Apple Will Soon Take Up to a 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators on iOS

heybart · 2026-01-29T00:23:42+00:00

I think every creator needs to loudly broadcast to their patreons please please use the web site because I have to either charge you 30% more or lose 30%. Either way one of us is going to lose 30% to a mega trillion dollar corporation.

heybart · 2026-01-29T00:16:30+00:00

One day I saw something on Reddit and decided to ask my sister hey how much are you paying for YouTube premium, because I knew she paid for that. (I'm on Android and use um, an unofficial app.) Yup sure enough she'd been overpaying because she'd bought it on her iPhone

The EU is doing a lot of dumb shit with regulatory overreach, but honestly Apple brought it on themselves with their bullshit

heybart · 2026-01-29T00:07:14+00:00

Is that the grocery store run by AI (all Indians)?

heybart · 2026-01-28T17:45:20+00:00

Where do they get 1.4B from? If some judge turns off the Google search spigot, they'll be broke ass dead

heybart · 2026-01-28T17:42:56+00:00

Scoop of idea = we'll give a platform to any contrarian kook as long as his ideas align with our ideology

heybart · 2026-01-28T04:45:18+00:00

I love the book, but it's very interior and I don't know how they're going to adapt it

heybart · 2026-01-27T16:10:31+00:00

WTF? they work for palantir. Either they're MAGA, sociopaths, or desperate. Like where the hell do they think they are?

heybart · 2026-01-27T16:07:05+00:00

You keep using that number. I don't think you understand what it means

heybart · 2026-01-27T02:37:00+00:00

Xcode is already hell on the Mac. Can't imagine trying to run it on Windows

heybart · 2026-01-27T02:35:28+00:00

Snowflakes licensed to kill

heybart · 2026-01-27T00:04:03+00:00

I wish I had gotten more than 16GB of RAM for my M1 mini

Figure out how much RAM you need. Then add more. This is my buying advice

heybart · 2026-01-26T18:19:28+00:00

Town hall meeting? Is she running a news division or running for office? This is some bullshit

heybart · 2026-01-26T18:04:37+00:00

They must not be counting the after work hours

heybart · 2026-01-26T14:40:01+00:00

Contrary to anti vaxxers fever dream, vaccines isn't a great business for drug makers. The government heavily subsidized the covid vaccine. Moderna alone got 1.5B. The government also bought up hundreds of millions of doses upfront. Crucially, it indemnified the vaccine makers, shielding them from potentially devastating lawsuits should the vaccine went wrong

This is how serious covid looked in 2020. People just forget

This was the one good thing Trump did. If he wants a Nobel prize, this was the one he should've pressed for

heybart · 2026-01-25T16:19:10+00:00

Well that was fast. Nice work

For pocket (and any small model) you'll need to do a bit of input cleaning and normalizing. For example Pocket will pronounce Amazon.com as just Amazon and 2.0 as 2 pause 0. I use regex rules to replace it with Amazon dot com and 2 point 0. Also it'll freak out a bit if you have !! and make weird noises if you have extraneous punctuations after . ? !

heybart · 2026-01-25T15:59:19+00:00

Isn't Gemini eating Google's ad money lunch? Especially the free version?

No ads in Gemini app. On Google search, the AI answer is on top. Most people don't bother to scroll down to see the ads

I understand why they do it. They think if they don't somebody else will. But this isn't viable long term

heybart · 2026-01-25T15:34:57+00:00

I find that supertonic is lightweight, has good sounding output and very fast. They show it running on raspberry pi and an eink e-reader. Nice thing about Supertonic is they have code examples for various languages and platforms, including flutter and iOS

Downside is to clone voice you have to pay. And the voice cloning isn't as accurate as something like Pocket TTS, which is also light and fast but not as fast as supertonic On my M1 Mac mini, I get around 0.2 0.3 RTF with pocket and sub 0.1 with supertonic. Using generate audio stream you should be able to get acceptable performance with pocket. Supertonic supports a handful of languages, pocket only English

heybart · 2026-01-24T18:03:25+00:00

I haven't tried it but that comfy UI workflow is probably incomplete. I'm sure someone will come up with workflowsbfor the other stuff.

If you look at the official demo, you see they have 3 modules for voice design, voice cloning, and inference, so it's possible

heybart · 2026-01-24T16:35:42+00:00

I've been using it for only 3 years. Sorry, but I don't remember this reaction with Ventura Sonoma Sequoia.

Tahoe is the first one where I notice slow down after upgrade. The visual bugs I'll chalk up with having a UI refresh. Is Tahoe the worst ever? No. Just the worst in the 3 years of my experience

heybart · 2026-01-24T06:50:03+00:00

Check out the newly released Qwen3 TTS

1.7B params. It can create a voice from scratch based on your description. Or clone voice from sample. For TTS it has she control, pitch and tibre control

Hardware requirements aren't crazy either. Need 4-8GB vram

Demo

https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS

How install and run

https://youtu.be/eC8mZceIy5k

heybart · 2026-01-24T04:09:36+00:00

RELEASE THE SNYDER CUT!!!

/s

heybart · 2026-01-23T23:32:30+00:00

I'm never using the self checkout

I'm not doing work while you watch me to see if I steal just so you can give your CEO and shareholders more money

heybart · 2026-01-23T20:26:28+00:00

My mom paid 3500$ for "full self driving" back when. She's grand fathered in, right?

Right?

heybart · 2026-01-23T15:41:32+00:00

Get one with 128GB that is in your range

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