@Natanox Both Tipeee and Patreon have found that only 1% of their creators use the "per-creation" model. It seems they're streamlining their features to focus on more popular options.
Patreon initially planned to switch to the new model in Nov2025, but due to technical issues with a payment processor (Apple), they've postponed the deadline several times. Tipeee recently announced a Jan2026 deadline, so I've decided to move both platforms to the new monthly subscription model at the same time.
@halla Thank you for your words and your support since the first episodes! As you can imagine, this change affects me so much... That's why I'm releasing three comic pages to talk about it. 😅
The change will take effect on Patreon on 12 January. Until then, the page still shows 'per-content'.
This is because I have decided to give one month's notice to allow my patrons to adjust their budgets. (Don't worry though: I won't release the 'per-content' mechanism during this period.)
@Numerfolt Liberapay. This is because it doesn't have the 5% fee that Patreon and Tipeee take. (To fund Liberapay, you have to support them... on Liberapay.)
Okay, I looked at their FAQ and basically there are the transaction fees that I pay? Like I send you 1€ per month and pay some cents so you can get the full €? And I can donate to them too, which is nice.
@fr3d Unfortunately, that's one of the side effect; I wrote them an email in October about it. I'm still around as a volunteer contributor now, but it is clearly not the same time budget. 😔
@Tywele Monthly or yearly? It certainly will depend on how much you pay in fees when you transfer money. If your bank charges high fees, it may be better to transfer money in one lump sum. If the fees are small or zero, monthly payments are great.
My preferred platform is Liberapay because the creator and admin are on Mastodon and the platform doesn't take 5%.
Hi David! I heard your interview on #HPR and really appreciate your stance on licencing and using Open Source tooling. Moreover, once I found your content, I think it's excellent. I had planned to go and subscribe but hadn't done so, so this thread is a great reminder - thank you! Having read your FAQ on your webpage, I will use liberapay, so you get as much of the donation as possible. Best of luck with the developing adventure!
I signed up for the minimum for now: $1.00 a comic. I hope it's better than nothing. Your art is wonderful as are your stories and I appreciate your anti-genAI stance.
tu sais David, même si le passage en mode mensuel n'a pas ta préférence, elle a la mienne. Au moins je contribue régulièrement à aider quelques artistes. Bravo à toi et merci pour toutes ces belles aventures avec Pepper et Carrot
you might want to change the denomination of your membership options on patreon. I see 5€/month in the overview of all my memberships, but when looking at your membership options it still shows as "x€ / episode".
I really enjoy the short stories you post here. I hope(expect) you will beginn posting them on patreon too, once the switch to monthly is done?
Yes I saw it and I'm afraid I can't change it at the moment. Patreon will make the change on their side one month after I publicly announce it. It's all part of their policy for moving accounts around. Just to let you know, I won't be posting the episode until the 12th of January. (the effective date for my first monthly) :) I'll post something on Patreon to let my supporters know about it.
@gws Ha ha, you mentioned something that made me struggle while drawing this announcement. At first, I drew a little guy with a two-day beard and a brown haircut, sitting at my desk in front of my monitors.
But I was worried it wouldn't be really iconic, so I decided to go with Pepper as my avatar. I was fine with it, as I often used her for various things, but maybe it's a bit awkward in the end. 😅
Imo per content model is dangerous anyway. It rewards churning out quantity rather than quality. It means that an artist might need to release unfinished stuff just for the sake of being able to pay their bills. And for the supporter it is unsafe because there is little control to how much you pay. If someone pays 5€ per creation, assuming 1 creation per month, and suddenly you turn in 1 creation per day or something this might be more than the person can or wants to afford.
So per month or something means stabilty for both artist and supporter, just extra effort is not awarded. Per creation creates pressure for the artist and exchanges uncertainty of delivery for uncertainty in when and how much you pay.
@lazy I'll see, but I've never received anything monthly in my life (except the Liberapay weekly support, and thank you very much for being a part of it, but it was a minor part of income so far). I'm a freelancer working 'per task' since I was 18. I only knew that: making the work, getting paid, and I'm 44 years old 😅 ... I really hope this change will be a good thing!
