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Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them
(nonfunctional.substack.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2026
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It’s funny because I can’t see it and when I view the code of your post and copy/paste it into the location bar I get the broken jpeg picture.
Edit: At the time of upload it was a png. I guess lemmy.zip made the choice to convert it.
It’s even more apropos that the fediverse behaves unpredictably when uploading images.
Passkeys in a nutshell: how does it work? Idk. Who’s in control of it? Idk.
I wasn’t able to see the image because it’s an avif. What a weird format and choice of format.
Apropos of a discussion about over complicated unpredictable passkey behavior.