It definitely is amongst the cleanest energy sources we have today, especially when the choice for most is either oil, coal or nuclear, the choice is easy. Hydro, solar or wind are often not viable because of climate or location reasons. Not to mention that all of these need to be built using concrete, that is not unique to nuclear. Also important is that hydro electricity also dramatically alters the area, killing many animals and moving many species out of their home.

It is very clean. The image below shows what 20 years worth of spent nuclear fuel looks like at the former Maine Yankee plant. This is way smaller than most supermarkets in north america, let alone their parking lots!

To be fair that would not necessarily be because of the blockchain part, more because of the decentralized/federated nature of this theorical network

One of the rare use cases of a blockchain actually being useful. A federated internet archive that uses a blockchain to validate that the saved data has not been altered by a malicious actor trying to tamper with proofs

That would be really cool but horribly inefficient because of the sheer amount of storage required

Yes but when you are logged in, you can add the passkey that belongs to the new device to your account

For 2 reasons:

• I want to sync my credentials that cannot be made unique and revocable (ie passwords). I can have a single passkey per device, I cannot have a password per device for a same account. I also have to memorize a password, and I have hundreds that I may need to access while I am away and only have my phone.
• I use one because currently I have not found a convenient way to save local passkeys on Android and my Linux PC.

There are already systems in place that allow temporary passkey sharing, for example with a QR code (CaBLE) https://www.corbado.com/blog/webauthn-passkey-qr-code

I agree and I still store my passkeys in proton pass, but that’s more because there’s no real option for storing them locally only. I really like passkeys and they make me optimistic about the future, it’s just that I think the way they should work is that each device should have a passkey registered to an account, so that the access can then be revoked if the device was compromised. And it’s even convenient in this way with the QR codes that you can use to temporarily share a passkey to then be able to add the new device.

I read the post more closely and saw that this isn’t about syncing the keys across password managers, it’s about transfering them to a different password manager/device. In that case I’m okay with the initiative. This is to prevent lock-in and I’m all for it.

I have one, but I use it as a second factor because it does not have a way of identifying me

I don’t like that passkeys are portable, this kind of defeats the entire purpose. The way they were sold to me is the following: it’s 2 factors in one. The first is the actual device where the key lives, and the second, the user verification, like a pin, face scan, fingerprint etc. If it’s synced across the cloud, there’s no longer the first factor being the unique key on the unique device.

Granted, passkeys even without the first factor are still magnitudes better in terms of convenience and security compared to passwords, but it just disappoints me a little that there are no good options to save passkeys on my local device only, with no cloud sync.

If anyone knows of a local-only passkey manager app for android, as well as the same as a firefox extension, I’d love to know about it!

From what I understand since the proton nonprofit is established in Switzerland, it’s more restrictive than the USA

This could be useful, but the thing is, your IP address is rarely what is used to identify you on the internet, even in private browsing mode. Your particular combination of hardware and your behavior (how you interact with it) speak much more than an IP that can be used by more than 1 person.

Quick note, Proton AG itself (the for profit company) still owns, operates and develops the Proton services as we know. The only difference with the non-profit structure is that Proton AG is owned by the proton foundation. Which basically is a protection against aggressive takeovers and the enshittification that would follow. Also, tax advantages, probably.

The bigger reason is that most sites use Google AdSense for showing user ads. Most SEO bullshit sites are basically just empty content as a pretext to show said AdSense ads. Google will rank up these websites because they directly make them money via the revenue cut they take. Simple as that.

It’s a really nice message that gpt wrote there

Exactly yes, that’s how I see it at least

If they are able to pull this through, I sure fucking hope they have to retroactively pay the taxes on the money that made them get that 157B$ valuation. OpenAI already does so many illegal/unethical stuff that it’s crazy they are still alive.

Just for example, when purchasing API credits, they decided that it will have an expiration date 1 year from the purchase. Which is very much illegal in most places but they do not care.

This could actually make Samsung dex/desktop mode actually useful

Not like they don’t have my address: I paid for it with my credit/debit card. They could also make it an opt in feature that customizes the results to be actually more relevant to ME (instead of more relevant to Googles interests). But in the end I still think 10$ a month for a sub par experience is too hard to swallow for me, especially because I found it to load quite a bit slower than Google or duckduckgo. I’m very picky with subscriptions and only subscribe when I feel I am not getting ripped off, like Bitwarden or Proton