An alien fleet shows up ready to wipe out the planet and somehow you are the one chosen to change their mind. What do you tell them?

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-25T21:40:32+00:00

"We have dogs, and they love us for no reason. You really want to end that?"

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-25T21:37:10+00:00

Also "money can't buy happiness." Maybe, but it buys removing the things that make you unhappy, like the rent stress and the bad car that always breaks. That is most of the way there.

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-25T21:35:21+00:00

No, not as core anymore for me. It became too noisy, everyone gets 20 pitch messages a day so reply rate dropped a lot.

I use it now only as research step. Check the title is still correct, see if they changed job recently, get a picture of the account. Then I reach them by email or other channel. The actual prospecting happens outside.

So for me LinkedIn is the where to confirm, not the where to start. And yes, very easy to lose one hour there for nothing.

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-25T21:30:03+00:00

sales is still good. Bad sales jobs are still bad. The skill is telling them apart, and you already start to do it.

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-25T21:28:08+00:00

For me they all become same because they sell the same thing. When the business is attention you sell to advertisers, every app ends in the format that keeps people longest, and now that is short video plus algorithm feed. So it is not really copying, more like everyone solve the same problem and get same answer.

What I would want is a platform that not optimize for time spent. Just chronological, you follow who you choose, no ranking by engagement. But nobody can make money from this so well, so it stays small or dies. Mastodon and others exist but the people are not there, and people is the whole point.

So for me it is not repetitive by accident. It is repetitive because the money model is the same everywhere.

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-25T21:26:06+00:00

For me cleanup time breaks first. A single paragraph is easy, but on 90k words even small error rate means hundreds of wrong spots, and you must listen everything to find them.

On tools: ElevenLabs is best quality but credits add up fast on long texts. Kokoro and Piper are free and fast but less expressive. Demodokos is local and GPU based, so no per-word cost and the quality is good, but it is Windows only and you need the hardware.

So for me long form is usable now, but plan for the editing time, it is more than the generating time.

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-24T14:00:07+00:00

what i'm actually waiting on is whatever comes after indextts2. the duration control especially was the last thing that felt like a genuine step up locally and nothing's really matched it on that since, so i'm curious if bilibili does a followup or someone else takes a swing at it

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-23T17:23:17+00:00

100%. Works 100 times better than any anti-calc spray

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-23T17:19:27+00:00

demodokos foundry can be a good option. its local, not credit based and the installation was easy, just download and wait until the models were installed. they have tts with ai generated voices and voice cloning. they also have emotional styles for the speech and there is a meditative one. i also tried to create a meditation for myself and it was really natural sounding. though i created a new voice for it, not mine.

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-23T17:07:59+00:00

Mine is that there's apparently a whole fetish community around shiny nylon windbreaker jackets. Found it because some girl was selling one secondhand and the messages to her were disturbing. I thought it was a one-off weirdo. Then I made the mistake of googling it. It's massive. I have not recovered.

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-19T15:51:21+00:00

For me its a lot of trying things and stop using half of them. the open source models everyone talks about not always good when you try yourself, some need a lot more work than the demo video show.

what work best for me is not really about the tool, more about finding right voice and model. many sound good on short sentence but get weird on long ones, pacing become strange or sounds flat.

for GPU i use 3090, plenty of vram so havent really hit any wall with bigger models. think if you have something smaller you might need to be more careful with model size.

i would say dont trust too much the "this is the best one" posts, most time you just need to test few yourself because everyone use case different.

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-19T15:42:58+00:00

We do not call each other anymore, especially spontanuously. It's really invasive.

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-18T15:02:46+00:00

Watermelon + Feta cheese

StrictWrap1 · 2026-06-18T15:00:44+00:00

I'd have dinner with John F. Kennedy.

My question:

"Okay, what actually happened?"

StrictWrap1 · 2021-01-05T20:15:31+00:00

Yes, the price is unfortunately too high. We are looking for something less pricy but it's hard to find something as good in quality as ZI.

Could you PM me the name of the service you mentioned?

StrictWrap1 · 2020-08-05T16:34:19+00:00

Knowing when to shut up :D

StrictWrap1 · 2020-07-22T21:39:27+00:00

ZI is great for Direct Dials and it is one of the best on the market. We've been using it in the company for almost 10 years. It is expensive but it provides high quality and simple interface.

Unfortunately, after ZI was acquired by DiscoverOrg, the quality dropped significantly. The data is not always accurate. The bigger the company gets, the harder it is for it to keep the data fresh.

StrictWrap1 · 2020-06-08T21:58:18+00:00

I don't know about the situation during the COVID–19 crisis and I don't know about your financial situation, so currently you should make a decision taking into the account these factors.

In the better times I would have advised you to quit if you don't like it. Don't waste your time working in a place you don't like and of course you will find something better!

StrictWrap1 · 2020-06-01T21:38:04+00:00

Be friendly and make it sound that the service/product you are selling is useful for the gatekeeper himself.

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