GDPR implies EU residence and USA law enforcement has no power in the EU. So they’d have to ask EU law enforcement, which will deny the request because of the fascist reasoning (Negative comments are both legal in the EU and US). GDPR protects the user where US law enforcement would try and get the data from the ISP directly, which is not allowed to share it without consent or a warrant by local law enforcement.

(Also, in the EU you can not sign your rights away. This means that even if you agree to a ToS where you allegedly give consent, it still isn’t allowed. The GDPR and local law supersede).

It’s not like international law protected them in the first place.

No, it’s free. They have a whitepaper on their website: https://getsession.org/whitepaper

All in all there’s a pool of tokens that gets paid out to the stakers. The full network of nodes determines what nodes are eligible by testing each other. The pool gets a constant flow of tokens over time, while transaction fees and specific purchases (like a custom username instead of one of those long IDs) feed the pool as well.

Keep in mind I’m not here to sell it. I really wish it was more like free Tor nodes, in which case I would be hosting one already.

It used to be around €1500 for a full node that could be shared by up to 4 stakers. Staking is different from mining coins though. You put tokens into some sort of holding and keep ownership of them. You then “mine tokens” by having the node do work while it is holding your stake.

The idea is decent in theory, but not in execution. The idea is that token staking is done by node operators which makes it much harder to pull of 51% attacks as it requires hundreds of euros in money to be put aside. It also protects against poisoned nodes, which is theoretically possible on something like Tor because of how easy it is to spin those up for cheap. Besides that the token also funnels a tiny amount back towards the developers in an anonymous way that would help them during development.

In practice though they should have just went without the blockchain. I have been very interested in Session but their blockchain model was always one of the biggest things that might kill the whole project.

That’s true. Technically it’s different. The end result is kind of the same though.

This has been done before and is already pretty well known.

You’ll see the bright flash first, at which point you can’t waste time and need to take cover from the coming blast. Which probably includes hurling up with your eyes closed. If you somehow survive the blast you can’t waste time looking at the cloud and need to find shelter from the fallout within 15 minutes. During this time, if you spot the cloud, you’ll probably be speechless and too busy.

Yes it was part of their quarterly circlejerk.

C’mon beb Linux gon be guuuuud.

Please explain further because I do not believe that.

Because it will only be a simple birthdate until they decide to use those laws to go even further.

My main point is that if it wasn’t a privacy destroying capitalist evil company and website, that it would provide enough possible value for me to want to pay. My data is one of the reasons it isn’t, I was merely answering to the article and context here.

That’s true. I guess I would only pay for a YouTube that is actually useful. “People want to block channels. Best we can do is ‘I am not interested’ and still show them.”

It’s so fucking funny though. I would love to pay YouTube. But I will never pay a company that abuses my data the way they do.

This but without the backups. Then walk out of the building towards the camera when it all explodes behind you.

It’s different from the privacy tracking widgets. It’s just a link to a little joinmastodon.org web app that helps you share it on your instance. The website that hosts the button (or link) does not load any 3rd party scripts. If you enable the option to add a logo it will add an inline SVG image. The button as seen in the blog is the creation of the blog writer and only adds a bit of CSS to make it look like a button.

The code of the web app is opensource: https://github.com/mastodon/share

The CSS of the button can be found with inspect element.

Oh I love Warehouse 13. It’s great and I loved it.

I’m currently watching Fringe and I’m glad it’s going to wrap up nice.

You’re forgetting about the Cloud Act which allows the US government to get data from cloud providers even if it isn’t stored in the US.

“I couldn’t make it to the revolution because I was stuck in traffic.”