The problem here is i want to have more than 1 yubikey, so if i lose it, all is not lost... I can't do that with the current implementations unless i present N yubikeys to every new account i make. Which makes an off-site backup yubikey impossible. With my current yubikey usage with password store, my "offline" yubikey can be brought in whenever i want to decrypt the passwords, including ones inserted while the key was in storage.

Also yubikeys have limited passkey slots (100, 25 with old firmware)

Also, where do I store the backup Yubikey, or any other pass key owning device for that matter? It has to be easily accessible to set up the pass keys, but also safe from accidents like house fire.

There's a strange tension where I want to use pass keys because they are easy to use but also they are easy to lose, so I choose a KeePass synced over cloud and deal with a bit of a hassle by having to copy/paste my passwords.

I think technically you can just register the public key of the passkey and only need it on-hand for login

Technically i would think so too, but is that how it's implemented? (I legit don't know, but my feeling was always that you had to add them while they're present, especially as there's different passkeys for different sites, to do it offline do you pregenerate 100 keys for each device to assign later?)

yeah, everyone knows every European website is eventually down for 2 weeks. only the FAANG know how to keep websites up.

>only the FAANG know how to keep websites up

Really FAANG can stop a solar-storm? A war on infrastructure?

Remember that your website not just needs running computers but energy too, and a net that brings that information to the peoples, and those peoples devices need power too.

Just look at the Berlin outage where people had to go to hotpots with generators to load the phone:

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/07/europe/berlin-power-outag...

And that was a small attack on infra but 100'000 where affected.

But sorry if i touched any of your sensitive areas...because it's Europe and not FAANG ;)

nah, i generally agree with you on single points of failure, i just don't agree that it would go on as long as 2 weeks. 24-48 hours i can believe, but at the absolute worst case I'd also expect anyone with minimal competence to have a plan to spin things up from the latest offsite backup somewhere else. (minimal competence is a big statement though). Even redundant setups can go down altogether from a fatfinger or automation gone wrong (see almost any outage from FAANG)

> stop a solar-storm

never heard of those taking out a data center, but i'm not highly educated on that one.

> A war on infrastructure

government datacenter will be first in line for fuel, generators, etc. A destroyed gov. datacenter would be the start of much more serious things to worry about.

> Just look at the Berlin outage where people had to go to hotpots

yeah, this one _is_ a little embarassing, but people who have to go to hotspots != datacenters

The original statement stands.

> hotspots != datacenters

A running data-center without a net or consumers is nothing worth.

>The original statement stands.

Well true, the Website runs but no one can access it.

Cool, now justify the things happening in the west bank. Israel so peaceful, coexists with neighbors.

well now you can have both simultaneously.

so many left-leaning politicians on fox news /s

when do they get the kind reminder?

is that really the point? you don't see the rest of it all as a little... disturbing?

I still wish other smart watches behaved like a pebble, the interface was so intuitive you could use it to do the basics without looking at it most of the time.

It's like trying something so good it ruins every other one for you. The UX was just so well thought through i don't know how to explain it.

This comes from the same website that tells you that the average person commits a thousand crimes every day and that prosecuting criminals is therefore meanie mean.

was talking to a friend about this, there's wero but i haven't really seen it around (Germany).

The problem I've seen with this is that Wero works with banking applications that require either Google Play or App Store. Which means that you may not need an American company for the payment itself, but you now need an American company in the device you have to use for the payment.

Yes yes there's not a single soldier in all of Europe. Every soldier, tank, and airplane is American. No other military technology exists. America great.

Seriously, I'll grant the most advanced stuff is American but you really think everybody else only has sticks, stones, and water pistols?

America great? Lol… I didn’t say it was a good thing.

Regardless, most EU nations do spend relatively little on their military compared to the U.S., hence the reliance.

Sorry to break it to you.

> “Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it.”

– Drax, Guardians of the Galaxy