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bchot · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

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some do improve their looks tho..

like Michelle Keegan (from Brassic)

and look at her now

Don't know her though. I mean I was talking generally that, when procedures weren't very common, we had naturally beautiful actors and that procedures generally ruin beauty in the long term, imo. Nicole Kidman, being prime example, as we talked earlier.

she a Brit

She is.

no doubt..

bchot · December 2025

time to go get some groceries..

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dustinc · December 2025

Mark your calendars! Tomorrow @ 8 PM PST, we will be streaming on YouTube and randomly selecting the 90 winners for the main giveaway!

Here is the YouTube URL:

bchot · December 2025

roughly 1/20 chance of winning something.. i like those odds.
💜💜💜💙💙💙💚💚💚💛💛💛

noob404 · December 2025

@dustinc said:
Mark your calendars! Tomorrow @ 8 PM PST, we will be streaming on YouTube and randomly selecting the 90 winners for the main giveaway!

Here is the YouTube URL:

Waiting eagerly for the live stream.

noob404 · December 2025

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@noob404 i realized i actually saw Banlieue 13 and recent enough to remember it well. maybe it was on NF? yeah, i did it on NF. very cool movie. fast paced. and nice cars - loved it. as for District 13: Ultimatum - it was not on NF, so I will be watching it at some point.

but for now i am watching HEROES!! it's one of those shows that i loved but never rewatched.. i remember back when it first aired rushing home from work to see it. first it would be a quick dinner, then Chuck, theh Heroes.. Chuck i rewatched since then (i was very very big fan of young, sexy and beautiful Yvonne Strahovsky), but Heroes - never until today...

Ah, I kinda liked it at the start of the series. Didn't finish but it's easy to get hooked!

I am still to watch the other two that bchot and ralf recommended.

Maybe around Christmas and you have some time off.

Prolly not. Will have a lot of work piled up for Xmas this time.

Cos of this?

Partiall, yes.

BasToTheMax · December 2025

eh i'm back!

noob404 · December 2025

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I am guessing it's easy for us to reach 1000 pages today.

Easy..m nah, hard work to keep up.

Kinda yes, But, maybe you could chat online when members are here.

I always do.

Alright, Sara. See you soon then maybe for a live chat.

noob404 · December 2025

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Gonna take a bit more time, guys. Will be back for a quick chat soon ,bchot and pudlez

Good noob ain't 404 anymore!

Lol! Never 404. I am just a call away

Long distance relationship

Yah, I domaintain that with this thread in a way

Sure do.

Correction, it's a short distance relation

noob404 · December 2025

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963 is reverse 69 with butt..

Ahw... No 969 anymore now

You just missed it

Too bad , me sad

More milestones to come.

Oh yes, there's gonna be another one today.

Hopefully, very soon.

noob404 · December 2025

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Sara, come chat with us on page 970. I think ralf.is also online

Rat bruthah busy wanking.

Even ralf wants to chat online actively.

Ink kw he does, he'll be here.

He's already around here, I guess.

noob404 · December 2025

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@noob404 i realized i actually saw Banlieue 13 and recent enough to remember it well. maybe it was on NF? yeah, i did it on NF. very cool movie. fast paced. and nice cars - loved it. as for District 13: Ultimatum - it was not on NF, so I will be watching it at some point.

but for now i am watching HEROES!! it's one of those shows that i loved but never rewatched.. i remember back when it first aired rushing home from work to see it. first it would be a quick dinner, then Chuck, theh Heroes.. Chuck i rewatched since then (i was very very big fan of young, sexy and beautiful Yvonne Strahovsky), but Heroes - never until today...

Oh that's good. I didn't actually notice any cars in the movie, oh yes, there were some with the drug lords and such. I found the stunts in the movie insane. It was my first exposure to parkour, so, I found that movie to be one of its kind.
It became more interesting when I learned that David Belle was prolly the first to popularise parkour in France. You can still watch some videos of him doing those insane stunts off roofs and what not.

Parkour is nice. My kid loves it.

Do they practice parkour?

Yes, since last month.

LOL! Okay, I can tell you are kidding.

No for real, only just started.

Like how, YouTube or something? Or, are they learning this on their own?

noob404 · December 2025

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Oh this giveaway that's supposed to have happened already I think has some sweet prizes! Dustin sees us and delivers!

Did I miss a giveaway?

No

But you missed an awesome video (the sealion one a few up). So catchy.

Okay
Will catch up later. Got a busy day ahead. Will join you whenever I have time in between.
Right now, have an hour or so of sleep left in me before I get to work. Or, so I believe.

Sleep tight

Thank you, sara. See ya guys later. Have a nice day or night.

Off as well

Oh didn't realise it was night for you.

Of course it is. Almost midnight.

Past even

Oh sorry, I got our timezones the wrong way round. Wow, you were up really late some nights recently then!

Always am this time of the year. Too little ours in a day. Powernap at noon and I'm golden

Powernap and a shower, got it!

Powernaps never worked for me. I need full cycle naps

I don't... My brain all fired up again after 15-20 mins.

Used to work when I was younger, but, not anymore.

