John Siracusa

But if you have a passkey and you land on the login page now, you won't even have to do anything.

It will just pop up a thing that says, hey, do you want to log in with your passkey?

And you can say yes or no.

And if you say no, you can just do it manually.

So, yeah.

That's working and lots of people are trying out the system.

I see them all logging in with their passkeys and it is exciting and I haven't got any bug reports yet.

So fingers crossed.

Yeah, I think I had this in the notes ages ago, but this is essentially Google's answer to private cloud compute.

Now, the tricky bits are always like...

How Apple did a bunch of stuff where they bent over backwards to say, and we'll give you this binary image of the thing.

And this is the way that you can prove to yourself mathematically that when you connect to our servers, what you're actually connecting to is the binary thing that we gave you.

So we know we're not just giving you one thing and using a different thing on our servers.

And lots of people looked at that and they said, it's great and this is very helpful.

But in the end, you do kind of sort of have to trust Apple to some degree.

Same thing with the Google private compute.

I'm sure they're doing all the same things.

But in the end, you have to trust Google.

You trust that Google has correctly and honestly implemented the thing that they said they implemented, which I'm sure they have because, again.

you know, they want to do this for Apple.