Language is said to be humankind's greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectively capturing the facts of experience. Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is bad for scientists (who are bound by reality) but good for lawyers (who want to win their cases), why it can be dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, and why it deserves our deepest respect. — mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548465…
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I thought the festive lights reflected from a cobbled street in the centre of my old town looked magical in the rain this evening. The video I took on my phone really doesn't do it full justice though 😔 #Festive #Faversham #Kent #England
👍 It was amazing! Unfortunately I wasn't really dressed for the downpour and couldn't give myself long enough to take a better video 😊 Hope you're up and about sooner, than later 🤞
@brie Never going to send money again after that disastrous tablet campaign. By my count, I'm still owed €100 for that one. But good luck with this campaign I guess.
I wish I could I just won't have 500 dollars I can spend on a phone in a few months. It's a really cool project and the idea of a privacy switch is awesome.
looks interesting, but 500€ for pre-orders and even 600€ - 700€ is quite expensive for me.
Longevity of my phones is determined by wear and tear, and accidents breaking the display. So, 350€ is my personal limit, with ideal around 200€ and less.
Wish there was a low-spec variant of Linux phone.
I need just calls, microSDXC storage, and good enough camera for documentation photos,... and performance, for non-demanding apps I use, is irrelevant.
Telefonun fiyatı 499-699 € arasında. Türkiye'den almak istersek hükümet 1.000 € vergi alıyor. Bunu diğer vergilere ek olarak sadece kayıt için alıyor. Bu nedenle almayı istesek de alamıyoruz.
the thing to worry about is that android support. I'm still pissed a little how it was done on the first jolla where the proprietary blobs that implement it or wtv stopped being updated for later android api versions because of their contracts or wtv it was about. And hopefully no more btrfs as the file system, that thing required me to manually fsck the system or wtv to reclaim space at the time.
Replaceable battery & expandable storage makes it better than most things in the market.
just wow! Finally truly European phone with European OS. It seems that pre-order threshold will be achieved but I encourage everyone that values European values and/or privacy to support this great effort
@Techaltar What do you think about the new Jolla Phone? Could this be a realistic step towards European sovereignty? (Perhaps a question for the next Friday Checkout episode)
Hi Jolla, I have just purchased a pre order ticket. I believe you have a solid product that is ready for reaching privacy minded folks. In sure that your early adopters could help you to push this if they/we get involved to help spread social coverage on different channels.
I'm keen to learn more about the SoC and USB-C video support. I would like to learn more about the upto date Sailfish experience too. I'm 100% ready to support European supply and mobile alternatives so congrats with reaching the milestone! 🎉
FWIW, most of the money goes to the labels. The artists are getting screwed by pretty much everyone. The label contracts used to be a based roughly on the idea that we all used to buy a £10 CD every month, so that's the pound of flesh the labels demand per user. It's just that none of that now goes to artists. Streamers have surprisingly little say in the service they can offer.
nah, you’re spitting facts! streaming’s lowkey robbing artists while we’re here vibing in the chaos. let’s support the little guys, not the big pickly baddies!
As a musician, I have never used Spotify and never will. Years ago I signed up to put my music out there but when I saw the reality of their business model, I didn’t bother to post anything. Spotify has destroyed the arts for profit, fuck ‘em.
I steam because it is convenient and gives me more of a mix. I also purchased a good amount of songs this year. They aren't mutually exclusive. Plus doing both is technically even better for the artist, as they get the purchase and the click
Edit: I am also a student, so I don't have infinite amount of money every month. And I know a lot of people who are off worse to a point where even spending 1€ can be a big ask
@TonyPrintezis Seems like a good time to promote GetMusic - getmusic.fm/ - free BandCamp codes provided by artists to help new listeners discover them.
I've found some fantastic stuff this year using GM that I probably wouldn't have otherwise.
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@angelthorns Thank you 💜 I try to record all of them, they take me two day (and long day, from morning to very late) to produce. Here is a small timelapse for this one: peppercarrot.com/0_sources/min…
I collect all of them here peppercarrot.com/0_sources/min… (but I need to make a better page for displaying them, of course! On my todo)
To be honest, I'm surprised that the headmaster didn't ask the Avian Intelligence and *it* said that according to investors, the Avian Intelligence program represents the future of magic. Still, yes, pretty much!
I'm loving this mini series. The need for cash investment in education vs compromising on tech is a very real problem. I've had a thought - Familiars are meant to form a special bond with a magic user to help guide them along their own unique path. If they all have the same familiar then, even if it did work, that would really hurt their culture overall. It would become too homogeneous.
