No, the cryptographic keys used in passkey are not just very long passwords. In face they are not so long. Typical keys generated with ed25519 are 60 characters long.
As far as I understand it, passkey is a password replacement and a protocol built on top of FIDO.
The intention is to replace passwords by cryptographic keys (asymmetric encryption).
These keys come in pairs always:
a private key: secret and only ever known to you
a public key: given to the service you want to authenticate to. This key can also be seen as a lock that can only be open by the matching private key.
The keys are nothing more than text and they can very well be stored in files on a USB drive, copied, transferre, deleted, etc.
But passkey also defines the process to exchange and store the keys in a secure manner. Therefore in practice you will always use a password manager and maybe also some specific hardware, to automatically hand the key exchange and secure storage of all the different keys your have for all of the different services you registered to.
I use Duplicity to backup my home directory, excluding Steam and Downloads folders. It is setup to backup weekly to my NAS mounted as NFS.
The NAS has a weekly cron task to upload the backups to pCloud using rclone.
I backup this way, several computers (2 desktop, 2 laptop, the NAS as well). The files included in this strategy are essentially my photos, documents and configs. My software installations, games, media library are not backed up.
I've been way for too long ! I only knew of Baguette and pizza vending machines. Things are evolving so fast. Today it's potato and mushrooms, tomorrow it will be seeds to grow in your own garden !
I've recently visited a grocery store in Hamburg, where you just put all your items on the self checkout counter, it detects all the prices and quantities in an instant (yes, including fruits and vegetables that require weighted!) you pay, you go. So great ! The only truly practical implementation of a self checkout, in my opinion. I've seen this in other types of store before (clothing) but never for groceries.
It's a shame... iPad seems like a very practical device for web browsing and media consumption. But browsing the web in 2024 without an Ad Blocker, tracker blocker, cookie banner auto reject all, is just impossible, at least for me 😅
I self-Host Vaultwarden at home, this way I have a convenient password manager for myself and my SO, it's easy to setup and maintain. East to access from the phone, Firefox, etc. Bitwarden app keeps a local cache so even when disconnected from the server I have access to my passwords and it will synchronize at the next connections. I otherwise have a Wireguard VPN setup in case I need to connect to my home server from outside my home.
Before I used KeePass+syncthing but it was to much configuration to convince my SO to use it. Bitwarden/Vaultwarden was more successful in that regard.
VM GPU passthrough is a thing, but I wasn't successful with it (didn't try that hard TBH). You need to make sure your CPU and Motherboard and GPU all have the required features and they are activated (iommu and what not). Not sure if you still need a second GPU for this setup to work (e.g. embedded graphics)? Anyway, don't count on this solution to work until you have check that your HW can absolutely make it work and that you are ready to spend hours setting this up. It can be an interesting learning experience, definitely the more advanced stuff when it comes to VM.
I think some were successful with Anti-Cheat with this method, by using the Microsoft Hypervisor from inside de VM somehow.
oregano is an application for schematic capture and printing of electrical circuits. It can also be used for simulation if you have NG-Spice or Gnucap.
Thanks for the advice. I found that the import tax would be 80~100€. I when for eBay Germany, and ordered some drive there: 4x WD Ultrastar DC HC520 12TB, helium-sealed, for 120€ each. I will test them upon receiving and see how it goes from there :)
No, the cryptographic keys used in passkey are not just very long passwords. In face they are not so long. Typical keys generated with ed25519 are 60 characters long.