There was once a time when people educated themselves not because they wanted a particular job in the economy, but because they saw value in education and wanted to participate in the human tradition of advancing the specie’s ability to understand and use nature. You didn’t need school to be a blacksmith, for example, but perhaps just an apprenticeship (experience).

There’s a point to be made here, about how this degrades the value of education. It’s great for capitalism, making survival—or “living well”—contingent on qualifications derived from paid education. But what have we lost in this process? It feels, to me at least, like we’ve created a culture where education is a mere lineitem on a checklist. How might that change what education is, what it’s expected to be, and what sort of innovation comes from it?

KeePassXC supports passkeys directly through the Browser Integration service.

https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_browser_passkey_support

There you go. Local, serverless passkeys in the software of your choice.

The open source community could really shove it to Apple and Google by figuring that out.

Last I recall, a lot of mobile hardware requires proprietary firmware and drivers that make OSS work here really difficult.