With Passkeys, they have access to your stuff without any oversight by courts and discovery. There are ZERO 4 and 5th Amendment rights to stuff protected by passkeys. They can compel you to unlock your phone, and put your finger on the print reader, and facial scan you .... all without your permission or CONSENT.

The "With Passkeys" qualifier is unnecessary, ANYTHING you store in the cloud, or on your phone behind a fingerprint is up for grabs for any entity that has access to the cloud or can force you to unlock the phone with the fingerprint (...doh). It doesn't matter if it's a password manager or your secret document to take over the world. You don't like that, just use a password manager that unlocks only with a strong password each time. It makes no difference if inside you have passwords or passkeys, they're just as safe (or not) as you wish. It's up to you if you want them synced with some big cloud, or unlock by fingerprint or a strong password, or anything else.

There's no point having Passkeys if they can be copied from disk to disk, that's repeating the problems with passwords but as a digital file.

By that logic there's no point to have ssh keys, they're just files that can be copied. But of course there is, you're doing a complicated dance to prove you have the secret - WITHOUT TELLING YOUR SECRET PASSWORD TO SOMEONE EACH TIME YOU LOGIN

There's nothing magical with the passkeys, they're just like ssh keys. Their main advantage is that by doing asymmetrical cryptography you don't just hand over your secret (password) to someone, so you don't care if somehow you're talking to the wrong site, you don't even need to rotate your credentials if they get genuinely hacked.

Protecting them locally is of secondary importance, but if you wish to be locked behind a password only you know in your password manager (most good ones nowadays do passkeys too) you can do that too.

Also, if we're talking about being compelled legally - these aren't for giving you access to some encrypted vault you only have access too - they can be shoehorned into all kinds of cryptographic things but not as the main use case. The main use case is just to login to Gmail, Paypal, Github, Cloudflare, whatever. If "they" are investigating you they can get to all those accounts without asking you, often even preventing the provider from telling you they gave away your data.

Just from today, and for a change the abomination is not that a 16GB Surface Laptop with freakin' Windows ARM (most niche OS the last 10 years or so) is 1530 Euro (down from 1799) but the charger is extra, 77777 Euros. VAT included, thankfully. ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/1w6401r/slightly_overpriced_power_brick/

That's directly from Microsoft, not some Amazon 3rd party seller/scammers.

The responsible thing would be to resell any actually valuable books after scanning, but that would require effort so they probably aren't doing it.

LOL, if only someone had a streamlined operation to sell books online. Wait, someone does, for more than 30 years now, it's called AMAZON !!!

They aren't selling them just because that would be illegal, for whatever much they care about it at this point.

... for other people."

This is the core concept by which the copyright works, BECAUSE it would be trivial (even before you could store and transmit books digitally for approximately nothing) to have plenty of copies the society decided this is somehow bad. You take one, there are less remaining ones, their value rises. If there are none left, tough. This is not a fluke, an unfortunate accident, some nasty people doing something you don't like, IT'S FUNDAMENTALLY HOW THE SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED.

You may not be, but what about someone who owns said toaster trying to figure something out?

He'll be just the same NOT helped at all by GP's commenter GP having it in his attic.

Ubuntu TOUCH is disqualifying. You want to install packages?! Why, you perv, this is a PHONE! This is how things go.

I mean Google Maps it's a sh*show for literally going 15 minutes from the car in the "woods" in Western Europe (quotes there because it's more like someone's backyard in other places less populated, and I don't mean a king or anything). OpenStreetMaps are way better but it has to be a somehow popular region/destination.

Yes, I understand, "smart" TVs, wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.

But nearly half the apps are backdoors to your network?! Isn't this federal pound me in the *&s prison level stuff (or whatever the equivalent would be in the relevant jurisdiction)?

Cheaper than a free USB stick? I realize that went haywire a lot with the AIpocalypse but I used to set the size for that at under 128GBs.

Download it off a torrent site, wait to get threatened by the copyright owner, show them proof that you purchased the product.

Sorry but this is not only wrong, it's terribly embarrassing given your really low Slashdot ID. You don't download "off a torrent site" but using the bittorrent network, a p2p file-sharing thing. As such, you are also DISTRIBUTING the work and you certainly have no rights to do so, this is how they get you, and it's really risky, as they can claim really high damages.

Not "sold" but allocated, based on stuff like this famous (but surely not unique) NONBINDING letter of intent for "40 percent of global DRAM output": https://medium.com/@mastinbail...

These will become instantly available if there's nobody to buy them, never mind if OpenAI and similar stumble a little after people do the math on how many customers paying how much each you need to even break even after sinking trillions and trillions every year into this - but even if their financing falters a little bit and they can't expand as much as they hoped next quarter. Freakin' Google is printing bonds by tens and tens of tens of billions, using debt to keep up in this race.

... not that you'd want that with the way they're entrenched in all the financial everything going around us but it's possible for this to pop way faster than it built up.

Yea, they've been crying and moaning that the RAM is getting more expensive so their phone business hurts and might for the first time be losing money because the RAM is so expensive! The RAM they make, and actually costs them LESS to make (because it's more efficient per item to just make them and ship them as fast as you can as opposed to throttling your production, having all kinds of yo-yo effects with production being too much or too little all the time) !!!

Oh, but they'd rather sell the RAM to someone else for a $50 or even $100 profit instead of selling you a phone for $300 (profit, for something over $1000) ... well tough. This racket won't be going forever and Apple already has around 90% phone market share for youngsters in some regions, which will eat up mostly everything Samsung might hope to sell at high end, while the other "budget" known manufacturers will mop up mostly everything on the other end. Coasting on their laurels and not bringing anything worth mentioning for like 3 generations won't be saved by rolling back some prices with a few hundred dollars. Especially when the bubble pops and everyone will be in a frenzy to get something for their products, anything.