I couldn't when I was young. Can now. Can go to sleep like in sec.s.

You are a lucky person. But, are you able to naturally go to sleep just like that?

noob404 · December 2025

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here's my girl Yvonne

Oh my God! Am I the only one who feels, the actresses from 90s and early 2000s were mostly much more beautiful than the current ones (mostly artificial). Or, maybe it's just the generation gap.

Maybe . I dig Jessica Alba

Oh yes. She was a beauty.

Still is.

Haven't seen her around in any recent movies.

Yeah, not sure what's up. Need to investigate.

Will check here IMDB page later on, ig.

noob404 · December 2025

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Gonna take a bit more time, guys. Will be back for a quick chat soon ,bchot and pudlez

don't you worry about me, i'll be fine.

Alright, I am back here for a few, gotta handle work simultaneously as well.

Learned Multitasking. Nice!

Already mastered it at this point

Good!

But, can't keep oing it for more than a few weeks at a time.

How ok... Practice more them.

I have had 2 years+ of practice at this point, but, still, would limit myself.

noob404 · December 2025

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963 is reverse 69 with butt..

All multiples of 3 as well. Yah, I have taken an interest in math

A+

Thank you for that grade. Here in some states we follow the O grading system

10+ then

Works for me. Thanks.

Welcome.

SOrry for that. I retract my thanks and instead give you my double reguards

noob404 · December 2025

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Sara's prolly wondering why the page numbers keep increasing exponentially

Yeah, why that? Wth. What's going on?

Cause, we going crazy

noob404 · December 2025

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How many hours are there in a day? Multiply that by 30. You could get the approximate number of comments it'd take for us to reach page 1000!
But, no one would wanna calculate that. BTW, anyone does abacus?

Too much thinking....

Yah, just using a calculator now. Infact, doesn't make sense, the page numbers are much higher right now.

noob404 · December 2025

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Brain still bit sleepy.

I guess, we all are a bit sleepy.

noob404 · December 2025

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Hello world from page 963

Hello, old sailor. Planning to join the crew atleast in the NY thread, if it happens?

I'll donate a sailor shirt.

He will need one..thanks for that

Looks silly but let's do itm

Oh no, not for old sailors.

He old?

I meant, old as in experience RackNerd hypsequad member.

noob404 · December 2025

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So how have you've been @noob404 ? Feels like a month since I've last been active in this thread. I knew my posting would slow down in this thread as I always get busy this time of year (pushes before the hard freeze for the holidays and end of year) but I kind of didn't expect to get distracted by some new toys as well

Oh yes, feels like, it's been a really long time since we last hung out on the thread. Yah, I can understand, the retro console, the mods and what not would keep you busy. And, yes, this time of the year is also when clients expect you to prepone deadlines and whatnot. So, it does get pretty hectic. Do join from time to time, if you can though.

Always

I only experienced it last year. Someone informed me it was common in the freelancing space

Very much so. Freaking clients ain't no fun.

Yah, but, they pay for our food, so, can't be too ungrateful, ig.

Also paying for my pool so yeah, probably should thank en.

Yah, this holiday season, buy them pool, so that they know how grateful you are.

noob404 · December 2025

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@ralf Over the past few months, I researched a few TTS models and here are my findings that might help you.

These are the models I found best for most purposes:-
1. https://github.com/index-tts/index-tts - Imo, the best out there, but, no clear licence information. So, can't be sure if it can be used for commercial projects. One of the best features here is that it can also very reliably do emotions with weightage. There are several emotions that it supports by default. I tried mailing their team regarding clarification on the licence terms, but, they never replied. So, I moved onto the next one I found most suitable for my use case.
2. https://github.com/SWivid/F5-TTS - A very close second. Doesn't have emotion control and such. But, I guess, it can be trained to do that using multiple voices and using specific datasets using the custom toml file they specify on their Github. I did try that though. But, didn't find emotion control very smooth. Sometimes, teh voice is just shouting. But, cloning is prefect, I'd dare sya close to a 100% match.

Training your own voice
Both of the above models, esp. F5 has a training pipeline within the original source code that you can use very easily. For preparation of the dataset, i.e., to record your voice, I recommend https://github.com/rhasspy/piper-recording-studio. It has readmymade dataset for many popular accents. You can also add your own, which I do recommend to make sure there is good phoneme coverage. Remember, most of these models use pinyin characters, so phoneme coverage is important.
As for the dataset size, it depends, if you wanna train from scratch, you will need thousands of hours of raw voice data. But, if you can work by pre-training an already available model, I recommend F5_TTS instead of E2_TTS. Might take a bit of trial and error to find what workds for you best. If pre-training an already available model, you just need an hour of data, will work even with a few minutes of data, but, I do not recommend that.
Also, use a good condensor mic and maybe some denoising software for the best reults.

If you have any doubts, let me know. I will try to clarify according to my knowledge. Please understand I am no expert in this matter. EVerything I have written above is based on what I researched in the past few months and I even tested a few other models to find which one would be best for me like Orpheus, Dia, etc. Hope this helps someone.

Oh cool, thanks. I'll take a look at both of those as well. I hadn't found either.

