This blog post goes over it.

Move to KeePassXC or its recent LLM-free fork while you still can, because at some point Bitwarden is going to try to go closed-source again.

Isn’t this already a thing to some degree with sodium acetate pads?

Or at least that’s what people are saying anyways.

No, because if you come across this on a desktop, you’ll have to whip your Android or iOS device out to scan a QR code for verification… On your desktop… Linking your desktop to your phone.

That’s gonna be really hard with the increasing amount of sites that push this.

And desktop users? Will Linux and any non-Google Chrome browsers be locked out now?

So, is this the replacement for WEI by what some of the comments here are suggesting?

How soon before government thin clients are the only devices people can legally get?

I’m calling AluminumOS out as the threat that it potentially is if it actually gains traction. If AluminumOS takes off and overtakes Windows and Mac for desktop marketshare, desktops will be guaranteed to end up being locked down like mobiles. I’m actually scared about AluminumOS and how it’s being positioned.

Oh, and I’m on Artix right now.

…you can’t just “hope” Google’s going to fix everything wrong with Windows when they’re doing the same exact thing as each other.

• I’m not, I’m hoping AluminumOS doesn’t actually take off and succeed because Google’s gonna make things even worse than they already are with Windows. Like, at least you can still uninstall Windows, you can’t really uninstall Android anymore, and if AluminumOS takes off and overtakes Windows for marketshare, that same restriction will be applied there too. Like I said, if AluminumOS takes off and becomes the dominant desktop OS, Google is going to lock down desktops like they’re about to lock down phones.

On top of desktops getting turned from the last remotely open platform into existence into locked-down black boxes fully controlled by Google if AluminumOS actually succeeds, and Google’s positioning it in a way that it might just succeed, positioning it in between Win10 getting deprecated and Win11’s continuing enshittification, Google could just severely undercut the cheapest Win11 PCs and the Macbook Neo and gain marketshare by selling AluminumOS devices as a significantly cheaper option than Win11 PCs or Macs. If that happens, and that tactic actually works and PCs and Macs get overtaken in the desktop market by AluminumOS devices, it’s game over for desktops as an open platform.

If AluminumOS takes off and overtakes Windows and Mac marketshare, desktops are headed in the same direction as mobiles.

Too bad this sorta thing is trying to go federal now.

This is why I recommend using dedicated cameras that don’t connect to the web. Well, one reason, the other reason is because dedicated cameras will always outperform phone cams.

You mean the shortage that’s purposefully engineered to price everyone out of the market and push them onto the cloud?

Welcome to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, because this is an idea pulled straight from that game.

There was precedent a while back for code being protected speech, but recent laws in certain states attacking 3D printing and now this law are trying to reverse that.

Loyal Moses covers the law making certain 3D-printing code illegal and I highly suspect it could be applied beyond that. This bill is probably going to apply that logic more generally assuming it passes into law.

They’ll probably just ban Linux and BSD on the desktop and force Windows and macOS. If NK can force Red Star, then the Fourth Reich can force their approved OS.

So far it’s only been implemented successfully on modern Surface devices, but hypothetically any PC could implement it.

There’s also nothing stopping PCs from getting locked down like phones either if Pluton is any indication.