A door can be kicked in, a safe can be drilled, a password can be reset. But these keys (whether a phone or a Yubikey) to your digital life are irreplaceable if they're all lost. We've never been in this situation before.
The problem with any solution relying on a couple of physical devices as the sole access to your digital life is that the management and protection of those objects becomes one of the most important things in your life. These keys are supposed to give perfect security so by design making "software" copies brings that security to the level of passwords. But losing them kills your digital life.
You have two keys in the house and you have a fire or severe natural disaster? There's no reset for them and you just piled a tragedy on top of another. You want to restore them from a backup? You probably need the keys to begin with. People need one on them at all times, one at home, one or two in some other safe far away location but to still trust that they won't be misused there.
That's all people hear when they look into passkeys. "One more key" is not enough for most people, tech savvy or not.
Seems to be running on llama.cpp, so it's going to be a question of performance. I don't have any M-cpu but on my 13th gen i5 I can run mistral at about 6.5 tokens per second. Which seems comparable to what this is.
I assume this is the division between people that consider apartment living the default versus those that consider living in houses with outside-accessible windows the default.
> In practice, it is most certainly not pointless .... chances of master key recovery by Microsoft are definitely not the same.
I don't think those two sentences hold water when put together. In practice, if your risk is master key leakage and theft of the encrypted data by microsoft, you shouldn't be using windows. If you suspect that, MS can have a kernel mode driver masquerading as anything else, and it can just siphon your master key whenever you enter it.
Because convenience, creating a secure cloud backup and restoring it once you passed immigration is a lot of hassle must people would rather skip doing.
What? Change the password on your github account to something you can remember (grand mothers full name) and log out on your phone. Done..
Would work for google docs too.