The one that looked the best when I looked was Spark-TTS:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Mobvoi/Offical-Spark-TTS
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.01710
https://sparkaudio.github.io/spark-tts/

Others I found that didn't seem to do cloning of your own voice were:
https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
https://github.com/WhisperSpeech/WhisperSpeech
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1f0awd6/best_local_open_source_texttospeech_and/
https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/mycroft-technologies/mimic-tts
https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice
https://www.resemble.ai/open-source-voice-cloning-multiple-languages/
https://github.com/yantze/vim-tts
https://github.com/myshell-ai/MeloTTS
https://github.com/RVC-Boss/GPT-SoVITS

Of those, coqui TTS seems to promise voice cloning, but nothing to indicate it's actually possible. Also looks like the open source effort has been abandoned.

Well, I would have thought that as well, but, there are still AI TTS projects that do see active development. I know you prolly already know this, but, make sure the licence for both the models and the app say they are suitable for your purpose. This is why I prefer F5-TTS cause they have a permissive licence.

noob404 · December 2025

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here's my girl Yvonne

Oh my God! Am I the only one who feels, the actresses from 90s and early 2000s were mostly much more beautiful than the current ones (mostly artificial). Or, maybe it's just the generation gap.

well, i generally like women that were born a few years within my year (before of after), and Ivonne is perfect. She still very attractive..

But i know what you saying.. take at least this chick from The Boys - Erin Moriarty.. she insists she did nothing to her face and that she just aged, grew up..

before

after

Before, way better lookin.

I think it's mostly similar..not too much changes thank God.

Too much for me

Yah, I believe some people would find that too much. It's very subjective.

It is. Good think though. If we all thought alike, no fun in that!

Yah, let's debate even though we agree with each other. I'll start.
I disagree with what you are saying, cause, I think I don't agree.

noob404 · December 2025

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@c1t1zen said: I'm really wishing RackNerd had a dedicated box with GPU for setting up an LLM and API.

Won't that be expensive?

Yeah, That would be more than I could afford but a man can dream.

If you have a PC at home, you could always use that!
Or use CPU only processing!

I have personally been using CPU only for training a TTS model, and it isn't as slow as I'd imagined but having watched videos of people doing it with GPUs and the speed at which they complete, I am convinced GPU is much better. Moreover, there are processed which would even deny processing without a GPU

Do you want to share any info on that? It's something I'd like to look at myself, but training a model on my voice.

What information do you need? I will help. Gives me a chance to return many of you a favour, given I have learned a lot from you.

I guess just as basic as what software you're trying and whether it's decent or not. I looked at the webpages (so just their description not actually trying it) for about a dozen open source TTS about 9 months ago. Only one actually seemed to do proper voice mimicing, and despite its claims to be open source, there wasn't actually any source code or models to download.

I forgot about that project idea after that, but it's still something I'd like to experiment with if I find the time.

Got it. Once this marathon has slowed down, I will do a long post about my findings and tag you, alright?

Nice!

I am working on it side-by-side.

Good, one step at the time.slow isnfastvmy man!

Already posted that. Hope someone finds it useful, esp. ralf.

noob404 · December 2025

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here's my girl Yvonne

Oh my God! Am I the only one who feels, the actresses from 90s and early 2000s were mostly much more beautiful than the current ones (mostly artificial). Or, maybe it's just the generation gap.

well, i generally like women that were born a few years within my year (before of after), and Ivonne is perfect. She still very attractive..

But i know what you saying.. take at least this chick from The Boys - Erin Moriarty.. she insists she did nothing to her face and that she just aged, grew up..

before

after

Oh, I loved her in The Boys as well. As for her claims, that has become pretty common in Hollywood and pretty much every movie industry where they just don't wanna reveal what kinda procedures they have had done. So, I would take their claims with a pinch of salt.
I am still waiting for the last season. In the meantime wanted to start Gen V, but, don't get the time. I usually have time to watch it during lunch or dinner, but, then, Gen v isn't something you can watch with the family.

My kind then. Added to shortlist

What's a shortlist in this context?

Gen V

Oh yah, I believe, it's a direct spin off of The Boys.

Must be good then.

Has good revies and kinda follows the same genre, NSFW content.

noob404 · December 2025

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some do improve their looks tho..

like Michelle Keegan (from Brassic)

and look at her now

I agree.

Definitely a glowup

Very much so!

But, did she even need that?

Nah, she should just have taken it easy on the makeup.

I am gonna trust you on that, cause I don't know the very first thing about makeup. Sorry.

noob404 · December 2025

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although Michelle never denied her plastic stuff.

Which one?

The one just above I believe

Cheerios! Will take another quick peek.

Maybe come t the future instead.

Maybe some day. Future will tell.

Yah, that unfortunately, we will have to wait for.

noob404 · December 2025

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963 is reverse 69 with butt..

All multiples of 3 as well. Yah, I have taken an interest in math

also any combo of the three digits is divisible by 3.. any sum too..

Also A+ for you

Can I have an exclusive a+?

No, that one is reserved for my rat bruthah

Understandable yet again

Ink kw, its not personal mate.

Oh no, I meant no offence. Keep enjoying the thread with us

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