Six years ago the entire Linux enthusiast space was super excited for the PinePhone, then everything fell apart. What went wrong? Was PINE64’s favoritism towards Manjaro the sole issue or were there other problems?
Six years ago the entire Linux enthusiast space was super excited for the PinePhone, then everything fell apart. What went wrong? Was PINE64’s favoritism towards Manjaro the sole issue or were there other problems?
100% get your point and indeed agree. I think verification overall is pretty much tied to iOS/(Googled)Android so my (probably naive) hope is that physical token or passkeys that are NOT platform or service dependent gain traction. That’s why I got excited when https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/23656 was recently merged. I still have to test it but anyway more and more of the services I use online (self-hosted or not) are now behind “Log in with a device” and/or WebAuthN where I feel I can properly login, using e.g. YubiKey Bio or NitroKey, without anybody in the middle “owning” my identity or at least the verification step. I believe this is pretty much the “last battle” to have secure interactions without a central (commercial or not) actor in the middle that can use this to reshape our behaviors and interactions.