Linux is in a weird spot, there is a valley you must not be in with it.
If you are a non-technical person who needs only a browser and solitaire, it’s perfect.
If you are a highly technical person, it’s great.
If you’re just in between, you are fucked.
That might be ugly, but something like that…
BuT nO OnE WaNtS tO WoRk AnYmOrE1
Yeah, when you’re having fun pissing off people, people are pissed off.
Who would have guessed?
But still right on though
Or a spoon
🎵🎶…Sweet dreams are made of this… 🎶🎵
It’s not enough to pollute the Internet, it’s time to pollute the world with radioactive waste.
That’s brilliant!
Ok
For example, when you login on Github, go in your settings, authentication & security on the left.
Click “add passkey”, enter your Windows Hello PIN, click save.
It will ask you to enter a name, so I go with ComputerName-GitHub
Click ok.
Done with this device.
How long does it take? Well, how fast can you do these steps?
I always thought of passkeys as a convenient way to authenticate.
I am password-less on multiple services.
I have an authentication app on my phone that authenticate me when I am away of my computers. I have passkeys on my personal computer and another set of passkeys on my work laptop.
If I have to authenticate from your computer I simply use my auth app, click on “it’s a public computer” and I am good to go.
The dude discovered a butter knife and he tries to replace his spoon with it just to realize it doesn’t work well for eating a soup.
I am reinventing everything in crates that requires zero dependencies, no unsafe code and the strict minimum of macro usage.
Like I did a simple date/time library last week, I started an error management crate this week, which pushed me to start a logging crate.
I am using the “log facade” crate for the logging, for compatibility you know, but that’s it.
The goal is to minimize the dependencies and create straightforward crates.
Most of the time, we really just need a car instead of the 18 wheeler.
With over 130 dependencies, I am sure they were all and will be audited in the future.
Hard pass for me.