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Idk what you're saying about the "Lemmy version" given that you're entirely free to do so - in fact, you just did do so

And, likewise, the UN stating that serious human rights violations occurred is not the same as them all saying they aren't committing genocide

Is this excluding the bit where they made criticising their war in Ukraine punishable by up to 15 years in prison?

You mean something like the UN Human Rights Office report that concluded "China responsible for ‘serious human rights violations’ in Xinjiang province"?

There's only really one big building society in the UK, which is Nationwide, but they're awesome

"Everything is politics" - Thomas Mann

Almost certainly a multiple of 2 minus one

You understand incorrectly. "passkey" refers to a token used for the public key authentication that is used for sign in, which needs to be stored somewhere - this can be stored in a hardware key like a YubiKey, or in your device's credentials manager. In principle, this could be anywhere, but it needs to be somewhere secure to not be trivial to compromise (eg taking out your HDD and just copying your passkey off it)

In Windows' case, this secure credentials store is the TPM chip, which is why you are not able to use passkeys on Windows devices that have no TPM chip (unless you use another hardware implementation).

Tldr: passkeys are data, not software, and to store the data, you need some form of hardware, which needs to be secure to not be a really bad idea.

If you'd like to do some reading before confidently correcting me further, I'd suggest reading about how passkeys work.

devices themselves can act as passkeys

I didn't say a device needs a TPM to support passkeys - I said I believe it it needs one to be a passkey

Thank you for your passive aggressive response caused by poor reading comprehension, though

...except the ones that can't

I think it depends on whether you have a TPM chip in it

I'm such a dunce, I didn't spot your username 🤦

Thought I was asking a db0 random, not the NaN himself

Slightly off topic, is db0 one of the anarchist instances you're referring to? I know it's a generally leftist instance, but don't know much more detail than that