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.

This sets an awful precedent. Do we hold stores accountable if somebody gets alcohol poisoning? Thought so.

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.

NATO is a defensive force.

It’s like being mad at the police when they don’t back you up when you go and kill some people.

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.

Can it figure out my downclocked card? I can’t run mine at default settings or it crashes. :'(

FitGirl wrote some decent information about the tactic on their website. There’s already repacks specifically marked as Hypervisor repacks.

Yes I will accept kisses.

There’s a few countries in the world where your desire for freedom can not be made illegal. This means that in some countries, escaping from the cops is perfectly legal as long as you don’t commit other crimes during your escape like destruction of property or violence towards cops. There’s literally no extra charge that can be added. (Although I’ve heard of judges being less lenient with sentencing for the original crime in these cases)

You don’t get their badge and gun, but you do get your freedom, which I value infinitely higher than their fancy pieces of metal.

“Except very slowly”. You just make my point for me.

And even with perfect maintenance and low heat it still degrades. That’s just how heating stuff works.

I have about €10 in Proprietary software purchases, and €1500 in donations to FOSS projects.

Yes I use sub ohm coils. But I think you are wrong and even degradation without overheating makes these particles come lose. Otherwise it’s like saying that microplastics are no problem for you because you don’t microwave food in plastic containers.

First one that pops in my mind is Macron. Even before that orange fella.

I vape and can tell you that degradation of the coil happens even without overheating the element or juice. Which means it’s possible for these particles to go into the body.

Don’t worry, I will after blocking you.

World News? It’s 90% US news that shouldn’t even pass Rule 1 of this community under “Not United States Internal News”.

Anyways, the news is about Ukraine and Russia, so the context of “the president” having anything to do with the USA is US Defaultism by definition and should be stopped.

Whenever I see US Defaultism, I will.

I use and recommend a selfhosted FreshRSS instance, but I’m unsure whether or not it plays nice in terms of accessibility.

For finding feeds I mostly just look for RSS on websites that I come across. Another thing I did when moving to FreshRSS was using Feedly, a paid RSS reader with a free plan that I was using, to find some interesting sources and import those into FreshRSS. I also use Reddit RSS feeds for a few subs that don’t have a big enough audience outside of Reddit.

Unread articles is no problem for me. I just have a very quick glance and then mark everything as read if there’s too much. After that I check it a few times per day, only check what seems interesting, and mark the rest as read again.