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The choice isn’t as hard as people are pretending that it is

The features they’re talking about are secure from a cryptographic standpoint.

However, there are features built into the passkey system so that a company could decide that it will only accept passkeys from a specific piece of hardware or software.

This isn’t necessarily bad, you may only want your server to allow you access if the passkey comes from your phone’s hardware. A person could have stolen your passkey but they’re unable to fake the attestation step.

On the other end of things, a company like Google could provide a passkey service which requires you to use hardware provided by vendors that they approve of and they could abuse their position to force it’s implementation, such as how you can use Google to sign into websites via OIDC.

Google could just as easily provide a service for ‘secure’ passkeys which are only allowed to be issued by phones provided by Google, Verizon or AT&T. No more third-party OSs (at least, if you want to sign into anything on the Internet) and no more jailbroken phones. You would have to use the exact, spyware laden, operating system that comes installed directly from your cellular provider who would have remote root access to your device.

I think the idea that we can just boycott passkeys and prevent this is nonsense magical thinking. It requires some hypothetical world where we can perfectly coordinate a boycott of otherwise useful technology. In reality this issue will remain obscure and generally only known to people interested in the topic while Google can pour tens of millions in advertising to reach everybody on the planet explaining how good and secure attested passkeys are to mainstream Internet users.

Use passkeys, they’re useful and more secure than passwords. Not using them won’t prevent enshittification, just sit back and watch the slow motion attested passkey trainwreck as it unfolds over the next decade.

how many other bribes are we not aware of right now facilitated by people with half a brain to other appointees in this administration.

The world is more complicated than deciding who is the bad guys and who is the good guys.

One party would let companies sell you cancerous pesticides and call it infant formula if the bribe is right.

The other will spend all of their time and effort attacking marginal issues which don’t directly affect the bottom line of the fossil fuel companies.

It looks like they’re trying to save the climate but, as it turns out, we’re not going to reverse centuries of industrial activity by providing $500 off a plug-in solar unit or making it so that pesticides can’t be applied 4 weeks before harvest instead of 2. They pick their battles, and their chosen battlefields are ones that are in no danger of disrupting the fossil fuel hegemony.

You should still vote, just don’t buy into the idea that neo-liberals, R or D, are going to make meaningful changes which would harm fossil fuel companies. There are some leftest candidates running, support them or vote for the lesser evil.

Not voting is always the wrong strategy.

Skynet is the virus

Roko’s Basilisk was displeased at that.

The team is not to use any more “hand-written code,”

Sweet, so if someone gets a copy of the source code then it is public domain as the output of AI is not copyrightable under current US case law.

Sure, right up until they start using all of your bandwidth acting as a residential proxy to create fraudulent clicks for ad networks.

I’m going out on a limb here, but I don’t think the kind of person who contributes to FOSS projects get into it for the fame and attention.

Some restaurants are pretty generous too:

I recall having issues and bouncing off of it on my first attempt, but I’ve been using it on GrapheneOS/Pixel 8 Pro without issue for at least 2 years now.

Thing number #24552 that these companies get away with that would get a regular person arrested.

FTL is a jewel

Great, lets go back a technology because of fucking AI that no one has asked for a handful of billionaires who decided to try to buy a monopoly on a technology without any thought about the damage done to the world economy, environment and labor force.

Focusing on the technology instead of the people is misdiagnosing the problem and providing a smoke screen for the actual human beings making these destructive decisions.

Linear algebra isn’t building data centers, Elon Musk is.

In Congress, which is led by his co-conspirators.

Congress has the standing and resources to bury the Justice Department in lawsuits to compel them to follow the law, they have near unlimited investigative power, the ability to compel sworn testimony and the power to remove any Executive or Judicial branch officer.

The Executive branch seems powerful because it’s operating illegally. All of the actual power in our system of government is in Congress.

A functioning Congress could have the President in the unemployment line by the end of the week. It’s just currently led by sycophants, co-conspirators and traitors.

2 items?

I shop exclusively in the 1 item or less lane.

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