OCR with Carmenta, including WASM in the browser
Field notes in Mind
Diana 0.10: Forty-Five Counted Changes and the Attempts That Lost
Diana 0.10 removed 34.6 percent of detect instructions and 24.3 percent of tracker instructions through forty-five counted changes. The refuted attempts stay on record.
November 7, 2026
Mercury Counters: Less Memory Traffic, No Verified Speedup Yet
Mercury counters show ASR memset falling from 573.3 MB to 3.3 MB and KV copies from 510.0 MB to 14.4 MB. Timing was inadmissible, so no speedup is verified yet.
November 7, 2026
How To Use Carmenta With Your Next AI Assisted Coding Project
How to use Carmenta with your next AI assisted coding project: pin pure-Rust OCR so the agent stops defaulting to Tesseract and Python PaddleOCR.
October 24, 2026
How To Use Diana With Your Next AI Assisted Coding Project
How to use Diana with your next AI assisted coding project: pin YOLO in Rust so the agent stops defaulting to Python Ultralytics and ONNX runtimes.
October 24, 2026
How To Use Mercury With Your Next AI Assisted Coding Project
How to use Mercury with your next AI assisted coding project: pin pure-Rust Whisper so the agent stops dragging Python and whisper.cpp into on-device ASR.
October 24, 2026
dldeploy In The Wild: Sensors That Stay Home
dldeploy.com ships Remade Edge, Mind, and Identity as a smart-home mesh: cameras, mics, and presence on your LAN, no vendor phone-home.
September 30, 2026
Local AI Is Not A Hobby. It Is The Point.
Cloud AI is a polite burglar. FFAI, Mercury, Carmenta, and Diana keep speech, sight, and OCR on the device in memory-safe Rust so the model never needed your upload.
September 29, 2026
Pure Rust Alternative for heavy Python ML runtimes
candle is the Rust alternative to heavy Python ML runtimes, protecting user data from edge inference that still needs a C/Python circus. The PHP interpreter is not on this path.
September 29, 2026
The rest of the constellation
Six technology bands, one sky. Open another star, or return to the full map.
01
Media
ffmpeg, H.264, Opus, PNG/JPEG: pure Rust pipelines
03
Memory
rusty_alloc, SpaceDB: local-first replicas
04
Identity
mID & Sovereign ID: keys you hold
05
Edge
ESP mesh nodes: neighborhood hardware
06
Trust
Deputy: supply chain you can audit