I see, I'll have to look on the reality of how users are 'customizing their AI' (maybe with a general pre-prompt list) and the problematic behind it. It can be a good topic for a comic strip or two with this Gothic Sorceress and her AI Parrot. Thank you for sharing the idea.
a friend of a friend is a student at Cornell and going through exactly this right now (and working on transferring out of their dream college) they shared a document where the administration defended their AI policies and in the defense cite "AI Copilot" output as their source. I'm kinda disappointed I'm not seeing some malicious compliance source checking where they apply the same battery of checking sources one would to citations of obscure books for made up Wikipedia edits. Would an AI model be a primary or secondary source?
@trainguyrom True, thanks to this mini series I started to document myself a bit more on AI (before that, I was just skipping every details about it). Pushing it in the schools, in the enterprises too ; is a real thing, with people in charge convinced they'll do profit, or accelerate production this way... About the sources, I wrote something on this topic, maybe for next week. I see more and more LLMs trying to quote their sources; wikipedia article or webpage (eg. Mistral recently).
okay but let’s be real, magic in food is just mixing random things until something *actually* slaps. like pickles on ice cream? *chef’s kiss* unhinged and delicious.
@phbarre Yes, finding solid wording for that was nearly impossible. It's probably not the best. Maybe I should have gone with "Vibe Coding, I call it." directly.
@eruwero Thank you very much for this reference, I had no idea it existed. It sounds very interesting, I'll try to get a physical copy. I also love it is CC BY SA licensed, and so totally compatible with the Mini Fantasy Theater series if I decide to back-port a fictive character name.
"In retrospective, this lead to what is now called the 'Great Chasm' in Revoy's work, exposing a large audience to the exploits of Eva Lu Ator and the horrors and wonders of Lisp..."
(I just checked the online price for a physical version; above 50€ and for the French version, above 60€; I'll probably read the PDF in the wiki on my e-reader then :D)
Btw the recordings of the original lectures are still available too. The most magical lecture is the one about the metacircular evaluator :) ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-stru…
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@fell It was 😆 But it was surprisingly an interesting exercice too, far away the usual color palette I enjoy using. You can check the painting timelapse to see the hesitations: peppercarrot.com/0_sources/min…
"Aivian inteligence will be the end of you elitist wizards and your controll over what you want to create! Also do hou wanna buy me a golem? I kinda saving for my new sould core. Prices have skyrocket since this things came out.
Also can that fish listen to them? It's eye kinda moved to look at who is talking.
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I wonder about all that "AI photo generation / manipulation" tools reportedly "comming to Whatsapp". I guess when people feed their photos to AI to manipulate ... they stay on Meta servers 4 ever? Got deleted? Some trustworthy 3rd party controll it happens? XD And if someone (like me) think "why the hell would anybody feed their photos to Meta AI" ... then I'am thinking of "clever" ways like "grant permission to whole galery" - great "now would u like Meta AI to improve contrast"? 🙄
Holy crap, that is fucking genius using a church as a base of operations for the Internet Archive in case this fascist government even thinks of trying anything underhanded.
The extent of global sea ice cover is more than 3 million square kilometers below the 1981-2010 average. This is the 2nd lowest on record for this date over the satellite-era.
Hudson Bay used to be one of the more predictable indicators of the Arctic cycle, so seeing another unusually warm season and such a late freeze-up is honestly worrying. It feels like each year pushes the baseline further. Do you think we’re witnessing a long-term shift that will eventually reshape the whole Arctic ecosystem, or is there still room for seasonal recovery? And what data or trends are you personally watching most closely this year?
@Victoria In my view, much indicators across the Arctic have already transitioned into a new state compared to even just a few decades ago: nature.com/articles/s41558-020…
The short observational record makes it difficult to gauge how unprecedented recent Arctic warming is. A multi-model large ensemble estimates a new Arctic climate has emerged for sea-ice extent.
I get what you mean. When you look at the long-term trends, it really does feel like the Arctic has already shifted into a completely new state compared to a few decades ago. The changes aren’t just gradual anymore they’re showing up across multiple indicators at the same time: sea ice, temperatures, wildlife behavior, ocean patterns. Do you think there’s still a chance for some kind of stabilization, or are we already past that point? I’m curious how you see the next 10–20 years unfolding up there.
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They say, 'Do not idle the engine.' Oh, please—cancel all roadworks, make public transport free all day, and allow people to take paid days off work. You greedy, short-sighted bureaucrats have completely lost the plot—who you are, how you got here, and where you’re even headed.
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